Brazilian academic economics has been traditionally characterized by its openness to different strands of economic theory. In contrast to the standards prevailing in most of Europe and North America, economics in Brazil can be justly described as pluralistic, with competing schools of thought...

The Ford Foundation's initial effort to assist in the development of the social sciences in Brazil coincided with the early years of the military regime that ruled the country between 1964 and 1985. Given the Foundation's expressed goal of fostering research that was of potential relevance for...

The 1960s saw the beginning of an effort to improve professional standards in Brazilian academia through cooperation with a few North American institutions, in the context of an important and controversial set of agreements between the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC) and the United States...

Karl Polanyi proposed in his "Great Transformation" that markets play a useful economic role, but self-regulating markets have disruptive effects for the society as a whole, and consequently they must be controlled. This clash between the forces trying to liberate these markets, and the...

Sustainable extractivism became a fashionable strategy to integrate environmental and social policy in the Amazon. It departs from the belief that local communities can have a decent livelihood by extracting, processing and trading non-timber forest products, while at the same time acting as...

This paper aims to investigate how the Phillips curve was incorporated into Brazilian inflation theories and academic debates during the 1970s -1980s, and the discussions it raised among Brazilian economists. The monetarist Phillips curve models embodied in Brazilian inflation theories during...

As Transaction Cost Economics evolved and entwined with the name of Oliver Williamson, it has absorbed a tension 'between an intuitive commitment to realism...and his commitment to some core presumptions of mainstream economics' [Hodgson 1998]. Most TCE scholars seem to rely on the latter...

The article studies Oliver Williamson's discourse, focusing on the negotiation of core concepts and premises and on how he adjusted his approach to the institutional moulds assembled by different audiences in economics. Citation data are used to support the rhetorical analysis offered