The publication in 2001 of Celso Furtado's PhD thesis, defended in 1948 at the University of Paris, and which until recently had remained inaccessible to Brazilian readers, together with the first two articles published in the journal História Econômica & História de Empresas, vol. II.2...

The origins of the Argentine crisis: a suggested interpretation ? In this paper we look for the historical genesis of the Argentine crisis. We argue that the economic liberalization model, implicit of the Convertibility Plan, has its roots in establishment of the agro-exporting economy on which,...

This article investigates the relationships among economic growth, income distribution and poverty in Brazil during the period from 2001 to 2005. Those relationships are analyzed starting from the selection of three models: one that relates the variations in the poverty indicators and the main...

The goal of this article is to present a theoretical and methodological proposal for analyzing democratic innovations based on science and technology studies and the sociology of public action. The first dimension of the model focus on the initiatives' characteristics by identifying its...

The recent discussion about the new middle class in Brazil is quite timely and should be encouraged, as it highlights the great social changes that have occurred since the resumption of the fastest economic growth in the Lula government (2003-2010). Part of the analysts focus on the high...

O objetivo do trabalho é analisar as mudanças recentes desta estrutura e a emergência de uma nova classe média no Brasil dos anos 2000, denominada correntemente como “classe C”. The aim of this work is to analyze the recent changes of this structure and the emergence of a new middle...

The difficulties to obtain regular and trustworthy data series, which describe the set of demographic characteristics we could consider standard (number of existing persons, births and deaths, distributed by age, sex and social condition, within a certain geographic area) are notorious. Lacking...