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 presents the essential elements of the debate on the role of industrialization for economic development in Brazil. The paper examines several moments of this debate, from its origins until the recent discussions of deindustrialization. It is argued that the development of the theme...

This paper discusses the roles of the entrepreneur in the economic theory. Taking the elaboration of Schumpeter as a reference, the paper analyses the forerunner contributions of Cantillon and Bentham, as well as the different approaches of Marx, Veblen and Sombart. The changing role of the...

Spanish Abstract: Coartada para intervenciones militares, sacralización para la tiranía del mercado, fundamento ideológico para el fundamentalismo de lo políticamente correcto: ¿puede la “ficción simbólica” de los derechos humanos recuperarse para la politización progresiva de las...