Elites modernas na transição para a periferia do capitalismo periférico: engenheiros, economistas e empresários mineiros e a percepção das relações entre o nacional e o regional no quadro da modernização econômica brasileira (1930-1970)

Abstract

Relations between the Nation and the Region became progressively more important among the technical and business elites of Minas Gerais during the period of Brazilian economic modernization (1930-1970). An ever more refined understanding was developed of the factors that governed the formation and reproduction of regional imbalances, and which were responsible for the relative lag of the economy of Minas. In association journals (Associação Comercial de Minas e Federação das Indústrias do Estado de Minas Gerais), professional journals (Sociedade Mineira de Engenheiros) and academic journals (Faculdade de Ciências Econômicas - UFMG), engineers, economists and businessmen presented studies and reflections that demonstrated the unequal and concentrative nature of Brazilian development, the affirmation of the growing peripheral nature of the regional economy and the claim for intervention by the State and Federal Governments, through policies that promoted the development of the interior and the legitimacy of regionally correcting the contradictions of national economic modernization.