2017. Liberal economists don't discuss the exchange rate, because its devaluation hurts rentiers and financiers that they represent. (Valor).
NEW-DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY (NDT)
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2017. The great majority of liberal economists mean no harm by promoting fiscal adjustment alone.
2017. The first developmentalism was mercantilism, the second, Fordism, which was a progressive class coalition. After the 2008 Crisis neoliberalism turned demoralized, state intervention increased, and a third developmentalism is looming, but it will be a conservative capitalism due to the competition of China and other developing countries.
2017. Countries turn consolidated democracies after their industrial revolution which they made in authoritarian regimes. Today, pre-industrial countries are supposed to be democratic before their industrial revolutions. (Paper in the BJPE)
2015. Countries turn consolidated democracies after their industrial revolution which they made in authoritarian regimes. Today, pre-industrial countries are supposed to be democratic before their industrial revolutions.
2014. Countries turn consolidated democracies after their industrial revolution which they made in authoritarian regimes. Today, pre-industrial countries are supposed to be democratic before their industrial revolutions. (EESP/FGV discussion paper 367)
2016. All industrial revolutions happened in the framework of a developmental state. We can distinguish in history four basic models of developmental state. Portuguese version available.(Texto p/ Discussão)
2016. National solidarity, first, and social-democracy, later on, have mitigated Capitalist exploitation. The demise of these two institutions led global capitalism to the present political crisis. (essay)
2016. All industrial revolutions happened in the framework of a developmental state. We can distinguish in history four basic models of developmental state. (Paper to be published - TD-412). English version available.
2016. A key source of the power of the financial sector in all countries is the importance that macroeconomic policy assumed in the last 50 years, and the fact that this sector hires at least 80% of the macroeconomists. (Article, Jornal dos Economistas)
2015. A brief text summing up in itens New Developmentalism.
2014. Apresentação para o Seminário "Repensando a trajetória do Estado brasileiro", Semana de Ciência Política da UFSCAR (Slide presentation).
2013. A developmental state was behind the Capitalist Revolution and the economic development that then historically beggins. (Paper just available in this website)
(2013) In this text, It was already clear to me that the alternative to economic liberalism was developmentalism, and that after the 2008 Global Crisis, some facts announced the collapse of neoliberalism and the change to developmentalism. Portuguese version available.
(2013) In this text, it was already clear to me that the alternative to economic liberalism was developmentalism, and that after the 2008 Global Crisis, some facts announced the collapse of neoliberalism and the change to developmentalism. English version available.
2013. Palestra no seminário "Desafios atuais do desenvolvimento brasileiro" (Slide presentation).
2012. Apresentação feita à reunião anual da Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência Política, Gramado, agosto de 2012. (Slide presentation) Paper available in Portuguese
2009. A review of a classical book on the intellectual history of Brazil. Written in a moment where nationalism was beign replaced by dependency interpretation. (Review of Carlos Guilherme Mota (1977 [2008]), Ideologia da Cultura Brasileira).
2009. A consolidated democracy requires a capable state, a strong nation and an active civil society. The quality of democracy must be improved but it is a mistake to o include in the concept of democracy more than its minimum, procedural, requirements. (Paper)