Polypodiaceae e Pteridaceae da Estação Ecológica do Panga, Uberlândia, Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil

O presente trabalho apresenta o tratamento taxonômico das espécies de Polypodiaceae e Pteridaceae da Estação Ecológica do Panga. A Estação Ecológica do Panga abrange 409,5 ha e está situada a 30 km ao sul do centro da cidade de Uberlândia, MG, entre as coordenadas 19°09'20"-19°11'10" S e 48°23'20"-48°24'35" W, a 740-840 m de altitude. A área apresenta grande importância ecológica por ser uma das poucas formações de vegetação natural da região e por possuir diferentes fisionomias comuns do bioma Cerrado como campestres, savânicas e florestais. Polypodiaceae está representada por quatro gêneros e sete espécies (Campyloneurum centrobrasilianum Lellinger, C. phyllitidis (L.) C. Presl, C. repens (Aubl.) C. Presl, Microgramma lindbergii (Mett. ex Kuhn) de la Sota, M. persicariifolia (Schrad.) C. Presl, Pecluma robusta (Fée) M. Kessler & A.R. Sm. e Phlebodium areolatum (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) J. Sm.) e Pteridaceae por quatro gêneros e oito espécies (Adiantopsis chlorophylla (Sw.) Fée, Adiantum deflectens Mart., A. intermedium Sw., A. serratodentatum Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd., Pityrogramma calomelanos (L.) Link, P. trifoliata (L.) R.M. Tryon, Pteris quadriaurita Retz. e P. vittata L.). São apresentadas chaves para gêneros e espécies, bem como ilustrações e comentários da distribuição geográfica de todos os táxons.

Toca de Assis em crise: uma análise dos discursos dos que permaneceram na comunidade

Fundada em 1994 em Campinas, a "Toca de Assis" se destacava como grupo católico que atraía jovens para uma vida de pobreza radical, consagrada à adoração do Santíssimo Sacramento e ao cuidado com a população de rua. Em 2009, o líder-fundador, Pe. Roberto Lettieri, é afastado e uma crise se instala com a saída da maioria dos membros. Realizado em 2010-11 numa casa masculina, esse estudo analisa os discursos dos membros remanescentes buscando identificar os sentidos atribuídos à referida crise. Valorizando a Igreja Católica, os entrevistados confiam nas decisões de sua hierarquia e acionam os conceitos de "maturidade", "humildade", "Providência Divina" e "purificação" para dar coerência às mudanças identificando nelas continuidade a proposta inicial do próprio fundador.

Estado e economia na Coreia do Sul - do Estado desenvolvimentista à crise asiática e à recuperação posterior

The State and the economy in South Korea: from the developmentist state to the Asian crisis and later recovery. The article focuses on the institutions of South Korean capitalism and on the interactions between the state and the economy. The economic model in South Korea was characterized by a very interventionist state, which played a very active role in the process of industrialization. However, South Korea suffered a severe crisis in 1997, attributed by many authors to the distortions inherent to strong state intervention. The article shows that the crisis was a result of the combination between internal economic fragilities and a rapid process of financial deregulation, which undermined the state's capacity of control. The crisis, nevertheless, does not disqualify the role of the national institutions in the very successful process of industrialization. Despite the reforms, the Korean capitalism conserves much of the previous model of business organization and industrial relations. The state continues strong and played active role in the process of economic reforms. There are, nevertheless, doubts about the impacts of the reforms and the new configuration of Korean capitalism. They will depend on the current transformations in world economy and in the East Asian countries.

A economia ecológica e evolucionária de Georgescu-Roegen

The ecological and evolutionary economics of Georgescu-Roegen. The main argument of this paper is that Georgescu-Roegen's contributions represent a major disruption with economics' pre-analytic vision. He rejected at the same time both the closed and circular view of the economy and the mechanic analogies that oriented economics in the past century. Even though his influence has been felt mainly in the field of ecological economics, his epistemological contributions represent a major challenge to equilibrium thinking. Nowadays, treating economic systems as complex and evolutionary systems is becoming not only acceptable, but also a trend in the way political economy is made. We defend that Georgescu-Roegen's disruption represents a scientific revolution in economics, in the sense attributed by Kuhn.

