The paper analyzes the rise of the Latin American-based inertial inflation theory. Starting in the 1950s, various traditions in economics purported to explain the concept of “inflation inertia”. Contributions ranging from Celso Furtado and M.H. Simonsen to James Tobin anticipated key aspects...

This paper aims to contribute to the literature on the intellectual history of the economics discipline by delving into the history of the the sawtooth wages model, namely: the behavior of periodically-adjusted fixed nominal wages under persistent inflationary conditions. Ranging from the...

The paper analyzes some of the structural causes of inflationary persistence in Brazil in the post-Real plan period, in contrast to the Brazilian Central Bank’s view on the causes of inflation, particularly in what concerns its inertial component. It begins with a historical perspective on the...

The paper focuses some of the non-monetary structural causes of inflationary persistence in Brazil in the post-Real plan period. A connection is made between the de-industrializing trend and the emergence of primary pressures that set a floor to inflation levels. The framework is set up in terms...

The paper aims at outlining such conceptual change with a brief account of pre-Real Plan stances on inflationary inertia and contrasts them against the general opinion on the matter in more recent times. The literature has been largely silent about the conceptual gap between the stabilization...

This paper aims to contribute to the literature on the intellectual history of the economics discipline in Brazil and its p, in the early 1980s lace within the network of international transmission of economic ideas, by delving into the history of the Kaldor-Pazos-Simonsen mechanism, namely: the...

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 paper focuses some of the non-monetary structural causes of inflationary persistence in Brazil in the post-Real plan period. A connection is made between the de-industrializing trend and the emergence of primary pressures that set a floor to inflation levels. The framework is set up in terms...