Celso Furtado and development: an outline

This review essay focuses on the most crucial points in the evolution of Celso Furtado's contribution to economic and political thought in relation to development, in the hope that a wider readership will appreciate the importance of his ideas to Latin America's 'development' dur...

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Published in:Development in practice 2007-11, Vol.17 (6), p.807-819
Main Author: Mallorquin, Carlos
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biographies
Brazil
Capitalism
Conceptualization
Development economics
Development studies
Economic Development
Economic policy
Economic theory
Economic thought
Economics
Economists
Exile
Furtado, Celso
Governance and Public Policy
Industrialization
International economics
Keynesianism
Labour and Livelihoods
Latin America
Latin America and the Caribbean
Political economists
Political Economy
Political philosophy
Political Science Theories
Readership
Research trends
Review Essay
Structuralist economics
United States economic history
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Summary:This review essay focuses on the most crucial points in the evolution of Celso Furtado's contribution to economic and political thought in relation to development, in the hope that a wider readership will appreciate the importance of his ideas to Latin America's 'development' during the 1960s and 1970s, and perhaps even see value in reviving them. It opens with a description of the background to the rise of development economics, highlighting aspects of the discipline that this remarkable Brazilian economist confronted and transformed. This is followed by a description of his period as a development theorist or 'reform monger' (Hirschman 1963 ) and his subsequent exile (1964-1975). The article concludes with a discussion of some of the work produced on his return to Brazil.
ISSN:0961-4524
1364-9213
DOI:10.1080/09614520701628485