The lecture will explore the Brazilian macroeconomics and microeconomics, highlighting the performance of the most important variables in the former and their impact on the latter. In the microeconomics field, it will be demonstrated that weak macroeconomic performance, usually emphasized in terms of GDP per capita, has not prevented reasonable market growth over the past twenty-five years, benefiting various sectors, industries, and companies. For these companies, the lecture will exorcise the concept of “lost decades.”

Speaker: Professor Roberto Macedo, School of Economics, USP.
Discussant: Wagner Nunes Rodrigues, Institute of Exact Sciences, UFMG.