Este artigo apresenta um esboço da biografia de David Riazanov, discutindo sua participação na vida política e intelectual russa e, em especial, seu papel na descoberta e publicação do legado literário de Karl Marx e Friedrich Engels, que culminou na primeira tentativa de editar as obras...

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 paper assesses Pigou's theories of industrial fluctuations and employment according to the orthodoxy prevailing in the 20's and 30's of the twentieth century. Firstly, we review the conceptions on the economic cycle prevailing during the inter-war years and their inner connections with the...

Our goal in this paper is to shed light on a forgotten contribution to Brazilian economic thought, that is Victor Viana's 1922 book Histórico da Formação Econômica do Brasil (Brazilian Economic Formation's Timeline). That book never got a second edition, and is rarely referenced among both...

This paper assesses Pigou’s theories of industrial fluctuations and employment according to the canons of the economic orthodoxy prevailing in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Firstly, we review the conceptions about the commercial cycle advanced during the inter-war years and their inner...

This article presents an outline of the biography of David Riazanov. The article discusses Riazanov’s participation in the political and intellectual life of Russia, and his role in the discovery and the publication of the literary legacy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, which culminated in...

A partir da publicação do livro Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance em 1990 e da obtenção do Nobel em 1993, as contribuições de Douglass North parecem ter entrado definitivamente no debate sobre a questão do desenvolvimento das economias no longo prazo. Muito se...

Tomás António da Guarda Cabreira (1865-1918) stood out as an economist and politician, thanks to a large and diverse set of publications on economic and financial issues, in addition to his short political activity as member of parliament and senator after 1911 and as Minister of Finance from...

Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), considered the first institutionalist author, tried to formulate, in the passage of the 19th century to the 20th, an original system of political economy that was alternative to classical, neoclassical, historicist and marxist thoughts. In this paper, this system of...

This paper contemplates the evolution of Pigou´s stance towards the Keynesian Revolution. Preliminarily, a brief contrast between his and Keynes´s approach to the problem of unemployment is made. After that, Pigou´s first reactions to The General Theory are presented, along with the rejoinder...