(Under)Development in theory and policy:a contemporary dialogue between Celso Furtado and Milton Santos about new industrial clusters
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Lucas Linhares
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- História econômica
- Abstract
- In Brazil, Planning has been back to policy agenda in 21st Century. Recently, new iniciatives in the industrial economy field have been made, in order to promote a more balanced socio-spatial-economic configuration. The fordist standard of accumulation has losen its absolute importance in the contemporary urban-industrial capitalism. In this context, the industrial structures established as local clusters had improved its relative importance as public policy for development. This paper intend to establish a dialogue between Celso Furtado´s and Milton Santos’ classical arguments, in order to propose a “possible” and contemporary discussion about the local clusters’ potential to promote the development in peripheral countries such as Brazil. More specifically, it is an attempt to approach the current debate around industrial policies directed to supporting the development of clusters, emphasizing the need to contemplate the specificities of social, economic and spatial structures of peripheral countries as a fundamental effort for a referential theoretical framework for planning in these countries. Overall, we conclude that in contexts of underdevelopment, local externalities find structural constraints to its realization, which explains in great deal the reduced force of peripheral industrial clusters in the reduction of socio-economic inequalities and regional segmentation.
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- 2009-06-01
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- Vol. 30 No. 1 (2009)
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- Artigos
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