Nova EconomiaPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1590/0103-6351/4960
P. Fracalanza, Mariana Rêis Maria, R. Corazza
{"title":"Economia Política da redução do tempo de trabalho: dos autores pioneiros ao debate contemporâneo sobre transições para sustentabilidade","authors":"P. Fracalanza, Mariana Rêis Maria, R. Corazza","doi":"10.1590/0103-6351/4960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-6351/4960","url":null,"abstract":"Resumo Esse artigo-resenha apresenta, inspirado por Polanyi, a redução do tempo de trabalho (RTT) em seu sentido substantivo, o que permite sugerir o encaminhamento de propostas de RTT como vetores de mudança socioeconômica para um sistema mais sustentável, mais justo e com maior potencial emancipatório. Uma primeira seção é dedicada a cotejar os significados da RTT em seus sentidos formal e substantivo. A segunda seção é dedicada às visões precursoras de Keynes, Russell e Lafargue sobre a RTT. Finalmente, a terceira, reúne três importantes autores contemporâneos, Gorz, Jackson e Méda, que, no debate sobre a transição para a sustentabilidade, dão especial destaque às medidas de RTT no rol das transformações necessárias rumo à reorganização do sistema econômico e social compatível com os limites biogeofísicos de nosso planeta.","PeriodicalId":35209,"journal":{"name":"Nova Economia","volume":"30 1","pages":"629-654"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49353498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nova EconomiaPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1590/0103-6351/4716
Mario Procopiuck, Schirlei Mari Freder
{"title":"Public policies and multilevel governance to promote the creative economy from the cultural fi eld: inter-federative support for Curitiba’s policy","authors":"Mario Procopiuck, Schirlei Mari Freder","doi":"10.1590/0103-6351/4716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-6351/4716","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The design and implementation of public policies to promote the creative economy as a new sustainable development based have not shown the same results in different societies. This article aims to evaluate the strength and ability of a multilevel governance system formed by institutions and actors at federal, state, and local levels to design and implement public policy to promote the creative economy as an alternative for Brazilian development. The analysis is guided by the concept of multilevel governance, considering horizontal relations and vertical relations to address the public problems of interest to all. The process mapping model for the formulation of public policy called Multiple Streams was necessary for its potential to grasp the logic of the political process. The results indicate the difficulties in forming a multilevel governance system with sufficient capacity to design and implement public policies from the cultural field to promote the creative economy at the federal level, in the state of Paraná and the city of Curitiba.","PeriodicalId":35209,"journal":{"name":"Nova Economia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49248184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nova EconomiaPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1590/0103-6351/4921
N. Cantarino, Fernando Ribeiro Leite Neto
{"title":"A grande estratégia do Império português: D. Luís da Cunha e as origens do reformismo ilustrado luso-brasileiro","authors":"N. Cantarino, Fernando Ribeiro Leite Neto","doi":"10.1590/0103-6351/4921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-6351/4921","url":null,"abstract":"Resumo Este artigo apresenta as propostas de reformas de D. Luís da Cunha (1662-1749) no contexto da transição do Seiscentos para o Setecentos no Império português. Para tanto, o artigo principia com a contextualização das mudanças no balanço de poder e no pensamento político associadas à emergência da Grã-Bretanha como Império centralizador dos eventos do século XVIII. Nessa transição importantes desdobramentos intelectuais estão em processo como, por exemplo, a ascensão da Economia Política como disciplina autônoma e sua relevância para a gestão dos interesses do Reino e do Império. Segue-se com a caracterização das reformas propostas por D. Luís da Cunha que visavam, em linha com a tradição mercantilista, elevar o poder relativo de Portugal. Dessa forma, D. Luís elenca a necessidade de incrementar o contingente populacional, seja no Reino, seja nos domínios de ultramar, facilitar os fluxos de mercadorias e de moedas, reduzir certos privilégios e, até mesmo, de rever os estatutos da Inquisição.","PeriodicalId":35209,"journal":{"name":"Nova Economia","volume":"30 1","pages":"655-677"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44900715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nova EconomiaPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1590/0103-6351/4711
