Several authors have been referring these last decades to the absence in Celso Furtado's historical works of any more elaborate explanations on the origins and initial evolution of the Brazilian economy's manufacturing sector. In an attempt to test empirically the validity of these assertions,...

This short intervention was made by Celso Furtado during the I International Seminar of the University of Sao Paulo on "New Paradigms of Development", held on June 14, 2000, when he received the honour to merit medal from the president of the university, professor Jacques Marcovitch. (Rev Econ...