2001. Review of two books by Renato Janine Ribeiro A Democracia and A República.
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2001. The energetic matrix is changing from hidro to gas, involving a huge increase in marginal costs. Thus, privatization and the creation of a market makes little sense. (Folha de S. Paulo, 7.6.2001)
2001. A short analysis of dismal 1990s and some hopes for the new century. (Folha de S.Paulo, Mais! 25.2.2001)
2001. Intervetion at the Seminar "La Reinvención de la Política y de la Ciudadania: la Gobernabilidad Democrática para el Desarrollo Humano en América Latina". Barcelona, January 2001.
2001. The global world remains capitalist, but the key actors are not anymore capitalists but technobureaucrats. (ABCP/UFMG Boletim de Conjuntura, September 2001). Technobureaucracy, Globalization, Capitalism.
2000. Public TV should be organized as social organization and be independent. (Short note in seminar comemorating 25 years of the Educative TV of Rio de Janeiro).
2000. Brazilian tend to identify themselves negavitvely. (Notes of the intervention in Simpósio Freud: Conflito e Cultura Brasil: Psicanálise e Modernismo).
2000. The new left is liberal because it believes in freedom and in market competition, but is ready to risk order in name of justice. (article: Folha de S.Paulo)
2000. Universities should be public non-state organizations able to accomplish their educational and research objectives. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
2000. Globalization is the present stage of capitalism, globalism, the ideology that assert the loss of relevance of the nation-state. (Intervention in the 15th sesseion of the Group of Experts in Public Administration and Finance. United Nations, New York.
2000. The left in Latin America is identified with nationalism the region lacks a modern left. Policy-Network, www.policy-network.org/, December 2000.
2000. Moral standards of politicians and of business enterprises are today more closely checked by the press and public opinion than in the past. (Key-note speech published in edited book).
2000. Our basic objectives should be to build a capable state and to assure democratic governance. (Introductory words to the Plenary Session on governance in the II global Forum. Brasília)
2000. Besides being public and critical, universities must be efficient and competititve (Notes from public debate).
1999. The ten commandements of public life. (Response to an inquiry by Folha de S. Paulo.
2000. A comparison between two "The Tempest": Shakespeare s play and the Mazursky s fillm. (Valor Econômico)
1999. Goodbye Speech of the Ministry of Science and Technology. 21.7.1999.
1999. The confusion between science and moral. (Speech at the World Conference on Science Budapest, June 1999)
1999. Genetic modified organism that are previously examined by a scientific committee will not cause damage to heath or to the environment - and may bring sizable economic benefits. (Article: MCT' website)
1999. "Central do Brasil" and the search of a national identity. (Artigo: Folha de S.Paulo, 10.2.1999).