Mario Pedrosa and the debate on socialist economic planning in Brazil

Abstract

This paper presents and discusses original ideas defended by the Brazilian and critical thinker and art Mário Pedrosa in his books "Option Imperialist and" the "Brazilian Option", launched in 1966 during the dictatorship, about the prospects for an economic planning of the country at odds with the market economy. To this end the article recalls the criticism of development economists in the 1960s, a brief presentation of the initial theoretical debates about the deployment of a planned economy in the USSR in the 1920s and the reforms implemented in the 1960s by the Soviet planned economy. The author examined defended the concrete possibilities and characteristics common to a higher synthesis between the great Soviet trusts and the big monopolies of the US economy. Under this basis, finally, Original Ideas proposals are submitted to what the author calls "transition economy" in Brazil, which should incorporate the development of a broad democratic process of building the priorities for future planned economy in the country.

Keywords

• Mario Pedrosa
• economia planificada
• desenvolvimentismo