As far as economic theory is concerned Portugal has never had a strong tradition or originality. As a semi-peripherial society it has been a late receiver of innovations come out from the main producer centres of economic ideas, often in a partial, ill digested way, adapting them to the local...

In the middle of the 19th century Portuguese economic backwardness was apparent to the most attentive intellectuals who tried to analyse its causes. António Oliveira Marreca (1805-1889), an economist and politician, was one of them. At first he supported free trade, but as time went by he...

Armando Castro was the member of the first generation of the intelectuals of the marxist field who devoted most of its intelectual habilities to the development of the economic culture. He was interdicted of becoming Professor at the university during the Estado Novo but after 1940s he would...

This text tries to assess the relation between the privatization and transnationalization processes in the Portuguese economy in the last two decades of the 20th century and the early 2151 century. It concludes that the privatization process changed the Portuguese economic system from a strong...

The scene of the economic ideas in Portugal, as a politically independent country, underwent a long evolution. Similarly with what has happened in most national experiences, successive epochs, of different span, characterized by the persistence of relatively stable organized, functional system,...

Antonio Oliveira Marreca foi um economista português (e por um breve período também professor de economia politica) de meados do seculo XIX que, a partir de uma certa fase, se revelou desalinhado do cânone liberal dominante e se aproximou das perspectivas do 'sistema nacional de economia...

This paper provides a general view of the evolution of banking in the Portuguese Colonial Empire between the founding of the first Portuguese colonial bank in 1864 and the independence of most Portuguese colonies in 1975. The text summarizes the legal background, presents the banks existing...

This paper tries to make an assessment about the process of formation of Portuguese multinationals during the last quarter of century in the context of similar small emerging European economies. The main question to be addressed is how much Portuguese peculiarities shaped the...

Este estudo tem por objectivo a reconstituição histórica dos principais desenvolvimentos das ideias teóricas relacionadas com a questão monetária, no Portugal de oitocentos. Avaliam-se aqui preferencialmente as ideias de indole teórica, em especial as expressas em textos de âmbito...