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The non-ratification of bilateral investment treaties in Brazil: a story of conflict in a land of cooperationy
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015-09-03)
This article examines Brazil's unique experience with bilateral investment treaties (BITs) - the country signed 14 of them in the 1990s, but none was ever ratified. The case is puzzling for a number of reasons. First, BITs ...
The impact of public investment on private investment in Brazil, 1947-1990
(1999-04)
This article analyses the impact of public investment on private investment. Apart from purely ideological aspects, two opposing interpretations may be distinguished with regard to the relationship between these variables. ...
Neoliberal market rationality: the driver of international investment law
Neoliberalism is an ideological project characterised as being pro-market, pro-investor, and based on an instrumental rationality, which has re-shaped the relationship between societies, governments and the market, leading ...
Algunos aportes del pensamiento de Franz Hinkelammert sobre la idea y la práctica de Derechos Humanos
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2022)
The beautiful or useful. Ideologies in dispute about the creation of the first architectural university course in Chile, 1848-1853
(PONTIFICA UNIV CATOLICA CHILE, INST HISTORIA, 2018)
In 1849 the first university architecture course in Chile was founded at the University of Chile. Although local historiography has established that the orientation of the course was, at its roots, Beaux-Arts style this ...
The revenge of the market on the rentiers why neo-liberal reports of the end of history turned out to be premature
(2009-07)
Starting from the perspective of heterodox Keynesian-Minskyian-Kindlebergian financial economics, this paper begins by highlighting a number of mechanisms that contributed to the current financial crisis. These include ...
Why has productivity growth stagnated in most Latin American countries since the neo-liberal reforms?
(2011)
Latin America’s economic performance since the beginning of neo-liberal reforms has been poor; this not only contrasts with its own performance pre-1980, but also with what has happened in Asia since 1980. I shall argue ...
Great expectations: The effect of unmet labor market expectations after higher education on ideology
(Wiley, 2024)
Higher education has massively expanded around the world, yet we know little about the political consequences of this expansion. Students generally have overly optimistic expectations about the returns to educational ...