Pedro Nuno de Freitas Lopes Teixeira
Faculdade de Economia do Porto
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias
4200 Porto, Portugal
Phone: +351 – 22 557 11 00
Fax: + 351 – 22 550 50 50
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CIPES
Rua 1º de Dezembro 399
4450-227 Matosinhos
Phone: + 351 – 22 9398790
Education
PhD in Economics; School of Business and Economics, University of Exeter (UK); June 2003
Title of the Dissertation – The Human Capital Revolution in Economic Thought; Supervisors: Profs. Mark Blaug and John Maloney
Master of Arts in Higher Education (Economics of Education); Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) – Graduate School of the University of Twente (Netherlands); November 1998
Title of the Dissertation: The Quest for Efficiency – An Application of DEA Methodology to Portuguese Public University System; Supervisors: Profs. Ben Jongbloed and Maria C. Santos
BA, Economics; Department of Economics, University of Porto; July 1995
Including a period of study within the Erasmus framework at the Faculté des Sciences Economiques, Université Pierre Mendes-France (Grenoble, France); Oct. 1994/Feb. 1995
Professional Experience
UC Berkeley
Visiting Scholar, Center for Studies in Higher Education, April - July 2005
Department of Economics, University of Porto
Assistant Professor (since July 2003)
Lecturer (March 1999 – July 2003);
Junior Lecturer (Oct. 1995 – Mar. 1999);
Research Assistant (Dec. 1994 – Oct.1995)
Courses taught: History of Economic Thought, General Economic History, and Portuguese Economic History
School of Business and Economics - University of Exeter
Tutor - Principles of Economics; Macroeconomics; and Philosophy of Economics Oct. 2000/June 2003
Department of Philosophy - Portuguese Catholic University
Visiting Lecturer in History of Economic Thought, 1997 - 1999
Banco Bilbao y Vizcaya
Internship – Department of International Finance; Central Headquarters (Madrid – Spain), Sep/Dec 1993
Other Professional Activities
CEMPRE – Research Centre on Macroeconomics and Forecasting, Department of Economics, University of Porto
Research Associate, since 2001
CIPES - Research Centre on Higher Education Policy, Foundation of Portuguese Universities
Research Associate, since 1998
Foreign Language Centre (Exeter University)
Tutor of Portuguese Language for Foreigners, Oct. 2000/July 2003
History of Economics Society
Member of the Committee Awarding the Prize to Best Article in History of Economic Thought, 2002
Iberian Society for the History of Economic Thought
Member of the organising committee of the 2nd meeting, Porto, December 2001
Department of Economics, University of Porto
Member of the Executive Board May 1998/ Sep 1999
Director of the Student’s Support Service, May 1998 /Sep 1999
University of Porto
Member of the Working-Party on International Mobility of Students, May 1998/Sep 1999
Member of the Study Group on the Follow-up of the Quality Evaluation, Dec 1998/Sep 1999
Publications
Economics of Education
Mediating the Economic Pulses: International Institutions and Portuguese Higher Education (with Alberto Amaral and Maria Joao Rosa), Higher Education Quarterly, Special Issue on Markets and Higher Education edited by Pedro Teixeira (forthcoming)
The Financial Context of Portuguese Higher Education, in Higher Education Policy in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, ed. By Guy Neave, Peter Maassen and Alberto Amaral, Palgrave/MacMillan (forthcoming)
Forthcoming Financial Needs of Portuguese Public Universities (with Alberto Amaral), CIPES, Porto, 2002
Higher Education and the Economy, TSER/HEINE National Report (co-ordinated by Alberto Amaral), CIPES, Porto, 2002
Private Higher Education and Diversity: An Exploratory Survey, (with Alberto Amaral), Higher Education Quarterly, Vol. 55, No. 4, 2002
The Rise and Fall of Portuguese Private Higher Education System, with Alberto Amaral, Higher Education Policy (September 2000)
Program Diversity in Higher Education: An Economic Perspective, with David Dill, Higher Education Policy (March 2000)
