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Creating academic economics in Brazil: the Ford Foundation and the beginnings of ANPEC

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  • Ramón García Fernández

    (UFABC)

  • Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak

    (Cedeplar-UFMG)

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The 1960s saw the beginning of an effort to improve professional standards in Brazilian academia through cooperation with a few North American institutions, in the context of an important and controversial set of agreements between the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In the case of economics, the Ford Foundation was especially relevant, providing substantial funding for the creation of the first graduate programs in the field in Brazil. An important moment in this process took place in 1973 with the creation of ANPEC, an association of graduate programs in economics whose purpose was to organize and stimulate institutional interaction among its members. ANPEC is still today the most important association for academic economics in Brazil, exercising leadership through both its annual meetings and a national unified exam for admission in graduate programs in the field. The paper explores archival material from the period 1964-74 held at the Ford Foundation, which illuminates both the interaction between representatives of the Foundation and of different Brazilian academic institutions, and the strategy pursued by the former in order to develop the economics profession in the country. We thus seek to contribute to a better understanding of the conflicting motivations that lay behind the creation of ANPEC, and of the effects that the association would have on the emerging graduate programs in Brazil.

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  • Ramón García Fernández & Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak, 2015. "Creating academic economics in Brazil: the Ford Foundation and the beginnings of ANPEC," Textos para Discussão Cedeplar-UFMG 514, Cedeplar, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
    • Handle: RePEc:cdp:texdis:td514
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    1. Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak & Ramón García Fernández, 2015. "Funding Policy Research Under “Distasteful Regimes”: the Ford Foundation and the Social Sciences at the University of Brasília," Textos para Discussão Cedeplar-UFMG 520, Cedeplar, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
    2. Ramón García Fernández & Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak, 2016. "Manufacturing pluralism in brazilian economics: the role of ANPEC as institutional mediator and stabilizer," Textos para Discussão Cedeplar-UFMG 545, Cedeplar, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

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    ANPEC; Ford Foundation; USAID; FGV; IPE/USP;
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    JEL classification:

    • B20 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - General
    • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
    • A23 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Graduate

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