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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Economia (IE) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Graduate in Economics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS - 1974); master in Economics, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (ENCAMP - 1979); Ph.D. in Economics, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP - 1984), post-doctor University of London (1994-95). Full professor at the State University of Campinas, UNICAMP. Has experience in public sector economics, including social security. Since 2005, two major lines of research and publications: Brazilian economic thinking (José da Silva Lisboa, Celso Furtado) and late 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries monetary economics, including Locke, Cantillon, Hume, Galiani, Hume, Smith, and, especially, James Steuart. Within the last years, involved in the analysis of the first Portuguese-Brazilian edition of The Wealth of Nations (1811). From 2018, in connexion with the International Adam Smith Society (IASS), a reappraisal of the economics of Smith, involving issues such as money, capital (stock x capital), revenues, produce. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The project proposes the study of specific topics on Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations, involving both economics and political philosophy. The topics, identified in the project, are in tune with the recent academic discussion about Smith and will be presented in international academic forums (meetings, conferences, seminars). The final result, specified in articles and various texts, w…
The research reviews the formation of monetary economics, in the period 1690-1810. Its main method is the comparison of representative authors proposals and approaches to some main topics of monetary economics. Topics: value of money, specie and non-metallic money, money and prices, circulation, money and trade. Authors: Thomas Mun, Petty, Josiah Child, Dudley North, Locke, Barbon, Cantil…
Between 1797 and 1821, the British government allowed the Bank of England to suspend the conversion of its bank notes into metallic currency. During the period in which this restriction was in force, the basis of the British monetary system became a non-convertible paper issued by a bank. In this context, one of the most significant monetary debates emerged, which became known as the Bull…
The objective of this research is to highlight the international importance of Celso Furtado's work, the modernity of his thought and the actuality of the issues he addressed, with special attention to his reflections from the 1970s to the 1990s. We consider that the 1970s constitute a turning point in the intellectual trajectory of Celso Furtado: the evolution of capitalism in the second…
The present project intends to investigate the main contributions of the English author Henry Thornton to modern monetary theory, discussing both his most important work - An Inquiry into the Nature and Effects of Paper Credit, also known as Paper Credit - and the most important comments to it. The research is motivated by Thornton's characterization of money, which contrasts with the def…
The project´s main objective is to deepen the understanding of one of the less acquainted works of Celso Furtado - the book Underdevelopment and Stagnation in Latin America, both from the point of view of its importance in Celso Furtado´s history and work and his theory of underdevelopment, as from its association with other contemporary Latin American economy thinkers. In addition, the p…
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