Subdesenvolvimento e exceção: uma leitura a partir de Celso Furtado

• Autor(a) principal: Cabral, Mário André Machado
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/55236
• topic: Direito econômico; Direito e desenvolvimento econômico

This work aims at understanding the relations between underdevelopment and state of exception from the theoretical perspective of Celso Furtado, both in terms of understanding the conjuncture and purposive levels. Using a methodology focused on bibliographic research, the first chapter work seeks to understand why Brazil remains a undeveloped and peripheral country, even with the recent changes regarding income distribution and international prestige. Thereby, it is intended to clear up the affirmation of Francisco de Oliveira that underdevelopment is the permanent exception of the periphery of capitalism. The second chapter attempts to build a purposeful analysis of Brazilian peripheral situation. Initially, it is emphasized the importance of implementing the 1988’s Constitution, with its teleological precepts which point to changes in the existing socio-economic structures. However, it is observed that the Constitution itself is not able to give concreteness to the transformation program prescribed. Hence, in a moment later, it focuses on the role of the State in order to overcome underdevelopment. The way the state can be strengthened to realize this purpose is the “appropriation of the surplus". From such premises, it became possible to perceive that Brazil, - being a country that has not yet reached a "social homogenization" with the aim of satisfying the basic necessities for a dignified life for all its citizens -, is inserted into an auspicious environment to the suspension of the order and of the constitutional guarantees, which means that the State faces situations of exception. In this sense, achieving development - overcoming what Gilberto Bercovici called "desafio furtadiano" - means not only implementing the Constitution, by the assertion of economic sovereignty and the promotion of social justice and human dignity, but, also and above all, means securing the democratic state for which Brazilian people fought to establish.