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The paper discusses the normative principles on which Brazilian policies towards foreign direct investment should be bared. It starts from considerations about global trends regarding world industrialization and trade and seeks to identify some crucial elements in the relationship between Brazil and the world economy. Next the paper deals with issues related to market access and technological transfer emphasizing the importance of foreign firms for the future of Brazilian industrialization and export performance

This article shows that the specific conditions for revolutionary changes in the Brazilian society are reaching maturity. The general violation of social order originated from contradictions between the latifundio system and the industrialization process is characterized by large excess supply of labor, a recessive phase of the business cycle, idle capacity in the heavy industry and a large bottleneck in the public services sector. The financial crisis of the state is the weak link of the economic system

This paper shows that the universal logic of capitalism can be identified within the singularity of agricultural change in Brazil during the initial period of industrialization, 1889-1930. The development of agriculture was marked by the process of gradual transformation of the largest estates (latifundia) into modern capitalist enterprises. As a result, the development of capitalist relations of production and the productive forces remained weak, while the majority of the population could not improve its poor living conditions

In this paper, the author summarizes his theory of development and underdevelopment, and he presents some ideas about the dependency relation, expressed in the center-periphery system, based on the concept of social surplus and its forms of appropriation and utilization. The paper states the frustrations of a reformist: Protectionism, that was justifiable in a first phase of industrialization, was maintained too long in Latin America; on the other hand, the populist risk was always present, while the real social problems related to a high level of income concentration were not solved

This article deals with some of the elements in the present debate on the reform of the Brazilian state. It takes into account the Keynesian origin of the contemporary interventionism and the trajectory of the implementation of the national program of industrialization, which was first discussed in the 1930s, and later, in the 1940s, shared by CEPAL. It argues that the crises of the 1980s were due to the contradictory nature of the financial performance of the public sector. Finally, the author proposes some basic ideas for the reform of the state as a condition for a new strategy of development