A despeito da interpretação mais comum de que a formalização da Teoria Geral elaborada por John Hicks é inspirada principalmente pela busca de “elegância matemática”, este artigo mostra que Hicks se baseia em argumentos teóricos e relações de causalidade específicas para chegar...

This article aims to show that, by analyzing both the historical development of regional integration processes in Latin America and the political and economic ideas behind them, ECLAC's ideas, from the 1950's and 1960's, about what features Latin American integration should present - a...

This article aims to show that, by analyzing both the historical development of regional integration processes in Latin America and the political and economic ideas behind them, ECLAC's ideas, from the 1950's and 1960's, about what features Latin American integration should present - a...

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...

The objective of this article is to make a critical evaluation of the controversies about the Cambridge Equation both in the initial phase - when Pasinetti, Kaldor, Meade, Samuelson and Modigliani got involved - and in the second round that followed the publication of Steedman´s article, which...

This paper proposes that, in spite of some fundamental invariant aspects, the way of exposition of the Minsky's work central concept - the so called Financial Instability Hypothesis - changed significantly throughout his academic productive period; furthermore it assesses the traditional way this...

This article seeks to show that, in spite of major steps towards getting close to reality, new-Keynesian macroeconomics is still full of difficulties, like the "ad hoc" hypothesis used to explain the non neutrality of money and the existence of disequilibria in the short run. In particular,...