2008. E-mails between Bresser-Pereira and the Argentinean intellectuals Jorge Gaggero and Matías Bianchi on the "retenciones" and the Dutch disease. (Only in this site)
2008. E-mails between Bresser-Pereira and the Argentinean intellectuals Jorge Gaggero and Matías Bianchi on the "retenciones" and the Dutch disease. (Only in this site)
2008. Three basic definitions nations are a form of politically organized society that emerges with capitalism the state, the law system and the organization that enforces it the nation-state, the basic territorial-political unity in capitalism. Note only in this site
2008. The 1968 Student Revolution represented the end, not the beginning, of a major post-war social and political change. After, the world experienced a conservative counter-revolution. Article O Estado de S.Paulo.
2008. The new nationalist leaders in Latin America face major obstacles. It is more difficult to govern poor than middle income countries. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
2008. (Preface to edited book)
2008. The real state of nature is capitalism, a unjust and corrupt, but dynamic and strong like a tiger. The historical social contract is the democratic state that modern societies created do trim the tiger's claws but conserve its strength and dynamism.(Note: available only in this site)
2008. The distinction between nation, state and nation-state. (Note)
2007. Being much bigger than the Liberal State, the Social-Democratic State requires public management reform that make more efficient the large social and scientific services. On the other hand, the managerial reform legitimized the Social State. (Full text available only in this site)
2007. Trade cannot be de-linked from finance because the exchange rate represents a major intersection between the two field. Yet, the exchange rate is forgotten in international trade and in economic growth courses, and in trade negotiations at WTO. Countries that have reserve currencies abhor taking on the exchange rate (Intervention at UNCTAD seminar)
2007. Brazilian society underwent two cycles in the twentieth century (Nação e Desenvolvimento and Democracia e Justiça), followed, with a gap, by the respective political coalition at state level. (Section of the book Macroeconomia da Estagnação)
2007. This is a reduced version of a "Novo desenvolvimentismo e ortodoxia convencional". It compares three growth strategies: old or national-developmentalism, new developmentalism, and Washington,s conventional orthodoxy. Portuguese version available. (Paper: Nueva Sociedad)
2007. Given the Dutch disease, I am not proposing confiscation but a marginal tax on exports that will not hurt but will stabilize commodities' production and profitability. (Two articles by Celso Ming and my letter to him)
2007. Caio Prado Jr. was a major historian of Brazilian mercantilism, but he didn't understand the after 1930 Brazil made its industrial revolution and overcome mercantilism. (Article: Folha, Mais!)
2006. Survey of Ugo Paganos "Positional goods and asymmetric development". (Note: Econômica).
2006. Either PT or PSDB have an answer on how to face and overcome the Brazilian economy's 26 years old quasi-stagnation because they lost the idea of nation. (Interview to Rodrigo de Almeida: Jornal do Brasil).
2006. Intervention in Brasilia conference in honor of Celso Furtado. This note reproduces part of the paper "Método e paixão em Celso Furtado". (Note: Cadernos do Desenvolvimento )
2006. Note on thruth asserting that the ability to achieve thruth depends on the complexity of the objects that are studied. (Note: prepared to students)
2006. In order to become again a real nation Brazil needs a encompassing national agreement, where the association between businessmen and the state bureaucracy is key. (Note in , Economia Brasileira na Encruzilhada)
2006. After a major favorable external chock that doubled its exports in five years, the Brazilian economy faces a major opportunity to resumed sustained economic growht. (Preface to Economia Brasileira na Encruzilhada, 2006)