José Reis

José Reis is a professor in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Coimbra (FEUC) and a researcher at the Center for Social Studies. He was Director of the FEUC from 2009 to 2015. He was also President of the Portuguese Association of Political Economy from 2016 to 2020. In 2018, he was laureate of the Directeur d'Études Associé programme at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, and Secretary of State for Higher Education from 1999 to 2000.

The Project 

Title: The Political Economy of the Construction of Democracy in Portugal and the French School of Regulation

"Economic policy and the path followed by Portuguese society after the Carnation Revolution on 25 April 1974 can be characterised by the substantive choices that transformed the country. But also by the economic ideas that most influenced them. Among these is the so-called ‘French school of regulation’ whose emergence and founding works were contemporary with the French Revolution. One of the aims of the project I am directing is precisely to show how important this relationship was, and to get to know some of the political protagonists of the early stages of democracy. In particular, I intend to conduct in-depth interviews with authors such as Michel Aglietta and Robert Boyer and analyse relevant documents from that period."

Selected Bibliography

• Livre : O Regresso do Planeamento: Percursos e Perspetivas sobre Planeamento Público em Portugal. Actual (avec Ana Drago)
• Article : « Os cinco trabalhos de uma periferia europeia: a economia portuguesa em tempos convulsos », Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 130, 2023
• Article : « Por que é que o capitalismo tem sido tão longo e persistente? », Ikara. Revista de Geografías iberoamericanas, 2, 2022
• Chapitre : « Portugal as a European Periphery: Imbalances, dependency, and trajectories », in Ana Cordeiro Santos et Nuno Teles, Financialisation in the European Periphery: World and social reproduction in Portugal, Routledege, 2020
• Livre :A Economia Portuguesa: Formas de economia política numa periferia persistente (1960-2017), Almedina, 2018