History of Economic Thought
Graphical Representation and Personal Income Distribution, submitted for publication to the Journal of History of Economic Thought
An Interview with Jacob Mincer, in Essays in Honour of Jacob Mincer ed. By James Heckman and Shoshana Grossbard-Schechtman, Kluwer (forthcoming)
Bio-bibliographical entries on T. W Schultz and Gary Becker, and Reading Guide of “Human Capital”, in Elgar Companion on Chicago Economics, ed. By Ross Emmett, Edward Elgar (forthcoming)
The Economics of Education of Rodrigues de Freitas (in Portuguese), in Essays in Honour of Prof. Manuel Baganha, Portuguese Catholic University Press (forthcoming)
How are we to become like them? Political Economy as a Political Agenda in Portuguese Early Nineteenth Century (with Antonio Almodovar), in “Economic Thought and Policy in Europe”, Ed. By Michallis Psalidopoulos and Maria Eugénia Mata, Routledge, 2001
The Economics of Education: an exploratory portrait, History of Political Economy, Annual Supplement, Duke University Press, 2001
Self-interest and Industry in the early Portuguese Liberal period (1820-1840), in Economic Theory and Transition, Ed. by Charles Clark and Janina Rosicka, Ashgate, 2001
Marshall’s Industrial Districts and the Advantages of Closeness – Working Papers – Faculty of Economics of Porto, 1998
Presentations in Conferences
Economics of Education
The Ups and Downs of the Economics Value of Education, 1st Portuguese Meeting on the Economics of Education,September 2002 (Lisboa, Portugal)
Markets in Higher Education and the International Dimension: Some Notes on the Portuguese Case, (with Alberto Amaral, CIPES) Annual Conference of CHER – Consortium of Higher Education Researchers, September 2001 (Dijon, France)
Privatization and Higher Education: An Exploratory Portrait, Annual Conference of CHER – Consortium of Higher Education Researchers,September 2000 (Lancaster, UK)
Co-ordination of the Plenary Session on “Markets and Diversity in Higher Education: Match or Mismatch?”, in which participated Prof. Gareth Williams (Institute of Education of the University of London), Prof. Alberto Amaral (CIPES and Universidade do Porto), and Dr. Jeroen Huisman (CHEPS – University of Twente); Annual Conference of CHER – Consortium of Higher Education Researchers: September 2000 (Lancaster, UK)
An analysis of the recommendations of the external committees (with Fernanda Correia), Seminar on the Consequences of Evaluation of Teaching Quality at the University of Porto, May 1999 (Porto, Portugal)
The financial situation of Portuguese Higher Education, International Conference on Accountability in Latin American and European Higher Education, February 1999 (Mexico City, Mexico)
Higher Education between the State and the Market, Portuguese Congress of Economic Sociology, March 1998 (Lisbon, Portugal)
History of Economic Thought
The Uses of Human Capital in Early Twentieth Century, History of Economics Society Annual Conference, July 2003, Duke University (NC)
Creating the Invisible College – The Case of Human Capital Research, Biannual Conference of the International Network on Economic Methodology,September 2002, (Stirling, UK)
Modern Labour Economics in the Making 1930-1960, History of Economics Society Annual Conference, July 2002, UC – Davis (California, USA)
Persuasion, Possibility and Illusion – Visual Representation and Personal Income Distribution, European Conference on the History of Economics (ECHE), March 2002, Montreal (Canada)
Graphical Representation and Personal Income Distribution, History of Economics Society Annual Conference, July 2001, Winston-Salem (USA)
The Human Capital vs. Screening Debates, Summer Seminar in History of Economic Thought, George Mason University (VA - USA), June 2001
The Economics of Education of Rodrigues de Freitas, Annual Conference of the European Society of History of Economic Thought, February 2001 (Darmstadt, Germany)
The Reception of Human Capital Theory amongst Political Circles: The Case of International Agencies, Colloque Internationale – La Legitimation du Discours Economique, University of Paris – 8, June 2001 (Paris, France)
