ABSTRACT
Celso Furtado’s Formação Econômica do Brasil is the most famous book in Brazilian economic literature and has been so since its very first edition thirty years ago. By that time, it immediately had a considerable impact on the Brazilian social sciences. This paper is concerned with the Brazilian intellectual and ideological context of the 1950s and points out the “Ecla-structuralists” elements in Furtado’s masterpiece. The book’s methodology as well as its analytical aspects have a strong connection to that context.
KEYWORDS:
History of economic thought; Furtado; structuralism; Eclac; review