Personal identification

Full name

Manuel Couret Pereira Branco

Citation names

• Branco, Manuel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

6519-EFDC-2328

ORCID iD

0000-0002-2801-7686

Knowledge fields

• Social Sciences - Economics and Business

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
French	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Italian	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)

	Degree	Classification
1991 Concluded	Economia (Doutoramento) Major in Sem especialidade Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France "La Trasformations des Structures Agraires et le Developpement: la Reforme Agraire au Portugal" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1988 Concluded	Analyse et Politiques Economiques (Doctorat) Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France "La Transformation des Structures Agraires et le Développement" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Très Honorable

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
1989/12/01 - Current	Full Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2017 - 2018	Full Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Ciência Política, Portugal
2016 - 2018	Associate Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Évora Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e Economia, Portugal
2016 - 2018	Associate Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2015 - 2016	Associate Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Ciência Política, Portugal
2013 - 2016	Associate Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Évora Escola de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2015 - 2015	Associate Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Évora Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e Economia, Portugal
2008 - 2013	Associate Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Évora Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e Economia, Portugal
2007 - 2013	Associate Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2016/06/01 - 2019/12/31	Que ciência económica se faz em Portugal? Um estudo da investigação portuguesa recente em Economia (1980 à actualidade) PTDC/IVC-HFC/3826/2014 ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2014/04/01 - 2015/05/31	Respostas públicas e privadas à falta de pagamento dos serviços de abastecimento de água: o caso português EXPL/IVC-CPO/1094/2013	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Publications