The Economics of Education of Rodrigues de Freitas, XX Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Economic and Social History, November 2000 (Porto, Portugal)
Human Capital Theory and Classical Political Economy: Father’s Figure or Path-Dependence?, Annual Conference of the History of Economics Society, July 2000 (Vancouver, Canada)
Do Economists take Empirical Research Seriously?- The Case of Human Capital Debates, Biannual Conference of the International Network on Economic Methodology,June 2000, (Vancouver, Canada)
Progress as Knowledge and Ignorance – The case of human capital theory empirical testing, Annual Conference of the European Society of History of Economic Thought, February 2000 (Graz, Austria)
Economic Liberalism and Free Trade in Early Nineteenth Century Portugal (with Antonio Almodovar), Ist Meeting of the Iberian Society of History of Economic Thought, December 1999 (Barcelona, Spain)
Who wants Trade asks for War? (with Antonio Almodovar, Universidade do Porto), XIX Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Economic and Social History; November 1999 (Madeira, Portugal)
A Portrait of the Economics of Education,History of Political Economy Conference, March 1999 (Duke University, USA)
Is there an Iberian Tradition of Economic Thought? – The case of late XVIII century, Annual Conference of the European Society on the History of Economic Thought, February 1999 (Valencia, Spain)
Self-interest and Industry in the early Portuguese Liberal period (1820-1840),International Conference on Economic Thought and Economies in Transition, September 1998 (Krakow, Poland)
Proposals for economic Reform in Portugal (1800-1820), International Association Congress of Economic History, August 1998 (Madrid, Spain)
The Economics of Education 1960 –1996, an exploratory portrait, European Conference on the History of Economics, April 1998 (Antwerp, Belgium)
Marshall’s Industrial Districts and the Advantages of Closeness,Annual Conference of the European Society of History of Economic Thought, February 1998 (Bologna, Italy)
Research projects
Associate Researcher of PROPHE – Private Higher Education, a Cross-Country Study to the Ford Foundation, Co-ordinated by Prof. Daniel Levy (SUNY – Albany); since July 2003
A Comparative European Analysis of Higher Education Policies and the strengthening of links with the Economic Environment, co-ordinated by Peter Maassen and Asa Gornitzka; 1997 – 1999: TSER/ HEINE (EU)
Comparative Analysis of Higher Education Systems and Policies in Europe and Latin America, Alpha-Bracara (EU); co-ordinated by Peter Maassen, Alberto Amaral, and Guy Neave; 1996 - 1999
Prospective Study on students’ enrolment and funding needs 2000-2005; Portuguese Council of Rectors (with Alberto Amaral) Sep-Dec 1998: CRUP (Portugal);
Management Capacity of Higher Education in South Africa and Europe: Management Capacity (EU and NCHE – South Africa); 1995 – 1997
Research Grants
PRAXIS XXI, Foundation for Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology (Portugal) – Doctoral Grant (October 1999 – August 2003)
Luso-American Foundation – Short-term mobility grants (March 1999 and June 2001)
University of Porto – Short-term Mobility Grant (September 1998)
Academic Affiliations
AEA – American Economic Association (since 2001)
APHES – Portuguese Association of Economic and Social History (since 1999)
CHER - Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (since 1997)
EAIR – European Association for Institutional Research (since 1996)
ESHET - European Society of History of Economic Thought (since 1998)
HES – History of Economics Society (since 2000)
INEM – International Network on Economic Methodology (since 2000)
RES - Royal Economic Society (since 2001)
SSSR – Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (since 2002)
Foreign Languages
Written and oral proficiency in English, French and Spanish.
Written and oral knowledge of German and Italian.
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CV – Pedro Nuno Teixeira – August 2003