This text aims at contribuiting to a better knowledge of the history of football in Portugal. After a brief reference to the first period of its practice, its processes of institutionalization and professionalization and to the transformations that have been taking place along the last decade of...

The 'brasileiro' (that is to say, the Portuguese emigrant returned from Brazil) is a central figure of the social history of 19th-century Portugal. In this paper its image in the literary work of Júlio Dinis (1839-1871) will be examined, using the three characters of 'brasileiro' that have...

The economic policies implemented in Portugal during the period 1945-1973 were conditioned by the institutional framework created by the Estado Novo since the beginning of 1930s, by the economic environment of the Second World War, and by the evolution of the integration of the Portuguese...

Market capitalism has been the economic system of the contemporary world economy since the early stages of its formation. However, at the same time, market capitalism has been subject to a number of threats. Some of these threats arise from market failures. Others arise from the development of...

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...

This paper analyses the behaviour of the Portuguese income velocity of money from 1854, when Portugal precociously accepted the rules of the gold exchange standard and the eve of the European Economic Union. The long run behaviour of income velocity of money in Portugal displays, throughout the...

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...

Tomás António da Guarda Cabreira (1865-1918) stood out as an economist and politician thanks to a large and diverse set of publications on economic and financial issues, in addition to his short political activity as a deputy and senator after 1911 and as Minister of Finance from February to...