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A descoberta da inflação inercial
2009. The history of the discovery of inertial inflation. The role played by the São Paulo (FGV) and the Rio (PUC) groups. (Paper: Revista de Economia Contemporânea) |
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From the national-bourgeois to the associated dependency interpretation of Latin America
2009. Over-exploitation as well as associated dependency interpretations denied the possibity of national bourgeoisies in the region and contributed to weakening Latin American nations. Only a third version of dependency - the national-dependent interpretation - escaped this fate. French version available. (Paper to be published in Latin American Perspectives). |
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Do nacionalismo à dependência
2009. A review of a classical book on the intellectual history of Brazil. Written in a moment where nationalism was beign replaced by dependency interpretation. (Review of Carlos Guilherme Mota (1977 [2008]), Ideologia da Cultura Brasileira). |
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Amérique Latine: de la interprétation nationaliste à la interprétation par la dépendance
2009. Over-exploitation as well as associated dependency interpretations denied the possibity of national bourgeoisies in the region and contributed to weakening Latin American nations. Only a third version of dependency - the national-dependent interpretation - escaped this fate. English version available. (Paper: Revue Tiers Monde). |
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País sempre mercantil
2007. Caio Prado Jr. was a major historian of Brazilian mercantilism who did not understand the after 1930 Brazilian industrial revolution. (Article: Folha, Mais!) |
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Uma sociedade nacional-dependente
2006. Florestan Fernandes e Fernando Henrique Cardoso identified themselves with dependency theory. The former, in A Revolução Buruguesa, with its Marxist "super-exploração" version, the later with the "associated dependency" version, from which was the main author. (Preface to the 9th. edition of José Carlos Reis, As Identidades do Brasil de Varnhagen a FHC) |
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Rangel ciclos longos e dualidade
2006. The complex relations between the long cycles and the dualities of the Brazilian society. (Note just published in this site) |
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De la Cepal y del Iseb a la teoría de la dependencia
2006. A critique of the two dependency theories (associated and super-exploration) which intended to be an alternative to ISEBs and ECLACs view of Latin American development. Only a third version - national-dependent theory - is consistent with the nation building and growth. Portuguese and English versions available.(Paper) |
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Do Iseb e da Cepal à teoria da dependência
2005. A critique of the two dependency theories (associated and super-exploration) which intended to be an alternative to ISEBs and ECLACs view of Latin American development. Only a third version - national-dependent theory - is consistent with the nation building and growth. English and Spanish versions available.(Paper in edited book) |
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From Eclac and Iseb to dependency theory
2005. A critique of the two dependency theories (associated and super-exploration) which intended to be an alternative to ISEBs and ECLACs view of Latin American development. Only a third version - national-dependent theory - is consistent with the nation building and growth. Portuguese and Spanish versions available.(Paper) |
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Economista ou Sociólogo do Desenvolvimento
2004. A survey of my work as an economist, sociologist, and political theorist. It includes a re-evaluation of dependency theory. (Paper in book in homage of Bresser-Pereira's 70 years)* |
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Em Busca do Novo: O Brasil e o Desenvolvimento na Obra de Bresser-Pereira (coletânea)
2004. Festricht edited by Nakano, Rego and Furquim, in homage to Bresser-Pereira's 70 years. 30 authors discuss his academic work Bresser surveys his own work: "Economista ou Sociólogo do Desenvolvimento". (Book: Editora da FGV) |
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Dualidades brasileiras
2004. Com José Marcio Rego. A more precise discussion of Ignacio Rangels dualist theory than our basic paper on Rangel, "Um mestre da economia brasileira: Ignacio Rangel". (Note: Valor) |
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Método y Pasión en Celso Furtado
2004. The method that Celso Furtado utilizes is essentially historical his passion – a measured passion – is Brazil. A survey of Furtado's work. Portuguese and English versions available. (Paper: Revista de La CEPAL)* |
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O Conceito de Desenvolvimento do ISEB Rediscutido
