2006. Despite a disastrous president Bush was reelected because the Democrat Party did not have an alternative to Irak in Brazil, Lula will probably be elected because PSDB is unable to present an alternative economic policy. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
OTHER TYPES OF WORKS
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
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. Political reform should begin by introducing districtal vote combined with open lists.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
2006. Today we have global disgovernance rather than disgovernance given the high and persistent current account deficits in the US economy. (Conjuntura Econômica)
2006. In the Middle-Orient the key factor is not fundamentalism but the nationalist fight against imperialism using religion as an instrument. This is final version of the article "Fundamentalismo ou nacionalismo?" (Folha de S.Paulo) that was not published due to editing mistake. In this version I "e Robert Pape (University of Chicago) he studied 375 case of suicide attachs, and verified that in 95% the motivation was nacionalist, 5%, relgious. See also Pape's interview in a Folha, 13.6.06.
2006. In the Middle-Orient the key factor is not fundamentalism but the nationalist fight against imperialism using religion as an instrument. More complete version available. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
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2006. Brazil is a mixed country but it is not a racial democracy. Affirmative policies are required to reduce racial inequality.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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. The advance of the left in Latin America is not necessarily the advance of populism it is a nationalist reaction against the faillure of conventional orthodoxy. (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. The current account defict of the United States never was so high and so persistent. Since adjustment have been posponed irresponsibly, a hard landing is inevitable. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
2006. The organized gang attack to the Paulista police is a symptom of the confusion of the Brazilian society. To achieve reasonable security it is supposed to offer institutional support to its police and to the Judiciary branch of the state.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
2006. The United States is a 'contemporary empire' whose power derives rather from ideological hegemony than of military capability. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
2006. Alckmin will only win the presidential elections if in the next two months he is able to formulate a articulated national discourse criticizing the present econmic policies. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
2004. The ethics of politics is the ethics of responsibility, or the Machiavelian ethics. Both assume republican ends. When they are lacking, we have just opportunism and immoralisty. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo