Master and Doctorate
Mandatory Disciplines
Econometrics (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units) *
Syllabus: Classic multiple regression model: specification and estimation; Inference and prediction; Multicollinearity; Heteroscedasticity; Autocorrelation; Specification errors, autoregression and simultaneous equations. Introduction to regression with lagged variables; Introduction to time series models; Introduction to the panel data model; Introduction to models with discrete dependent variables / Dummies Variables.
Political Economy (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: Analysis of Marxist economic theory, having as main reference the work Capital in its entirety, Books I, II and III. It starts with a debate on the dialectical method in Marx to consolidate the presentation of the fundamental concepts present in book I. Then, other themes present in the following books will be addressed: circuits of capital, reproduction schemes, competition, low tendency of the rate of profit and crises. The theory of credit and financial capital will be the subject of a closer reading. Other complementary works will be analyzed.
Teaching Internship (30 Credit Hours, 2 Credit Units) **
Syllabus: This discipline is regulated by the course rules as mandatory for students who receive a master's scholarship - mainly CAPES scholarship students - and aims to allow the student of the master's degree in economics to act in undergraduate education, within their area of expertise, assisting the professor of a discipline of the course of Economic Sciences at UFPA. The Teaching Internship is defined by the Sole Paragraph of Article 43 of the General Regulation of the Strictu Sensu Graduate Programs - UFPA.
Macroeconomics (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: Pre-Keynesian Macroeconomics, Keynes, Kalecki, The Neoclassical Synthesis, The New Classics, New Keynesians, The New Neoclassical Synthesis.
Macroeconomics II (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units) *
Syllabus: Economic growth and development; Accumulation and economic growth; Economic growth under conditions of abundance of labor; Increasing returns, external economies and multiple balances; Markets, imperfect competition and externalities; The theory of endogenous economic growth and the theory of classical development in a critical perspective, International trade, industrialization and uneven development.
Quantitative Methods (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: Static Optimization; Dynamic optimization; First Order Differential Equations, Higher Order Differential Equations, Discrete Time: First order finite difference equations. Discrete Time: Finite difference equations of higher order; Variation calculation; Optimal control theory.
Microeconomics (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: Consumer theory; firm and cost theory; Partial Balance; General Balance; Economics of Welfare; Market failures; Strategic Behavior: Game Theory and Market Structures.
Microeconomics II (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units) *
Syllabus: Choose under Uncertainty; Asymmetric Information (Moral Hazard, Adverse Selection, Screening, Theory of Contracts and Incentives, Principal Agent Problem); General Balance; Economics of Welfare; Market Failures (Public Goods and Externalities).
Dissertation Seminar (15 Credit Hours, 1 Credit)
Syllabus: Introduce students to the basic elements of scientific methodology as well as specific techniques for research in economics. In the course, students are expected to produce a Dissertation project.
* Mandatory Discipline for the Doctorate Degree
** Mandatory Discipline for Scholarship holders
Elective Disciplines
Agriculture, Territory and Development (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: The Role of Agriculture in Economic Development. Agriculture and Industry in the International System. Dietary regimens. Territorial rural development. Organization of Agricultural Markets in Brazil. The theoretical debate on innovation and modernization in agriculture. Technological adoption in a systemic perspective of agriculture.
Economic Development (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: This course aims to present a broad view of the different approaches to economic development within economic science. Thus, it starts with the configuration of the scope of its object and current research agenda on economic development. The main contributions of traditional approaches to economic development are presented, as well as models of economic growth. Emphasis is placed on issues related to income and wealth inequality, poverty and the environment.
Economic Development II (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: Theory of development and underdevelopment. Latin American approaches to underdevelopment and development in Brazil. Contemporary approaches to development: national innovation systems and evolutionary economics; institutions and development; endogenous development, networks and social capital; human development and the training approach.
Contemporary Urban Development and Theories (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: Development and Urbanization: antecedents and perspectives. Urban economics and regional science. The political economy of urbanization. The postmodern critique of urban theories. Contemporary speeches about the post-metropolis. Current debates on the urbanization and metropolization process in Brazil.
Territorial Development and Urban Dynamics in the Amazon (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: Space, Territory and Region: construction of fundamental concepts. Development, Territory and Urban Space. Urbanization and Frontier. Urban dynamics and Major projects in the Amazon.
Econometrics (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: Classic multiple regression model: specification and estimation; Inference and prediction; Multicollinearity; Heteroscedasticity; Autocorrelation; Specification errors, autoregression and simultaneous equations. Introduction to regression with lagged variables; Introduction to time series models; Introduction to the panel data model; Introduction to models with discrete dependent variables / Dummies Variables.
Amazon Economy (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: The insertion of the Amazon in the national and world market. The regional development policy in the Amazon. The transformation of the regional socioeconomic structure. The crisis of the Brazilian State and the end of the policy of tax incentives. The prospect of Brazilian and Amazonian development in the face of economic globalization.
Brazilian Economy (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: Background to Brazilian industrialization; 2. The formation of Brazilian economic thought; 3. Brazilian industrialization (1930-1964); 4. The action of the state in industrialization and developmentalism; 5. Economic policy in military governments: from miracle to crisis; 6. Crisis of the economy and the developmental state in the 1980s; 7. Restructuring, opening and denationalizing the Brazilian economy in the 1990-2000 years. Take the master's students to discuss the Brazilian economic thought that founded public policies since 1930; discuss public policies and their results.
