Compiled by Professor Michael DeBow, Samford University
Last updated July 6, 2009.
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Em portugues:
** Wikipedia, http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1gina_principal
This is a great resource! When you've found the English
language page on a subject -- for example, King
Henry II of England -- look at the "In other languages" box at the
bottom of the left hand margin of the page. Is there a version of
this page em Portugues? There
is. Unfortunately, not all the pages have been translated into
Portugues. But many have been!
Associacao Latino Americana e do Caribe de Direito e Economia (ALACDE),
scroll down, box on left hand margin contains names
of many scholars working on Latin American topics
www.kentlaw.edu/alacde/index_files/Page2042.htm
ALACDE no Brasil, www.alacdebrasil.org/index.htm
annual papers archive, http://repositories.cdlib.org/bple/alacde/
“Lógica econômica aplicada ao Direito potencializa o desenvolvimento”
Flávia Santinoni Vera, presidente da ALACDE
em 2007,
www.bovespa.com.br/Investidor/Juridico/070208NotA.asp
“A discussão de custos e benefícios pode conferir maior
legitimidade às decisões judiciais”
Professor Bruno Salama (2007),
www.bovespa.com.br/Investidor/Juridico/070419NotA.asp
"Introducao a teoria economica dos 'property right'" por Rodrigo Leite
Prado (2002)
http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=3206
"Brasil" en "2009 Indice de Liberdade Economica"
www.heritage.org/index/PDF/Index09_Port.pdf
Instituto de Estudos Empresariais, www.iee.com.br/
This organization is decscribed on pages 4-5 of
this
magazine (in English).
Instituto Liberal, www.institutoliberal.org.br/
Instituto Millenium, www.imil.org.br/
Centro Interdisciplinar de Etica e Economia Personalista,
www.cieep.org.br/
Causa Liberal (Lisbon; "associacao para o estudo, debate e
divulgacao do Liberismo
Classico"),
www.causaliberal.net/
Blog
Hayek
links
Kirzner
links
Olavo de Carvalho, www.olavodecarvalho.org/
Ubiratan Iorio, www.ubirataniorio.org/
Nivaldo Cordeiro, www.nivaldocordeiro.net/
Acton Institute para o Estudo da Religião e da Liberdade, www.acton.org/por/index.php
Intercambio Inter-Americano de Politicas Publicas (Manhattan Institute,
New York),
www.manhattan-institute.org/html/port_iape.htm/
Banco de Dados Politicos das Americas, http://pdba.georgetown.edu/
Latin American Network Information Center, http://lanic.utexas.edu/indexpor.html
"Direito," http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/law/indexpor.html
Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/
Associação de Estudos Latino-Americanos, http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/por/index.asp
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Centro das Americas,
www.frbatlanta.org/econ_rd/americas_center/ac_index_port.cfm
Oxford Latin American Economic History Database, http://oxlad.qeh.ox.ac.uk/
Professor Mariana Mota Prado, U. of Toronto Faculty of Law,
www.law.utoronto.ca/faculty_content.asp?profile=84&cType=facMembers&itemPath=1/3/4/0/0
Professor Ivan Cesar Ribeiro (USP), Robin Hood vs. King John Redistribution: How do Local Judges Decide Cases in Brazil? (2007), em portuguese, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=961425
En espanol:
Frederic Bastiat, http://bastiat.org/es/
La Ley (1850), www.elcato.org/publicaciones/ensayos/ens-2002-08-16.html
Douglass North, Instituciones, ideologia y desempeno economico,
www.elcato.org/node/1272
El Banco Mundial, temas,
www.bancomundial.org/temas.html
Online books and articles en espanol at
HACER, www.hacer.org/library.php
Cato, "los classicos," www.elcato.org/publicaciones/losclasicos-index.html
Peru:
Instituto Libertad y Democracia, www.ild.org.pe/homecast.htm
Hernando de Soto, www.ild.org.pe/esp/hsoto.htm
"EL OTRO SENDERO" por Hernando de Soto, www.ild.org.pe/eng/other_es.htm
otros publicaciones port de Soto, en espanol, www.ild.org.pe/eng/articles.htm
Argentina:
Fundacion Bases, www.fundacionbases.org/
Blog
Congreso
"La Escuela Austriaca en el Siglo XXI,"e_es.php,
Rosario, Argentina, 28,
29 y 30 de Septiembre de 2006
Fundacion Libertad, www.libertad.org.ar/
Fundacion Atlas 1853, www.atlas.org.ar/
Fundacion Friedrich A. von Hayek, www.hayek.org.ar/
Economia para Todos, www.economiaparatodos.com.ar/
Escuela Superior de Economia y Administracion de Empreses, www.eseade.edu.ar/
Chile:
La Politica de la Libertad, www.policyofliberty.net/sindex.html
Guatemala:
Universidad Francisco Marroquin, www.ufm.edu.gt/
Apuntes
de Economia y Politica
Laissez-Faire:
Revista de la facultad de Ciencias Economicas
Revista
electronica del EPRI
recursos
digitales para la educacion
Espana:
Jesus Huerta de Soto, www.jesushuertadesoto.com/
USA:
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, http://dallasfed.org/entrada/index.html
Instituto Cato, www.elcato.org/
("libertad individual, gobierno limitado, mercados
libres y paz")
El Instituto Independiente, www.elindependent.org/
Blog
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, www.acton.org/es/
Centro Interamericano de Politicas Publicas (Manhattan Institute, New
York),
www.manhattan-institute.org/html/sp_iape.htm
Asociacion Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Derecho y Economia (ALACDE)
www.kentlaw.edu/alacde/
