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...