Original articles by leading scholars of post Keynesian economics make up this authoritative collection. Current topics of the greatest interest are covered, such as: perspectives on current economic policy; post Keynesian approaches to monetary theory and policy; economic development, growth...

This paper aims at interpreting some of the many simplifying assumptions adopted by Keynes to explain, in the iGeneral Theory/i, liquidity preference, interest rate, portfolio decisions, and volume of investment. It is suggested that Keynes emphasized a ipartial and particular/i model that...

This work argues that institutionally rich stock-flow consistent models--i.e. models in which economic agents are identified with the main social categories/institutional sectors of actual capitalist economies, the short-period behaviour of these agents is thoroughly described, and the 'period...

This article presents a simplified methodology for estimating quarterly figures for the Brazilian aggregate gross tax rate, details the practical problems one has to tackle when trying to implement it (as of December, 2006) and, finally, presents (and briefly discusses) the estimates one obtains...

Este artigo apresenta várias especificações econométricas - notadamente modelos Markov-Switching - para a "função de reação fiscal" do setor público consolidado brasileiro após o Plano Real. Os resultados obtidos sugerem fortemente que a política fiscal no Brasil apresentou dois...

Esse artigo apresenta uma metodologia simplificada de estimação em bases trimestrais das “transferências de assistência e previdência e subsídios governamentais” e da “carga tributária líquida” da economia brasileira no período 1995-2007. O artigo descreve, ainda, os principais...

This article attempts to offer three specific contributions to the current debate on the macroeconomic impacts of taxation in Brazil and the ?trade-off? between taxation/income distribution and growth available to Brazilians. First, it attempts to ?map? the (relatively small) recent econometric...

In the beginning of 2007 Dos Santos e Pires (2007, henceforth DS&P) reported estimates close to minus one for the (gross, aggregate, long run) tax rate semi elasticity of Brazilian private investment in the post-Real Plan period. This paper has two basic goals, i.e. i) to revise DS&P´s data and...