Industrial Economics (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: Criticism of the Neoclassical Theory of the Firm - Theoretical Route of Industrial Economics; Theories of Determination of Price by Average Cost and Models of Barriers to Entry; Evolutionary Theory; Theory of Contestable Markets; Transaction Costs Theory; Productive Restructuring / Local Productive Arrangements; Concentration measures; Industrial Policies.
Economy, Institutions and Environment (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: History and normative milestones of the environmental issue; Sustainable development; Business strategies in the face of the environmental issue; Green Consumerism: Green Economy and Climate Economy.
Political Economy of Agrarian Dynamics in the Amazon (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: Theory of French Regulation. Paradigms of Agrarian Capitalism. Capitalism and Peasantry. Peasant Economy on the Frontiers of Capitalism. Conservative Modernization and Agrarian Dynamics in Brazil and the Amazon.
Institutions and Development (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: Population Theories, Technology and Environment: Boserup, Malthus and Von Thunen; Common Resources and Collective Action: The Tragedy of the Commons; Moral vs Rational Economics; Intensification and Evolution of Complex Societies; Globalization Environment and Policy; Population, Technology, Social Organization and Natural Resources; Political Ecology of the Biodiversity and Global Warming Crisis; Evolution of thought in human and political ecology.
Logic of Collective Action, Institutions and Sustainable Development (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: The old and the new institutionalism. Institutions as the rules of the social game: Douglass North and Mancur Olson. Institutions as "social players": Oliver Williamson's ideas. Economic action and social structure. Institutions as the field of the social game: the ideas of Ostrom and Putnan. Analysis of social networks. Institutions and the debate on sustainable development.
Economics Methodology (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: Philosophy of science from the Vienna circle to the sociology of scientific knowledge. First approaches to the methodology of economics: methodenstreit, Robbins, Machlup and Hutchison. Friedman's positivism and instrumentalism. Classic alternatives to the mainstream: Karl Marx and the critique of political economy, Thorstein Veblen and institutionalism. Contemporary approaches: rhetoric, Mäki realism, critical realism, Hausman millianism, Caldwell pluralism, heterodox pluralism. Recent advances in the methodology of the economy.
Computational Methods in Economics (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: The databases available for research in Economics; Analysis tools and data organization standards; Analysis Tools and Techniques (Basic Concepts of Programming and programming tools); Matlab, R and Stata; Uses and Applications of the Software.
Quantitative Methods Applied to Public Policy Analysis (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: The Selection Bias Problem. Rubin's Model; The conditional independence hypothesis. The common Support; Propensity Score; Probit, Logit; Alternatives to the propensity score; Trade-offs in terms of bias and efficiency of estimates; Overlay and Common Support; Pairing quality; Bootstrapping; Sensitivity analysis; Multivariate analysis; Programming in STATA and R.
Modeling and Simulation of Environmental Socioeconomic Systems (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: Basic Concepts of Modeling and Simulation, Various M / S Approaches, M / S Tools, M / S Problems in Strictu Sensu Economics, M / S of Amazonian Problems.
Economic Policies and Regional Development in Brazil (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: The formation of the national territory and the Brazilian urbanization pattern. The regional issue in Brazil. Regional and urban development policies. The advance of industrialization and regional deconcentration. Federalism in Brazil. The urban-regional theme in the national economy in the post-1990 period.
Technological Trajectories and Agrarian Dynamics in the Amazon (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: Paradigms and technological trajectories in agrarian. Diversity of agents and patterns of rationalities. Modes of Production, Innovation and Technological Trajectories. Structural diversity, trajectory competition and agrarian dynamics in the Amazon.
Theory of Regional and Urban Development (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: Theories of Location. Urban Theories: tertiary and urban center, urban land income. Regional Development Theories: stagnation theory, vicious cycle of poverty, interregional growth inductions, export theories, polarization theories. Concentration and deconcentration of economic activity in space. Regional theories of the product cycle. Post-industrial society: spatialization and territoriality.
Economic Theory of the Environment (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: Environmental issues as an economic problem; Historical Evolution of Economic-Environmental Thought; Pollution Economics; Economics of Natural Resources and Ecological Economics.
Special Topics in Agricultural Dynamics and Sustainable Development (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: This course seeks to discuss topics on the frontier of knowledge in the area of agrarian dynamics and sustainable development that are relevant to the work of teachers and students participating in this line of research.
Special Topics in Regional and Urban Economics (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: This course seeks to discuss topics on the frontier of knowledge in the area of regional and urban economics that are relevant to the work of teachers and students participating in this line of research.
Special Topics in Economics, Society and Environment (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: This course seeks to discuss topics on the frontier of knowledge in the area of economics, society and the environment that are relevant to the work of teachers and students participating in this line of research
Economic Valuation of the Environment (60 Credit Hours, 4 Credit Units)
Syllabus: Problems and Dilemmas of the Economic Valuation of the Environment. Valuation Methods, presenting different case studies abroad and Brazil.
Dependency Theory and Development Dynamics in Latin American Peripheral Economies (60 hours, 4 Credits)
Syllabus: The course aims to present and deepen the Theoretical Support of Dependency, considering its different aspects. It also seeks to address the relations between peripheral economies and the Capitalist World System, also establishing the problematization of the conditions for maintaining the dependent profile of Latin American economies. The program will include the reading of Brazilian, Latin American and other nationalities authors, led by Theotônio dos Santos, Rui Mauro Marini, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Jaime Osório, Immanuel Wallerstein and Andre Gunder Frank among others, with the basis of the discipline being the reading of the Book II of Capital by Marx and Imperialism by V. I. Lenin.
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