A ideologia da modernização da agricultura: um estudo do pensamento econômico brasileiro.

Abstract

The ideology of the modernization of agriculture: a study of Brazilian economic thought is an analysis of the historical context in which the conception of modernization arises, as this conception becomes an analytical concept, which is now used by the most important lines of world economic thought : from the Marxist to the neoclassical. It verifies the epistemological foundation of the concept of modernization, and then apprehends its derivation for the modernization of agriculture, analyzing the main characteristics of this conception of agriculture modernization in three important "schools" of Brazilian economic thought: neoclassical, acepaline and "school" of Campinas. The objective is to understand how the theoretical economic production was influenced by this conception of modernization of agriculture and how, from there, it contributes to the process of modernization of Brazilian agriculture and its relation with the consequences of this process. critical to the idea of ​​the inexorability of the capitalist mode of production, which includes the modernization of agriculture as inevitable and necessary and pervading all lines of economic thought under study. It is concluded that the Fundament and pistemológico of the visions of modernization of agriculture are inserted, in general, in a same "vision of world" and they point to a conception of economic development for the agriculture based on the technological innovation, that is, in the modernization of agriculture . Thus, the theoretical differences between the "schools" analyzed lie in the interpretations of the consequences of agricultural modernization and not its essence.