The article investigates Wicksell's change of mind about the machinery question between 1890 and 1900/1901. Wicksell at first sided with the so-called “compensation theory” that workers are not harmed by the introduction of machinery. In his lecture notes of April 1900, made available here...

This paper explores some ontological and epistemological conditions of the emergence of the Veblenian system of political economy. For that, we refer to Foucault's archaeology of political economy, since it offers insights into some of the relations that help us to understand the underlying...

O artigo examina as posições dos economistas clássicos no tocante à concorrência e às propostas socialistas da época. Após breve relato da evolução do ideário socialista na Inglaterra e França, apresentam-se as observações de Smith, Bentham, James Mill e Ricardo sobre a condição...

The debate on the alleged moral and political benefits of infant capitalism - as worked out in the now classical pieces by Louis Dumont, Pierre Rosanvallon and Albert Hirschman - concludes with the identification of a justification for the new order based on its expected positive effects on...

A tradição de pensamento marxiana e o legado de Carl Menger, o pai da chamada Escola Austríaca de Economia, raramente são conjuntamente analisados à guisa de comparação entre seus sistemas de ideias. Neste ensaio, propõe-se um critério de avaliação que, sem negar drásticas...

A partir da publicação do livro Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance em 1990 e da obtenção do Nobel em 1993, as contribuições de Douglass North parecem ter entrado definitivamente no debate sobre a questão do desenvolvimento das economias no longo prazo. Muito se...

This paper assesses Pigou’s theories of industrial fluctuations and employment according to the canons of the economic orthodoxy prevailing in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Firstly, we review the conceptions about the commercial cycle advanced during the inter-war years and their inner...

Este artigo apresenta um esboço da biografia de David Riazanov, discutindo sua participação na vida política e intelectual russa e, em especial, seu papel na descoberta e publicação do legado literário de Karl Marx e Friedrich Engels, que culminou na primeira tentativa de editar as obras...

The paper examines the business cycle properties of a small set of real Brazilian macroeconomic time series using a variety of detrending methods. It is shown that both quantitatively and qualitatively “stylized facts” of Brazilian business cycle vary widely across detrending methods and...

This paper gives a general view of the new macroeconomics: the new Keynesian macroeconomics, the real business cycle models and the analysis of credibility of monetary policy. An outline of the chief technical features that distinguish the new Keynesian and the real business cycle formulations...