Order inside the progress: moments of the dispute on state interference and economic planning in Brazil (1937-1955)

Abstract

This article explores the following disputes on planning and economic action of government, in contemporary Brazil: 1) the documents of Vargas first government (Estado Novo) and writings of the emblematic representatives of Brazilian authoritarian school of thought (Oliveira Vianna, Francisco Campos) and their critical approach to the liberalism; 2) documents from USA technical missions (Abbink, Cooke, Comissão Mista Brasil-EEUU); 3) the polemic between Roberto Simonsen and Eugênio Gudin (1944); 4) the logical consequences of "parallel administration", the origins of BNDE and the demiur0c status of State; 5) government interference tolerated by the brazilian liberal theorists (mainly Roberto Campos) and political consequences of that operation.