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My curriculum vitae is available on-line in html format (at the Brazilian Research Council database of curricula). Here you will find some information on my work.

I am a professor at the Economics Department at the Federal University de Minas Gerais (UFMG, Brazil).

Since 1999, I am also associated with the Cedeplar - the Center for Development and Regional Planning at the UFMG.
Cedeplar offers a graduate program in economics.

I currently teach the undergratuate courses in the
History of economic thought and
Economic methodology
and graduate seminars in those areas.

I have also taught courses on Institutionalist economics and Marxian economics.

Research interests

I am the coordinator of a research group on the Methodology and history of economics. I am also a member of the following research groups:
 Contemporary political economy
and The economics of science and technology
 (both at Cedeplar).

My current research focuses on Adam Smith's ethics and economics in the context of the Scottish enlightenment.

If you read Portuguese, you may want to read these papers: Para ler Adam Smith, on the different interpretations of
Adam Smith's work;
Adam Smith e seu contexto, on its the relationship to the Scottish enlightenment;
A mão invisível e o método newtoniano de Smith, on Adam Smith's methodological approach; 
and Sobre a filosofia moral de Adam Smith, on his moral philosophy.

Other academic and professional activities

I am the editor of Nova Economia, the journal of the Economics Department at UFMG. 

I am also one of the series editors of População & Economia, which is published by Cedeplar and the University Press of UFMG. 

Finally, I am the webmaster of the following sites: Cedeplar, Nova Economia, FACE, ANPEC and História do pensamento econômico. 

Previous activities

From 1989 to 1998 I was an economist at DIEESE, the Inter Trade Union Department of Statistics and Socio-Economic Studies.

In this period, I advised the banks employees' union in collective bargaining and I did research on the Brazilian financial system and on the Brazilian labor market. I also collaborated in training seminars for union leaders.

From 1992 to 2000, I was a board member of the Regional Council of Economists of Minas Gerais and took part in the board of the Economists Society of Minas Gerais.

I was also a member of the executive committee of the Brazilian Association of Economic History, ABPHE, from 2003 to 2005.

Education

2005 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Ph.D. Philosophy)

1999 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (M.Phil. Philosophy)

1984 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (B.A. Economics)

1979 Colégio Loyola (High School)