SOME REFLECTIONS ON HISTORY OF BRAZILIAN ECONOMIC THOUGH

Abstract

This essay aims to reflect on the History of Brazilian Economic Thought (HPEB), exploring the trajectory of a particular economy laggard, backward, underdeveloped, peripheral, dependent and engaged in a capitalism of the central economies. We start with the idea that to reconstruct the history of theoretical production of a country, a region or a civilization it is necessary to practice a double movement: the economic, social history and the history of ideas. In this sense, the work identifies, albeit in embryonic form, influences of matrices of thought of central economies in the theories developed by our thinkers, through conceptual readings, adaptations and creation of new theoretical concepts. The study also notes HPEB specific object, as its plural and interdisciplinary, in addition to a trend intrinsically linked to politics and political institutions, such as with the history of brazilian capitalism.