Este artigo examina algumas das inovações introduzidas por Celso Furtado no estudo da evolução da economia brasileira do século XIX, em sua obra, Formação Econômica do Brasil, parte IV, intitulada: “Economia de transição para o trabalho assalariado”. Uma das principais inovações...

The origins of the Argentine crisis: a suggested interpretation ? In this paper we look for the historical genesis of the Argentine crisis. We argue that the economic liberalization model, implicit of the Convertibility Plan, has its roots in establishment of the agro-exporting economy on which,...

The Baring Crisis and the Encilhamento Crisis in the context of the capitalist world-economy - The end of the 19th century was characterized by economic growth and instability in Brazil and Argentina. In this period, two important economic crises took place ? the Baring Crisis (in Argentina) and...

The failure of Collor Plan in stabilizing the Brazilian economy, in March 1990, is a neglected area in Brazilian economics. The liquidity blockade involving the majority of financial assets reduced inflation rates substantially, from 70% per month to 10% per month, but it rose again gradually to...

With the external accounts problems reasonably solved, Brazil’s economic policy agenda is bound to be increasingly focused on fiscal issues. What makes the design of economic policy especially complex in this area is the fact that there are several superimposed and potentially conflicting...

The publication in 2001 of Celso Furtado's PhD thesis, defended in 1948 at the University of Paris, and which until recently had remained inaccessible to Brazilian readers, together with the first two articles published in the journal História Econômica & História de Empresas, vol. II.2...

The blockage of financial asset liquidity in March 1990, known as the Collor Plan - one of the most drastic state interventions in the Brazilian economy ever -, originated in the debate over the failure of previous stabilization policies, especially the heterodox shocks of the Sarney government....

The main objective of this article is to analyse the institutional framework of labour market function. Theoretical literature has created a set of institutional aspects such as employment protection legislation, structure of wage bargaining, taxation of labour, active labour market policies,...