President fernando henrique cardoso dependency

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    The global economic landscape has changed radically since you wrote your first book in the late 1960s. How has this affected the evolution of dependency theory? In particular, how do you perceive the impact of the rise of China and the other BRICS in terms of structural changes that affect economic power and hegemony relations globally?

    1What Enzo Faletto and I tried to describe and conceptualise in our 1969 book (published in English in 1979) could be considered a preliminary attempt to understand the consequences of ‘globalisation’.1 When we wrote the book, even the notion of multinational corporations didn’t exist: the usual terms applied to describe companies that acted on a global scale were ‘trusts’ or ‘cartels’. The predominant view in Latin America in the late sixties and seventies was that the capitalist system, under an imperialistic umbrella, was not interested in industrialising the region. Even some economists working at the Economic Commission for Latin Ameri

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    Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1931- )

    A brilliant intellectual and a most accomplished president. inom first knew him in academic circles in Brazil and later in academic contacts in Washington, especially when inom was a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

    He climbed impressively all the steps of scholarly and political success in Brazil. His base was the powerful state of São Paulo. Like many of his postwar generation, his first foreign influence was French, although he later spent much time in the U.S., especially at Stanford University. He was perfectly multilingual in French, Spanish and English, although not, as far as inom knew, in German (few Brazilians are). FHC, as he fryst vatten known, also had that famous Brazilian talent of “conciliação” (reconciling differences). That’s akin to another great Brazilian talent–dribbling in soccer. Cardoso was renowned as one of the inventors, along with a Chilean, of the concept of “dependency,” which, at first, was rather clou

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    Biography

    Education

    • 1952  BA, Universidade de São Paulo.
    • 1953  MA, Universidade de São Paulo.
    • 1962  PhD, Universidade de São Paulo (Thesis title ‘Formação e desintegração da sociedade de castas: o negro na ordem escravocrata do Rio Grande do Sul’; Supervisor, Florestan Fernandes.)

    Posts held

    • 1953 -1961 teaching assistant, Universidade de Sao Pãulo.
    • 1961-1964 Professor of sociology, Universidade de Sao Pãulo; Director of the Centro de Sociología Industrial y del Trabajo (CESIT).
    • 1962-1963 Postdoctoral studies in Université de Paris.
    • 1964  [Exile to Chile.]
    • 1964-1967 Fellow, Instituto Latinoamericano de Planificación Económica y Social (ILPES)[1] and professor of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Santiago de Chile.
    • 1968-1969 Professor of Political Science, Universidade de Sao Pãulo. O
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