Several studies have tried to identify the relationship between growth and misaligned or overvalued currencies. Many works (Easterly (2001) and Fajnzylber et alii (2002)), find negative correlations between exchange rate misalignment and growth for a long list of developing countries since the...

A partir da publicação do livro Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance em 1990 e da obtenção do Nobel em 1993, as contribuições de Douglass North parecem ter entrado definitivamente no debate sobre a questão do desenvolvimento das economias no longo prazo. Muito se...

The objective of this paper is to bring elements from the philosophical movement of hermeneutics and pragmatism to the discussion on methodology in economics, with a specific concern on the theory of truth. Our aim is to present the concept of the hermeneutic space as a way to overcome the void...