ABSTRACT
This article is a tentative approach to reconstitute the circumstances which characterized the creation of the so-called “CEPAL economic thinking”. The author initially tries to associate this thinking with the “keywords” (or “power ideas”) of “economic development”, “industríalization” and “economic planning”, which has been raised and established in Latin America at the end of World War II. Furthermore, analyses the general lines of the CEP AL thinking, trying to identify its innovator character and the necessary steps to obtain an active position by the State, assumed as the inductor entity of such development. A brief evaluation of the resulting impacts of such ideas in Latin America and Brazil, including the institutional point of view, is also considered.
KEYWORDS:
History of economic thought; ECLAC; CEPAL