A new comprehension of Adam Smith's writings arose in the last years. These studies emphasized the political and ethical dimensions of his work and its connection with the eighteenth-century context. This article reviews the historical reception of Smith's works and discusses the recent...

The main purpose of this paper is to identify the elements for a new kind of methodological individualism - 'interactive individualism' - in Friedrich Hayek's work. This departs from conventional rational choice oriented ideas of methodological individualism in two mains respects. The first has...

O artigo tem por objeto a discussão sobre a pertinência das críticas que assinalam haver o estruturalismo cepalino subestimado as variáveis de ordem política em suas análises. Na primeira parte, em nível mais abstrato, aborda a controvérsia procurando esclarecer a relação entre...

This paper discusses the legacy of the institutionalist thought in the face of Veblen, Commons and Mitchell contributions. The remarkable complexity and scope of these contributions, despite being characterized by a still incipient theoretical content, is an important source of interaction with...

Esse texto discute o legado do pensamento institucionalista, a partir da contribuição de Veblen, Commons e Mitchell. A notável complexidade e amplitude da contribuição desses autores, embora inserida em um ambiente teórico por muitos considerado incipiente, é fonte de interação com...

This paper deals with the nature of the economic growth process, given by the interaction of institutional and technological change, the role of firms and institutions. This analytical perspective is present in both the evolutionary and the institutionalist approach. They both agree in two...

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...

This paper reviews two elaborations on alternatives to capitalism (Roemer, 1994 e Burczak, 2006). The present round of the controversy on socialism, planning vs. market, was triggered by the collapse of the bureaucratic regime in the URSS. One key feature of the present round is the influence of...

Metamorphoses of capitalism may be investigated following a dialogue between two theoretical approaches: long waves of capitalist development (Freeman & Louçã, 2001) and systemic cycles of accumulation (Arrighi, 1994). This dialogue organizes this paper. The first section associates the...