The article investigates Wicksell's change of mind about the machinery question between 1890 and 1900/1901. Wicksell at first sided with the so-called "compensation theory" that workers are not harmed by the introduction of machinery. In his lecture notes of April 1900, made available here for...

The paper investigates Champernowne's 1936 attempt to sort out the debate between Pigou (The theory of unemployment. Macmillan, London, 1933) and Keynes (The general theory of employment, interest and money. Macmillan, London, 1936) about employment determination. Champernowne agreed with Keynes...

The paper investigates historical aspects of the formation of the scientific community of economists in Brazil, taking the current research effort about the economics of Covid-19 as a starting-point of the narrative. The transnational character of science in general and economics in particular...