The huge disparity in income distribution in Brazil is a remarkable social debt to be filled, it is inaceptable that a rich country like Brazil to be so unequal and unfair to the majority of its citizens. Despite the change of the socio-economic policy in the last two decades, targeting a more active social policy and led to the redistribution of income, inequality in Brazilian society is glaring. The study of the development of the national capitalism, since the roots of colonization, is mandatory to understand how the nation has reached such a situation. The structural and institutional formation of the Brazilian capitalism has created several distortions in the distribution of wealth; economic and social policies adopted have not been able to build a fair society for all people. The detailed analysis of the economic history and the accumulation of capital in the Brazilian economy show the trend of income concentration, since government policies were unfavorable to a more equitable distribution of the national wealth. The ruling elites have taken power of the government machine to maintain its privileges and to appropriate of a bigger share of the national wealth produced, lacking the political will to improve the distribution of income across the nation and its individuals. The main objective here is to study the effects of government policies in capital accumulation and income distribution in Brazil, taking into account the insertion of Brazil in the capitalist system and the results of national public policies. The method of political economy, based on the theory of income distribution in Kalecki, appears in the analysis.
GROWTH AND DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME IN BRAZIL: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL APPROACH