@hugocerqueira.bsky.social
Professor at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG, Brazil). History and philosophy of economics (Smith, Marx & @economicthought.bsky.social) and my two cents on books, academia & politics.
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26.02.2026 23:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New and open-access.
26.02.2026 13:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Na abertura do semestre letivo: aula magna do Vladimir Safatle, seguida do lançamento dos livros do João Antonio sobre a história da UFMG.
Segunda-feira, a partir de 10h, no auditório da Reitoria.
www.ufmg.br/comunicacao/...
On the naivety of Keynes’s thinking about the state (Paul Sweezy) Many other examples of the insularity and comparative narrowness of the Keynesian ap¬ proach could be cited. But perhaps most striking of all is Keynes’ habit of treating the state as a deus ex machina to be invoked when¬ ever his human actors, behaving according to the rules of the capital¬ ist game, get themselves into a dilemma from which there is ap¬ parently no escape. Naturally, this Olympian interventionist resolves everything in a manner satisfactory to the author and presumably to the audience. The only trouble is—as every Marxist knows—that the state is not a god but one of the actors who has a part to play just like all the other actors. … But while it is right to recognize the great importance of Keynes, it it no less essential to recognize his shortcomings. They are for the most part the shortcomings of bourgeois thought in general: the un¬ willingness to view the economy as an integral part of a social whole; the inability to see the present as history, to understand that the disasters and catastrophes amidst which we live are not simply a “frightful muddle” but are the direct and inevitable product of a social system which has exhausted its creative powers, but whose beneficiaries are determined to hang on regardless of the cost. Keynes himself, of course, could never have recognized, let alone tran¬ scended, the limitations of the society and the ciass of which he was so thoroughly a part.
But the same cannot be said of many of his followers. They did not grow up in the complacent atmosphere of Victorian England. They were born into a world of war, and depres¬ sion, and fascism. Some, no doubt, treading in the footsteps of the master, will seek to preserve their comforting liberal illusions as long as humanly possible. Some, in all probability, will range themselves on the side of the existing order and will sell their skill as economists to the highest bidder. But still others, while retaining what is valid and sound in Keynes, will take their place in the growing ranks of those who realize that patching up the present system is not enough, that only a profound change in the structure of social relations can set the stage for a new advance in the material and cultural condi¬ tions on the human race. This last group, I think, will inevitably be attracted to Marxism as the only genuine and comprehensive science of history and so¬ ciety. Perhaps the clearest indication that this is so is to be found in Joan Robinson’s little book An Essay on Marxian Economics pub¬ lished in England early in the war. … Can it be pure accident that one of the most promi¬ nent followers of Keynes should be the author of the first honest work on Marxism ever to he written by a non-Marxist British economist’? Source: Paul. M. Sweezy Obit for Keynes (1946)
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21.02.2026 13:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Kapitalismus
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Report: Manufacturing ‘Economics’ Minds: Ideology, Authority, and Economics Education, by Mohsen Javdani & Ha-Joon Chang
rethinkeconomics.org/edu-material...
A new issue of the Rivista di Storia dell'Università di Torino is available. This is a special issue on Claudio Napoleoni.
ojs.unito.it/index.php/RSUT
Boa leitura!
piaui.folha.uol.com.br/vladimir-saf...
Ideas matter.
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Now online: a special dossier on the ongoing MEGA² edition and its international reception. With contributions from Kaan Kangal, Roberto Fineschi, Jean Quétier, Michael Schauerte and Thanasis Giouras, as well as a translation of the entry on 'MEGA' from the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism.
12.02.2026 13:17 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
New book: Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom, by Mark Pennington
amzn.to/4bjKlH9
Começa assim a última coluna do Mario Sergio Conti na ‘Folha’:
07.02.2026 15:03 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Chapter: History and Philosophy of Market Design: Mathematical Politics of Resource Allocation, by Ivan Boldyrev
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
A new issue of HOPE is available now
read.dukeupress.edu/hope/issue/5...
Article: The German Influence on Brazilian Economic Thought and Policies: From the 1950s to the 1970s, by Hernán Ramírez
doi.org/10.1080/0891...
Obituary: Michel Aglietta (1938-2025), by Cédric Durand
newleftreview.org/issues/ii156...
New book: Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx: Culture, Needs and Property Rights, by István Hont
amzn.to/4qGtNy0
piaui.folha.uol.com.br/isso-e-fraud...
31.01.2026 14:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
White House post - Trump and a penguin walk towards a Greenland flag. “Embrace the penguin”.
There are many serious governments in the world.
The US is not one of them.
(There are no penguins in Greenland.)
Article: This Working Day: Marx and the conceptualization of capitalist wage labour, by George Lafferty
doi.org/10.1093/cje/...
Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States….
gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...
Cada vez mais quente, cada vez mais rápido.
23.01.2026 11:33 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
aeon.co/essays/when-...
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“Por um mundo onde sejamos socialmente iguais, humanamente diferentes e totalmente livres.”
A militante socialista Rosa Luxemburgo foi covardemente assassinada neste dia em 1919.
Não creio em rankings, mas eles existem e quando a notícia é boa a gente tem mesmo é que comemorar.
O Programa Pós-graduação em Economia da UFMG conquistou novamente o conceito 7, nota máxima na avaliação promovida pela Capes.
Parabéns aos colegas, aos alunos e egressos! E viva a UFMG!
Uma análise lúcida,
www.cartacapital.com.br/opiniao/bem-...
