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Last updated 16 December, 2011
Elections yesterday the longest in (my) memory…
Update on letter to the queen
On 12 October, the economics
and finance section met to welcome José Fernando Santos, from Cambridge and
MIT, recently associated to CG&G, to the letter to the queen project. He
had sent a few remarks which were welcome by the group while Renato Flores
presented his NOVASBE Working Paper 558 (available on line) and Jean Pierre
Contzen shared a recent paper on innovation policy. The next meeting took place
on 9 November when the new member expandedon his contribution. The President
was present at the session together with Rui Vilela Mendes and Estela Barbot
who had been invited to the original conference. Paul Krugman’s visit was
discussed in that context, a point raised again at the joint session of 15
November.
ferragosto presentation (first presented 15 August, 2009 in the neighbourhood of Apple Beach) and other work on the global crisis
Excerpts from Currency Convertibility: The Gold Standard and Beyond, edited
by Jorge Braga de Macedo, Barry Eichengreen and Jaime Reis, London:
Routledge 1996, chapter by Eugenia
Mata and Nuno Valerio.
More recent work on credibility
of gold standard 1854-1891
Seminar on the crisis planned for Spring 2011 with new
foreign members of the Academy announced by Helena Garrido inonline edition
of Jornal de Negocios
Interdisciplinary Project A letter to the “global lusofonia queen”?
On 5 November, 2009,
the first anniversary of the Queen’s visit to LSE, the economics and
finance section agreed to make this a preferred theme for discussion following
the suggestion contained in my ferragosto presentation.
The association with DES/IICT and CG&G/FEUNL
may facilitate the interdisciplinary dimension, the involvement of other CPLP
member countries and the interests of economics students, especially from MA
courses on Africa and emerging markets.
The project was
revived almost one year later with the announcement of another meeting of the
section in September, possibly including a guest from Brazil.
Possible issues to be
addressed:
Why
potential cooperative solutions are not applied domestically and
internationally follows from the “together alone” paradox and goes
towards the never again issue in the agenda of the British Academy.
An agenda
to involve more economic and interdisciplinary work in public debate should be adopted
by other academies and research universities, such as the signatories of the
Lisbon declaration or the CPLP members of ACL.
A letter
avoiding “group think” of advanced (blue-eyed?) countries might
result from a debate encompassing humanities and social sciences as well as
natural sciences and a diversity of CPLP perspectives.
On election day (17
December) I invoked Paul
Samuelson’s death and announced on behalf of Manuel Jacinto Nunes,
who could not attend and gave me his proxy vote, an initiative of the economics
section for 2010.
BOOK
LAUNCH: NINE ESSAYS IN THE TRADITION OF JORGES BORGES DE MACEDO
FOLLOWED BY RECEPTION WITH STUDENTS FROM INTRODUCTORY MACRO COURSE
click to enlarge book
cover
A joint session of the
Academy was held in memoriam of Jorge Borges de Macedo, former member of the
class of humanities (history section) on 18 March, the thirteenth anniversary
of his death. Luís Aires de Barros, from the class of sciences and president of
the Lisbon Geographical Society, and António Dias Farinha,
secretary general and member of the class of humanities made presentations on
the notion of time in history and on overview of the book respectively.
Coedited by Jorge Braga de Macedo, Luciano Amaral, Álvaro Ferreira da Silva and
António Castro Henriques, the book was printed by Tribuna da História and
sponsored by CG&G e IICT (where a video from tvi24,
pictures taken at the event and a eulogy from high school classmate Adriano
Moreira, vicepresident of the Academy, can be found).
This book and another of
published by Tribuna da História, the second edition of Portuguese
Diplomatic History by Jorge Borges
de Macedo were presented at the Catholic University of
Portugal’s Institute for Political Studies on 3 June, with statements
by the four co-editors and references to Adriano Moreira’s statement on
18 March.
Gradual transition to full member
I was proposed to full member in mid 2007 by the dean of the section Manuel
Jacinto Nunes and accepted by unanimity. Due to procedural oversight, the
formal election (still by unanimity) was not carried out until 29 January 2008
under the chairmanship of the newly elected President Adriano Moreira.
