Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/284992 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Texto para Discussão No. 2870
Publisher: 
Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), Brasília
Abstract (Translated): 
Our goal in this paper is to shed light on a forgotten contribution to Brazilian economic thought, that is Victor Viana's 1922 book Histórico da Formação Econômica do Brasil (Brazilian Economic Formation's Timeline). That book never got a second edition, and is rarely referenced among both past and present Brazilian economists Still, it brought out relevant economic development issues - such as protectionism and the political and cultural frameworks necessary for development - and anticipated some ideas that would come up in the Brazilian economic debate about twenty years later. It is argued that Viana applied the liberal economic theory of his time - still under the influence of Adam Smith - to underdeveloped countries as seen from the perspective of the Luso-Brazilian mercantilist colonial system that precede our political independence in 1822.
Subjects: 
Victor Viana
Brazilian economic thought
liberalism and developmentalism
JEL: 
B10
B31
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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