However, based on the models of economic populism, it is clear that the economic policy of the period is not the one shown by those models. Besides, based on this historic experience, it is advocated that there is no incompatibility between developmentalism and the adoption of macroeconomic stability-oriented measures.  

No primeiro, aponta como suas correntes precursoras: (a) os nacionalistas; (b) os defensores da indústria; (c) os papelistas; e (d) os positivistas. Após analisar a contribuição de cada uma delas e como as mesmas se mesclam e se adaptam para a constituição de um novo ideário, aponta-se o governo de Getúlio Vargas, ainda na Primeira República, quando assumiu a Presidência do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, em 1928, como a primeira experiência histórica desevolvimentista no país.

This paper intends to contribute to the debate on the reasons why the Geisel administration (1974-78) chose — as it faced an adverse conjuncture — an accelerated growth agenda which was materialized in the 2nd PND (National Development Plan). In order to do so, it resorts to a methodological definition which is based upon an institutionalist approach and favors the interaction between the political and the economic variables. Contradicting the literature that interprets the strong presence of the State and the regional decentralization of the 2nd PND as signs of neopatrimonialism, it is advocated that this category of analysis is inadequate to explain the government’s choice, although this aspect is embedded in the Brazilian social-historical formation. The political rationality of the plan must be investigated in the conjuncture itself, marked by the liberalization project, which does not clash with the plan’s economic rationality — on the contrary, it is complemented by it.

Durante o ano, a UnB reuniu especialistas nas obras dos três escritores. O colaborador da Revista Nordeste e ex-diretor-presidente e atual membro do Conselho Fiscal do Centro Celso Furtado, prof. Marcos Formiga, coordenou os eventos.