This paper which is a sequence of previous works (Lemos e Diniz, 2000 and Diniz, 1993) attempts to analyze in an introductory and comparative way the aggregate competitiveness of the major Brazilian metropolitan areas. It is theoretically based on two fundamental concepts of urban economics:...

The article argues the need to preserve the pluralism in economics. The article examines: i) the nature of the knowledge and of its production; ii) the specificity of the knowledge production in economics and the historical and cultural conditionings of the knowledge; iii) the implications of the...