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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 am currently the director of the Cedeplar.

I teach undergratuate courses in the
History of economic thought and the
Economic methodology.
I also teach graduate courses in these areas.

Research interests

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

My current researches focus on two main subjects. The first is a study of David Hume's ethics and economics in the context of the Scottish enlightenment. The other is a research on the life and works of some important Russian interpreters of the Marxian critique of political economy: David Ryazanov and Isaak Rubin.

Other academic and professional activities

I was the editor (2006-2009) and the executive-editor (2000-2006) of Nova Economia, the journal of the Economics Department at UFMG. 

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

Finally, I am/was 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)