This article analyzes the work polarization in Brazil. We can define polarization as the difference between the observed ratio of workless households and the ratio that would prevailed if the work was randomly assigned to people. For example, imagine a simplified world with only two households...

Spanish Abstract: El modelo metodológico planteado por Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, basado en la propuesta epistemológica popperiana, cuya idea central consiste en dar orden a las proposiciones mediante el uso de la lógica y clasificarlas en dos categorías: alfa (α), proposiciones...

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...

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...

Portuguese Abstract: O foco está em como a economia comportamental pode explicar algumas das atitudes que o presidente brasileiro, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, vem tomando durante a pandemia do coronavírus. Fala sobre os tipos de vieses que parecem definir sua perspectiva negacionista, a saber,...

Harrod´s model: nature of long term expectations, instability and no linearity The different versions of Harrod´s growth model have always been the subject of controversy and mistaken interpretations: in this paper, we intend to show how Harrod, from 1938 onwards, provides the elements to...

Karl Popper?s social analysis: some analogy with the logic of situation in economics? ? Popper?s methodological contribution could be extended in order to include the use of his critical method in social and scientific practices, that is, it is not related only to falsificationism and socratic...

This article analyses one of the Demographic Census 2000 new features: the labor done without direct economic purpose, carried through for self-consumption. It also intends to analyze the implications of such innovation for the measurement of the new forms of labor, that is, the economic...