Brazilian academic economics has been traditionally characterized by its openness to different strands of economic theory. In contrast to the standards prevailing in most of Europe and North America, economics in Brazil can be justly described as pluralistic, with competing schools of thought...

Sustainable extractivism became a fashionable strategy to integrate environmental and social policy in the Amazon. It departs from the belief that local communities can have a decent livelihood by extracting, processing and trading non-timber forest products, while at the same time acting as...

This paper aims to investigate how the Phillips curve was incorporated into Brazilian inflation theories and academic debates during the 1970s -1980s, and the discussions it raised among Brazilian economists. The monetarist Phillips curve models embodied in Brazilian inflation theories during...

After his escape from communist Romania in the late 1940s, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen used to describe himself as an “emigrant from a developing country”. Through his professional engagements with Vanderbilt University, he also came to visit many other parts of the developing world. One of...

The development of academic economics in Brazil received a major boost during the 1960s, when US institutions such as USAID and the Ford Foundation began to fund the first graduate programs in the field. An important moment occurred in 1973 with the creation of ANPEC, the national association...