This paper studies the book Development and crisis in Brazil by Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira. It aims at checking the author’s contribution to the literature and the understanding of the Brazilian historical process in the 20th Century, beginning with the first issue in 1968 and going through countless reviews until it reached its fifth and final issue in 2003. We hipothesize that as the author considers distinctive theoretical and methodological sources, choosing the elements he considered relevant to the reconstruction of a concrete historical process, he builds an analysis that is organic and coherent, one that is kept along the many issues and is responsible for incorporating new elements to the interpretation of the economic, social and political development of the country.
Brazilian economy; Development; Nationalism