The history of recent economics in a semi­peripheral country like Portugal is important, not only from a national point of view, but as an input for the historiography of economics in general, namely for a better knowledge of the processes of international circulation of economic ideas (assimilation/adaptation/appropriation of ideas originally produced in other spaces) and to check how globalization is having an impact on national production of economic ideas.

This project is intended to uncover the main features of the Portuguese economics community and research system, to identify the patterns of evolution of scientific production in economics in Portugal in the recent past and explore the basic processes/drivers underlying those patterns. A particular attention will be given to the processes of internationalization of the Portuguese economics community and scientific production and to how the international diffusion of economic ideas has been occurring in the country. 

We will look at publications in indexed journals, postgraduate programmes of education in economics and doctoral theses, the evolution of the research lines carried out within the major Portuguese research centres; and conversation, analysis and interpretation of interviews with relevant representatives of the Portuguese economics community.

This project is an exercise in the history of economic thought. Its primary purpose is to contribute to a better understanding of the

way economic knowledge has been produced in Portugal in the last three decades and, in doing this, to give a place to the history of

recent economics in Portugal in the broader context of the international network of the history of economics. With such a purpose in

mind, we will submit to discussion at national and international seminars/conferences and to publication in peerreviewed

journals

the results of our research (four articles international, two national) and will edit two books (one, in Portuguese, on the conversations with players in the field and another one, a collective edition with the overall results of the project, to be submitted to an international publisher). We will also organize two seminars and a final conference, which will gather not only other researchers in the field but also, and foremost, the scholars that are the subject of this research. Videos and podcasts with interviews with individual researchers and with the consultants of the project and a documentary video on ‘Economics in Portugal’ will also be produced and widely disseminated. The expected impact of the project includes the attraction of young researchers to this field of knowledge.

The main activities of scientific dissemination carried out in this project include:

Presentations in national/international seminars/conferences (Portugal, Europe, USA and/or

Brasil)?

Two seminars (one national, another one international) organized at CES and open to the

participation of researchers and postgraduate students?

A final conference?

A selection of videos of the presentations made in the seminars and in the final conference, and podcasts with interviews with individual researchers and the consultants of the project, publicly disseminated at the CES webpage (‘Canal CES’, freely downloadable, at

http://saladeimprensa.ces.uc.pt/index.php?col=canalces#.UdKMzzvVCE4)?

Four articles in international indexed scientific journals and two in national journals (peerreviewed)?

Publication of two books, one in Portuguese (e. g. Coimbra University Press) and another one

edited in English and submitted to an international publisher (e.g. Routledge)?

A 45 minutes high quality documentary video on ‘Economics in Portugal’ to be widely

disseminated (including television).

It is expected that many of these activities will have impact in the schools of

economics in Portugal with implications on their practices.

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