"This timely book offers a concise summary of new developmentalism, exploring this in the context of both heterodox economics and political economy. It adopts a historical-structural method that is critical of orthodox or Neoclassical Economics. Luis Carlos Bresser-Pereira delves into the roots...

While methodological sciences have no object and are supposed to adopt a hypothetical-deductive method, substantive sciences including economics should use an empirical or historical-deductive method. The great classical economists and Keynes did that and were able to develop open models...

Prefácio / Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho -- Crítica da teoria neoclássica e método na obra de Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira / Ramón Garcia Fernandez, Marco Antonio Ribas Cavalieri, Victor Nunes Leal Cruz e Silva -- Bresser-Pereira como intérprete do desenvolvimento brasileiro / Pedro Cezar...