Desenvolvimento e dependência no pensamento social brasileiro: perspectivas de Caio Prado Jr. e Celso Furtado

Abstract

The concept of development, bounded to the category of dependency between Brazil and the developed countries, permeate many theories in the Brazilian social thinking in the first decades of the twentieth century. This work aims at this theme focused on two important authors of this period: Caio Prado Jr. and Celso Furtado, specially in their works entitled, respectively, Formação do Brasil Contemporâneo, published in 1942, and Formação econômica do Brasil, published in 1959. Starting with a bibliographic revision and applying the comparative method, this work tried to track a line of comparison between the two authors, the intention of this perspective is to analyze if they take similar or different theoric positions concerning to the concept of development in these two works.