2004. In the 1950s ISEB developed an original and powerful interpretation of Brazil based on the ideas of capitalist and national revolution. (Paper: Dados)* |
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Decisões estratégicas e overlapping consensus na América Latina
2001. There are some consensus and some strategic decisions to be taken in Latin America, after the crisis of structuralism, and of orthodox reforms. English version available.(Paper: Revista de Economia Política) * |
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After structuralism, a development alternative for Latin America
2001. There are some consensus and some strategic decisions to be taken in Latin America, after the crisis of structuralism, and of orthodox reforms. Portuguese version available.(Paper: Presented in St. Anthony's seminar, Oxford) |
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Método e Paixão em Celso Furtado
2001. The method that Celso Furtado utilizes is essentially historical his passion – a measured passion – is for Brazil. A survey of Furtado's work. English and Spanish versions available.(Paper in book edited by Bresser-Pereira and Rego) * |
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Method and Passion in Celso Furtado
2001. The method that Celso Furtado utilizes is essentially historical his passion – a measured passion – is for Brazil. A survey of Furtado's work.Portuguese and Spanish versions available. (Paper to be published in English) |
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Relendo Casa-Grande e Senzala
2000. Reading notes of Gilberto Freyres classical book, Casa Grande e Senzala. (Notes, just in this site) |
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Relendo Raízes do Brasil
2000. Reading notes of Sergio Buarque de Holanda's classical book, Raízes do Brasil. (Notes, just in this site) |
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Prefácio para O Pensamento de Ignácio Rangel
1998. Originality and courage were the trade marks of Ignacio Rangel's thought. (Preface to book edited by Armen Mamigonian e José Marcio Rego) |
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A luta dos economistas por poder
1997. Why the 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) |
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Rangel e os ciclos longos
1994. An homage to Ignacio Rangel in the year of his deth. (Anpec, Salvador) |
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A economia e a política do Plano Real
1994. The logic and the intellectual background of the Plano Real, and a collection of articles published in the press between May 1993 and June 1994 on the successful stabilization plan. (Note: Revista de Economia Política) * |
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Empresários, suas origens e as interpretações do Brasil
1993. Brazilian entrepreneurs originate in middle class immigrants. Yet, after the 1964 military coup Caio Prado Jr. developed an interpretation of Brazil based in the false assumption that industrialists originated in coffee planters families. (Paper: Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais) |
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Um mestre da economia brasileira: Ignácio Rangel
1992. With José Marcio Rego. Ignácio Rangel is an highly orginal anaylist of the Brazilian macroeconomy and of its development. (Paper: Revista de Economia Política) |
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Six interpretations of the Brazilian social formation
1982 (1984). An overview of the political and economic interpretations of Brazil before and after 1964. The two interpretations of Brazil before 1964 (agrarian vocation and national-bourgeois) and the four after 1964 (imperialist, functional-capitalist, dependency, and authoritarian modernization). Portuguese version available. (Paper: Latin American Perspectives).
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Seis interpretações sobre o Brasil
1982. An overview of the political and economic interpretations of Brazil before and after 1964. The two interpretations of Brazil before 1964 (agrarian vocation and national-bourgeois) and the four after 1964 (imperialist, functional-capitalist, dependency, and authoritarian modernization). English version available. (Paper: Dados)* |
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Interpretações sobre o Brasil
1997. Update of "Seis Interpretações sobre o Brasil" (1982). It was written when the Cardoso administration was beginning. (Paper in book edited by Maria Rita Loureiro)
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A Inflação Decifrada
1996. An account of the theory of inertial inflation original development in São Paulo (FGV) and Rio de Janeiro (PUC) in the early 1980s (Paper in Revista de Economia Política). * |
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De volta ao capital mercantil
1988. A critique of Caio Prado Jr.'s application of the concept of mercantilist capitalism to Brazil after 1930 and also a critique of mercantilist (patrimonial) practices in the Sarney administration. (Paper in book edited by Maria Angela D'Incao) |