This paper proposes a classification of economic models into three types: historical, axiomatic and conditional. Historical or empirical models utilize the historical-deductive method, and are generalizations from the ...

Brazil has grown extraordinarily between 1930 and 1980 under a regime of developmental economic policy; since 1990, it is quasi-stagnant under a liberal regime. Lula did nothing to change it. Dilma Rousseff tried, in 2011, ...

This paper lists three new historical facts after the Second World War: the emergence of the welfare or social state in the 1940s, its rejection by a rentier and financier neoliberal ideology that becomes dominant from the ...

This paper argues that the state and the market are the main institutions regulating capitalism, and, correspondingly, that the form of the economic and political coordination of capitalism will be either developmental or ...

Brexit and the election of Donald Trump are a symptom of the political crisis of globalization and neoliberalism. The secret of capitalism was in entrepreneurs who combined economic liberalism and individualism with ...

This paper firstly situates the Nation-State historically as a product of the capitalist revolution. Secondly, it distinguishes the State (the law system and the organization that guarantees it) from the Nation-State or ...

This paper presents an interpretation of the European crisis based on balance-of-payments imbalances within the Eurozone, highlighting the role of the internal real exchange rates as a primary cause of the crisis. It ...

The history of independent Brazil may be divided into three major state-society cycles, and, after 1930, five political pacts or class coalitions can be identified. These pacts were nationalist; only in the 1990s did the ...

This paper discusses the mixt social formationtechnobureaucratic capitalismwhich resulted from the emergence of the technobureaucratic class and the resilience of capitalism. This emergence takes place with the Second ...