2025. The article offers a broad view of Brazil today, a historically situated reality that can only be understood from a historical-structural analysis. Brazil is a mestizo country in which the white or whitened minority is racist.
OTHER TYPES OF WORKS
ACADEMIC PAPERS
2025. “Why left and right-wing governments fail in Latin America. With a critique of Gabriel Palma". (Paper)
2024. Apresentação na homenagem a Ignacy Sachs em Paris, novembro de 2024. (Paper to be published)
2025. A summary of the contributions of two theoretical frameworks, especially of new developmentalism. My more complete account of new-developmental theory in paper form.
2025. Alberto Guerreiro Ramos (1915-1982) was one of the greatest sociologists Brazil has ever had. He was a highly cultured intellectual who criticized the Brazilian sociology of his time, which he saw as a mere transplantation of European and American culture, a set of theories that had little to do with the underdeveloped reality of Brazil.
2025. Essay available only in this website.
2024. Classical estructuralist developmentalism and new developmentalism compared. Their contributions of the two theretical frameworks, particularly the one of new-developmental theory and the explanation of the Dutch disease. (Paper)
Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, Carmem Feijó e Eliane Cristina Araújo (2022) This paper criticizes the “fundamental equilibrium” concept and develops two econometric tests. The first checks whether the four determinant variables used in the model are
relevant. The second verifies whether this model is a good predictor of the exchange rate throughout time. (Paper: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics).
2021. This paper resumes new developmentalism - a theoretical framework that has been defined since the early 2000s to understand middle-income countries.
2024. In this paper I search to figure out the historical trajectory of democratization - the improvement of the quality of democracy. Only published in this site.
2024. Human progress depends on republican citizens and a republican state. (Chapter of book)
2009. Direitos republicanos são o direito que todos os cidadãos têm que leis autorizando a captura do patrimônio público tenham efeito (capítulo de livro).
2023. Paper with José Luis Oreiro. Development theory has a history, that goes from the classical political economy to Classical Structuralist Developmentalism and New Developmentalism.
2023. Chapter of "Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Rentier Capitalism", written in 2020.
2023. Neoliberalism has collapsed in the rich world. The State is back. In Brazil, however, neoliberalism is still dominant (Essay, in Global Policy).
2018. The title is self-explanatory.
2023. No pós-guerra, nos anos dourados do capitalismo, tivemos o capitalismo gerencial, no qual os capitalistas ainda eram dominantes e os gerentes estavam no segundo plano. Nos anos neoliberais, que se seguiram, os capitalistas deixaram de controlar o processo de acumulação de capital e a inovação que os legitimava. Hoje, depois do colapso do neoliberalismo em 2021, estamos caminhando para um gerencialismo democrático e desenvolvimentista.
2023. This paper is the history of how the theory of inertial inflation was developed in Brazil in the early 1980s, when inflation was very high, much higher than the stagflation that happened in the United States in the previous decade.
2022. (Revista de Economia, UFPR)