Resumen

CAVALCANTI, Clóvis. Celso Furtado y el subdesarrollo subdesarrollo. Revista Venezolana de Economía y Ciencias Sociales [online]. 2005, vol.11, n.1, pp.013-020. ISSN 20030507.

A new reading of what Celso Furtado wrote on underdevelopment (in the sixties) shows clearly his current relevance. Employing a structuralist approach and a historical method, Furtado arrives at such conclusions as: "underdevelopment is (...) an autonomous historical process", therefore it does not constitute "a necessary stage in the formation (...) of the capitalist economies"; "the only visible tendency is for the underdeveloped countries to remain so"; "twentieth-century development has provoked a growing concentration of world income", with "a progressive amplification of the gulf between the rich regions and the underdeveloped countries"; "underdevelopment is the manifestation of complex relations of domination-dependence among peoples, and tends to reproduce itself under changing forms"; all this requires that one take "conscience of the political dimension of the situation of underdevelopment" with the formation of "national centers capable of adopting valid decisions".

Palabras clave : Celso Furtado; Underdevelopment; Dependency; Latin America.