Grandes Economistas

1. Introdução.

Leitura básica

Hierarchies in the economics profession: how did we get there?

Textos adicionais

Robert M. Solow. How Did Economics Get That Way and What Way Did It Get? Daedalus, 1997.

Roger E. Backhouse; Steven G. Medema. Retrospectives: On the Definition of Economics. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2009.

Digital history of macroeconomics

2. A ascensão dos departamentos de economia nos Estados Unidos.

Leitura básica

Marion Fourcade. Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s. Princeton University Press, 2009. Capítulo 2.

Textos adicionais

Craufurd D. Goodwin. The Patrons of Economics in a Time of Transformation. History of Political Economy, 1998.

3. O debate sobre crescimento econômico após 1945

Leitura básica

Mauro Boianovsky; Kevin D. Hoover. In the Kingdom of Solovia: The Rise of Growth Economics at MIT, 1956-70. History of Political Economy, 2014.

Textos adicionais

Nicholas Crafts. Solow and Growth Accounting: A Perspective from Quantitative Economic History. History of Political Economy, 2009.

Entrevista com Solow sobre a sua vida e o MIT

4. O debate sobre desenvolvimento econômico após 1945

Leitura básica

Alacevich, Michele. Early Development Economics Debates Revisited. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2011.

Irwin, Douglas. The Rise and Fall of Import Substitution. World Development, 2021.

5. O crescimento do papel do governo

Leitura básica

Lawrence H. White. The Clash of Economic Ideas. Cambridge University Press, 2012. cap.13 - The Growth of Government

Textos adicionais

Roger Backhouse. The Rise of Free Market Economics: Economists and the Role of the State since 1970. History of Political Economy, 2005.

Robert Nelson. The Economics Profession and the Making of Public Policy. Journal of Economic Literature, 1987.

6. Teoria econômica nos trópicos

Leitura básica

Boianovsky, Mauro. A View from the Tropics: Celso Furtado and the Theory of Economic Development in the 1950s. History of Political Economy, 2010.

7. O papel dos economistas em políticas públicas: o debate sobre a curva de Phillips.

Leitura básica

Allan. G. Sleeman. Retrospectives: The Phillips Curve: A Rushed Job? Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011.

Textos adicionais

Paul Samuelson; Robert Solow. Analytical Aspects of Anti-Inflation Policy. The American Economic Review, 1960.

Robert W. Dimand. Edmund Phelps and Modern Macroeconomics. Review of Political Economy, 2008.

8. Capital humano e crescimento econômico

Leitura básica

Laura Holden ; Jeff Biddle. The Introduction of Human Capital Theory into Education Policy in the United States. History of Political Economy, 2017.

Textos adicionais

Pedro Teixeira. A Portrait of the Economics of Education, 1960-1997. History of Political Economy, 2000.

9. Economia em Chicago

Leitura básica

Douglas A. Irwin. The Midway and Beyond: Recent Work on Economics at Chicago. History of Political Economy, 2018.

Textos adicionais

Franck Jovanovic. The Construction of the Canonical History of Financial Economics. History of Political Economy, 2008.

10. Imperialismo econômico: Gary Becker

Leitura básica

Fleury, Jean-Baptiste. Wandering through the Borderlands of the Social Sciences: Gary Becker’s Economics of Discrimination. History of Political Economy, 2012.

Textos adicionais

George Stigler. Economics – The Imperial Science? Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1984.

11. O economista como figura pública: Milton Friedman

Leitura básica

Burgin, Angus. The Great Persuasion. Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression. Harvard University Press, 2012." Capítulo 5 - The Invention of Milton Friedman.

Sebastian Edwards, Leonidas Montes. Milton Friedman in Chile: Shock Therapy, Economic Freedom, and Exchange Rates. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2020.

Textos adicionais

Tiago Mata. Trust in Independence: The Identities of Economists in Business Magazines, 1945-1970. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 2011.

Tiago Mata. Milton Friedman and Paul Samuelson, columnists of Newsweek. Forthcoming: Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

Collected works of Milton Friedman, Hoover Institution.

Tópicos complementares

A era da economia aplicada.

Leitura básica

Rafael Cariello, Revista Piauí (dezembro, 2020).Trabalhadores, uni-vos.

Roger E. Backhouse; Béatrice Cherrier. The Age of the Applied Economist: The Transformation of Economics since the 1970s.. History of Political Economy, 2017.

Nicholas Crafts. Book Review. Mickey Mouse Numbers in World History: The Short View. by D. C. M. Platt. Journal of Economic Literature, 1992.

Morten Jerven. Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong, 2015.

Análise sobre os dados do projeto Maddison.

Crítica de Morgan Kelly aos artigos sobre persistência histórica.

Textos adicionais

Marion Fourcade, Etienne Ollion, and Yann Algan. The Superiority of Economists. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2015.

Edward E. Leamer. Let’s Take the Con Out of Econometrics. The American Economic Review, 1983.

Joshua D. Angrist; Jörn-Steffen Pischke. The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design Is Taking the Con out of Econometrics. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2010.

Josh Angrist [e coautores]. Inside Job or Deep Impact? Extramural Citations and the Influence of Economic Scholarship. Journal of Economic Literature, 2020.

MIT, Samuelson e a síntese neoclássica.

Leitura básica

Texto sobre a importância de Samuelson

Beatrice Cherrier. Toward a History of Economics at MIT, 1940-72. History of Political Economy, 2014.

Textos adicionais

Harro Maas. Making Things Technical: Samuelson at MIT. History of Political Economy, 2014.

Kerry A. Pearce; Kevin D. Hoover. After the Revolution: Paul Samuelson and the Textbook Keynesian Model. History of Political Economy, 1995.

Yann Giraud. Addressing the audience: Paul Samuelson, radical economics, and textbook making, 1967-1973. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2020.

Políticas públicas e expectativas racionais.

Leitura básica

Esther-Mirjam Sent. How (Not) to Influence People: The Contrary Tale of John F. Muth. History of Political Economy, 2002.

Textos adicionais

Esther-Mirjam Sent. The Evolving Rationality of Rational Expectations. Cambridge University Press, 1998. Capítulo 1.

Warren Young and William Darity Jr. The Early History of Rational and Implicit Expectations. History of Political Economy, 2001.

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