ABSTRACT
The apparent success of the solutions presented by the 'Washington Consensus' was crucial for the establishment of neoliberalism as the new dominant economic paradigm in Brazil. Economists Celso Furtado and Maria da Conceição Tavares are the most prominent names when it comes to ECLAC thinking in Brazil. The economic debate carried out within the framework of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), since its creation in 1947, is an inheritor and tributary of this long trajectory. What distinguishes Prebisch and makes ECLAC a milestone in the history of Latin American economic thought is precisely that of representing the climax of this trajectory of polemics about the primary export model. Although there were variations in the analysis and tactical recommendations proposed by each, the pioneering authors linked to Marxist dependency theory shared the conviction that only a decisive, revolutionary break with capitalism could allow true Latin American development to take place.
