This paper analyses empirically the relationship between economic growth and the openness of the financial account of the balance of payments. It takes into consideration the balance of payments’ constrained growth, as well as the difficulties in the empirical literature in measuring capital...

This study aims to identify the characteristics of groups of students in business and engineering, in a comparative way, which qualifies them as future innovative professionals, spreading the knowledge frontier. Five factors were highlighted: assertiveness, leadership, risk...

With this inquiry we seek to develop a disaggregated version of the post-Keynesian approach to economic growth, by showing that indeed it can be treated as a particular case of the Pasinettian model of structural change and economic expansion. By relying upon vertical integration becomes...

This paper seeks to establish that a Structural Economic Dynamic (SED) approach toward understanding technological gaps offers a superior method relative to the Import Substitution Strategy (ISS). It is argued that the ISS approach fails to account for the role of demand and hence, the...

This research aims to analyze the impacts of the Brazilian agriculture modernization over the worker’s wage and unemployment in Brazil, between 1998 and 2007. The modernization is related to agriculture production and productivity; the evolution of productivity, qualification, unemployment and...

Este artigo tem por objetivo estender o modelo de flutuações cíclicas desenvolvido por Fazzari, Ferri e Greenberg (2008) por intermédio da incorporação de uma regra de Taylor e de um processo markoviano de formação de bolhas especulativas no valor da riqueza financeira dos consumidores,...

This paper deals with the current financial crisis from a Post-Keynesian and Marxist perspective. The more objective character of Marx‟s crises conception is compared with the more subjective origin of crises in Keynesian‟s ideas. This analysis is used to conduct a revision of critical...

This study aims at shedding light on the issue of criminality in Brazil. Previous analyses have concentrated on the impact of social factors, such as inequality, on criminality, however without making explicit the mechanism by which this variable works. The main hypothesis here is that the agent...

The paper aims at discussing whether inflation target regime (ITR) is compatible with Post Keynesian Approach (and in what conditions it can be), and mainly defining an institutional arrangement of ITR more appropriate for emerging economies with long-term history of high inflation. In this...

The growth empirics of two separate but related issues are studied. In the first, the annual data on GDP per person (GDPpp) for Brazil, 1822-2000, and the US, 1869-1996, were converted into arrival times for innovations defined as permanent increments to GDPpp of given size (e.g. 3%). We say an...