Industrialização brasileira, diversificação produtiva e consolidação da dependência externa: uma análise a partir da perspectiva da formação nacional

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the role of international capital in the Brazilian industrialization process and the effects of this relationship to the national economy from the perspective of the national formation. It
is argued that industrialization through import substitution, to be guided by the consumption patterns of the central countries, ran up against obstacles that prevented the continuity towards the more complex
stages. The impasse would be resolved by association with international capital, which entered massively in the country from the 1950s and went on to command the core of the Brazilian industry. Thus, despite being
functional for productive diversification, this association has resulted in the increase in external dependency, making the Brazilian economy extremely vulnerable and susceptible to structural reversal processes.