1999. Acceptance Speech at the Science and Technology Ministry. Brasília, January 1999.
SHORT TEXTS
1999 - The difference between a good state and a good administration or government. (Preface to Yehezkel Dror (1999) A Capacidade para Governar).
1998. New dependency theory is different from the theory of imperialism, as well as from the national-bourgeois interpretation. It is "new" because rich countries are not anymore against industrialization, but favor authoritarianism and income concentration (Intervention in conference).
1998. The press is a central tool of the democratic debate. It must be critical without ignoring trust and respect.(Speech in the lunch for Page 3 authors Folha de S.Paulo)
1998. Intervención en el seminario "Los Nuevos Mecanismos Institucionales: Estado, Mercado y Sociedade Civil", patrocinado pela Universidad de San Martín y el BID.
1998. Outline preparado para servir de base para a Carta de Madri de 1998: Uma Administração Gerencial para a América Latina.
1998. Originality and courage were the trade marks of Ignacio Rangel's thought. (Preface to book edited by Armen Mamigonian e José Marcio Rego)
1997. Preface to book by Nuria Cunill Grau.
1996. In late twentieth century we are facing neoliberalism, but, as a trade-off, republican right are been acknowledged and democracy is a source of morality and social justice. (Lecture at UNESCO conference).
1997. (Economia Aplicada)
1997. The author defines four "gramatics" relating society and the state in Brazil: clientelism, corporatism, bureaucratic insulation and procedural universalism. I update this analysis considering the 1985 transition to democracy (Preface to book by Edson de Oliveira Nunes)
1997 - Preface to Carlos Rossellis book, Socialismo Liberal (1930). Political ideas of an Italian liberal-socialist, who was critical of Marxism, and was killed by fascism. (Jorge Zahar Editor)
1997. Why do Brazilian economists have so much power? A review of Maria Rita Loureiro book, Os Economistas no Poder. (Book review: Folha de S.Paulo, Mais! 15.6.97)
1996. Letter to President Fernando Henrique Cardoso analyzing the economic situation, emphasizing that the overvaluation of the real, and recommending its depreciation in order to avoid a financial crisis before reelection. (3.9.1996)
1995. The major challenge that Latin American intellectuals face is to reform and rebuild the state of their countries. (Short testimony to the survey "Latin America - The Social Scientists View", Nueva Sociedad)
1995. My first article proposing an adapted version of the purchaser-provider split model to reorganize the SUS. Eventually it resulted into Nob (Norma Operacional Básica) 96 that reorganized SUS (Brazilian universal health-care system) according to a managerial approach. (Lecture in CLAD meeting in Buenos Aires in Ju).
1995 - Prefácio to the Brazilian edition of book by Bresser-Pereira, Maravall and Przeworski.
1994. An homage to Ignacio Rangel in the year of his deth. (Anpec, Salvador)
1994. There are three models of capitalism: the American, the Japanese, and the European or social democratic. The choice criterium is efficiency - what will lead Latin American to choose a combination of the social-democratic and the Japanese (developmental) model. As to democracy, it is a end in itself or a means to freedom and peace, not to economic development. Thus, trade-offs between growth and democracy should not be considered. (Published only in this website)