A Economia Brasileira (1954), de Celso Furtado

Abstract

The article describes Furtado’s first work based upon the construction of large scale economic models through which he to explained the evolution of the Brazilian economy: A Economia Brasileira (The Brazilian Economy), published in 1954. This technique, that he perfected in The Economic Growth of Brazil (1959), established Furtado as an economic historian. The article compares the 1954 and the 1959 books, and also relates the 1954 book with his previous works. The purpose of the article is twofold: to introduce a book that is not well known (The Brazilian
Economy) and to shed light on the building of Furtado’s historic-structural approach.