Russia-Brazil Unit for Comparative Economic Studies

Russia-Brazil Unit for Comparative Economic Studies (Núcleo Rússia-Brasil de Estudos Econômicos Comparativos) unites researchers with expertise in: 

• History and methodology of economic science
• Structural changes in the economy at the national and international levels
• Regional and national development programs
• Long-term technological trends and economic cycles
• Regional and national economic cooperation in the context of the transformation of the world economy

The current staff includes researchers from:

• Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brasil): Faculdade de Ciências Econômicas (FACE), Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional (CEDEPLAR)
• HSE University (Russia): Centre for the History and Methodology of Economic Thought (CeHistMet) 

JOINT PUBLICATIONS

• Boianovsky M., Melnik D. (2024). Between capitalism and socialism: Tugan-Baranovsky on cooperatives. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 48(4): 589-616. 
• Cunha A. M., Melnik D., da Motta e Albuquerque E. (2025). Understanding backwardness as a structural problem: historical time in the analysis of the Russian Narodniks and Lenin, Gerschenkron, and Furtado. Review of Keynesian Economics, 13(2): 171–189.
• Cimini F., Freire Cardoso D., Ribeiro L. (2022). Economic Policy and Economic Research in Brazil During the Pandemic. In: Lazzarini A., Melnik D. (eds). Economists and COVID-19. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
• Boianovsky M. (2022). Evsey Domar and Russia. In: Avtonomov V., Hagemann H. (eds). Russian and Western Economic Thought. Springer Studies in the History of Economic Thought. Springer, Cham.

Other results

• Minas Gerais State Agency for Scientific Research (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa de Minas Gerais) research grant application: “Minas in the new world scenario: development, global innovation system and center-periphery dynamics” (Minas no novo cenário mundial: desenvolvimento, sistema global de inovação e a dinâmica centro-periferia)

EVENTS

Seminário CEDEPLAR (01.08.2024)

Denis Melnik (HSE University): "Russia's Economy Today"

Seminário de Pós-Graduação em Economia (29.06.2023)

Denis Melnik (HSE University): Trends in Russia's Economic Policy after 2019

History of Economic Theory and Policy of the 20th century. Online course (26.11.20)

Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak (UFMG, CEDEPLAR):

• Development economics at the “Center”: neoclassical economics and development

• Development Economics at the “Periphery”: import substitution, inflation, productive structure and income distribution

• Development Economics in Practice: the cases of Chile and Brazil

Cátedra Jean Monnet (EPEbEIP). Série MW de Confêrencias em História das Ideias Europeias (26.08.2019)

Denis Melnik (HSE University): "The Making of Bolshevik Economics and Western Economic Ideas"

18º Seminário de Diamantina (22.08.2019)

Denis Melnik (HSE University): "From Kaufman to Rubin: some trends in Russian monetary studies of the 1870s-1920s"