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maio

Publicação [23/05/2022]: Contributions to economics from the “periphery” in historical perspective: the case of Brazil after mid 20th century

This paper provides an overview of Brazilian economists’ contributions to global economics since mid 20th century, from the perspective of economics as transnational science. The contributions are organized into three sections, after a methodological and historiographical introduction: economic development and income distribution, inflation and indexation, and “pure theoretical economics” coming from mainstream mathematical economists and heterodox (mainly […]

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30

mar

Voluminous, Repetitive, and Intractable: Samuelson on Early Development Economics (History of Political Economy); M. Boianovsky

In the late 1970s Paul Samuelson drafted the outline of a paper, never published, with a critical assessment of the theoretical innovations of postwar development economics. He found it a “vital” but essentially “not tractable” subject, with a “voluminous” and “repetitive” literature. This article discusses how that assessment fits in Samuelson’s published writings on economic development, throughout[…]

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24

fev

Journal of Economic Methodology; M. Boianovsky

O número de março de 2022 do Journal of Economic Methodology publicará artigos a propósito dos 50 anos do artigo seminal de Robert Lucas sobre neutralidade da moeda, com contribuições de T. Sargent, H. Uhlig, M. Gillman, P. Galbacs e de professor do nosso programa, M. Boianovsky. O artigo do professor Mauro pode ser obtido através do[…]

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