o objetivo do presente artigo é analisar a relação entre a política fiscal e a política monetária numa economia que opera sob o regime de metas de inflação e com plena-utilização da capacidade produtiva. Para tanto, iremos apresentar um modelo macrodinâmicoKaldoriano no qual o ajuste...

The article analyses the notion of fictitious capital in Marx, and the idea of autonomy of circulation in relation to production. It explores, after this theoretical analysis, the evolution of financialization of the economies as development of fictitious capital and its relation with the...

With this inquiry we seek to develop a disaggregated version of the post-Keynesian approach to economic growth, by showing that indeed it can be treated as a particular case of the Pasinettian model of structural change and economic expansion. By relying upon vertical integration becomes...

This paper seeks to establish that a Structural Economic Dynamic (SED) approach toward understanding technological gaps offers a superior method relative to the Import Substitution Strategy (ISS). It is argued that the ISS approach fails to account for the role of demand and hence, the...

The last two decades in Brazil are characterized by low growth in income per capita, financial turmoil, increasing unemployment, dismal distribution of income (and wealth), rent-seeking speculation and dissatisfaction with the outcome of neo-liberal policies. It was in this context that Luiz...

This paper analyzes the potential impacts of the creation of the Free Trade Area of Americas (FTAA) on the Brazilian economy vis a vis the option of unilateral liberalization towards the foreign commerce. Under a computable general equilibrium model, the sectorial and the general welfare level...

Our purpose in this paper is to extend and to apply the pure labour model proposed by Pasinetti (1981, 1993) in a closed dual economy in order to discuss employment problem from the economic dualism point of view, developed by W. Arthur Lewis (1954), within the production framework. Emphasis is...

Este artigo tem por objetivo estender o modelo de flutuações cíclicas desenvolvido por Fazzari, Ferri e Greenberg (2008) por intermédio da incorporação de uma regra de Taylor e de um processo markoviano de formação de bolhas especulativas no valor da riqueza financeira dos consumidores,...

This paper deals with the current financial crisis from a Post-Keynesian and Marxist perspective. The more objective character of Marx‟s crises conception is compared with the more subjective origin of crises in Keynesian‟s ideas. This analysis is used to conduct a revision of critical...

The paper shows some of the main contributions of Celso Furtado in Brazilian economic development. First, it is treated some aspects of his contributions to the structuralist theory and his role as policy maker in that process. After that, some specific aspects of Furtado’s analysis are...