Silver Economy, Gerontechnology and Health Economic-Industrial Complex in Brazil: a new- developmentalist vision
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2018v21i1p107-130Keywords:
Gerontechnology, Health, Industrial Policy, New-Developmentalism, Silver Economy.Abstract
This article analyzes the concepts of "Health Economic-Industrial Complex" (Gadelha, 2006) and "Silver Economy" or “Longevity Economy” (Felix, 2007), with the intention of set up its points of intersection which regard to an industrial policy, focused on health and long-term care for the elderly people. It is argued that, faced with population aging, these sectors are strategic in global competition and in the Brazilian foreign trade insertion. From a Marxian-Schumpterian-ECLAC perspective, the proposal for the construction of an economic-industrial complex of health and care is presented. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the macroeconomic limitations and possibilities of the two concepts to be promising in Brazil, which is done in the light of the New-Developmentalism theory (Bresser-Pereira, 2015).