The paper analyzes the rise of the Latin American-based inertial inflation theory. Starting in the 1950s, various traditions in economics purported to explain the concept of “inflation inertia”. Contributions ranging from Celso Furtado and M.H. Simonsen to James Tobin anticipated key aspects...

This paper aims to contribute to the literature on the intellectual history of the economics discipline by delving into the history of the the sawtooth wages model, namely: the behavior of periodically-adjusted fixed nominal wages under persistent inflationary conditions. Ranging from the...

Portuguese Abstract: O presente artigo faz uma avaliação dos determinantes da duração no cargo de ministro da fazenda no Brasil, entre 1889 e 2012. O estudo se situa metodologicamente na tríplice fronteira entre economia, história e ciência política. Apesar de o tema ser alvo constante...

The paper aims at outlining such conceptual change with a brief account of pre-Real Plan stances on inflationary inertia and contrasts them against the general opinion on the matter in more recent times. The literature has been largely silent about the conceptual gap between the stabilization...