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The “neutralisation of the Dutch disease argument” legitimising import tariffs

  • autor: Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

2022. This note offers a second argument ligitimising import tariffs. The first was the infant industry argument; the second, the "neutralisation of the Dutch disease argument". Which is essential to understand industrialsation in many countries.

The Dutch disease, extractivism, and the second argument for tariffs on the import of manufactures goods

  • autor: Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

2022. A second argument for import tariffs. (Brief text) 

A ficção do mercado de energia elétrica

  • autor: Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira e José Marcio Rego

2022. O preço da energia é um obstáculo para o crescimento da economia brasileira há tanto tempo quase estagnada. (Artigo: A Terra é Redonda)

Note on the concept and measurement of the industrial equilibrium

2020. Note defiining the competitive exchange rate or industrial equilibrium - the exchange that makes competitive the companies or investment projects utilizing the best technology. A critique to a paper by José Luis Oreiro, Paulo Gala and Luciano D'Agostini. (Available in this website only).

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Defining the New-Developmental Economics

2020. Short definition of the new-developmental economics. (Published only in this site)

Primeiro encontro com a obra de Celso Furtado

Texto base para meu depoimento a Cristiano Abreu e Paulo Robilloti que preparam intervenção no XI Congresso do Programa de História Econômica-USP (PPGHE). São Paulo, 6.11.2020.

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O desafio brasileiro - A crise do neoliberalismo e a alternativa novo-desenvolvimentista

2020. Brazil faces four crises (political, economic, moral and sanitary) in the framework of the world crisis of neoliberal capitalism and the rise of rightwing populism. (A Terra é Redonda)

Brazil: 40 years of deindustrialization

2019. The Brazilian economy is deindustrializing and quasi-stagnant for 40 years. The main economic and political causes and what must be done. The original of this article was published in Portuguese, in Jornal dos Economistas June 2019.

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40 anos de desindustrialização

2019. The Brazilian economy is deindustrializing and quasi-stagnant for 40 years. The main economic and political causes and what must be done. (essay: Jornal dos Economistas. English Version available

Um estranho casamento: neoliberalismo e nacionalismo de direita

2019. Neoliberalism and the right-wing populist response in the rich countries and in Brasil. (Essay in A Terra é Redonda

Forte na defesa e na recusa

2019. Lula é o líder capaz de devolver o país à normalidade (Article Folha de S.Paulo)

Como se define a taxa de câmbio de equilíbrio ou competitiva? E por que a taxa de câmbio é determinante do desenvolvimento?

This note defines the competitive exchange rate and summarizes the new-developmental theory explaining why the exchange rate is determinant of investment and growth.. English version available, November 2019.

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How to define the competitive exchange rate? Why is it determinant of economic growth?

This note defines the competitive exchange rate and summarizes the new-developmental theory explaining why the exchange rate is determinant of investment and growth.. Written to be published in my website. EAESP / FGV, November 2019. Portuguese version available.

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Principles of New Developmentalism

  • autor: Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

2019. Fifteen principles that summarized New Developmentalism. A collective document which counted with the collaboration of several economists and political scientists.

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A doença holandesa e a doença de custos

(2019) A simple way of neutralizing the Dutch disease in relation to the domestic market is to set a variable import tariff on manufactured goods. Variable according to the price os the commodities that originate the disease. (Op-column in Valor)

Republicanos nunca mais?

2019. Survey of book by Yascha Mounk. Liberal democracy is in crisis. It could not be otherwise because neoliberals see it as the ideal form of society. (Article in Quatro Cinco Um-Revista dos Livros)

Como as democracias morrem

2018. Resenha do livro de Steven Levitsky e Daniel Ziblatt.

Keynes, Cardim e seus amigos pós-keynesianos

2018. Prefácio ao livro em homenagem a Fernando Cardim de Carvalho.

Um projeto novo-desenvolvimentista para o Brasil

2018. Opções para a retomada do desenvolvimento no novo governo.