The Brazilian Journal of Political Economy (BJPE) was founded in 1981 by Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, who remains its editor-in-chief to this day.

Its original name was Revista de Economia Política (Journal of Political Economy). It was changed to the current name because English is the language of economic theory and because we publish more than half of the articles in that language.

In its first 20 years, the journal published the main articles on the theory of inertial inflation and the Real Plan, which was based on it. In the last 20 years, we have published articles on economic theory, deindustrialization, and the New Developmentalist Economic Theory, which is a macroeconomics of development and studies problems such as the high-interest rate trap and the long-term appreciated exchange rate, the Dutch disease, and the critique of the growth policy with external savings.

BJPE is a journal open to all heterodox schools of economic thought. It is not interested in articles that adopt Neoclassical Economic Theory.

The journal website is open access since 2000, when SciELO started to index it,  and in 2019, all the previous issues also became available online.

From 1981 to 2025, the journal was published by Centro de Economia Política. Since January 2026, it has been published by the Getulio Vargas Foundation’s São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV EAESP) From January 2026 onwards, the journal only publishes papers in English. 

The papers are published in Continuous Article Publication (CAP) system, ensuring speed in making them available online as soon as they are approved, and preserves the BJPE's quarterly issues.

Our Publisher

BJPE is published by Getulio Vargas Foundation’s São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV EAESP), the first business administration school created in Brazil, in 1954, and currently the only holder of triple international accreditation: AACSB, EFMD, and AMBA.

FGV EAESP has 240 professors and around 4,000 students in undergraduate, executive graduate, and academic graduate programs.

The institution has 20 applied research centers and is recognized for its organizational and social impact, having received the EFMD Business School Impact System (BSIS) certificate in 2021.