This paper aims at contributing to the debate on industrial policy and economic development in Brazil. At first … industrial policy-making and economic development in Brazil up to the end of the 1970s, and the failures to implement such a …/evolutionary approach, which focuses on innovation as prime mover of economic development and on the co-evolution of technologies …

The myth of Vargas’ economic populism. The Second Vargas Administration in Brazil (1951-1954) is commonly associated …

Development conventions in Lula’s mandates: an essay on political economy. This article analyses the different … development proposals put forward during the two Lula Presidential mandates. It is argued that such proposals are structured as … “development conventions”, which involve different priorities and different solutions to the problem of structural transformation …