2007. Trade cannot be de-linked from finance because the exchange rate represents a major intersection between the two field. Yet, the exchange rate is forgotten in international trade and in economic growth courses, and in trade negotiations at WTO. Countries that have reserve currencies abhor taking on the exchange rate (Intervention at UNCTAD seminar)
OTHER TYPES OF WORKS
SHORT TEXTS
2007. Brazilian society underwent two cycles in the twentieth century (Nação e Desenvolvimento and Democracia e Justiça), followed, with a gap, by the respective political coalition at state level. (Section of the book Macroeconomia da Estagnação)
2007. This is a reduced version of a "Novo desenvolvimentismo e ortodoxia convencional". It compares three growth strategies: old or national-developmentalism, new developmentalism, and Washington,s conventional orthodoxy. Portuguese version available. (Paper: Nueva Sociedad)
2007. Given the Dutch disease, I am not proposing confiscation but a marginal tax on exports that will not hurt but will stabilize commodities' production and profitability. (Two articles by Celso Ming and my letter to him)
2007. Caio Prado Jr. was a major historian of Brazilian mercantilism, but he didn't understand the after 1930 Brazil made its industrial revolution and overcome mercantilism. (Article: Folha, Mais!)
2006. Survey of Ugo Paganos "Positional goods and asymmetric development". (Note: Econômica).
2006. Either PT or PSDB have an answer on how to face and overcome the Brazilian economy's 26 years old quasi-stagnation because they lost the idea of nation. (Interview to Rodrigo de Almeida: Jornal do Brasil).
2006. Intervention in Brasilia conference in honor of Celso Furtado. This note reproduces part of the paper "Método e paixão em Celso Furtado". (Note: Cadernos do Desenvolvimento )
2006. Note on thruth asserting that the ability to achieve thruth depends on the complexity of the objects that are studied. (Note: prepared to students)
2006. In order to become again a real nation Brazil needs a encompassing national agreement, where the association between businessmen and the state bureaucracy is key. (Note in , Economia Brasileira na Encruzilhada)
2006. After a major favorable external chock that doubled its exports in five years, the Brazilian economy faces a major opportunity to resumed sustained economic growht. (Preface to Economia Brasileira na Encruzilhada, 2006)
2006. Classification of the forms of power in society (traditional, rational-bureaucratic, rational-democratic) in the state (absolute, liberal, democratic) in the state organization (patrimonial, bureaucratic, managerial) (Examination of PHD dissertation by Marianne Nassuno - only published in this site)
2006. Today we have global disgovernance rather than disgovernance given the high and persistent current account deficits in the US economy. (Conjuntura Econômica)
2006. The 1995 Public Management Reform is advancing in the federal states. (Preface to the book Avanços e Perspectivas da Gestão Pública nos Estados, Consad)
2006. Writing a book on entrepreneurial agriculture, Antonio José de Oliveira Costa understood the risk that the Dutch Disease represents to farmers. (Preface to Agricultura Empresarial)
2006. Colloque "Quel modele de croissance pour la France? La Leçon des expériences étrangères".
2006. (Letter). Leia também o artigo de Roberto Giannetti a que me refiro nesta carta.
2006. The complex relations between the long cycles and the dualities of the Brazilian society. (Note just published in this site)
2006. Letter to Maria Rita Loureiro on EAESP crisis caused by the dismissal of 17 professors.
2005. The vigour of the movements of national liberation. Essay based on Gillo Pontecorvo's classical film, "La Bataglia di Algeri". (Article: Valor, Eu & Fim de Semana)