Cristiano Domingues da Silva, Nicolino Trompieri Neto, Ivan Castelar, Érika Henriques de Araújo Alves da Silva
{"title":"Ciclos econômicos na atividade industrial brasileira: uma análise no domínio do tempo e da frequência","authors":"Cristiano Domingues da Silva, Nicolino Trompieri Neto, Ivan Castelar, Érika Henriques de Araújo Alves da Silva","doi":"10.1590/0103-6351/4711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-6351/4711","url":null,"abstract":"Resumo Este artigo analisa o comportamento mensal da produção industrial dos estados da Bahia, Minas Gerais, Pernambuco, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul e São Paulo, no período de 2002:01 até 2014:12, através da metodologia de tendências e ciclos comuns de Vahid e Engle (1993). Os testes comprovam a existência de duas tendências comuns e cinco ciclos comuns. Os resultados apontam que desvios do equilíbrio de longo prazo na atividade industrial de São Paulo influenciam a trajetória de produção dos demais estados estudados, ao passo que choques permanentes no Rio Grande do Sul afetam efetivamente apenas a dinâmica industrial do Paraná. Para efetuar a análise dos ciclos dos negócios foram implantadas ferramentas oriundas da análise espectral, obtendo, assim, informações adicionais com relação à sincronização das dinâmicas do curto prazo. A hipótese de comovimentos entre os ciclos do Paraná e São Paulo foi confirmada através da análise no domínio da frequência.","PeriodicalId":35209,"journal":{"name":"Nova Economia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45921329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nova EconomiaPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1590/0103-6351/5056
Bruno Alves Moura, Gisele Ferreira Tiryaki, Diego Nunes Teixeira
{"title":"Fragilidade fiscal e os ciclos econômicos no Brasil pós-Plano Real: evidências de um modelo de fator dinâmico associado à análise VAR","authors":"Bruno Alves Moura, Gisele Ferreira Tiryaki, Diego Nunes Teixeira","doi":"10.1590/0103-6351/5056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-6351/5056","url":null,"abstract":"Resumo Iniciativas de política fiscal são comumente indicadas para amenizar as flutuações na atividade econômica, particularmente durante recessões severas, quando a política monetária torna-se menos eficaz. No entanto, a evidência empírica em países emergentes mostra que os gastos públicos exibem frequentemente um comportamento pró-cíclico e os desequilíbrios fiscais podem desencadear crises econômicas. Este trabalho tem por objetivo utilizar o modelo de fator dinâmico para construir um índice de fragilidade fiscal que permita analisar o comportamento cíclico da política fiscal no Brasil por meio de modelos de vetores autorregressivos (VAR). Utilizando dados mensais entre 1996 e 2019, a análise empírica verificou se as finanças públicas no Brasil se deterioram durante expansões na atividade econômica. Os resultados indicam que choques exógenos na produção aparentam reduzir a fragilidade fiscal e outros fatores que promovem a instabilidade macroeconômica contribuem para a deterioração das finanças públicas, como uma maior volatilidade cambial.","PeriodicalId":35209,"journal":{"name":"Nova Economia","volume":"30 1","pages":"517-549"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47408298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nova EconomiaPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1590/0103-6351/4950
M. Justus, E. G. Sant'anna, E. S. Davanzo, G. Moreira
{"title":"Education and smoking behavior in Brazil: decision to smoke and daily cigarette consumption intensity","authors":"M. Justus, E. G. Sant'anna, E. S. Davanzo, G. Moreira","doi":"10.1590/0103-6351/4950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-6351/4950","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study analyses the relationship between education and smoking behavior. Our empirical models were estimated using data for Brazilian citizens from the 2008 Special Survey on Tobacco Addiction. We estimated probit, sample-selection, and zero-inflated negative binomial models. Empirical analyses for women and men were conducted separately. We found that higher education levels are associated with lower smoking probability and lower daily consumption intensity.","PeriodicalId":35209,"journal":{"name":"Nova Economia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48371702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nova EconomiaPub Date : 2020-06-10DOI: 10.1590/0103-6351/4327
L. Cardoso, M. Bittencourt, A. Porsse
