After the publication of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (hereafter, GT), an intense debate about its main preposition – that the long-run equilibrium of the economy is a position of involuntary unemployment – was established. The consensus view that emerged from it,...

O presente artigo apresenta um modelo dinâmico não linear que gera um ciclo-limite a partir de duas equações diferenciais, onde uma dessas equações representa a dinâmica do ajustamento de preços e a outra o ajustamento das quantidades, em um contexto em que prevalecem preços e salários...

The public policies on mass transit and other economic policies have been unable to avoid increasing mass transit costs and urban bus fares, which places a burden on a majority of the population depending on public transit. This study analyzes the variations in urban bus fares and households...

The discussion around the possible impacts of the recently proposed pension reform (Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 287/2016) on poverty and inequality has been largely impressionistic to date. The present study tries to bridge this gap by using counterfactual microsimulations based on the...

Violence against women occurs predominantly in the family and domestic context. The Covid-19 (Sars-COV-2) pandemic led Brazil to recommend and, at times, impose social distance, with a partial closure of economic activities, schools, and restrictions on events and public services. As a result,...

The public policies on mass transit and other economic policies have been unable to avoid increasing mass transit costs and urban bus fares, which places a burden on a majority of the population depending on public transit. This study analyzes the variations in urban bus fares and households...

Violence against women occurs predominantly in the family and domestic context. The Covid-19 (Sars-COV-2) pandemic led Brazil to recommend and, at times, impose social distance, with a partial closure of economic activities, schools, and restrictions on events and public services. As a result,...

The discussion around the possible impacts of the recently proposed pension reform (Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 287/2016) on poverty and inequality has been largely impressionistic to date. The present study tries to bridge this gap by using counterfactual microsimulations based on the...

Arguments against means-tested cash transfers for the poor based upon labor supply appear both in the specialized literature and in the media. It is possible to make a microeconomic argument pointing to a reduction in labor supply on the part of beneficiaries of a targeted cash transfer. This...