What is the value of self-interest? The article critically reviews past and current justifications for the theoretical use of the behavioral assumption of self-interest, explanatory, normative, representional and critical, focusing on the critical function. This latter emerges from an incursion...

The goal of this article is to analyse diferent teorethical and methodological approaches of classes structures typologies, the empírical metrics aplied in Brazil and their implications on public policies. Therefore, it is discussed the main theoretical currents that proposed the typologies and...

The goal of this article is to analyse diferent teorethical and methodological approaches of classes structures typologies, the empírical metrics aplied in Brazil and their implications on public policies. Therefore, it is discussed the main theoretical currents that proposed the typologies and...