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...

Analisam-se as limitações do Plano Real combinando ciência política e economia. São analisadas evidências de dificuldades em se organizar um plano completo de desindexação da economia, tais como: o conflito distributivo, as relações clientelistas entre Estado e sociedade e o...

Portuguese Abstract: O presente artigo faz uma avaliação dos determinantes da duração no cargo de ministro da fazenda no Brasil, entre 1889 e 2012. O estudo se situa metodologicamente na tríplice fronteira entre economia, história e ciência política. Apesar de o tema ser alvo constante...