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The political economy of the transformation of the northeast: from Furtado to Unger

This paper analyzes two proposals of structural reorganization of northeastern society, prepared at different moments in time, one under Celso Furtado's intellectual leadership and the other under Mangabeira Unger's leadership. It argues that both stem from the premise that the fight against the serious problems faced by the country's most unequal region requires bold institutional reconstruction, as well as the adoption of public policies that confront the structural constraints of the region, rather than just lessen them. It reinforces the idea that the project that gave origin to SUDENE (Superintendence for the Development of the Northeast), headed by Furtado, served as inspiration to the second latest venture, since the two initiatives were based on ideas that surpass a merely redistributivist perspective.

Northeast; structural change; institutional reconstruction; Celso Furtado; Mangabeira Unger


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