Rome and Carthage, the Punic wars;

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Memórias cartaginesas: modernismo, antiguidade clássica e a historiografia da Independência do Brasil na Amazônia, 1823-1923

Este artigo analisa os debates historiográficos travados em 1923 por ocasião das comemorações da adesão do Pará à Independência do Brasil. Para isso, retoma os usos, pela intelectualidade paraense da época, dos mitos políticos da Antiguidade clássica, como as Guerras Púnicas, e de uma série de conceitos veiculados internacionalmente nos anos de 1910 e 1920, em obras políticas e literárias: "paz cartaginesa" em Keynes (1919), "terra desolada" em Elliot (1922) e ainda as imagens de Cartago na obra de Flaubert (1862). Mais do que um exercício de erudição, esse repertório analítico significou um longo e atribulado processo de construção da "moderna" identidade nacional na Amazônia.

Roms kampf um die weltherrschaft,

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Das zeitalter der punischen kriege...aus seinem nachlasse herausgegeben und ergänzt von Gustav Faltin.

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An auction theoretical approach to fiscal wars

I examine a situation where a firm chooses to locate a new factory in one of several jurisdictions. The value of the factory may differ among jurisdictions and it depends on the private information held by each jurisdiction. Jurisdictions compete for the location of the new factory. This competition may take the form of expenditures already incurred on infrastructure, commitments to spend on infrastructure, tax incentives or even cash payments. The model combines two elements that are usually considered separately; competition is desirable because we want the factory to be located in the jurisdiction that values it the most, but competition in itself is wasteful. I show that the expected total amount paid to the firm under a large family of arrangements is the same. Moreover, I show that the ex-ante optimal mechanism that is, the mechanism that guarantees that the firm chooses the jurisdiction with the highest value for the factory, minimizes the total expected payment to the firm, and balances the budget in an ex-ante sense - can be implemented by running a standard auction and subsidizing participation.