SHORT TEXTS

1985. After the populist pact (1930s-50s) and the technobureaucratic-capitalist pact (1960s-70s), a liberal-popular pact is emerging with democracy. (Note [7 pages]: Jornal da Tarde)*

1985. With Fernando Dall'Acqua. A price freeze (without the neutralization of inertia) will unbalance relative prices; after some time, inflation will be back. (Note: Carta de Conjuntura).

1984. With Yoshiaki Nakano (Note: Revista de Economia Política)*

1985. From the assumption that Economics is ideologically conditioned, the author distinguishes a conservative from a progressist approach to economic theory and economic policy.(Lecture: Revista de Economia Política)*

1984. Review to book by Edmar Bacha, Rio de Janeiro: Editora Campus.

1984. (Notes: RAE)

1984. With Yoshiaki Nakano. Survey of the book Brasil x FMI: Armadilha da Recessão with articles by Belluzzo, Cardoso, Rezende, Arida. (Survey: Revista de Economia Política)

1983. (Note: Revista de Economia Política)

1983. Review of book by João Manoel Cardoso de Mello. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1982.

1980. Review to book by André Franco Montoro Alternativa Comunitária: Um Caminho para o Brasil. São Paulo, Nova Fronteira, 1982.

Revista de Estudos Sociais e Urbanos, n.6, junho 1982.

1981. The technobureaucratic class is increasingly powerful but we should not be deterministic about it. (Introduction to the first edition of A Sociedade Estatal e a Tecnoburocracia)

1981 Inequality is very much associated to wage differences. The social state and the social consumption that it provides is an efficient form of reducing inequality. Debate with Paul Singer (Lecture)

1981. The distinction between productive and unproductive labour was not developed by Adam Smith and Marx to define the class system. Rather, it was originally used to describe the rise of capitalism in England. Poulantzas, however, sought to utilize these two concepts in order to define a new class - the new petty bourgeoisie. Capitalists would be the owners of the means of production; the working class, blue-collar employees, the productive workers; and the new class, the new petty bourgeoisie, the unproductive workers. In this chapter I will discuss this attempt, showing that the categories of productive and unproductive labour, not only do not help in the characterization of social classes, but have also lost their usefulness for helping to understand contemporary capitalism.

1981. Economic policy is becoming endogenous as the state gets immobilised for fiscal and financial reasons. (Paper Brazilian Journal of Political Economy)

1981. Debate with Bolivar Lamounier and André Lara Rezende where my view on the "abertura" opposite to Lamounier's is clear.

1980. Review of book by Paulo Renato de Souza. São Paulo: Hucitec-Fucamp, 1980.

1980. Resenha de Ralph Miliband (1977 [1979]).  Rio de Janeiro, Zahar Editores, 1979.