The recent development of Brazilian Amazon embraces two different periods. The first one relates to the authoritarian regime under which several development strategies were implemented as to maximise immediate economic advantages; these strategies created adverse social and environmental...

The impact of criminality on the properties rental value: the Curitiba case This article aims at estimating the costs of criminality in Curitiba through hedonic prices. In this regard, were developed four models in order to capture individual?s willingness to pay for living in a more secure...

The main objective of this article is to analyse the development of Amazon region through biotechnological activities. Amazonia, by virtue of its tremendous biodiversity, has excellent possibilities of meeting a growing market for biotechnological products, being that the development of this...

The 1960s saw the beginning of an effort to improve professional standards in Brazilian academia through cooperation with a few North American institutions, in the context of an important and controversial set of agreements between the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC) and the United States...

Karl Polanyi considered that the relationship between the markets and their societies was a central feature of any social order. He studied what he called "ancient societies," to compare them with his own times, in an effort to understand that subject. This paper aims to show, following...

The deforestation of the Amazon forest is one of the most important environmental problems faced by the Brazilian government. The economic literature points to numerous factors responsible for deforestation, and many of these are, directly or indirectly, derived from federal spending. This...