Book	Branco, Manuel. Corresponding author: Branco, Manuel. Political Economy for Human Rights. United Kingdom: Routledge. 2019. Published Branco, Manuel. Economia Política dos Direitos Humanos. 2012. Branco, Manuel. Economics versus Human Rights. 2009.
Book chapter	Branco, Manuel. "Evolução do Ensino Pós graduado em Economia em Portugal da Década de 80 aos Nossos Dias". In Ideias Vivas: O debate económico em Portugal, 213-241. Portugal: Almedina, 2022. Published Branco, Manuel; Marçal, Gonçalo. "Evolução do Ensino Pós-Graduado em Economia em Portugal da Década de 1980 aos Nossos Dias". In Ideias Vivas. O Debate Económico em Portugal. Coimbra, Portugal: Almedina, 2022. Published Branco, Manuel. "A uniformização do Ensino Pós-graduado em Economia em Portugal de 1980 até Hoje". In A ciência económica em Portugal: uma história recente, 135-177. Portugal: Almedina, 2019. Published Marçal, G.; Costa, A.; Branco, Manuel. "A Uniformização no Ensino Pós-Graduado em Economia de 1980 até Hoje". In A Ciência Económica em Portugal. Discursos, Protagonistas e Instituições Recentes, edited by Vítor Neves; José Reis, 137-177. Coimbra, Portugal: Almedina, 2019. Published Branco, Manuel. "What Economics for Democracy". In Plunging in the Turmoil: Social Sciences and the Crisis, 25-41. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. Branco, Manuel. "História e Fundamentos do Direito ao Trabalho". In Relações Laborais em Portugal e no Mundo Lusófono – História e Demografia, 249-267. Portugal: Edições Colibri, 2014. Published Branco, Manuel. "Teoria Económica versus Direitos Humanos". In Novas Direcções na Filosofia dos Direitos Humanos,, 159-180. Portugal: Húmus, 2014. Published Branco, Manuel. "Economics Against Human Rights: The Conflicting Languages of Economics and Human Rights". In Facts, Values and Objectivity in Economics, 33-46. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2012. Published Branco, Manuel. "O papel dos sistemas tradicionais de uso da terra no bem-estar das populações rurais de Timor-Leste". In Novas Investigações sobre Timor, 25-30. Australia: Swinburne, 2012. Published Branco, Manuel. "The Social Costs of Water Commodification in Developing Countries". In Social Costs Today. Institutional Analyses of the Present Crises, 183-203. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2012. Published Branco, Manuel. "The market economy and the human right to water in Africa". In Water Governance – Challenges in Africa. Hydro-optimism or hydro-pessimism., 21-39. Switzerland: Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers, 2012. Published Branco, Manuel. "Globalização Económica e Desenvolvimento Democrático". In Globalização e Desenvolvimento, 187-213. Portugal: Caleidoscópio, 2011. Published Branco, Manuel. "A Economia de Mercado e o Direito Humano à Água em Timor Leste". In Compreender Timor Leste, 112-118. Swinburne Press, 2010. Branco, Manuel. "Ethnicity, Democracy and Economic Development: a pluralist approach". In Ethics and the Market: Insights from Social Economics, 161-175. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2006. Published Branco, Manuel. "Underdevelopment as Cultural Resistance or Culture as Resistance to Underdevelopment". In Frontiers of Diversity. Explorations in Contemporary Pluralism. Rodopi, 2005. Published Branco, Manuel. "Experiências de Luta contra o Desemprego de Longa Duração no Alentejo: As novas jazidas de emprego". In Futuro do Trabalho: Novas Relações e Competências. Portugal: Celta, 2001. Published
Conference paper	Marçal, G.; Costa, A.; Branco, Manuel. "A evolução do ensino pós-graduado em Economia em Portugal (1980-actualidade)". Paper presented in 2º Encontro de Economia Política, 2019.
Encyclopedia entry	Branco, Manuel. "Economia". In Dicionário Global dos Direitos Humanos, 2023. https://dignipediaglobal.pt/dicionario-global/economia. Published
Journal article	Branco, Manuel. "Four principles for a human rights-based approach to development without growth". International Journal of Green Economics 17 1 (2023): 20-35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijge.2023.131330. 10.1504/ijge.2023.131330 Branco, Manuel. Corresponding author: Branco, Manuel. "Democratization in Africa: The Development Condition Revisited". Perspectivas, Portuguese Journal of Political Science and International Relations 22 (2020): 39-49. Branco, Manuel; Costa, Ana; Marçal, Gonçalo. Corresponding author: Costa, Ana. "Modes of standardisation for postgraduate teaching in economics in a semi-peripheral country: the case of Portugal". International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 11 4 (2020): 391-409. Published Branco, Manuel. Corresponding author: Branco, Manuel. "Economics for the Right to Work". International Labour Review 158 1 (2019): 63-81. Published Branco, Manuel. "The Economy as Substantive Reality: The First Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Political Economy. An Introduction". Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais 119 (2019): 123-130. Published Branco, Manuel. Corresponding author: Branco, Manuel. "Teaching Political Economy for Human Rights". International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 9 3 (2018): 238-253. Published Branco, Manuel. Corresponding author: Branco, Manuel. "Human Rights Based Approach to Land Reform". International Journal on Latest Trends in Finance and Economic Sciences, 6 4 (2016): 1222-1230. Published Branco, Manuel. Corresponding author: Branco, Manuel. "Economics for Substantive Democracy". Review of Social Economy 74 4 (2016): 369-389. Published Branco, Manuel. Corresponding author: Branco, Manuel. "Can Markets Secure Economic and Social Human Rights?,". International Critical Thought 5 1 (2015): 80-94. Published Branco, M.C.. "Economics against democracy". Review of Radical Political Economics 44 1 (2012): 23-39. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84856182561&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1177/0486613411418051 Branco, M.C.; Henriques, P.D.. "The political economy of the human right to water". Review of Radical Political Economics 42 2 (2010): 142-155. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77952385827&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1177/0486613410368390 Branco, M.C.. "Economics against human rights: The conflicting languages of economics and human rights". Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 20 1 (2009): 88-102. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-62249161437&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1080/10455750902727394 Branco, M.C.. "Family, religion and economic performance: A critique of cultural determinism". Review of Social Economy 65 4 (2007): 407-424. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-36949030835&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1080/00346760701668438
Journal issue	Branco, Manuel. "The Economy as Substantive Reality: The First Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Political Economy". Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais 119 (2019): Published • Coeditor

Other

Other output

O pensamento económico recente em Portugal: uma abordagem histórica. 1º Encontro Anual de Economia Política. 2018. Costa, A.; Rodrigues, João; Reis, José; Branco, Manuel; Neves, Vítor.