The main purpose of this article is to contribute to a systematic exposition of some of the equilibrium unemployment theories: the theories of implicit contracts, those of efficiency wage and the negotiation theories. Our hypothesis is that in spite of the fact that these new theoretical...

This paper aims at contributing to the discussion of the theoretical construction of the neo-Schumpeterian approach to technical and economic change. First, the fundamentals of this approach, based on analogies to evolutionary concepts of the biological sciences, are presented. Second, we show...

O presente artigo procura contribuir à discussão acerca das origens da concepção de homem econômico. A partir de uma abordagem antropológica, que não deixa de ser histórica e filosófica, o trabalho recua temporalmente aos primórdios do cristianismo para verificar a emergência da ideia...

This paper presents a data-driven approach applied to the long term prediction of daily time series in the Neural Forecasting Competition. The proposal comprises the use of adaptive fuzzy rule-based systems in a top-down modeling framework. Therefore, daily samples are aggregated to build weekly...

This paper presents a data-driven approach applied to the long term prediction of daily time series in the Neural Forecasting Competition. The proposal comprises the use of adaptive fuzzy rule-based systems in a top-down modeling framework. Therefore, daily samples are aggregated to build weekly...