From my collaboration with José Adelino Maltez, a political scientist at the Technical University of Lisbon, and Mendo Castro Henriques, a philosopher at the Catholic University, there emerged a book titled Bem Comum dos Portugueses

An approximate translation into English might be Common Good: History and Prospects for the Portuguese. There we interpret Portuguese historical development, the current allegiances of the Portuguese and the sustainability of the current virtuous cycle.
The book was launched at the Lisbon Academy of Science on May 13, 1999.
A second edition is forthcoming.
 

Keeping the process of economic development in the background, I have taken what may be called a lusophone (i.e. Portuguese speaking) interest on the prospects for the Portuguese language as a vehicle of culture and business.  My work on the European and lusophone allegiances of the Portuguese benefited from my involvement with the  review of the Treaty on European Union by the parliamentary committee on  European affairs. This is also where my scholarly collaboration with Maltez and Henriques began, even though we had participated in a celebration of the Centesimus Annus encyclic in May 1993, whilst I was at the Ministry of Finance.  This work is described in my Multiple allegiances as fate, presented at a conference on Regional Integration and Democracy sponsored by the Luso-American Development Foundation and Brown Univeristy in late 1995 (the preliminary version received useful comments from Philippe Schmitter, a political scientist at Stanford, but was never revised).  Several interventions at the annual meetings in Divonne, France of the International Foundation for a European Civilization have touched on the same topic.  Other useful references to Portugal as a case study in development can be found here