A Thirteenth-Century Fiscal Constitution
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onomic Globalization and Governance Essays in Honor of Jorge Braga de Macedo
Economic Globalization and Governance
Luís Brites Pereira Maria Eugénia Mata Miguel Rocha de Sousa •
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Economic Globalization and Governance Essays in Honor of Jorge Braga de Macedo
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Editors Luís Brites Pereira Nova School of Business and Economics Universidade Nova de Lisboa Carcavelos, Portugal
Maria Eugénia Mata Nova School of Business and Economics Universidade Nova de Lisboa Carcavelos, Portugal
Miguel Rocha de Sousa Department of Economics, CICP, CEFAGE University of Évora Évora, Portugal
ISBN 978-3-030-53264-2 ISBN 978-3-030-53265-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53265-9
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Foreword
Jorge Braga de Macedo: The Great Bridge-Builder I first met Jorge Braga de Macedo under fairly odd circumstances: he was, at the time, serving in Portugal’s military, while I, a mere 23 years old, was consulting for the Bank of Portugal. Jorge’s story, as I understand it, was that he had interrupted his graduate education at Yale to do his required military service, which began in Angola and finished with a stint as an army journalist. It was in that capacity that he found himself interviewing a group of MIT graduate students who ended up spending the summer of 1976 at the Bank. One of that group, by the way, was the late Miguel Beleza, who would later serve as Portugal’s finance minister, among other things. A little over a year later, Jorge was back at Yale—and I had just arrived at th
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