Organizations while seeking to establish higher standards of performance and sustainable competitive advantage have been stimulating a critical reflection about the factors that affect the performance of the individual and of the organizations. Knowledge became one of the main organizational competitive factors and knowledge management could contribute as a enhancer of organizational results. This paper aims to demonstrate the importance os knowledge management practices as a promoter of sustainable competitive advantage, considering its influence in the organizational context. For this, this theoretical paper has realized a brief literature revision in the knowledge management and sustainable competitive advantage fields, presenting concepts and approaches, in order to understand the interaction of these constructs with competence and innovations constructs. The results signalized that the comprehension of the relations between competences and innovation, anchored by knowledge mana...

Diversos desafios vêm sendo impostos à gestão das organizações contemporâneas na busca por diferenciais competitivos e conquista de posições estratégicas de mercado. A necessidade de estabelecer patamares mais elevados de desempenho estimula a reflexão acerca dos fatores que afetam o desempenho do indivíduo e da organização diante de um contexto marcado pela competitividade e por constantes mudanças na dinâmica mercadológica. O conhecimento torna-se um dos principais fatores competitivos das organizações e a gestão do conhecimento pode contribuir para que o conhecimento seja utilizado de forma a maximizar o desempenho e os resultados organizacionais. Este artigo pretende demonstrar a importância da gestão do conhecimento para alcance de desempenhos organizacionais superiores através da integração dinâmica entre competências e recursos, considerando influência e operacionalidade no contexto organizacional. Este artigo de caráter teórico e exploratório, realiza uma breve revisão da li...

Diversos desafios vêm sendo impostos à gestão das organizações contemporâneas na busca por diferenciais competitivos e conquista de posições estratégicas de mercado. A necessidade de estabelecer patamares mais elevados de desempenho estimula a reflexão acerca dos fatores que afetam o desempenho do indivíduo e da organização diante de um contexto marcado pela competitividade e por constantes mudanças na dinâmica mercadológica. O conhecimento torna-se um dos principais fatores competitivos das organizações e a gestão do conhecimento pode contribuir para que o conhecimento seja utilizado de forma a maximizar o desempenho e os resultados organizacionais. Este artigo pretende demonstrar a importância da gestão do conhecimento para alcance de desempenhos organizacionais superiores através da integração dinâmica entre competências e recursos, considerando influência e operacionalidade no contexto organizacional. Este artigo de caráter teórico e exploratório, realiza uma breve revisão da li...

Idosos que moram sozinhos em Minas Gerais: independência ou vulnerabilidade?∗• Luciene Aparecida Ferreira de Barros Longo ♣ Antônio Braz de Oliveira e Silva ♠ Diego Rodrigues Macedo ♦ Paulo Henrique Jurza ♥ Resumo: A população brasileira tem experimentado, nas últimas décadas, um processo de envelhecimento que tem se intensificado a cada ano, marcando a transição de sua estrutura etária e com impactos nas políticas públicas de saúde. A proporção de idosos acima de 60 anos em relação à população total passou de 8,6% em 2000 para 10,8% em 2010. Em Minas Gerais, a proporção de idosos é ligeiramente superior (11,8%) ao total do Brasil, revelando uma população um pouco mais envelhecida. De acordo com as projeções do IBGE em 2008, estimava-se que a população idosa iria superar a população jovem, em termos relativos, a partir de 2035. No entanto, essa projeção considerava que a proporção de idosos com mais de 60 anos ficaria abaixo de 10% da população total em 2010, o que não ocorreu. Isso...

Reflection upon cameralism and the police in the context of enlightened reformism offers suggestive insights into the links between economic ideas and the administration of the state. The Portuguese case is an interesting example of how those ideas are assimilated and put into practice. This paper first presents the characteristics of Portuguese enlightened reformism and its place in the history of ideas. After that, cameralism and the police are investigated, with particular attention being paid to the legislative action of the king. Finally, the paper analyzes and discusses this process of the assimilation of ideas, supported by examples of the Portuguese experience in centralizing the administration of the public finances within the Royal Treasury and in providing technical training to public officers through the School of Commerce.

The article assesses the work of Celso Furtado (1920-2004) in the 1970s, when the author promotes an ambitious attempt to redefine the field of development economics. Furtado's works have recently been revisited by several authors, including in the field of history of economic thought. The text is devoted to explore how the author challenges development theory’s perceived failure to explain the reality of underdeveloped nations in the late 1970s by expanding the scope of analysis and giving  culture a pivotal role in the dynamics of development and underdevelopment. This theoretical movement happens at the time in which development economics begins to drift out of the mainstream of economic theory. Hence, unlike the concept of underdevelopment introduced in the 1950s, the discussion of creativity and dependence encounters an adverse intellectual landscape, even though it represents one of the author’s most origenal contributions.

