The main reasons presented in The Wealth of Nations to advocate the system of economic liberty and reject mercantilism are analysed. These two systems are evaluated considering basically their impact on the annual product, and the degree of liberty and justice they engender. Based on his views...

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...

This paper deals with the debate which opposed Sismondi and the Ricardian economists, in the first half of the nineteenth century, on the equilibrium of markets, the role of competition and the effects of machinery in industrial societies. At the initial section, the main content of Sismondi?s...

This paper analyses J.S. Mill?s conceptions on what would be the proper form of government and the proper scope of State intervention in economic life. It is argued that, for Mill, the answer depended on the type of society in question. In ?backward? societies, in which the population...

This article explores why Smith's work is a turning point in the history of economic thought. The constitution of an economic discourse and the delimitation of the economy sphere are attributed to: i) the specific nature of Smith's moral philosophy; ii) his way of conceiving economic action as...

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,...