Taking as guarantee that no one new world or society can be built upon old concepts and ideas, this paper seeks to attack one of the main pilar of the capitalistic world-economy: the scientific economicism. To do that, and coming along with Polanyi's ideas of fictitious commodity, we shall go...

According to the main ideas that one may extract from Marx's work on a transition theory, the socialism would be an intermediate stage for a superior system - the communism - made possible only after the complete development of the productive forces, capitalism's 'historical mission'....

This paper tries to identify some points of touch between the Treatise on Money and the General Theory of Keynes, since a detailed analysis of some passages of the Treatise.

The work of Douglass North represents today an important reference for those studying issues related to growth and institutional economics. After the book Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (1990) and the Nobel prize in 1993, his contributions seem to have been...

This paper contemplates the evolution of Pigou's stance towards the Keynesian Revolution. Preliminarily, a brief contrast between his and Keynes's approach to the problem of unemployment is made. After that, Pigou's first reactions to The General Theory are presented, along with the rejoinder...

The paper investigates Dennis Robertson's effort to defend the Cambridge utilitarian tradition against the so-called "new welfare economics" in the 1950s. Robertson's sustained and isolated endeavor to rescue Marshallian cardinal utility attracted the attention of economists at the time....

This paper discusses Albert Hirschman's writings that resulted from his professional experience in Colombia, Brazil, Chile and other Latin American countries during the 1950s and 1960s. The focus is on the trilogy written by Hirschman in the field of development economics, which comprises: The...

This paper assesses Pigou's theories of industrial fluctuations and employment according to the orthodoxy prevailing in the 20's and 30's of the twentieth century. Firstly, we review the conceptions on the economic cycle prevailing during the inter-war years and their inner connections with the...

This work studies the evolution of Getulio Vargas' ideas, mainly the economic ones, during the First Republic, that is, before he became president. Therefore its approach begins when he affiliates himself with positivism and goes on until he clearly assumes the developmentism ideology which will...

This paper explores the contribution and evolution of Pérsio Arida concept about the stabilization of high and chronic inflation in the brazilian economy. He was an important economist of the team responsible for the formulation of Cruzado Plan and Real Plan. In the beginning, the heterodox...