STATE, DEVELOPMENT AND DEPENDENCE IN LATIN AMERICA: A STUDY BY PREBISCH AND CARDOSO & FALETTO
This dissertation aims to investigate the concept of State behind two classic works: The economic development of Latin America and some of its main problems, by Raúl Prebisch, and Dependence and Development in Latin America, by Cardoso and Faletto. Starting from the hypothesis that in none of these productions the authors were concerned with clearly defining the State, we will seek to extract and discuss the conceptions of State used by these Latin American thinkers, even if they are implicit in the texts, seeking to understand which concept of State is rooted in these two analyzes of the economic and social dynamics of Latin America. The theoretical foundation for the proposed investigation is in the classics of political theory: the contractualist conceptions of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, the Weberian and Marxist conceptions of Marx, Lenin and Poulantzas.