Luiz Felipe Bruzzi Curi

University of São Paulo | USP · Department of History

Link: https://www.cepal.org/es/publicaciones/68549-joven-raul-prebisch-la-traduccion-adolph-wagner-1919-indicios-critica En este artículo se analizan los primeros pasos de Raúl Prebisch cuando todavía era un joven estudiante de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, entre 1918 y 1922. Entre sus actividades, Prebisch tradujo textos de economistas extranje...

Rui Barbosa was a renowned jurist who served as the first finance minister of the Brazilian Republic, established in 1889. Despite his renown as an intellectual, Barbosa faced a severe financial crisis during his ministerial tenure and gained a bad reputation for his economic policy. In the texts produced in this context, he combined different trad...

The comprehension of German political economy in the 19th century has been influenced by the so called Sonderweg thesis, which emphasises German “exceptionalism”. This interpretation points to the presence of an alleged derogatory influence of the Historical School, intertwined with an advocacy of statism and economic nationalism. Here, we show tha...

Resumo Francisco Rodolpho Simch foi um economista e burocrata governamental inserido no processo de transmissão internacional de ideias econômicas, entre o século XIX e o XX. Nascido em localidade de colonização alemã no Rio Grande do Sul, Simch se tornará um intelectual germanófilo e terá relevância na região no tocante ao estabelecimento do ensino...

This paper addresses the dissemination of German economist Adolph Wagner’s ideas in Brazil. It shows that his monetary thinking, inspired by Thomas Tooke and the Banking School, as well as his ideas on public finance, particularly the law of increasing state spending, were assimilated by two Brazilian economic thinkers: Rui Barbosa and Vieira Souto...

This paper addresses the relationship between the development of the concepts of autarky and «economy of the extended space» in the German-speaking world and the framing of economic relations between Germany and Brazil in the 1930s. According to this «autarkic» way of conceiving economics, in order to thrive, an economy has to be autonomous regardi...

This chapter deals with the dissemination of the concept of Volkswirtschaft (national economy) in Brazil. Firstly, I retrace the historical evolution of the concept, in the German-speaking area. Then, I proceed to the description of its dissemination ib Brazil, in two contexts. In the first one, the aftermath of the Republican transition in Brazil...

In this paper we identify elements that reveal the specificity of Roberto Simonsen’s economic thought and his singular interpretation of Brazilian economic history, based on documents related to the debate held in Congress when the Brazil-U.S. Trade Agreement was signed, in 1935. We have verified how in a concrete political struggle Simonsen used d...

A controvérsia do planejamento (1944-1945), entre Roberto Simonsen e Eugênio Gudin, é um momento privilegiado para o estudo da história das ideias econômicas. A participação de Roberto Simonsen nessa discussão pode ser revista e lida de maneira enriquecedora numa perspectiva de história das ideias. Este artigo investiga a especificidade teórica que...

This paper attempts to present a more thorough understanding of the economic thought of the Brazilian industrialist Roberto Simonsen. Thus, the texts by Simonsen and a contemporary author, the Russian economist Wladimir Woytinsky, are examined, and are focused on the intellectual production of these authors at two specific times, which shows them a...

Este artigo analisa uma fase pouco conhecida da atuação do historiador e economista Roberto Simonsen: sua formação acadêmica na Politécnica de São Paulo e seus textos dos anos 1910 e 1920, anteriores à publicação da História econômica do Brasil (1937) e ao famoso debate com Eugênio Gudin (1944-45). Nesse início de carreira, Simonsen dirigiu a Compa...