A PERIFERICIDADE DO BRASIL E A DEPENDÊNCIA TECNOLÓGICA EM IGNÁCIO RANGEL

Abstract

The objective of this article is to demonstrate how the technological issue and the peripherality of Brazil are presented in Ignácio Rangel, highlighting how the author's ideas can be analyzed today. Rangel identified that one of the great characteristics of the Brazilian economy is the coexistence of modern and archaic productive structures, unevenly across the territory. Technological progress in peripheral economies happens differently in the ups and downs of long cycles. Developing financial institutions that enable the growth of an innovative environment in Brazil is one of the problems highlighted in Rangel's writings. In addition, we demonstrate in this article that the issue of technological dependence in Rangel differs from the conventional interpretations of the Dependency Theory adherents, because despite some similarities with CEPAL readings, Brazilian technological dependence is temporally and sectorally relativized by Ignácio Rangel.