Abstract

Resumo O objetivo deste artigo é resgatar na biografia de Celso Furtado sua trajetória como servidor público entre 1943 e 1964. Mais conhecido por suas contribuições para o campo da economia, entretanto, Furtado iniciou sua carreira de funcionário e acadêmico, como pesquisador e professor, no campo da administração pública. Em 1943, Furtado entrou por concurso para o Departamento Administrativo do Serviço Público (Dasp) como assistente de organização e alcançou, 20 anos depois, a posição de ministro de Estado no governo de João Goulart (1961-1964). Durante o período investigado, Furtado trabalhou na Comissão Econômica para a América Latina (Cepal), em Santiago (Chile), entre 1949 e 1957, retornou ao Brasil para se tornar diretor do Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico (BNDE), o que o levaria a organizar a Superintendência do Desenvolvimento do Nordeste (Sudene) da qual ele foi o primeiro superintendente. Furtado foi o principal disseminador das ideias da Cepal no Brasil que propunham a centralidade do Estado na promoção do desenvolvimento e a consequente necessidade de um novo perfil de gestor público para gerir esse processo. O período foi marcado pelo diálogo entre desenvolvimento econômico e administração do desenvolvimento, o que levou à tese da vinculação do desenvolvimento econômico ao desenvolvimento da técnica e arte de administração. Destarte, Furtado foi um dos pensadores cuja reflexão teórica e prática ajudou a consolidar as grandes empresas estatais do país. Resgatar a trajetória de Furtado como gestor público propicia uma reflexão ponderada sobre o papel do Estado na economia e sobre o papel do gestor público.

Highlights

  • Celso Monteiro Furtado is one of the best-known economists in Brazil and abroad and was nominated by his peers for the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics, one year before his death

  • Some researches that deal with the historiography of administration show Furtado’s influence in the area: for Fischer (1984:59), the ideas promoted by the Economic Commission for Latin America (Eclac) were an incentive to “support the training of public managers, who would be responsible for modernizing the field of administration”

  • Furtado was the main Brazilian representative in Eclac and the main disseminator in Brazil of the ideas developed in the organization (Bielschowsky, 1988); according to Bertero (2006:10), the texts of authors such as Furtado “were important references for the first courses on administration”; for Coelho (2006), the ideas elaborated by Eclac confronted the assumptions of scientific management inspired by the the United States, and brought about the introduction of the debate on national issues in public administration teaching, which began to deal with the political-administrative and socio-economic history of the country, rather than the mere appropriation of imported models

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INTRODUCTION

Celso Monteiro Furtado is one of the best-known economists in Brazil and abroad and was nominated by his peers for the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics, one year before his death. The theorizations issued by Iseb and Eclac were contrary to the proclaimed US scientific management (Wanderley, 2015a) These authors (Fischer, 1984; Bertero, 2006; Coelho, 2006; Alcadipani and Bertero, 2014) corroborate the influence of Furtado and Eclac in administration courses and in the modernization of the Brazilian state in the 1950s and early 1960s. The theoretical contributions of Furtado and Eclac are not the center of this study, but considered part of the context of the time analyzed and as the background of the biography of Celso Furtado as public manager This article offers this modest contribution in face of the vast work of Furtado and the literature about him, which still lacks research to better understand his role as a civil servant. The third section presents the analysis of Celso Furtado’s career as a public manager, and is followed by the final considerations in the last section

METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH
CELSO FURTADO’S CAREER AS PUBLIC MANAGER
CIVIL SERVANT AT DASP
DIRECTOR OF ECLAC FOR BRAZIL
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AGENCY
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
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