Portuguese Abstract: Esta pesquisa apresenta um estudo reflexivo acerca de possíveis causas e os impactos da instabilidade política no desempenho do comércio internacional. Em formato de ensaio teórico, este artigo baseia-se em revisão teórica de autores que discutem sobre a globalização...

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 use of Herbert Simon's concept of bounded rationality in the evolutionary firm of Nelson and Winter. The assumption of bounded rationality (an individual behavior) in a collective context of firm could require some justification. We suggest that the adoption of complex...

The article argues the need to preserve the pluralism in economics. The article examines: i) the nature of the knowledge and of its production; ii) the specificity of the knowledge production in economics and the historical and cultural conditionings of the knowledge; iii) the implications of the...

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...

This article is the first of a three in a series that intends to investigate the history of economic thought from a plural perspective, considering the variety of approaches as the stronger feature in the knowledge of economic phenomena. Here is presented a suggested methodology to study the...

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...