Os intelectuais do Plano Cruzado

Abstract

Based on the news about Cruzado Economic Plan published by two newsmagazines (Isto é and Veja), this paper deals with the framing of the members of president Sarney's economic team as intellectuals. It approaches, also, the way by which this construction is done, discussing criterion and characters enhanced by the magazines. Last, it discusses possible relations between economists' construction as intellectuals, done by the magazines' coverage, and the debate placed by authors such as Norberto Bobbio, Antonio Gramsci, Beatriz Sarlo and Pierre Bourdieu, exploring the purposes and consequences, from a political point of view, of the glance of the concept of intellectual provided by the reports over Cruzado Economic Plan.