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Working Papers

2019

1. As Time Went By - Long Waves in the Light of Evolving Evolutionary Economics
   SPRU Working Paper Series, SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Business School
2. The euro at twenty: Follies of youth?
   Working Papers Department of Economics, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa
   See also Journal Article The euro at twenty: Follies of youth?, Revista de Economia Critica, Universidad Pablo de Olavide y Asociacion de Economia Critica (2019) (2019)

2012

3. How Fama Went Wrong: Measures of Multivariate Kurtosis for the Identification of the Dynamics of a N-Dimensional Market
   Working Papers Department of Economics, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa

2008

4. Bargaining Clouds, or Mathematics as a Metaphoric Exploration of the Unexpected
   Working Papers Department of Economics, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa
5. Should The Widest Cleft in Statistics - How and Why Fisher opposed Neyman and Pearson
   Working Papers Department of Economics, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa
6. The Dynamics of Speculative Markets: The Case of Portugal’s PSI20
   Working Papers Department of Economics, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa
7. Tribes under Threat – The Collective Behavior of Firms During the Stock Market Crisis
   Working Papers Department of Economics, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa
8. Trouble Ahead – The Subprime Crisis as Evidence of a New Regime in the Stock Market
   Working Papers Department of Economics, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa

2007

9. The Seismography of Crashes in Financial Markets
   Working Papers Department of Economics, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa View citations (8)

2005

10. The Geometry of Crashes - A Measure of the Dynamics of Stock Market Crises
    Working Papers Department of Economics, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article The geometry of crashes. A measure of the dynamics of stock market crises, Quantitative Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals (2007) View citations (6) (2007)

2004

11. The Influence of Experimental and Computational Economics: Economics Back to the Future of Social Sciences
    Working Papers Department of Economics, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa

Journal Articles

2025

1. The rise and fall of inflation in the Euro Area (2021-2024): A heterodox perspective
   Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2025, 72, (C), 103-110

2021

2. As time went by - why is the long wave so long?
   Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2021, 31, (3), 749-771 View citations (4)
3. Chris Freeman's concept of evolution–A critique of the misuse of biological analogies in macroeconomics
   Research Policy, 2021, 50, (9)
4. Disarray at the headquarters: Economists and Central bankers tested by the subprime and the COVID recessions
   (Forward guidance without common knowledge)
   Industrial and Corporate Change, 2021, 30, (2), 273-296 View citations (1)

2020

5. Chris Freeman forging the evolution of evolutionary economics
   Industrial and Corporate Change, 2020, 29, (4), 1037-1046 View citations (2)

2019

6. The euro at twenty: Follies of youth?
   Revista de Economia Critica, 2019, 27, 59-69
   See also Working Paper The euro at twenty: Follies of youth?, Working Papers Department of Economics (2019) (2019)

2018

7. Do sentiments influence market dynamics? A reconstruction of the Brazilian stock market and its mood
   Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2018, 505, (C), 1139-1149 View citations (3)
8. The changing economic regimes and expected time to recover of the peripheral countries under the euro: A nonparametric approach
   Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2018, 507, (C), 524-533 View citations (5)

2015

9. The improbable econometric connection - Schumpeter and Frisch at the midnight of the century
   Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2015, 25, (1), 173-184

2014

10. Does evidence challenge the DSGE model
    International Journal of Entrepreneurial Knowledge, 2014, 2, (2), 15-24
11. The elusive concept of innovation for Schumpeter, Marschak and the early econometricians
    Research Policy, 2014, 43, (8), 1442-1449 View citations (6)

2013

12. A measure of multivariate kurtosis for the identification of the dynamics of a N-dimensional market
    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2013, 392, (17), 3708-3714 View citations (3)

2011

13. The Fellowship of Econometrics: Selection and Diverging Views in the Province of Mathematical Economics, from the 1930s to the 1950s
    History of Political Economy, 2011, 43, (5), 57-85 View citations (1)

2010

14. Bounded Heresies. Early intuitions of complexity in economics
    History of Economic Ideas, 2010, 18, (2), 77-114

2009

15. The Solow Residual as a Black Box: Attempts at Integrating Business Cycle and Growth Theories
    History of Political Economy, 2009, 41, (5), 334-355 View citations (6)

2007

16. The geometry of crashes. A measure of the dynamics of stock market crises
    Quantitative Finance, 2007, 7, (1), 63-74 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper The Geometry of Crashes - A Measure of the Dynamics of Stock Market Crises, Working Papers Department of Economics (2005) View citations (8) (2005)

2004

17. Swinging All the Way: The Education of Doctor Lucas and Foes
    History of Political Economy, 2004, 36, (4), 689-734 View citations (5)

2003

18. Reconstructing an economic space from a market metric
    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2003, 323, (C), 635-650 View citations (23)

2002

19. Steady change: the 200 largest US manufacturing firms throughout the 20th century
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 2002, 11, (4), 817-845 View citations (8)

2001

20. Determinism and free will in social sciences: mathematical contributions
    Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2001, 21, (2), 342-364
21. Intriguing Pendula: Founding Metaphors in the Analysis of Economic Fluctuations
    Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2001, 25, (1), 25-55 View citations (9)

1999

22. Nikolai D. Kondratiev, The Works of Nikolai D. Kondratiev, edited by Makasheva Natalia, Warren J. Samuels, and Barnett Vincent. Translation by Stephen S. Wilson (London: Pickering & Chatto1998), four volumes, including a general glossary of terms and an index, pp. 1800. $550.00. ISBN 1-85196-260-3
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1999, 21, (2), 203-209
23. The econometric challenge to Keynes: arguments and contradictions in the early debates about a late issue
    The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1999, 6, (3), 404-438 View citations (4)

1998

24. Book Reviews
    The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1998, 5, (3), 537-541
25. O pêndulo intrigante: metáforas e persuasões fundadoras na análise de flutuações econômicas
    Revista Economia e Sociedade, 1998, 7

Books

2002

1. As Time Goes By: From the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (33)
   Also in OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press (2001) View citations (365)

1997

2. Turbulence in Economics
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (1)

Edited books

2000

1. Is Economics an Evolutionary Science?
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (12)

1999

2. The Foundations of Long Wave Theory, vol Two volume set
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (10)

Chapters

2017

1. Has the Euro Any Future Under Secular Stagnation?
   Springer

2007

2. Long Waves, the Pulsation of Modern Capitalism
   Chapter 48 in Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics, 2007 View citations (1)

2004

3. Erring to be Right: The Paradox of Error in the Foundation of Probability in Economics
   Chapter 7 in Evolution and Economic Complexity, 2004

2001

4. Schumpeter and the pendulum: how evolution was whipped out in the construction of canonical economics
   Chapter 4 in Evolution and Path Dependence in Economic Ideas, 2001, pp 71-90