ALBERT HIRSCHMAN IN LATIN AMERICA: NOTES ON HIRSCHMAN'S TRILOGY ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

This paper discusses Albert Hirschman's writings that resulted from his professional experience in Colombia, Brazil, Chile and other Latin American countries during the 1950s and 1960s. The focus is on the trilogy written by Hirschman in the field of development economics, which comprises: The Strategy of Economic Development (1958), Journeys Toward Progress (1963) and Development Projects Observed (1967). Some methodological aspects of those writings, which tend to be recurrent throughout the author's whole intelectual career, are emphasized.

Challenges of doing research in the history of economic thought: A Latin American perspective

The researcher who works on the history of economic thought in Latin America faces three basic challenges, namely: 1) crossing disciplinary boundaries, since the field requires familiarity with neighboring areas of investigation, such as philosophy, sociology, and psychology, among others; 2) recognizing that past is past, that one´s favorite author or school of thought can bring some light to society´s present choices and policies, but, due to their particular context, should not stand as their final arbiter; 3) starting local, becoming universal, i.e, while preserving the universal content of economics, realizing that it must pay due respect to the historical, geographical and institutional diversity of its subject matter.The researcher who works on the history of economic thought in Latin America faces three basic challenges, namely: 1) crossing disciplinary boundaries, since the field requires familiarity with neighboring areas of investigation, such as philosophy, sociology, and psychology, among others; 2) recognizing that past is past, that one´s favorite author or school of thought can bring some light to society´s present choices and policies, but, due to their particular context, should not stand as their final arbiter; 3) starting local, becoming universal, i.e, while preserving the universal content of economics, realizing that it must pay due respect to the historical, geographical and institutional diversity of its subject matter. &nbsp

On behalf of Antonio Maria: recent tendencies in economic methodology

This is a discussion about the recent trends in the field of economic methodology. I argue that methodologists now agree that the evaluation of economic theories based on universal fixed rules has proven to be sterile. Instead, they tend to focus the methodological options actually made by economists in their effort to build theories. Nevertheless, some very general questions about the nature of science and the relation between theory and empirical work still need to be addressed. I use as an illustration of my point of view the case of behavioral economics.economic methodology methodological rules behavioral economics

Tanto preto quanto branco: estudo de relações raciais (resenha bibliográfica 1)

O livro do professor Oracy Nogueira é fruto de uma prolongada e hoje clássica reflexão sobre a questão das relações raciais no Brasil

A propósito de Antonio Maria: tendências recentes da metodologia econômica

This is a discussion about the recent trends in the field of economic methodology. I argue that methodologists now agree that the evaluation of economic theories based on universal fixed rules has proven to be sterile. Instead, they tend to focus the methodological options actually made by economists in their effort to build theories. Nevertheless, some very general questions about the nature of science and the relation between theory and empirical work still need to be addressed. I use as an illustration of my point of view the case of behavioral economics

Usos e Aplicações da Grounded Theory em Administração

This paper discusses the usage and application of grounded theory in the administration area.Grounded theory is a research tool under the qualitative paradigm that, since its beginning in 1967raised some debates in the academic arena. Its original authors, Barney Glaser & Anselm Strauss,developed, throughout their academic trajectories,distinct thoughts regarding the process of datacollection and data analysis, the researcher attitude and the way of attainment the researchresults: theory grounded on empirical data. In spite of that, the history on the evolution of theresearch method, the research method working process clarification and an analysis of someapplications in the administrative area are discussed in this paper to support reflections ongrounded theory applicability and potentiality in administration. The purpose of this paper is tocontribute with researchers by bringing relevant information to support the processes of choice ofthis research method and its proper execution in their research. The conclusion is that groundedtheory is complex, rich, and powerful being applicable in administration as part of the social scienc

Polemizando: anotações de leitura sobre a crise na ciência econômica

Since the IQZO's, the dismissal of the Keynesian consensus has created a state of insatisfaction and dissent within the community of economists, with several symptoms of an identity crisis. As portrayed by the literature such crisis has four basic dimensions: a) the difficulty of integrating microeconomics and macroeconomics; b) the problematic role of evidence in the empirical testing of theories; c) methodological questions still pending in Econometrics: d) the inadequate level of abstraction which permeates the making of economics. The article ends up exhorting economists to view such symptoms as a stymulus to reexamine basic issues in their discipline and improve the conditions in which the theoretical and methodological debate has been conducted.Desde a década de 1970, a ruptura do consenso keynesiano criou um estado de insatisfação e desacordo na comunidade de economistas, em que se tormaram manifestos sintomas de crise de crise de identidade. Tal como detectada pela literatura, esta crise assume quatro dimensões básicas: a) a dificuldade de integração entre microeconomia e macroeconomia; b) o problemático papel da evidência no teste empírico das teorias; c) as questões de caráter metodológico pendentes no campo da Econometria; d) o inadequado nível de abstração em que o trabalho científico é produzido. O artigo conclui com uma exortação aos economistas para que tirem partido da crise, que deve ser vista como um estímulo para o reexame de questões básicas de sua disciplina e o aprofundamento do nível em que o debate teórico e metodológico tern sido conduzido.

Resenha Bibliográfica

FONSECA, Pedro Cezar Dutra. Vargas: o capitalismo em construção. São Paulo, Brasiliense, 1989,482 p