Configurações [N.º 26 (Dez. 2020)]: Economy and Society: politics, practices, agents, and institutions

Abstract

[Excerpt] “In this issue, our goal was to assemble a set of articles that contribute in an ori¬ginal way to the scientific debate on economics, economic history, and social scien¬ces, based on multiple interdisciplinary, theoretical, methodological, and empiri¬cal approaches, which will provide the reader, through innovative and enriching visions, the improvement of their understanding in those topics, in particular on the following themes, especially from the modern era onwards. Some of the themes that emerged in the set of articles that made it to the final volume include trade as a historical and sociological phenomenon; economic development over time in various sectors of the economy and time periods; public and private financing of economic activity; organization of societal systems and how they interact with the institutional frameworks over time; social and economic dimensions of markets and how various agents interacted in them. In that sense, while the articles do not form a uniform whole like an edited volume, there are some common themes that corres¬pond to the goals we initially laid out” ((In Introduction to the Thematic Dossier - Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez, Lisbeth Rodrigues, Jeremy Land e Jari Eloranta).