Center for International Private Enterprise,
www.cipe.org/regional/lac/indexs.php
Sacerdotes Supremos y Filosofos Humildes: La Batalla por el Alma
de la Economia,
Boettke, Coyne & Leeson, en Revista de Economia
y Derecho,
www.ccoyne.com/Revista_de_Econom_a_y_Derecho_-_Final.pdf
Index of Economic Freedom, download en espanol,
www.heritage.org/index/Download.aspx
Economic Freedom Network, zipped file of a power-point presentation
en espanol,
www.freetheworld.com/spanish.ZIP
In English:
Democracy, Judicial Attitudes and Heterogeneity: The Civil Versus
Common Law Tradition (2009), by Carmine Guerriero,
www.econ.cam.ac.uk/dae/repec/cam/pdf/cwpe0917.pdf
Abstract: A key issue in the design of a legal
system is the choice of the mechanism aggregating preferences over the
level of deterrence. While under Case law appellate judges' biases offset
set one another at the cost of volatility of precedents, under Statute
law the Legislator chooses certain rules that are biased only when bribes
are accepted: i.e., when political institutions are weak and/or the preference
heterogeneity is sufficiently high. Thus, only in the last scenario, Case
law can outperform Statute law. Also, institutions fostering limited discretion
by lower courts improve the performance of Case law. Instrumental variables
estimates based on historical data from 156 countries con rm this prediction.
Recent papers on Brazilian topics, available for download through the
SSRN website --
Robin Hood vs. King John Redistribution: How do Local Judges Decide
Cases in Brazil? (2005), by USP law professor
Ivan
Cesar Ribeiro, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=938174
Do Brazilian Judges Favor the Weak Party? (2006) by Ribeiro
and Brisa L.M. Ferrao, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=938176
Corporate Governance and Ownership Structure in Brazil (2007),
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=976198
Class Actions in Brazil: A Model for Civil Law Countries (2003),
by University of Houston law professor Antonio
Gidi,
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=903188
another article on this
subject by Gidi, en espanol, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=903775
The Mystery of Brazil, by American public choice economist Gordon
Tullock (2004),
www.dur.ac.uk/john.ashworth/EPCS/Papers/Tullock.pdf
The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins, by Rafael La Porta,
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes & Andrei Shleifer, 46 Journal of Economic
Literature 285 (June 2008), www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/shleifer/files/consequences_JEL_final.pdf
Abstract: In the last decade, economists have
produced a considerable body of research suggesting that the historical
origin of a country’s laws is highly correlated with a broad range of its
legal rules and regulations, as well as with economic outcomes. We summarize
this evidence and attempt a unified interpretation. We also address several
objections to the empirical claim that legal origins matter. Finally, we
assess the implications of this research for economic reform.
Legal Origin?, by Daniel Klerman & Paul G. Mahoney, Journal
of Comparative Economics (2007),
lawweb.usc.edu/users/dklerman/documents/Klerman.LegalOrigin.JCompEcon.pdf
Abstract: Recent empirical work shows that
countries whose legal systems are based on English common law differ systematically
from those whose legal systems are based on French civil law. Glaeser and
Shleifer trace this divergence to England’s adoption of the jury system
and France’s adoption of Romano-canonical procedure in the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries [Glaeser & Shleifer, Legal Origins, 2002]. They
argue that these choices implied greater centralization of justice in France
than in England. We examine the historical evidence in detail and find
that there was no attempt to decentralize litigation in medieval England,
and in fact, prior to the French Revolution, justice was more centralized
in England than in France. The different trial procedures, moreover, did
not put the
two countries’ legal systems on sharply different paths. Rather, the
systems diverged as the result of political choices made in the mid-seventeenth
through early nineteenth centuries.
Legal Origins, by Edward Glaeser & Andrei Shleifer, 117 Quarterly
Journal of Economics 1193 (2002), post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/shleifer/papers/legal_origins.pdf
Abstract: A central requirement in the design
of a legal system is the protection of law enforcer from coercion from
litigants through either violence or bribes. The higher the risk
of coercion, the greater the need for protection and control of law enforcers
by the state. Such control, however, also makes law enforcers beholden
to the state, and politicizes justice. This perspective explains
why, starting in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the relatively more
peaceful England developed trials by indepdent juries, while the less peaceful
France relied on state-employed judgest to resolve disputes. It may
also explain many differences between common and civil law traditions with
respect to both the structure of legal systems and the observed social
and economic outcomes.
