Vol. 44 No. 3 (2024)
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Maria da Conceição Tavares
Abstract
Maria da Conceição Tavares was one of Brazil’s most notable development
economists. She studied economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and
then at ECLAC, where she soon became an economist and an always-cited author
whenever talking about the ECLAC structuralist school. She was a professor at
Unicamp and UFRJ, both universities where she had studied. Among her friends,
there are first-rate economists such as Celso Furtado, Antonio Barros de Castro,
Carlos Lessa, and Luiz Gonzaga Belluzzo. I got to know her well and we always
had a very cordial relationship. The Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, always
identified with heterodox economic theory and political economy, published seven
of her papers (Belluzzo e Tavares, 1981; Tavares e Souza, 1981; Tavares, 1983,
1985, 1994, 1996; Tavares e Metri, 2020). Given her death on June 8, 2024, this is
the journal’s tribute that includes her obituary published by the newspaper Valor