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#35 Jorge Braga de Macedo - "In what context was macroeconomic policy managed in Portugal after 25 April, and how does it compare with the reality of the 2008/09 crisis?" (2018x30)

Date de diffusion: Oct 24, 2018

As I said at the beginning of the conversation, we spoke on the pretext of a book organised by our guest and published by the Lisbon Academy of Sciences on the teaching of macroeconomics in Portugal after the 25th of April. The book was then a pretext for us to talk about the enormous challenge of managing the Portuguese economy during that period, about the evolution of macroeconomic thinking at a global level, which inevitably influenced the discussion. By comparison, we also talked about the 2008 crisis (it was 10 years since Lehman Brothers went bankrupt on the day we recorded) and, inevitably, the parallel with the Crisis of '29.