Economic Ideas and Economic Policy in Portugal in the 19th Century

• Autor(a) principal: Mata, Maria Eugénia
• Data de Publicação: 1995
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/87924

From a theoretical point of view, Portuguese economic thought of the 19th century developed from a crude liberal agrarism to the reception of the classical paradigm, and then to a theoretical ecletism of classicai, historical and even socialist views. From a practical and political point of view, however, free-trade and non-interventionist doctrines were soon superseded by protectionist and developmentist ideas, which dominated the scene from the 1830s till the First World War, and even beyond. The so-called liberal blueprint, its Regeneration implementing, and the so-called Republican blueprint were the main steps of this process, which even influenced the ideas and practice of the authoritarian regime that ruled Portugal from the 1920s till the 1970s.