Uma avaliação da reserva de mercado na indústria brasileira de computadores

Resumen

This article discusses the brazilian experience of the development of hi-tech industries, specially in some sub-sectors of the electronic complex like the production of micro-computers and peripherals, and evaluates the policy of market reserve for national producers. This paper opposes the neo-liberal understanding of the subject. The discussion is divided in three parts: 1) the analysis of the brazilian experience in the context of the wider industrialization debate; 2) a brief overview of the policy regime and of the polítical setting wich gave rise to the policy, and 3) an assessment of the brazilian policy, answering to the neo-liberal criticisms about the supposed inefficiency of government intervention and raising some essential aspects neglected by that view.