Controversies about History, Development and Revolution in Brazil: Economic Thought in Critical Interpretation

Controversies about History, Development and Revolution in Brazil is a critical exploration of the history of Brazilian economic thought in light of the country's own historical and political development. Editors Maria Malta, Jaime León, Carla Curty and Bruno Borja present an analytical interpretation of the facts, which reveals the power of debates constructing a genuinely Brazilian contribution to world economic thought on development, democracy, history, dependency, and revolution.

Resulting from 10 years of collective research, this book incorporates a new methodological proposal stemming from the strength and resilience of public research financed by the Brazilian people in quest of their own formative interpretation.

Contributors are: Bruno Borja, Carla Curty, Filipe Leite, Jaime León, Maria Malta, Larissa Mazolli, Alfredo Saad-Filho, and Wilson Vieira.

Foreword  

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction and Warning to the Reader
   Bruno Borja, Carla Curty, Jaime León and Maria Malta

part 1
How to Tell the History – Method, Thought and Versions in Dispute
1 Methodological Elements for the Organization of the History of Brazilian Economic Thought The Approach Of Controversies
   Carla Curty and Maria Malta

2 Interpreters of Brazil Influences on the Origin of Brazilian Economic Thought
   Carla Curty, Maria Malta and Bruno Borja

3 Controversy on the Economic History of Brazil Roberto Simonsen, Caio Prado Jr. and Celso Furtado
   Bruno Borja

part 2
Revolution, Development and Democracy: The Story of a Brazil That Could Have Been
4 Revisiting the Origins of the Controversy on the Brazilian Revolution A Debate between Octavio Brandão, Mario Pedrosa and Lívio Xavier
   Filipe Leite Pinheiro

5 Visions of the Brazilian Revolution Nelson Werneck Sodré, Caio Prado Jr and Florestan Fernandes
   Bruno Borja, Carla Curty and Jaime León

6 Underdevelopment and Dependency An Analysis of Celso Furtado’s Thought and Its Approach to Dependency Theory
   Wilson Vieira

7 Seeds of Brazilian Underdevelopment A Controversy on Property, Labor Force and Production
   Larissa Mazolli Veiga and Maria Malta

8 Restricted Democracy, Mass Democracy and the Crisis of the New Republic
   Jaime León and Maria Malta

Index