PPGE | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

One of the main characteristics of the PPGE is the critical and pluralist vocation, which is reflected in the wide range of theoretical affiliations of its professors. Different theoretical orientations live together, covering from a mainstream view in Economics to a varied range of heterodox approaches. PPGE is a reference in heterodox thought.

How does the programme provide content to ensure students achieve an understanding of a reasonably diverse set of perspectives on understanding economies?

The PPGE aims to educate economists with a critical thinking. For such, the program seeks to provide their students with a solid theoretical background, concerned with presenting the different theoretical approaches in Economics. It also provides them a solid training both in historical and comparative analysis and in the use of modern quantitative methods in Economics.

How does the programme ensure students understand the interaction between economic and ecological systems?

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How does the programme ensure students understand how to critically explore real-world evidence, both qualitative and quantitative?

The PPGE aims to educate economists with a critical thinking. For such, the program seeks to provide their students with a solid theoretical background, concerned with presenting the different theoretical approaches in Economics. It also provides them a solid training both in historical and comparative analysis and in the use of modern quantitative methods in Economics.

Since its foundation, the PPGE research activities have focused on the analysis of the processes behind social and economic development. Initially, the focus of the program was aimed at the focus area of industrial organization and technology economics. Progressively, the program has evolved into its current structure, with three concentration areas:

Industry and Innovation
Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
Economic and Social Development

What pedagogical approaches does the programme use to ensure that students examine the historical context, assumptions and values in all economic thinking?

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How does the department ensure that the teaching culture and capacity to deliver economic pluralism are continually improving?

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Other information:

The Economics Program has over 30 years of tradition in teaching graduate-level Economics. The master course has been launched in 1979, while the Doctorate programs has started in 1987. More than four hundred Master’s dissertations and two hundred Doctorate theses have been concluded since the PPGE was created, several of them having being awarded by different academic and non-academic institutions in Brazil. The PPGE is a consolidated graduate program and one of the most important in the field of Economics in Brazil.