Both of the following articles are on mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/rafael.laporta/publications.html
(scroll down)
Do Institutions Cause Growth? (2004), by Edward Glaeser, Rafael
La Porta, Florncio Lopez-de-Silanes & Andrei Shleifer,
Abstract: We revisit the debate over whether
political institutions cause economic growth, or whether, alternatively,
growth and human capital accumulation lead to institutional development.
We find that most indicators of institutional quality used to establish
the proposition that institutions cause growth are constructed to be conceptually
unsuitable for that purpose. We also find that some of the instrumental
variable techniques used in the literature are flawed. Basic OLS
results, as well as a variety of additional evidence, suggest that a) human
capital is a more basic source of growth than are the institutions, b)
poor countries get out of poverty through good policies, often pursued
by dictators, and c) subsequently improve their political institutions.
and
The New Comparative Economics (2003), by Djankov, Glaeser, La
Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes & Shleifer,
Abstract: In recent years, the field of comparative
economics refocused the comparison of capitalist economies. The theme
of the new research is that institutions exert a profound influence on
economic development. We argue that, to understand capitalist institutions,
one needs to understand the basic tradeoff between the costs of disorder
and those of dictatorship. We apply this logic to study the structure of
efficient institutions, the consequences of colonial transplantation,
and the politics of institutional choice.
The Common Law and Economic Growth: Hayek Might Be Right, by
Paul Mahoney, Journal of Legal Studies (2001), papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=206809
Abstract: Recent finance scholarship finds
that countries with legal systems based on the common law provide better
investor protections and have more developed financial markets than civil
law countries. These findings echo Hayek's claims of the superiority of
English to French legal institutions. In this paper, I present evidence
that common law countries experienced faster economic growth than civil
law countries during the period 1960-1992. I suggest that the difference
reflects the common law's greater orientation toward private economic activity
and the civil law's greater orientation toward government intervention.
Two papers by British scholar Angus Maddison:
Brazilian
Economic Performance Since 1500: A Comparative View (2000)
Brazilian
Development Experience from 1500 to 1929
Latin American and Caribbean Law and Economics Center, www.law.gmu.edu/lawecon/clacde/
"Law and Justice in Latin America," lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/law/
Edgardo Buscaglia, Hoover Institution, Stanford University,
www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/buscaglia.html
Judicial Reform in Latin America, www.hoover.org/publications/epp/epp65.html
Law and Economics in Developing Countries,
(link currently unavailable)
Judicial Corruption in Developing Countries:
Its Causes and Economic
Consequences, www.hoover.org/publications/epp/95/95a.html
Lee Alston, University of Colorado, Department of Economics, www.colorado.edu/ibs/EB/alston/
his
papers online -- includes several on Brazil and Latin America
"Pork
for Policy: Executive and Legislative Exchange in Brazil," Journal
of Law, Economics & Organization (2005)
Hispanic American Center for Economic Research, www.hacer.org/
Atlas Foundation, www.atlasusa.org/
Latin American Public Policy
Experts Guide lists 28 Brazil experts,
www.atlasusa.org/V2/main/page.php?page_id=423
Brazilink, www.brazilink.org/
Welcome to Brazil, darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sergiok/brasil.html
Web
Sites for Brazilian Studies at Ohio State U.
Researching
Brazil/Internet Sources at Indiana U.
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Americas Center,
www.frbatlanta.org/econ_rd/americas_center/ac_index.cfm
World Bank, "Topics in Development," click on "law and development,"
www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/thematic.htm
Annotated bibliography on "law and justice institutions,"
12 articles on Brazil,
www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/legalannotated.cfm
The Bank's Private
Sector Development Blog has a Latin
America category
Economic Freedom Network, www.freetheworld.com/
University programs in Brazil studies --
U. of Michigan
Brazilian studies guide
Brazilian Studies
Association at Vanderbilt U. (good links page)
Harvard
U.
Columbia
U.
U.
of Texas, Austin
Georgetown
U.
U.
of Pittsburgh
Brown
U. (links page no longer available?)
Woodrow
Wilson Center (Smithsonian Institution)
U. of Oxford
(UK)
Latin American Studies
Association (and its Brazil section's blog)
Oxford University Comparative Law Forum, ouclf.iuscomp.org/
American Journal of Comparative Law, comparativelaw.metapress.com/home/main.mpx
Electronic Journal of Comparative Law, www.ejcl.org/
NYU's global research tools, www.law.nyu.edu/global/researchtools/index.htm
NYU's international/comparative/foreign law page, www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/index.html
American Society of Comparative Law, www.comparativelaw.org/
Comparative Law Blog, www.comparativelawblog.blogspot.com/
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