Metas de inflação, taxa de câmbio real e crise externa num modelo kaleckiano

Inflation target, real exchange rate and external crisis in a Kaleckian model. Which role should the real exchange rate play in an inflation target regime? In this paper this point is discussed from the point of view of the conditions required for avoiding an external crisis. With this objective, a dynamic Kaleckian model is presented focusing on the stability of the external debt to capital ratio. The main conclusion is that policy makers should monitor closely the evolution of the real exchange rate in order to make compatible the inflation target regime with external stability.

Trajetórias e interesses: os EUA e as finanças globalizadas num contexto de crise e transição

This paper aims to analyze the elements of continuity and discontinuity in American foreign policy from the nineties. In this regard, it emphasizes the importance of financial issues within the scope of the U.S. government strategies for foreign integration and tries to analyze comparatively the Republicans and Democrats government of the period, ending with some prospective questions concerning the Democratic government of President Obama in the context of international economic crisis.

Política fiscal anticíclica, crise financeira internacional e crescimento econômico no Brasil

This study analyzes the long run equilibrium relationship and causality between economic growth and public expenditure in Brazil covering the period 1980-2008. The empirical results of the Granger causality test in a multivariate framework have shown up the importance of public investments not only to face the adverse effects of the international financial crisis, but also in stimulating the economic growth. Also, the results indicate the need of controlling the growing path of other current expenditure, social security and public debt.

A (im)previsibilidade da crise e o pluralismo da Economia

The (un)predictability of the crisis and the pluralism in Economics. This paper discusses the predictability of the last global economic crisis relating it to the lack of pluralism in Economics. In order to do so, first is presented a literature review of the development of economic theory in recent years. Then the two main views on the predictability of the crisis are presented: (1) the economic models used to understand the economy did not incorporate bubbles so, the crisis was unpredictable; and (2) the crisis was predictable when applied other methods of understanding the economy.

Revelações da crise: moeda fiduciária e as relações Tesouro/Banco Central

The current crisis shed a new light on issues that, previously, were not perceived as serious or important. It highlighted the close ties between fiat currency and government bonds denominated in it or, in other words, the relationship between Treasury and Central Bank. Two ill-conceived views of the "new consensus" on money that had turned into taboos were put in evidence. The first, derived from the quantitative theory, concerns the rejection of unsterilized monetary expansion; the second, directly related to the neoliberal ideology, prohibits or imposes strict limits on the role of central banks in the financing of public debts.

A crise do sistema financeiro globalizado contemporâneo

The paper analyses the development of the contemporary global financial system as a consequence of markets as well as States strategies. This global financial system based on the flexible dollar has generated many financial bubbles since it started in the 80s, of which the 2008 crisis is the latest and the largest, particularly because it affected the main banks in the core market of the system, the U.S. On the last decades, banks had changed their business strategies from traditional lending activities towards more speculative investments, similar to what hedge funds do.

Crise global, mudanças geopolíticas e inserção do Brasil

This paper has as its purpose to analyze the insertion of Brazil in the international economic order, considering the fundaments of the world power, the global crisis, the geopolitical changes and their consequences on the global order. The text attempts to present the advantages and structural challenges for an adequate international insertion of technology are the key elements in a process of economic and social innovation whose goals are to build a richer society, more just and compassionate, and environmentally sustainable.

Crise e industrialização no Brasil entre 1929 e 1954: a reconstrução do Estado Nacionale a política nacional de desenvolvimento

RESUMOO texto analisa os principais efeitos decorrentes da política econômica de defesa do café e do extraordinário esforço de industrialização desencadeado pelo Estado Nacional entre 1929 e 1954. Distingue o desenvolvimentismo do I e II governo Vargas (30-45 e 51-54), contrapondo-o à frustrada tentativa de retorno liberal de Dutra (46-50). Destaca o importante esforço de reconstrução do Estado e da introdução de instrumentos de controle da política econômica nacional, materializados pelo extraordinário trabalho da Assessoria Econômica da Presidência (51-54), criada por Vargas, onde pontificaram nomes de grandes brasileiros como Rômulo de Almeida, Ignácio Angel, Jesus Soares Pereira, Cleanto Paiva Leite e Tomás P. Acioli Borges, verdadeiros artífices de nossos principais projetos e planos de desenvolvimento de então.