Redes (Nov 2015)

IN SEARCH OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: INTELLECTUALS AND THEIR PROPOSALS TO THE NORTH OF MINAS GERAIS

  • Ilva Ruas Abreu,
  • Laurindo Mekie Pereira,
  • Edi de Freitas Cardoso Júnior

DOI
https://doi.org/10.17058/redes.v20i3.4144
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 3
pp. 266 – 283

Abstract

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This article presents a study about ideas and practices of three intellectuals active in the North of Minas Gerais on the second half of the Twentieth Century, along with its economic modernization process: the entrepreneur Luiz de Paula Ferreira, the physician and political leader Pedro Santos and the economist Alfredo DolabellaPortella Filho. The aim of the article is to investigate the trajectory of these three men, identify and discuss their way of viewing and proposals to the development of the region.

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