LouÇÃ, Francisco 1956-

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LOUÇÃ, Francisco 1956-

PERSONAL:

Born November 12, 1956, in Lisbon, Portugal; son of António (a naval officer) and Noémia Louçá. Education: Technical University of Lisbon, Ph.D. Politics: Socialist.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Instituto Superior de Economic e Gestão, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Rua do Quelhas 6, 1200 Lisbon, Portugal. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Economist, educator, and author. Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, professor of economics, 1996—. Also member of Portuguese parliament.

WRITINGS:

A maldição de Midas: a cultura do capitalismo tardio, Cotovia (Lisbon, Portugal), 1994, translated by the author as Turbulence in Economics: An Evolutionary Appraisal of Cycles and Complexity in Historica Processes, Edward Elgar Publishing (Lyme, NH), 1997.

(Editor with Jan Reijnders) The Foundations of Long-Wave Theory: Models and Methodology, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1999.

(Editor with Mark Perlman) Is Economics an Evolutionary Science? The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 2000.

(With Chris Freeman) As Time Goes By: From the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2001.