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Ladislau Dowbor

9 de setembro, 2022

– 3p.

Bringing Brazil back on track

Brazil has been oscillating between progressive and regressive regimes; it is time for structural change. …

Artigos Recebidos

CfRC, Jubilee Debt Campaign, New Economics Foundation, Research for Action

18 de julho, 2019

– 16p.

Regulating the credit card market: why we need a cap on costs?

Neste artigo, os ingleses preocupados com a hiper-exploração com cartões de crédito. O dinheiro sob forma de papel impresso pelo governo, dentro do nosso bolso, oferecia uma certa segurança. O que pagávamos na padaria…

Resenhas

Pavlina Tcherneva

3 de julho, 2020

– 140p.

The case for a job guarantee

O livro de Pavlina Tcherneva é curto, muito bem documentado, e centrado nas questões práticas: sai muito mais barato tirar os pobres da miséria do que arcar com as consequências. Se ainda por cima…

Artigos

Ladislau Dowbor

9 de março, 2022

– 4p.

A time of diluted responsibility

How long will we economists, engineers, lawyers, architects, administrators and so many other professionals go along with the use of our technical expertise for stupid, if lucrative, aims? There is no necessary contradiction between…

Artigos

Ladislau Dowbor

9 de abril, 2022

– 4p.

The emotional cost of inequality

A vicious circle generating social polarization, violence and more corporate-dominated politics: the inequality issue goes much beyond poverty and lack of access to basic goods and services. It is also about the feeling of…

Artigos

Ladislau Dowbor

9 de maio, 2022

– 3p.

The corporate blind money-making

The world is presently aware of the catastrophic management of the global environment issues, the explosive inequality, the absurd growth of fortunes at the very top, the erosion of democracy. The corporate world, deeply…

Pílulas Informativas

Frank Jacobs

4 de abril, 2019

– 2p.

“Um olhar sobre o muro global que divide ricos e pobres”

Confira nesse excelente artigo por que o que chamamos de Ocidente é, de fato, o maior condomínio fechado do mundo….

Artigos Recebidos

Robert Reich

1 de janeiro, 2022

– 2p.

We need to talk about the real reason behind US inflation

Corporate giants are raising prices even as they rake in record profits. How can this be? Because of their unchecked power….

Artigos Recebidos

Michael Peters, Magdalena Senn

17 de dezembro, 2021

– 29p.

Shrink finance, for prosperity: why too much finance harms the European economy and society

Um artigo de excepcional qualidade sobre um dos problemas centrais da sociedade moderna: a apropriação dos recursos pelo sistema financeiro….

Artigos

Ladislau Dowbor

6 de junho, 2021

– 7p.

Making money useful: measuring what matters

Moral indignation in economics is considered to be unscientific. Allow me some moral outrage as the planet is awash in financial resources, top level technologies, updated statistics on every dimension of our potentials and…

Artigos

Ladislau Dowbor

9 de fevereiro, 2022

– 2p.

Helpless Politics: The world does not suffer a lack of resources, but of political and social organization

The overall decision process we call politics is outdated, and does not correspond to the challenges we face. We face global finance and high-frequency trade with national-scale policies, and global money is too slippery…

Artigos

Ladislau Dowbor

11 de dezembro, 2021

– 27p.

The economy, the narrative and the whip

We are honored to publish this original paper by our esteemed Advisory Board member Professor Ladislau Dowbor, Chair of the Economics Department at the Pontificate Catholic University in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Prof. Dowbor is one…

Artigos Recebidos

Henri Giroux

10 de dezembro, 2021

– 3p.

Right-wing authoritarianism and the crisis of education

Henri Giroux apresenta neste artigo uma visão de rara profundidade sobre a transformação da América profunda. Trump é apenas um resultado, um sintoma de uma gangrena que vai tomando conta do tecido social….

Artigos

Ladislau Dowbor

9 de abril, 2021

– 4p.

Inclusion and Austerity in Brazil

Austerity is not working, because it essentially means a huge transfer of financial resources to the hands of an unproductive financial elite, and a reduction of purchasing power at the bottom of the pyramid,…

Artigos Recebidos Em Destaque

Michael Spence, Joseph Stiglitz

18 de março, 2021

– 13p.

The Pandemic and the Economic Crisis: a Global Agenda for Urgent Action

Delayed vaccination of people across the world increases possibilities of virus mutation, reducing the ability to control the pandemic even in rich countries that have bagged vaccines. “The advanced countries learned, even if briefly,…

Livros por Ladislau Dowbor

Ladislau Dowbor

15 de março, 2021

– 129p.

Beyond Capitalism: New Social Architectures

This book is about systemic change in what we consider as capitalism. Far beyond qualifications such as Industry 4.0, the view presented here is that the very structures of capitalism are currently being displaced,…

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Mariana Mazzucato and Robert Skidelsky

10 de julho, 2020

– 8p.

Toward a New Fiscal Constitution

With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing governments to spend on an unprecedented scale to sustain businesses and households, there has never been a better time to restore the state to its proper role as a…

Artigos

Ladislau Dowbor

1 de dezembro, 2020

– 24p.

Inequality and Politics in Brazil: Bolsa Familia and Beyond

The Bolsa Familia program of money transfers to the roughly 50 million poor at the bottom of the pyramid is internationally known but its success was grounded in a much wider set of 149…

Artigos Recebidos

Peter Beaumont

7 de julho, 2020

– 2p.

We squandered a decade’: world losing fight against poverty, says UN academic

Relator da ONU, Philip Alston, constata que estamos perdendo a guerra pela redução da desigualdade. “Mesmo antes da pandemia, 3,4 bilhões de pessoas, quase a metade do mundo, vivia com menos de US$5,50 por…

Entrevistas

Ladislau Dowbor

1 de março, 2020

– 15 min.

Unproductive Capitalism in Brazil

We are all discussing the coronavirus crisis, but we must also look at the underlying economic crisis. Understanding how the Brazilian distributive experience worked, and how it was broken down with a parliamentary coup,…

Bringing Brazil back on track

Regulating the credit card market: why we need a cap on costs?

The case for a job guarantee

A time of diluted responsibility

The emotional cost of inequality

The corporate blind money-making

“Um olhar sobre o muro global que divide ricos e pobres”

We need to talk about the real reason behind US inflation

Shrink finance, for prosperity: why too much finance harms the European economy and society

Making money useful: measuring what matters

Helpless Politics: The world does not suffer a lack of resources, but of political and social organization

The economy, the narrative and the whip

Right-wing authoritarianism and the crisis of education

Inclusion and Austerity in Brazil

The Pandemic and the Economic Crisis: a Global Agenda for Urgent Action

Beyond Capitalism: New Social Architectures

Toward a New Fiscal Constitution

Inequality and Politics in Brazil: Bolsa Familia and Beyond

We squandered a decade’: world losing fight against poverty, says UN academic

Unproductive Capitalism in Brazil

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