Economic formation of Brazil: a masterpiece of ECLAC

Ricardo Bielschowsky ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 1989, vol. 9, issue 4, 489-506

Abstract: Celso Furtado’s Formação Econômica do Brasil is the most famous book in Brazilianeconomic literature and has been so since its very first edition thirty years ago. By thattime, it immediately had a considerable impact on the Brazilian social sciences. This paper isconcerned with the Brazilian intellectual and ideological context of the 1950s and points outthe “Ecla-structuralists” elements in Furtado’s masterpiece. The book’s methodology as wellas its analytical aspects have a strong connection to that context. JEL Classification: B22; B31; Y30.

Keywords: History of economic thought; Furtado; structuralism; Eclac; review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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