This text aims at contribuiting to a better knowledge of the history of football in Portugal. After a brief reference to the first period of its practice, its processes of institutionalization and professionalization and to the transformations that have been taking place along the last decade of...

Economic theory has hitherto discussed five ways in which an economy can emerge from a depression. This paper presents a brief review of the performance of these five ways out of depression during the 19th and 20th centuries, and prognosticates their future in the 21st century. Innovations...

Capitalist market economies developed historically in three different contexts: i) gradual transformation of traditional economies; ii) dismantling of war economy schemes; iii) failure of attempts to consolidate socialist centrally planned economies. The first path to capitalism has been the...

The 'brasileiro' (that is to say, the Portuguese emigrant returned from Brazil) is a central figure of the social history of 19th-century Portugal. In this paper its image in the literary work of Júlio Dinis (1839-1871) will be examined, using the three characters of 'brasileiro' that have...

This working paper introduces two indicators of acessibility of football — regional concentration and average distance between the places of the origin of the teams participating in a tournament — and two indicators of its competitiveness — an indicator of global competitiveness based on...

The purpose of this text is to present an indicator of the evolution of prices in Portugal between the early 16th century and the early 19th century. The basic data used are those published in Godinho, 1954, Godinho, 1970 and Godinho, 1978. The methodology adopted in building the indicator tries...

This text presents a synthesis of existing data on the gross domestic product of Portugal, including new estimates for the period 1865-1952 and a few previous isolated years (Table 1.5.0.1). These estimates were computed using a macroeconomic-based methodological approach. This synthesis is...

This paper provides a general view of the evolution of banking in the Portuguese Colonial Empire between the founding of the first Portuguese colonial bank in 1864 and the independence of most Portuguese colonies in 1975. The text summarizes the legal background, presents the banks existing...

In the earl y decades of the contemporar y world economy, Portugal had t o perform twice d ifficult stabilization processes: during the 1890s as a consequence of the collapse of external and public debt payments, and during the 1920s in the wake of the First World War. This paper will analyse...