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| Author(s): |
Leandro Vizin Villarino
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2015-10-16 |
| Examining board members: |
Jose Jobson de Andrade Arruda;
Luiz Gonzaga de Mello Belluzzo;
Renato Perim Colistete;
Guilherme Grandi;
Roberto Pereira Silva
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| Advisor: | Jose Jobson de Andrade Arruda |
| Abstract | |
This thesis proposes to study economic planning discourse in the 1950s and 1960s, concerning two very important moments: first, the constitution of a project for the development of periphery or underdeveloped countries through economic planning, in the UN and, more precisely, ECLAC, during the early 1950s; second, the attempts of economic planning in Brazil during the first half of the 1960s, with Plano Trienal and PAEG as a reaction to the economic, political and institutional crisis that this country experienced. Theoretically, we rely on the notion of positivity of discourse, regarding the concepts of statement (énoncé) and discursive formation, from Foucaults Archeology of Knowledge. On the other hand, we reconsider this notion, through Hegel and Derrida, trying to deal with some of its lacks regarding the broad conception of language as a symbolic system. In this sense, our analysis aims at the reconstitution of statements in the texts, based on four categories that appeared as essential since the first documents we analyzed: development, planning, point of view of development and technical position of planning authority. The most relevant results of the analysis may be summarized in the following topics: (1) economic planning recurrently legitimates itself on behalf of development; (2) the documents present a constant difficulty in defining the pair development/underdevelopment, which turn out to be not an idiosyncrasy of each text, but a systematic, symbolic issue development, less than a solid foundation, is itself a problem that the practices of planning try to deal with; (3) development projects a point of view of development, which would be the perspective able to identify an ideal, optimal way of economic progress beyond the economic progress that would happen in the spontaneous evolution of economy through free entrepreneurship or free market; (4) this point of view of development allows us to identify a discursive domain (a discursive formation) that we could call Developmentalism. Both Trienal and PAEG pertain to this category, differing only regarding the strategy they propose to solve this gap between optimal progress and spontaneous progress, the former trying to occupy this space through state economic initiative and the latter trying to reduce it reforming the private sector to make it spontaneously work as the optimal way. Consequently, the hegemonic projects before and after 1964 Brazilian Coup, as they appears in these plans, are not totally opposed, but are articulated as opposing solutions to a common problem that is symbolic, i.e., cultural in the strong meaning of the term. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/02957-0 - From PAEG to PED (1962-70): discourse and economic planning in Brazil |
| Grantee: | Leandro Vizin Villarino |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct) |