Celso Furtado

Celso Furtado
Celso Furtado in 1962
Minister of Planning
In office
28 September 1962 – 31 March 1964
PresidentJoão Goulart
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byRoberto Campos
Personal details
Born(1920-07-26)26 July 1920
Pombal, Paraíba, Brazil
Died20 November 2004(2004-11-20) (aged 84)
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Alma materUniversity of Paris
Academic career
FieldEconomics
InstitutionUniversity of Cambridge, CEPAL, Sudene, Cabinet of Brazil, University of Paris
School or
tradition
Structuralist economics
InfluencesJohn Maynard Keynes, Raúl Prebisch

Celso Monteiro Furtado (July 26, 1920 – November 20, 2004) was a Brazilian economist and one of the most distinguished intellectuals of the 20th century.[1] His work focuses on development and underdevelopment and on the persistence of poverty in peripheral countries throughout the world. He is viewed, along with Raúl Prebisch, as one of the main formulators of economic structuralism, an economics school that is largely identified with CEPAL, which achieved prominence in Latin America and other developing regions during the 1960s and 1970s and sought to stimulate economic development through governmental intervention, largely inspired on the views of John Maynard Keynes. As a politician, Furtado was appointed Minister of Planning (Goulart government) and Minister of Culture (Sarney government).

  1. ^ Romero, Simon (November 26, 2004). "Celso Furtado, 84, Influential Brazilian Economist, Dies". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 20, 2015. Retrieved June 19, 2014.