Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ANDRE DE JESUS TORRES

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STUDENT : ANDRE DE JESUS TORRES
DATE: 25/11/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: online
TITLE:

REVISITING ARTHUR LEWIS FROM A PERSPECTIVE SOUTH EPISTEMOLOGY - Race and development in Theory of Economic Growth (1955) and Racial Conflict and Economic Development (1985)

PAGES: 60
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Economia
SUBÁREA: Teoria Econômica
SPECIALTY: História do Pensamento Econômico
SUMMARY:

William Arthur Lewis (Saint Lucia, 1915 - Bridgetown, 1991) believed, in his own
words, that the fundamental cure for poverty was not money but knowledge. Having
dedicated his extensive career as an economist, professor and economic adviser
(from poor countries) to producing this cure consecrated him as one of the pioneers
of Development Economics and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, being the
only black person to integrate any of the groups. It so happens that, according to the
Epistemologies of the South, all knowledge is epistemologically located either on the
dominant or subaltern side of power relations, and social place and epistemic place
do not necessarily coincide. Thus, despite having fought for the development of
subalterns, Lewis did so armed with a Eurocentric civilizational perspective,
incapable of understanding and therefore curing underdevelopment in all its
complexity, including racial (a dimension silenced by economic theory, including in
the field of development) . This dissertation revisits two moments of Lewis' economic
thinking about the relationship between race and development: his main work,
Theory of Economic Growth (1955), marked by Eurocentrism, and his last, Racial
Conflict and Economic Development (1985), dedicated entirely to the breed. The
objective was to identify whether this focus on racial discussion, thirty years after its
development model was formalized, would be associated with a reorientation of its
epistemic location, towards the social one. In order to do so, we analyze Racial
Conflict, seeking to identify ideas related to the ideals of a Southern Epistemology
aware of the centrality of the racial dimension in underdevelopment: Pan-Africanism,
given that Lewis lived and worked with several leaders of this political and intellectual
movement, although he never identified as belonging to it. Partial results indicate
that despite having advanced in the conceptual critique of the dominant economic
theory, questioning laissez-faire dogmas (for example, by understanding ethnic-
racial inequalities as market failures to be corrected with state intervention), the
civilizing form that he envisioned for ex-colonies and ex-colonized remains that of the
colonizer, and the advent of economic equality remains conditioned on the merits of
black communities and countries in making the best use of their own resources,
regardless of external events, such as colonialism.

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Membro Titular - Examinador(a) Interno ao Programa - 2123638 - MURYATAN SANTANA BARBOSA
Membro Titular - Examinador(a) Externo à Instituição - LUCIANA ROSA DE SOUZA - UNIFESP
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