{"title":"Demand for light fuels in Brazil: an approach using spatial panel data models","authors":"L. Cardoso, M. Bittencourt, A. Porsse","doi":"10.1590/0103-6351/4327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-6351/4327","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The need for changes in the current energy matrix is a reality due to the possibility of a shortage of fossil fuels and the environmental damage caused by emissions related to fossil fuel use. The correct prescription of public policies for energy markets depends on the knowledge of demand elasticities. Hence, the aim of this work was to estimate the main determinants of light fuel demands in Brazil. Dynamic and non-dynamic estimators were used, and the results indicated that both demands respond more to changes in gasoline prices than changes in ethanol prices. Therefore, public policies that aim to change consumption patterns should focus on gasoline prices.","PeriodicalId":35209,"journal":{"name":"Nova Economia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43751385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nova EconomiaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1590/0103-6351/6191
G. Kruss
{"title":"Catching up, falling behind: the need to build upgrading coalitions for innovation and inclusive development in South Africa","authors":"G. Kruss","doi":"10.1590/0103-6351/6191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-6351/6191","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Through analysis of the South African case, a country stalled in a middle income trap, the paper aims to add to the literature on catch-up. It uses Albuquerque’s (2019) model of the vicious cycles arising from inequality and income concentration, together with the notion of ‘upgrading coalitions’ (Doner and Schneider 2016) required to challenge these vicious cycles, to analyse the persistence of lock-ins. It then analyses a global astronomy project, a ‘window of opportunity’ building on historically grown capabilities, promoted by ‘upgrading coalitions’ operating in the national interest. In contrast, it proposes a ‘detour’ to build domestic capabilities, driven by an upgrading coalition centred on local economic development and livelihoods in the informal economy. The paper aims to reinforce the evidence on how inequality is both a cause and consequence of a middle income trap, and open debate on how upgrading coalitions may be a critical strategy for breaking lock-ins.","PeriodicalId":35209,"journal":{"name":"Nova Economia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67567973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nova EconomiaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1590/0103-6351/6193
Hugo E. A. da Gama Cerqueira, E. Albuquerque
{"title":"China and the first impact of the industrial revolution: initial conditions and a falling-behind trajectory until 1949","authors":"Hugo E. A. da Gama Cerqueira, E. Albuquerque","doi":"10.1590/0103-6351/6193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-6351/6193","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper discusses the specificity of the initial impact of the British Industrial Revolution on China´s economy. This approach is important to a better understanding of the nature of the beginnings of capitalism in that country, a process which was both intentionally and unintentionally influenced by the contacts between UK and China. These early conditions contributed towards defining the subsequent course of the Chinese economy, leading to a low-growth trap experienced between about 1870 and 1950.","PeriodicalId":35209,"journal":{"name":"Nova Economia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67568026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nova EconomiaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1590/0103-6351/6293
P. Feitosa
{"title":"Creating your own path to move beyond the middle-income trap: lessons from Korea","authors":"P. Feitosa","doi":"10.1590/0103-6351/6293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-6351/6293","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The development experience observed in Korea has been a symbol of successful catch-up for several decades. This process allowed its upward transition from middle income to high-income status and has drawn the attention of many streams of scholars. More recently, emergent research has improved our understanding of this experience and its policy implications for developing countries (Lee, 2013; 2016; 2019). This paper proposes a review of what this literature has to say about the mechanisms behind the successful path followed by Korea and a discussion of lessons to overcome the middle-income trap. It is argued that latecomers do not limit themselves to follow the path of technological development of the advanced countries and that alternative paths are possible. The main policy implication for latecomers is that a successful catch-up is possible yet difficult to achieve because it requires taking detours and leapfroging into new technologies.","PeriodicalId":35209,"journal":{"name":"Nova Economia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67568197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}