2006. There is an alternative to the conventional orthodoxy rulling the Brazilian economy. Capital controls are not a sin. (Interview to Catia Seabra: Folha de S.Paulo)
BRAZILIAN ECONOMY
ALL TEXTS ON BRAZILIAN ECONOMY
2006. FHC and Lula incurred in exchange rate populism (populismo cambial). (Interview: O Estado de S.Paulo)
2006. The rich and the poor voted for Lula in the first turn the middle class, for Alckmin. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
2006. Alckmin's economic program - a step ahead, but insufficient. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
2006. Debate on economic growth of Brazil with Eliana Cardoso, Ricardo Carneiro e Samuel Pessoa. (O Estado de São Paulo, Aliás Debate)
2006. A preview of the debate to be published three days later on the Brazilian economic growth. O Estado de S.Paulo.
2006. Writing a book on entrepreneurial agriculture, Antonio José de Oliveira Costa understood the risk that the Dutch Disease represents to farmers. (Preface to Agricultura Empresarial)
2006. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
2006. The rate of substitution of foreign for domestic savings was high in Brazil in the period 1994-99, as the inverse rate was also high in the 2000-05 period. The critique of growth with foreign savings applied to Brazil. (Unpublished paper)
2006. Paper comparing three growth strategies old or national-developmentalism, new developmentalism, and Washingtons conventional orthodoxy - actually a form of neutralizing the catching up of medium income countries. An improved version available with the title "Macroeconomics of stagnation and new developmentalism".(Paper Economie Appliquée).
2006. Fiscal adjustment is always necessary, but, contrarilly to what conventional orthodoxy says, it is not its lack in Brazil that explain the astronomic interest rates. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
2006. As Mexico is in NAFTA, Mercosul does not have interest in having it as a member. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
2006. New developmetalism is a national growth strategy - an alternative to the present conventional orthodoxy. See paper on the subject. (Interview: Folha de S.Paulo).
2006. (Letter). Leia também o artigo de Roberto Giannetti a que me refiro nesta carta.
2006. The rate of substitution of foreign for domestic savings was high in Brazil in the period 1994-99, as the inverse rate was also high in the 2000-05 period. The critique of growth with foreign savings applied to Brazil.(Paper)
2006.3. PSDB is divided between the Rio group, that supports the present conventional orthodoxy, and the São Paulo group that critiques it.(Interview: O Estado de S.Paulo)
2006.3. Giddens believes that Lula is a left politician, but, through a high interest rate, he is just transferring income from the poor to the rentiers. (article: Folha de S.Paulo).
2006.2. PSDB is divided. One group supports the present economic policies, the other, rejects them. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
2006. Social inequality and the loss of the concept of nation are the two structural causes behind Brazil's long term quasi-stagnation. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)