State, development and crisis at the thought of Ignácio Rangel

Abstract

Ignácio Rangel tried to understand the universality and the specificality of the Brazilian historical process, being constituted by four consecutive dualities. In each of theses stages, it comprised two dominant economic formations. One situated at a internal pole (agriculture) and the other at the external one (trade, services, industry and government). This paper aims to analyse Rangel's vision of the three concepts: state-development-crisis.