Development Models in Time and Space, Some Considerations upon the Question in Brasil

Abstract

The paper states that the shift towards a fresh development model is a thing done along two paths of time, the first being imaginary and concerned with a better future, the second with the various ways that such a future could be made possible. As to the first, public urging of such policy question can take a host of forms, some of it promising an ethical modernism, the revitalising of democracy, evolution towards a new
society open to fresh ideas or an economy handled so as to integrate all within its competition. To reach such New Jerusalem’s new ways of understanding the interaction as between things social, economic and
institutional that govern development come to the fore. Given that the traditional nation marching towards full development model has been discredited and the contradictions that a hypothetical national
neo-liberal argument must give rise to, the present day situation has produced two alternatives to these dogmas. The first calls for a developing of the People for the People, demands that things social should thus bow to economic needs and sees valid argument as being ever subject to that imposed by the dynamics of development. A modernity, were it technical, material and institutional must, it argues, lead to social integration. Universal participation in the market is here held to be almost an obligation. The second suggests re-building the People for development. Here, by firing public opinion up for the struggle
against social exclusion, the whole notion of what is modern is to be brought into question, making any economic project servant to social factors and their inherent demands. Such a model, as the author sees
it, is almost necessarily haunted by the risk of a political creating of lobbying in favour of a group particular sharing of the market.