Controversies about History, Development and Revolution in Brazil : Economic Thought in Critical Interpretation / edited by Maria Mello de Malta, Jaime Le̤n, Carla Curty, Bruno Borja.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Malta, Maria Mello de, editor.

León, Jaime, editor.

Curty, Carla, editor.

Borja, Bruno, editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm).

Alec Harris & Carollina Song Fund.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences

Studies in Critical Social Sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Brazil.

Economics.

Brazil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages).

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction and Warning to the Reader

1 An Approach to the History of the Brazilian Republic

Bibliographic References

Part 1 How to Tell the History

Method, Thought and Versions in Dispute

Chapter 1 Methodological Elements for the Organization of the History of Brazilian Economic Thought: The Approach of Controversies

1 Introduction

2 Controversy as a Key to Reading History of Thought

2.1 Historical Materialism and Dialectics

2.2 The Perception of the History of Thought as an Object of the Approach of Controversies

3 Controversy in History of Brazilian Economic Thought (hbet)

4 Incorporating the Contribution of Interpreters of Brazil to the History of Brazilian Economic Thought (hbet)

5 Final Considerations

Chapter 2 Interpreters of Brazil: Influences on the Origin of Brazilian Economic Thought

2 The Notion of Interpreter of Brazil

3 The First Generation of Interpreters: Abolitionists and Workers

4 The Second Generation (1920s/30s): Demiurges and the Centrality of Social Relations of Production

5 Conclusion

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

2 Roberto Simonsen: Interpretation of Production Cycles

3 Caio Prado Jr: Marxist Interpretation of Brazil

4 Celso Furtado: Structuralist Interpretation of Brazil

5 Review of the Controversy

Part 2 Revolution, Development and Democracy: The Story of a Brazil That Could Have Been

Chapter 4 Revisiting the Origins of the Controversy on the Brazilian Revolution: A Debate between Octavio Brandão, Mario Pedrosa and Lívio Xavier

2 Octavio Brandão's Portrait of Brazil

2.1 A Marxist-Leninist Analysis of Brazilian Economic and Social Formation

2.2 The Petty-Bourgeois Democratic Strategy for the Brazilian Revolution

3 Mario Pedrosa and Lívio Xavier's Portrait of Brazil

3.1 An Outline for a Marxist Interpretation of Brazil

3.2 The Brazilian Revolution as a Socialist Revolution

4 Final Considerations

Bibliographic References

Chapter 5 Visions of the Brazilian Revolution: Nelson Werneck Sodré, Caio Prado Jr and Florestan Fernandes

2 Nelson Werneck Sodré: The Bourgeois Democratic Revolution

3 Caio Prado Junior: Criticism of the Democratic Bourgeois Revolution

4 Florestan Fernandes: Permanent Revolution and Counterrevolution

5 A Controversy in Permanent Revolution: by Way of Conclusion

Chapter 6 Underdevelopment and Dependency: An Analysis of Celso Furtado's Thought and Its Approach to Dependency Theory

Notes:

1 Underdevelopment and Dependency in the 1970s: Approximations between Celso Furtado and Dependency Theory.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 15, 2022).

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Other Format:

Print version: Mello de Malta, Maria Controversies about History, Development and Revolution in Brazil

ISBN:

9789004500563

9004500561

Publisher Number:

40030960550

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