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...

A new Development Economics is being built, combining the return to the heritage of the “old” Structuralism with contributions brought by the renewal of the Institutionalism. This paper begins with a balance of the first development economists’ contributions and insufficiencies and of the...

Spanish Abstract: Desde el punto de vista del desarrollo económico los países subdesarrollados se encuentran obligados no sólo a transitar hacia una sociedad del conocimiento sino a entender si los modelos económicos implementados en estos momentos en sus países son los correctos para...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo reseña miradas actuales al tema de la globalización como desarrollismo y dependencia en el marco de la lógica contemporánea y desde el marco del tema de la identidad en América Latina. La tesis propuesta parte de la afirmación que uno de los problemas...

The blockage of financial asset liquidity in March 1990, known as the Collor Plan - one of the most drastic state interventions in the Brazilian economy ever -, originated in the debate over the failure of previous stabilization policies, especially the heterodox shocks of the Sarney government....

This paper describes and analyses the results from a pilot study about the exercise of political representation at the local government level, from the viewpoint of city councilors. The key questions that guided this study were: What do councilors perceive as their functions? How do they...

The paper discusses the city and the region aiming at unfolding a synthetic panorama of the various ways of thinking and acting upon the spatial issue. We argue that a better understanding of how the different scientific disciplines with interfaces on the territory view and work with space...

This article examines the use and dissemination of the concept of participation in environmental and development policies, focusing on implementation of local councils in Brazil - especially those linked to socio-environmental issues. The hypothesis advanced here is that the current use of the...

In this research we assess the legislation on the basis of the horizontalization process, or horizontal decentralization, undergone by foreign policy decision making within the realm of the Brazilian federal Executive Power. This process entails a new institutional arrangement among the...

This text undertakes to examine two questions. First, the text considers the intellectual roots of two celebrated and discussed concepts - in Brazil and in the world, specifically the social function of property - enshrined in the 1988 Constitution - and the right to the city, which is...