As Finanças Públicas Portuguesas

Livro de homenagem a Vitorino Magalhães Godinho

Fontes Pereira de Melo e o Fontismo em Portugal

Government, public finance, and public debt framed the historical background for exceptional financial business opportunities for Henry Burnay as a private banker and a network with Baring Brothers, Comptoir National d'Escompte, Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas, Neuflize et Cie., Crédit Lyonnais, Société Générale, Deutsche Bank, Bank fur Handel& Industrie, Dresdner Bank, M. Jacob H. S. Stern and the Deutsche Effecten & Wechsel Bank from Frankfurt. Nineteenth-century financial markets and public debt emerge as the main players in the game.Credibility and honesty are important values for earning confidence and trust in international financial business, while bilateral-monopoly market situations required a lot of bargaining for joint profit maximization.

Corporate Finance is a fashionable field in schools of Economics throughout the World. Although the main epistemological break to identify its scientific character may be established in the decade of the 1950s, this paper demonstrates how much developed financial thought there was in Europe before the First World War. Thanks to considerable growth of international trade, corporations, and multinationals (i.e. rising globalization) during this phase of European civilization, Stock Exchanges flourished in all European countries. Philosophers, businessmen, professors, and lawyers disseminated their burgeoning erudition in financial knowledge, and several authors made large contributions in books devoted to legal features of human economic actions, and in textbooks devoted to political economy.

Rethinking nineteenth-century Europe: economic growth and economics

Indagar das relações entre a história económica e a história do pensamento económico

Criado pelo Decreto de 1 de Outubro de 1846, o Fundo Especial de Amortização apenas foi instituído na sequência do Decreto de 19 de Novembro de 1846 que criou o Banco de Portugal

Normas jurídicas que regulamentam a actividade financeira do Estado, em Portugal, entre meados do século XIX e meados do século XX.

Portuguese foreign public debt, the United Kingdom of Portugal and Brazil, the Treaty of Viena, cycles of indebtedness

The Portuguese Constitutional Public Finance and civil wars (1833-1845)

Portuguese exchange rates

This paper analyzes 13 EMU countries and their similarities during the integration process throughout the last 4 decades. (...) The Multi-Scaling-Dynamics method is used for a quantitative analysis. Such features reflect major national achievements for sustaining European societies vis-à-vis rising globalization.

Decisions on rail tariffs were a challenge for nineteenth-century companies, managers and governments in Europe. The aim of this paper is to present theoretical discussions on the decisions for pricing rail services, by examining the influences coming from the French École des Ponts et Chaussées to Portugal, in the 1880s. If Antoine Cournot, Jules Dupuit and Charles Ellet are the most known pioneers and forerunners in disseminating marginal economics, Eugénio Rodrigues Severim de Azevedo’s book illustrates how reasoning on rail economics was spreading micro-economics before the Marshallian economics of the 1890s, even in small and peripheral European countries such as Portugal.