Economy Essays

The Hidden Connections I am writing this essay, as many people would think and wonder about the title of this book. As many readers come across this book, “The Hidden Connections” many would wonder what it is all about. It brings forth a “new understanding of life” by presenting a “conceptual framework that integrates life’s biological, cognitive, and social dimensions” (Capra, 2002, p.Xvi). It also brings forth and offers a clear, systematic approach to some of the concerning issues…

estudos sobre as crises financeiras e sua ligação com o ciclo econômico. Suas análises exerceram grande influência, não apenas na academia, mas também nos meios financeiros. Uma das ideias centrais de Minsky, apresentada em Stabilizing an Unstable Economy (2008), é a de que a estabilidade engendra a instabilidade, pois o desequilíbrio é inerente ao capitalismo: cansados de lucros moderados, os investidores, nos períodos de crescimento, começam a correrem maiores riscos,…

Campus, 1999. p. 258283. ________; SICSÚ, João. Controvérsias recentes sobre controles de capitais. Revista de Economia Política, São Paulo, v. 24, n. 2, abr./jun. 2004. COOPER, Richard N. Should capital-account convertibility be a world objective? Essays in International Finance, Princeton, n. 207, p. 11-19, 1998. ________. Should capital controls be banished? Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Washington D. C., p. 89-125, 1999. CURADO, Marcelo Luiz. Rigidez comercial,…

‘Car, motorcycles, diners and fast-food emporiums were not supposed to be the stuff or art’. With reference to two artists, how has American painting over turned this taboo? In this essay I will explain the process that over turned the taboo of what should be an art subject or not. I will show that, if in the nineteen seventies cars, motorcycles, diners and fast food emporiums turned into inspiration for the Photorealists, it is because the Pop Artists had already started to question…

organization of the Medieval Catholic Church; to the causes and consequences of economic and social regulation; to voting, legislative processes, the executive and judicial branches of government; to interest-group politics; to constitutional political economy; to college and professional sports; to deficit finance; to the history of economics and economic history; to rent seeking; to the growth of government; to immigration; to the Federal Reserve; and too many more to list. We know Bob…

bancárias (The high price of bullion, a proof of the depreciation of bank notes), em 1810; Ensaio sobre a influência de um baixo preço do cereal sobre os lucros do capital (Essay on the influence of a low price of corn on the profits of stock), em 1815; Princípios da economia política e tributação (Principles of political economy and taxation), em 1817 (reeditado em 1819 e 1821). David Ricardo exerceu uma grande influência tanto sobre os economistas neoclássicos, como sobre os…

From 2003 to 2010, the BRICS countries accounted for 38.7% of global GDP growth. To get an idea of the pace of economic growth in the five countries, in 2003 the BRICS represented 9% of global GDP. By 2010, they accounted for 25.69% of the global economy, with a combined GDP of US$ US$19 trillions. In 2006, this economic construct gave rise to a formal group, with an agenda centered in economic and financial issues, which is now diversifying to include new themes. Indeed, the convening…

Some methodological issues in the theory of speculation. In: MOGGRIDGE, D.E., org. Perspectives on the history of economic thought. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1990. v.4. (Republicado em Chick, 1992:181-92) ________ On money, method and Keynes: selected essays. London: Macmillan, 1992; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992. COOLETAZ, G.; GOULAOUEN, J-P. Les bulles rationnelles: une synthese de la literature. In: BOURGUINAT, H.; ARTUS, P., orgs. Théorie économique et crises de marchés…

in Brazil is made by roads, only 15% by the middle rail and we are indignant of the fact that there is a negligible use of water transportation, which is only used for 15% of cases". (FIGUEIREDO, K; FLEURY, P; WANKE, P.) We will debate in this essay about how the previous problems can affect in a bad way the export of many products. One example is the soybean, that in a huge scale of the cargo is lost along the way because the distance between ports and local production is humongous…

Economic History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989 DeLong, J. Bradford. The History of the Twentieth Century Economy: Slouching Towards Utopia? (livro em preparação, in: http://econ161.berkeley.edu/) Eichengreen, Barry. Globalizing Capital: a history of the international monetary system. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996 Foreman-Peck, Kames. A History of the World Economy: International Economic Relations Since 1850. Brigthon: Wheathsheaf Books, 1986 Gauthier, André.…