The Paraiban and the Jew: asynchronous dialogues between Celso Furtado and Richard Lewinsohn at Revista do Serviço Público and beyond

Abstract

This article puts side by side, in an asynchronous dialogue, the views of Celso Furtado, still in his formative years, and of Richard Lewinsohn, an experienced economist who arrived in Brazil as a result of the racial persecutions in Europe. The emphasis here is on some of the main themes that occupied both thinkers during the 1940s, mainly organization and budget, in what was then the vehicle par excellence of the theoretical discussions around the structuring and administration of the new Brazilian State: Revista do Serviço Público [Public Service Review].