has a Bachelor Degree in Economics from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas -UNICAMP (1991), a Masters Degree in Economic History from the Universidade de São Paulo - USP (1997) and A Phd in Applied Economics from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP (2003). He also undertook pots-doctorate research at CEM/CEBRAP from 2007 to 2009. He is currently Professor and Researcher in the fields of Economic History/Brazilian Economy and International Economics at the Institute of Brazilian Studies (IEB) of the University of São Paulo (USP) and also a member of the Center of Studies on Brazil/Africa (NAP Brasil-África) at USP. More recently, his research projects revolve around three main areas: labour market and inequality in Brazil; the role of of developmentalism in the Brazilian history, especially through the contribution of the economist Romulo Almeida; and the Brazilian economy's pattern of international integration, focusing mainly on the impacts brought about by the China rising and on the potential of South-to-South cooperation. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The present book aims to shed to light on the thinking, but also on the practice, of development in Brazil. It delves into the profile of an elite of public servants responsible for launching strategic projects in economic infrastructure - which led to institutions such as Petrobras, BNDE, BNB, SUDENE and Eletrobras -, but also on education, culture, regional development, agrarian reform,…
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The Northeast Development Superintendency (Sudene) was created in 1959 to dismantle underdeveloped socioeconomic structures and create the infrastructural conditions necessary for the region's development. Influenced by the economic development planning experiences in vogue in several countries, the developmental institution repositioned the region within the nation and produced an optimi…
Celso Monteiro Furtado was one of Brazil's leading economists and his contribution to the theory and policy of economic development marked Latin American economic thought. His work as an economic policy formulator is mainly linked to the creation of the Superintendence for the Development of the Northeast Region (SUDENE) and to João Goulart's Ministry of Planning. After the military coup …
Historian Fernand Braudel, considered by many also a geographer, started associating the history of world-economy to that of its capitals in his book The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Time of Felipe II. He attributed to the imperial reasoning behind the transference of the capital to Madrid the blame for the decadence of the Habsburg Empire, pointing out the importance …
This research aims to catalog, systematize and analyze Delfim Netto's intellectual production from the beginning of the 1950's to the middle of the 1980's about capitalist development in Brazil. Both the specific characters of Delfim Netto's thought and the importance of the Brazilian economic miracle for the Brazilian industrialization ought to be analyzed. One of the main concerns is to…
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Celso Monteiro Furtado was one of Brazil's leading economists, and his contribution to the theory and policy of economic development marked Latin American economic thought. After the military coup of 1964, Furtado's career as a public official was interrupted, and the author had to go into exile, first in Chile, then in the United States and, finally, in France. Initially seeking to dista…
The US Congress debated in depth the problem of where to place the country's capital in October 1783, December 1784, and September 1789. Specific geographical factors were associated to each option, forming geographical systems. Each geographical system was attached to certain national tasks and expectations on systemic positions. In the period studied in this project, the United States g…
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