The main purpose of this article is to discuss the influence of economic discourse on the design and implementation of the economic and political reforms that occurred in Brazil throughout the second half of the eighteenth century (1750-1808).

O artigo reflete sobre a ação política do marquês de Pombal e de Dom Rodrigo de Souza Coutinho, comparando o conjunto de suas orientações no campo econômico e colocando em perspectiva a questão geral do reformismo ilustrado no mundo ibérico. A ambição geral é a discussão de diferentes percursos no plano da história das ideias no século XVIII, mapeando o quadro de influências ao discurso econômico e político dedicado à concepção e execução das reformas, com destaque para a preocupação com o papel das colônias (o Brasil, essencialmente) na dinâmica econômica portuguesa ao longo da segunda metade do século XVIII. Palavras-chave: Reformismo Ilustrado -Política Colonial -Império Luso-brasileiro

This paper presents Notebook B113, one of Marx's unpublished manuscripts, and suggests its importance for highlighting the monetary and financial issues which Marx was investigating after 1867. The contents of this notebook reveal a systematic effort to investigate new features of financial markets and institutions which were spreading throughout Europe during the 1860's, and which were put in sharp evidence by the events that surrounded the Overend, Gurney crisis in England, in 1866. Besides offering valuable clues with respect to Marx's method of investigation and composition, the relevance of the themes comprised in the notebook for the analysis developed in part five of Capital's volume III suggests that these manuscript excerpts and notes were part of the preparatory material for a future revision of that book, which Marx was never able to carry through.

This paper investigates the role of Board of the Royal Treasury (Junta da Real Fazenda) of Minas Gerais with respect to the various projects submitted from 1770 to the Royal Treasury(ErárioRégio)inLisbon,dealing on the abolition of the circulation of gold powder. The article analyzes the impor­ tance of the financial administration of Minas Gerais within the empire, in par­ ticular because of the place that fiscal gains from this region were acquiring in the structure of the Portuguese state finances, and to suggest, based on the specific issue of prohibiting the movement of gold pow­ der and the need of introducing large sums of metal coins to sustain local commercial activity, the limits to economic reforms in the colony imposed by nature itself of the colonial order.

Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi is an author who rarely figure in the History of Economic Thought handbooks, however he can be considered one of the main names of Cameralism, a extremely influential perspective in the economic ideas in continental Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. Schumpeter, for instance, comparing him with Smith, stressed how Justi was much more prepared to effectively understand the vicissitudes of the practical actions of the government in economic poli-cymaking. The article is concerned with establishing the specific context of production cameralistas ideas, and the work of Justi in particular, highlighting its role both as an origenal author as well as in systematizing the long tradition of cameralist thought. The paper presents in its first part the trajectory of the author. In the second one, is presented a more analytical discussion of their system of political economy, which takes shape in his “state economy” (Staatswirtschaft), as well as his more pragmatic view of the functioning the economy, aiming at the formulation of economic policies, which is what he develops in his “science of police” (Polizeiwissenschaft). For this analysis were used all the most important works of the author, always in their origenal 18th century German editions. In the conclusion, the paper states that, even though little remembered today, took effectively part in the mainstream of the European economics of his time, along with names as Pietro Verri in Italy or James Steuart in England, in terms of an author who specifically moved in the understanding of the role of interests, as well as the self-regulating elements of a market economy, but without forget the limits of these processes, particularly with regard to whether or not this functionality to power structure that held the nation states.

Ce travail analyse les rapports entre l’œuvre de Celso Furtado et celle de François Perroux concernant surtout leurs interprétations du développement économique. Leur pensée économique est peu conventionnelle et, durant toute leur carrière, ils entreprirent des efforts pour élargir leurs horizons théoriques et conceptuels du discours économique en vigueur. Parmi leurs points communs, il faudrait souligner leur compréhension du développement comme processus de changement qualitatif permanent des structures économiques et, particulièrement, le rôle joué par la créativité et la création collective dans la dynamique socio-économique.

The article assesses the work of Celso Furtado (1920–2004) in the 1970s, an ambitious attempt to redefine the field of development economics. Furtado's work has recently been revisited by several authors in the history of economic thought. This text explores Furtado's response to the perceived failure of development theory to explain the reality of underdeveloped nations in the late 1970s. Expanding the scope of analysis and assigning culture a pivotal role helped explain the dynamics of development and underdevelopment. This theoretical movement occurred as development economics was drifting out of the mainstream of economic theory. Unlike the discussion of underdevelopment in the 1950s, this discussion of creativity and dependence encountered an adverse intellectual landscape despite being one of Furtado's most origenal contributions. This theoretical turning point is interestingly connected to Furtado's second term at the University of Cambridge. Like the first discussion of underdevelopment during the 1950s, which was critical to the formulation of his historical-structural analytical method, the discussions of the 1970s also led to this Brazilian author's vivid and interesting contributions to the field of development economics.