Abstract

This paper is divided in two completely different parts. The first one presents
a briefly commented survey on-the main contributions to the theoretical debate in Political
Economy in Brazil during the 80’s, comprising three major currents: the marxist/neomarxist,
the neoricardian and the postkeynesian. The second part tries to identify some of the most
important issues that are facing political economists (not only in Brazil) in the present crisis
in economic theory which concern, in the author’s view, the theoretical problems of time in
economics: logical vs. historical time; short vs. long run; equilibrium vs. dynamic analysis.

JEL Classification: B22; B24