The last two decades in Brazil are characterized by low growth in income per capita, financial turmoil, increasing unemployment, dismal distribution of income (and wealth), rent-seeking speculation and dissatisfaction with the outcome of neo-liberal policies. It was in this context that Luiz...

We consider the concept of Macrodynamic Capability, exploring an heterodox content whose analytical foundation is derived from a number of scholars of diverse ideological conceptions which casts light on the different ways that economies deal with the role and impact of institutional, monetary...

We consider the concept of Macrodynamic Capacity, exploring an heterodox content whose analytical foundation is derived from a number of scholars of diverse ideological conceptions which casts light on the different ways that economies deal with the role and impact of institutional, monetary and...

The article analyses the notion of fictitious capital in Marx, and the idea of autonomy of circulation in relation to production. It explores, after this theoretical analysis, the evolution of financialization of the economies as development of fictitious capital and its relation with the...

Este articulo analiza los principales factores determinantes de la inversion privada en Brasil durante el periodo 1956-1996, a traves de un modelo empirico utilizado en los estudios mas recientes sobre paises en desarrollo. Los resultados muestran, tanto en las ecuaciones de largo plazo como en...

El presente articulo analiza el impacto de la inversion publica sobre la inversion privada. Frente a la escasez relativa de trabajos empiricos sobre este tema, el estudio enfoca el caso de la economia brasilena en el periodo 1947-1990. Sus principales conclusiones son: La inversion privada es...