%0 Journal Article %T Five models of capitalism %A Bresser-Pereira %A Luiz Carlos %J Revista de Economia Pol¨ªtica %D 2012 %I Editora 34 %R 10.1590/S0101-31572012000100002 %X besides analyzing capitalist societies historically and thinking of them in terms of phases or stages, we may compare different models or varieties of capitalism. in this paper i survey the literature on this subject, and distinguish the classification that has a production or business approach from those that use a mainly political criterion. i identify five forms of capitalism: among the rich countries, the liberal democratic or anglo-saxon model, the social or european model, and the endogenous social integration or japanese model; among developing countries, i distinguish the asian developmental model from the liberal-dependent model that characterizes most other developing countries, including brazil. %K capitalism %K models %K varieties of capitalism. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0101-31572012000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en