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MayThis 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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SeaIn 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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FebThe March 2022 issue of the Journal of Economic Methodology will publish articles on the 50th anniversary of Robert Lucas's seminal paper on currency neutrality, with contributions from T. Sargent, H. Uhlig, M. Gillman, P. Galbacs and professor of our program, M. Boianovsky. Professor Mauro's article can be obtained through the[…]
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