Celso Furtado (1962)

BIOGRAPHY

Economist

A reference in the field of development economics, Celso Furtado believed industrialization and economic diversification were key to the transformation of Latin American economies.  

Celso Furtado served in the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (1949-1957), before assuming leadership positions within Brazil. His ideas informed the economic modernization program of President Juscelino Kubitschek (1956-1960). From 1959 to 1964, Furtado led the Development Superintendency of the Northeast (SUDENE), a new agency for implementing comprehensive social and economic reforms in the vast impoverished region. Forced into exile by the military regime (1964-1985), he turned to academia, holding appointments at prestigious institutions in Europe and the United States. In 1985, Furtado returned to public service in Brazil, first as ambassador to the European Union, and later as Minister of Culture (1986-1988). Elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Celso Furtado was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Economics.

President Lula da Silva (right) and Celso Furtado (left) (2003)

CHRONOLOGY

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FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTIONAL WEBSITES

Centro Internacional Celso Furtado de Políticas para o Desenvolvimento

SELECTED WORKS BY CELSO FURTADO AT IU BLOOMINGTON LIBRARIES

Book cover:

Formação Econónomica do Brasil.

50th Anniversary Edition.

Works by Celso Furtado

Furtado, Celso. Formação econômica do Brasil. Rosa Freire d'Aguiar Furtado (org.). São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2009 [1959]. Ed. comemorativa 50 anos.

Furtado, Celso. Teoria e política do desenvolvimento econômico. São Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional, 1967.

Furtado, Celso. Um projeto para o Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Saga, 1968. 

Furtado, Celso. Formação econômica da América Latina. Rio de Janeiro, Lia, 1969. 

Furtado, Celso. Introdução ao desenvolvimento: enfoque histórico-estrutural. 3rd rev. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 2000. 

Essencial Celso Furtado. Organização, apresentação e notas de Rosa Freire D'Aguiar; prefácio de Carlos Brandão. São Paulo: Penguin, Companhia das Letras, 2013.

Book cover:

Economic Development of Latin America.

2nd ed. 1976 [reprinted 1981]

Works by Celso Furtado in English

Furtado, Celso. Economic Development of Latin America: Historical Background and Contemporary Problems. Translated by Suzette Macedo. 2d ed. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976 [reprinted 1981]. 

Furtado, Celso. Economic Development of Latin America; a Survey from Colonial Times to the Cuban Revolution. Translated by Suzette Macedo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. 

Furtado, Celso. Obstacles to Development in Latin America. Translated by Charles Ekker. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1970.

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Book cover: 

A grande esperança

em Celso Furtado. 2001.

Criticism of Celso Furtado's work

Bolaño. César Ricardo Siqueira. O conceito de cultura em Celso Furtado. Salvador: Edufba, 2015.

Bresser-Pereira, Luiz Carlos, and José Marcio Rego, eds. A grande esperança em Celso Furtado: ensaios em homenagem aos seus 80 anos. São Paulo: Brasil: Editora 34, 2001.

Carvalho, Clerisnaldo Rodrigues de. Em busca de um projeto de nação: revisitando a obra de Celso Furtado. Jundiaí, SP: Paco Editorial, 2014.

Mallorquin, Carlos. Celso Furtado, um retrato intellectual. Tradução de Célia Regina Barbosa Ramos. São Paulo: Xamã; Rio de Janeiro: Contraponto, 2005.

Vidal, Gregorio, and Arturo Guillén R., eds. Repensar la teoría del desarrollo en un contexto de globalización: homenaje a Celso Furtado. Buenos Aires, Argentina: CLACSO, 2007.

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