This article discusses the broad topic of the international diffusion of economic ideas and theories, by stressing its relevance for a better understanding of the process of formation of economic thought on a national scale. The article explores several meaningful examples of the international...

This article aims at presenting the basic features of the process of diffusion and assimilation of structuralist, developmentalist economic ideas in Portugal from the 1950’s to the 1980’s. This is a case study of a particular situation where ideas coming from the periphery of the world...