The 2008 global financial crisis was the consequence of the process of financialization, or the creation of massive fictitious financial wealth, that began in the 1980s, and of the hegemony of a reactionary ideology, namely, ...

This is a personal account of the definition of 'new developmentalism'- a national development strategy alternative to the Washington consensus -, and of a 'structuralist development macroeconomics': the sum of models that ...

The September 11th episode not only marked the end of the Cold War, but of the Balance of Powers Diplomacy, through which the nation-states defin e themselves as enemies, and solve their problems with war or war threat. ...

The paper, first, summarizes Latin American structuralism, and offers reasons why it was so influential and durable in the region, as it attended to real demands, and was part of 1950s’mainstream economics. Second, says ...

Seminário realizado no dia 14/08 em homenagem aos 70 anos do Professor Fernando de Holanda Barbosa. Durante o evento, os diversos convidados abordaram sobre as contribuições do Professor Fernando de Holanda Barbosa no temas ...

All social science' schools have a common assumption: self-interest is the central variable explaining human behavior in society. In contemporary societies a second variable is turning increasingly relevant when one is ...

The history of independent Brazil may be divided in three major political cycles, and, since 1930, we can distinguish five political pacts or class coalitions. Since 1930 these pacts have been nationalist. Only in the 1990s ...

Brazil is growing around 1% per capita a year from 1981; this means for a country that is supposed to catch up, quasi-stagnation. Four historical new facts explain why growth was so low after the Real Plan: the reduction ...