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- Business culture and corporate social responsibility: an analysis in the light of catholic social teaching with an application to whistle-blowingPublication . Alves, André Azevedo; Booth, Philip; Fryzel, Barbara
- Desconstruindo a agenda revolucionária globalPublication . Chelo, Hugo; Alves, André Azevedo
- Estudo de impacto: 50 anos da Universidade Católica PortuguesaPublication . Alves, André Azevedo; Sampaio, Francisca; Romba, Inês; Correia, Tânia; Pinto, Carlos Guimarães
- Hayek's slippery slope, the stability of the mixed economy and the dynamics of rent seekingPublication . Alves, André Azevedo; Meadowcroft, JohnF. A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom continues to provoke intense scholarly debate focused on the validity of Hayek's central claim that a mixed economy is inherently unstable and economic intervention will inexorably lead to totalitarianism if pursued for a sustained period. This article presents empirical evidence which shows conclusively that it is the mixed economy that has proved remarkably stable, whereas laissez-faire and totalitarian regimes have proved inherently unstable. It is argued that this empirical outcome can be explained by the dynamics of rent seeking and Hayek's failure to anticipate that the state could control more than half of national income without requiring a totalitarian apparatus to control and direct production and consumption. The implications of the failure of Hayek's argument for our conceptualisation of freedom and power in the context of the modern democratic state and our understanding of the relationship between economic and political freedom are considered.
- O papel do estado social e a regulação independentePublication . Carpinteiro, José António Palma; Alves, André Azevedo
- Price controls and market economiesPublication . Alves, André Azevedo; Gregório, InêsGovernments usually adopt price controls to impose restrictions on the price of goods and services by employing the appealing argument that they are protecting the groups who find it difficult to meet increasing prices. Since ancient times, regulators have set maximum or minimum prices – price ceilings or price floors. A maximum price for bread was understood as a means to protect the poorest from starvation and the maximum price for house rents to protect them from becoming homeless. The minimum wage – the price floor for labor – was seen as a guarantee to prevent unskilled workers from falling below a minimum living standard.
- O RBI e o pensamento utópicoPublication . Silva, Daniela; Alves, André AzevedoAs propostas políticas do Rendimento Básico Incondicional são frequentemente apresentadas como um projeto utópico que visa construir uma nova realidade política, económica e social. Neste contexto, visa-se formular uma visão crítica dessas propostas assente em dois pilares fundamentais: em primeiro lugar, o ceticismo de natureza teórica, histórica e antropológica relativamente a projetos assentes no pensamento utópico; em segundo lugar, objeções e constrangimentos específicos à eventual aplicação do RBI no domínio da implementação de políticas públicas. O artigo conclui que, embora o RBI seja uma idealização interessante no contexto da teoria política, a sua implementação coloca problemas cuja solução se afigura muito difícil na generalidade dos contextos reais e, mais importante, os projetos de RBI enfermam de muitos dos riscos característicos dos projetos utópicos e de construtivismo social
- Scarcity, economics and morality: the contribution of the late Iberian scholasticsPublication . Alves, André Azevedo; Moreira, PedroWhile for many centuries Augustine and Christianity in general emphasized the provisional and hazardous character of earthly life, the Iberian scholastics of the Salamanca School were central actors in the development of a deeper, more positive, and arguably more affirmative outlook on worldly political and economic matters. In this paper, we attempt to show this transition through the evolution of the concept of ‘scarcity.’ Indeed, ‘scarcity’ is a central premise of positive modern economics but for many centuries this concept was used to high-light normative conclusions in the writings of medieval theologians. The Iberian scholastics were instrumental in a shift from normative to positive, trying to find better ways to cope with the material world and improve our earthly lives within an integrated philosophical and theological perspective. We will illustrate this through the study of Domingo de Soto, one of the Iberian scholastics.
- Uma singular escola ibérica: de Salamanca a Coimbra e ÉvoraPublication . Moreira, José Manuel; Alves, André AzevedoGarcia de Resende (1470-1536) na sua “Miscelânea” definiu o seu tempo como sendo de “novas novidades, grandes acontecimentos e desvairadas mudanças”. Um tempo de que os autores procuram dar conta a partir do contributo de mestres portugueses para a afirmação da Escola de Salamanca, acompanhando tanto os subtis jogos de poder e fé como as tensões e vicissitudes que ajudam a contextualizar e explicar a influência da epopeia lusa na criação de um universo aberto a mares e mundos que não eram seus.
- The rise and decline of nations: economic growth, stagflation, and social rigidities by Mancur OlsonPublication . Gregório, Inês Sofia Gulipa; Alves, André Azevedo