This article aims to explore learning and selection effects of productivity change for three classes of firm’s sizes in Brazilian manufacturing and service sectors from 1996 to 2011. The methodology is based on the Price Equation. Our results support the international evidence about the weak...

This paper aims at contributing to the discussion of the theoretical construction of the neo-Schumpeterian approach to technical and economic change. First, the fundamentals of this approach, based on analogies to evolutionary concepts of the biological sciences, are presented. Second, we show...

O presente artigo procura contribuir à discussão acerca das origens da concepção de homem econômico. A partir de uma abordagem antropológica, que não deixa de ser histórica e filosófica, o trabalho recua temporalmente aos primórdios do cristianismo para verificar a emergência da ideia...