SHORT TEXTS

2010. The Brazilian public bureaucracy as well as the industrial bourgeoisie are out of the dominant political coalition since late 1980s. Yet, as it is engaged in the 1995 Managerial Reform (Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée).

2008. Exposição no seminário Desenvolvimento econômico: crescimento com distribuição de renda em comemoração aos 200 anos do Ministério da Fazenda, ESAF, Brasília, 8, 9 e 10 de setembro de 2008 publicado no livro 200 anos - Ministério da Fazenda: Os Ministros - Rio de Janeiro: Editora FGV, 2010. pp. 47-58.

2009. Ciclo de Debates promovido pelo Instituto de Economia Agrícola (IEA), no segundo semestre de 2007, em comemoração aos seus 65 anos.

2009. José Luís Fiori presents his pessimistic geopolitical approach to world affairs. Yet, in the times of globalization and democracy, a more optimistic approach is more realistic. (Resenha de Fiori, Medeiros e Serrano, O Mito do Colapso do Poder Americano).

2009. Nation and civil society are forms of politically organized societies, the state, the central institution, and the nation-state the basic territorial-political unity that the Capitalist Revolution originated. This article orginated "Estado, estado-nação e Revolução Capitalista" (2010). (Discussion paper EESP/FGV 189)

2009. A review of a classical book on the intellectual history of Brazil. Written in a moment where nationalism was beign replaced by dependency interpretation. (Review of Carlos Guilherme Mota (1977 [2008]), Ideologia da Cultura Brasileira).

2009. The economic journalist Celso Pinto was able to present in a simple way the complexities os economic performances and economic policies. Resenha de Os Desafios do Crescimento - Dos Militares a Lula, de Celso Pinto.

2008. The present global economic crisis happens in a finance based and knowledge capitalism where bright private technobureaucrats formed in the best MBAs enriched. (Umbrales de América del Sur). Versão disponível em Português

2008. To avoid new global financial crisis it would be necessary to convene among nations a maximum current account deficit in relation to GDP that would be allowed to countries. (Article just published in this website)

2008. Globalization is a major opportunity for ctching-up. Yet, Latin American countries are loosing this opportunity as they lack a national development stragegy.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2008. E-mails between Bresser-Pereira and the Argentinean intellectuals Jorge Gaggero and Matías Bianchi on the "retenciones" and the Dutch disease. (Only in this site)

2008. Three basic definitions nations are a form of politically organized society that emerges with capitalism the state, the law system and the organization that enforces it the nation-state, the basic territorial-political unity in capitalism. Note only in this site

2008. The 1968 Student Revolution represented the end, not the beginning, of a major post-war social and political change. After, the world experienced a conservative counter-revolution. Article O Estado de S.Paulo.

2008. The new nationalist leaders in Latin America face major obstacles. It is more difficult to govern poor than middle income countries. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2008. (Preface to edited book)

2008. The real state of nature is capitalism, a unjust and corrupt, but dynamic and strong like a tiger. The historical social contract is the democratic state that modern societies created do trim the tiger's claws but conserve its strength and dynamism.(Note: available only in this site)

2006.

2008. The distinction between nation, state and nation-state. (Note)

2007. Being much bigger than the Liberal State, the Social-Democratic State requires public management reform that make more efficient the large social and scientific services. On the other hand, the managerial reform legitimized the Social State. (Full text available only in this site)