Other presentations and events
Upon returning from the OCDE, I presented addresses on the global partnership for development in mid 2004 and on the 15th anniversary of entry of the escudo in the European Monetary System in April 2007.
On 14 March, 2002 the
President, Professor Pina Martins, offered condolences to the family of
Professor James Tobin, who had just passed away and
read a message I had sent invoking his memory.
On 8 February, 2002 I was
asked by the President, Professor Pina Martins, to serve in the committee for
the Fogaça award, chaired by Professor Veríssimo Serrão. The commitee met on 20
February, 19 March and will meet again on 12 April.
On 31 May, 2000 I presented a revised version of my maiden presentation to the Academy From the real to the euro, via the escudo at ISEG in Lisbon. The seminar featured Álvaro Ferreira da Silva and Rita Martins de Sousa, my co-authors in the paper War, Taxes and Gold: the inheritance of the real, Nova Economics Working Paper nº 318, March 1998, revised as ISEG Working Paper WP 8/2000/DE, which appeared in Transferring Wealth and Power from the Old to the New World, edited by Michael Bordo and Roberto Cortes-Conde, Cambridge University Press, 2001 pp. 187-228.
On 18 May, 2000 I had made
a shorter presentation with the same title From the real to the euro, via the escudo at a conference on Atlantic
Portugal sponsored by the Portuguese Cultural Center of the Gulbenkian
Foundation in Paris. The text is available here.
Book launch
On 13 May, 1999 I launched my new book Bem
Comum dos Portugueses in the main hall of the Academy.
Sponsors
Having been proposed as corresponding member of the 6th section (Economics) by the
late António Manuel Pinto Barbosa, Manuel Jacinto Nunes, Paulo de Pitta e Cunha
and others, I was unanimously elected at the plenary session of November 27,
1997. In the first session I participated, on 12 February, 1998, Paulo de Pitta
e Cunha presented a text on the euro and the stability pact.
Maiden presentation
My first presentation, on 18 June, 1998, was titled From Real to Euro,
via Escudo. It was based on a conference presented at Turf Club in
Lisbon on November 27, 1997 titled The forgotten inheritance of the real (1435-1911) and on the paper War, Taxes and Gold: the inheritance of the
real (with
Álvaro Ferreira da Silva e Rita Martins de Sousa), Nova Economics Working Paper nº 318, March 1998, revised as ISEG Working Paper WP 8/2000/DE, to appear in Transferring
Wealth and Power from the Old to the New World, edited by Michael Bordo and
Roberto Cortes-Conde, Cambridge University Press, 2001. This paper was also
presented at the 12 IHEC in Madrid in August 1998 and at a pre-conference
in Buenos Aires, April 1997. It is dedicated to the memory of Professor
Teixeira Ribeiro, Coimbra University, long-time member of the Academy who died
at the time we were completing the first draft.
Other useful references for my maiden presentation include:
· Europa e Lusofonia, Política e
Financeira: Uma Interpretação, in Ensaios de Homenagem a Manuel Jacinto
Nunes, Lisboa: Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 1996 (item 142 in
my bibliography 
).
·
Portugal and European Monetary Union: Selling Stability at Home, Earning
Credibility Abroad, in Monetary Reform in Europe, edited by Francisco
Torres, Lisbon: Universidade Católica 1996 (item 136 in my bibliography ).
· Currency
Convertibility: The Gold Standard and Beyond, editor (with Barry
Eichengreen and Jaime Reis), London: Routledge 1996 (item 135 in my
bibliography ).
· Convertibility and Stability
1834-1994: Portuguese Currency Experience Revisited, in Ensaios de Homenagem
a Francisco Pereira de Moura, Lisbon: Instituto Superior de Economia e
Gestão, 1995 (item 130 in my bibliography ).
· Portuguese Currency Experience: An
Historical Perspective, in Estudos em Homenagem a J. J. Teixeira Ribeiro,
vol. IV, Coimbra: Boletim da Faculdade de Direito, 1980 (item 25 in my
bibliography ).
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