Letter to Queen Lusofonia (LQL) project

IAE/ACL in association with CG&G/NOVASBE and with DES/IICT until 3 August 2015

Last updated 14 May 2017

Olivier Blanchard inducted on 18 May at 16:30 almost 7 years after announcement

3 Letters to 2 Queens Discussion on 3 May at ULisboa

Letter to Queen Lusophonia drafted on Easter Sunday (with motivation) and posted for discussion on Mayday in anticipation of a presentation at the University of Lisbon.

21 May, 2015

Writing to Queens 2^nd edition in memory of Manuel Jacinto Nunes; launch at NOVASBE library

On Ash Wednesday I submitted a booklet titled Writing to Queens while Crises Proceed, together with presentations to the conference on “Science in the Tropics: glimpsing at the past to project the future” held at IICT in January 2012. The LQL project is based on the memorandum of understanding agreed in early 2008 between IICT, CG&G and ACL to investigate issues of relevance to the international order, especially as seen by the members of CPLP. The changing perception of economists became a priority of the economics and finance section of ACL following the global crisis, given the possible threat to “mutual knowledge” in CPLP, and thus to the effectiveness of science for development.

24 February, 2012 Paul Krugman participates in a session of the LQL project. As expected, the Nobel prize participated in a meeting of the economics and finance section of the Academy, where a short paper delivered by Rui Malhó was to be debated. The meeting was also attended by five other members (Manuel Jacinto Nunes and Paulo Pitta e Cunha, José Silva Lopes and António Pinto Barbosa from the section and Rui Vilela Mendes from the science class) and Helena Garrido (as noted below deputy director of Jornal de Negócios).

The LQL project was promoted by Nova SBE’s Center for Globalization and Governance and has been featured in some of the graduate courses, as noted in NOVA SBE Working Paper nº 566 which includes the three texts prepared for delivery at the 27 February historical award plus an Annex on this meeting.

12 October, 2011 ACL welcomes José Fernando Santos, from Cambridge and MIT, recently associated to CG&G, to the letter to the queen project. He had sent a few remarks which were welcome by the group while Renato Flores presented his NOVASBE Working Paper 558 (available on line) and Jean Pierre Contzen shared a recent paper on innovation policy. The next meeting took place on 9 November when the new member expanded on his contribution. President Arantes was present at the session together with Rui Vilela Mendes and Estela Barbot who had been invited to the original conference. Paul Krugman’s visit was discussed in that context, a point raised again at the joint session of 15 November.

On 16 September 2010, Helena Garrido announces in the online edition of Jornal de Negocios ACL seminar on the crisis planned for Spring 2011 with new foreign members of the Academy

Interdisciplinary Project A letter to the “global lusofonia queen”?

On 5 November, 2009, one day after the first anniversary of the Queen’s visit to LSE, the economics and finance section agreed to make this a preferred theme for discussion following the suggestion contained in my ferragosto presentation (first presented 15 August, 2009 in the neighbourhood of Apple Beach) and other work on the global crisis.

The tripartite association should facilitate the interdisciplinary dimension, the involvement of other CPLP member countries and the interests of economics students, especially from MA courses on Africa and emerging markets.

The project was revived almost one year later with the announcement of another meeting of the section in September, possibly including a guest from Brazil. While the guest did not come on 16 September 2010, the election of the two foreign members was announced on that day by Helena Garrido, whio had agreed to help with the conference to be held in Spring 2011, but had to be postponed.

Possible issues to be addressed:

Why potential cooperative solutions are not applied domestically and internationally follows from the “together alone” paradox and goes towards the never again issue in the agenda of the British Academy.

An agenda to involve more economic and interdisciplinary work in public debate should be adopted by other academies and research universities, such as the signatories of the Lisbon declaration or the CPLP members of ACL.

A letter avoiding “group think” of advanced (blue-eyed?) countries might result from a debate encompassing humanities and social sciences as well as natural sciences and a diversity of CPLP perspectives.

Note on meeting acl6a121111.pdf