Daniel Estevão Ramos de Miranda
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 38 (1): 125-149.
.This paper discusses the theme of development in the intellectual production of Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira. The variations in his conceptions are strongly related to his professional and political circulation and its production may be categorized in four main variations: national-developmentalism, industrialized underdevelop, crisis of state approach and new developmentism. In the long run, the work of Bresser-Pereira reveals an author searching for a protagonist role Brazilian development process.