This paper provides an introduction to the special issue on international lending of last resort. Starting from debates about rescue operations and unconventional policies of major central banks in the contexts of the Global Financial Crisis and the European Debt Crisis, it draws attention to...

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...

The functioning of multi-nation monetary unions with several central banks is conditioned by many factors and considerations, such as the capacity to deal with crises, the political will and operational skill to foster financial integration and to develop a mix of rules and discretion in the...

Zur Marx’schen Theorie gibt es immer wieder neue Erkenntnisse. Einige stammen sogar von Karl Marx persönlich, zutage gefördert durch die Arbeiten an der Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA), die unter der Ägide der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften stattfinden. Der...

»Macht oder ökonomisches Gesetz?« lautet der Titel einer berühmten Schrift, die Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk kurz vor seinem Tode 1914 veröffentlichte. Am Beispiel der funktionellen Verteilung von Arbeits- und Kapitaleinkommen versuchte der österreichische Kapital- und Zinstheoretiker zu zeigen,...

Our goal in this paper is to shed light on a forgotten contribution to Brazilian economic thought, that is Victor Viana's 1922 book Histórico da Formação Econômica do Brasil (Brazilian Economic Formation's Timeline). That book never got a second edition, and is rarely referenced among both...