SHORT TEXTS

27.12.2017. Why since 2013 we saw political hate in Brazil? I believe that the structural explanation for that. The white Brazilian elites always despised the negro or mestiça lower classes. Suddenly a politician originated from the excluded class, Lula, identified himself self with it, while his political party got involved in corruption. This was sufficient to the insecure middle-class developed hate - a sentment that is incompatible with democracy. (Note in the Facebook)

2017. A short (4.000 words) summary of new developmentalism - a new theoretical framework for allow middle-income countries to grow again. (DOC Research Institute website) (Available in Portuguese)

2017. The great majority of liberal economists mean no harm by promoting fiscal adjustment alone.

2017. Piketty on how to democratize the Eurozone. (Review)

Call for the 7th Laporde - a one week full time course (January 8-12) given by some outstanding development economists at EESP/FGV São Paulo.

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26.7.2017. In this note, the author summarizes his critiques to the Brazilian government, which was born from a political coup, and the economic elites that support it. But he is also critical of a radical discourse on the part of the left, which is incompatible with the nation and the democracy.

2017. A central objective of the 1995 Managerial Reform of the State was to turn more efficient the large social services, and so, legitimize the Social State defined in the 1988 Constitution. Portuguese 2010 version available

Discours à la crémation de Arthur Piza. Paris, le 2 Juin 2017.

2017. Prefácio para o livro organizado por Ivan Salomão por ocasião da aposentadoria de Pedro Cezar Dutra Fonseca na UFRGS.

Os países ricos não adotaram políticas neoliberais, que o atual governo brasileiro imita, para se tornarem ricos. Eles adotaram o desenvolvimentismo quando fizeram sua revolução industrial. (Article: Revista Brasileiros)

22.12.2016 - The new mayor of São Paulo is increasing the speed limits in the avenues. But to run over the people is more than a trafic rule; is the new and liberal rule of the game in Brazil.

2016. Prefacio do livro sobre a obra de Renato Boschi e Eli Diniz.

2016. Comentário ao artigo de Fernando Cardim de Carvalho, "Is this 'it'? An outline of a theory of depressions", Brazilian Journal of Political Economy 2016 36(3): 451-459. O autor escolhe este artigo para divulgar este número do Brazilian Journal of Political Economy na revista Scielo em Perspectivas, 10 de novembro de 2016.

1999. A política é a arte do bem comum, é a arte da persuasão, é a arte da liderança, e é a arte do compromisso. Em qualquer hipótese, é a arte de tomar decisões em situação de incerteza, tendo em vista a conservação do poder e a realização do bem comum.

2016. Políticos opositores as reformas sociais criaram um clima de intolerância na política com propósitos egoístas de derrubar um governo democrático com a ajuda de uma parcela da sociedade alheia aos problemas políticos do país e suscetíveis ao discurso do ódio contra grupos sociais historicamente marginalizados.

2016. Oreiro writes an excellent summary-analysis of the development macroeconomics models before the New Developmental model to which he is one of the main contributors. (Preface)