Thank you so much Hans-Michael!
Hugs,
Annie

> Le 7 mars 2024 à 23:54, Hans-Michael Trautwein <[log in to unmask]> a écrit :
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> Tribute to Mauro Boianovsky (1959-2024)
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> On February 21, Mauro Boianovsky passed away in Brasília at the age of 64, after some months of illness. Within few hours the internet was full of reactions to the death notice, mourning the great, and in many cases unexpected, loss for the community of historians of economic thought. If he had lived to see the signs of appreciation from all over the world, Mauro would have found them remarkable with regard to the fact that he had been based in Brasília for most of his life – quite distant from the usual places of education, research and interaction in HET even now, but much farther away in terms of travel and communication at the beginning of his career.
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> Mauro took his first degree in economics at the Universidade de Brasília  in 1979. He completed his Master’s degree at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC) do Rio de Janeiro in 1989, after years of teaching at the Universidade Federal Fluminense across the bay. His Master’s thesis, supervised by Edward Amadeo, was the beginning of his life-long engagement with the theories of Knut Wicksell. As a Cambridge graduate student in the first half of the 1990s, Mauro worked on a doctoral thesis about Wicksell and contemporaneous business cycle theories, under the supervision of Geoff Harcourt. After earning his Ph.D. in 1996, he returned to the Universidade de Brasília, where he served as professor for the rest of his life.
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> Mauro was a prolific writer in the history of macroeconomics, in particular with regard to the evolution of monetary theory, business cycle theory and development economics. The publication record in his official CV comprises 80 articles in scientific journals plus many other publications, including five books that he co-authored, edited or co-edited. Most of this was based on detective work in the archives, in which he collected all sorts of materials as pieces of evidence on the formation and diffusion of the ideas, concepts and theories under scrutiny. Rearranging them like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that could take unexpected shapes in the process, he filled gaps and established overlooked linkages in the history of macroeconomics. Over time Mauro became a master of rich contextualization.
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> While Wicksell remained the fixed star around which much of Mauro’s research evolved, he wrote copiously also about other economists and about the evolution of concepts. To name just a few of his favourite subjects, it may suffice to mention the names of Dennis Robertson, Ragnar Frisch, David Champernowne, Evsey Domar and Don Patinkin, the concepts of involuntary unemployment and natural rates of interest, and the making of Gottfried Haberler’s Prosperity and Depression. Around 2005, Mauro began to work on the Latin American history of development economics, with a special focus on the contributions of Celso Furtado, but also in more comprehensive perspectives.
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> Coming from Brasília, Mauro needed to travel far and frequently for digging in the archives, attending conferences, and meeting with co-authors and other colleagues that invited him to their institutions. Quite aptly, he chose “Economists and their travels” as the topic for the presidential address that he delivered to the History of Economics Society in 2017. He had attended HES conferences since 1994 and served in various functions in that society, as described in his recollections published in the “HES at 50” issue of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (February 2024). Mauro was also a regular participant in ESHET conferences and a member of the ESHET council from 2006 until 2010. He supported the formation and activities of ALAHPE, the Latin American network of historians of economic thought, not least by providing an encouraging example of a successful career in the international HET community. He had friends all over the world and will be greatly missed.
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> Hans-Michael Trautwein
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> (This is just a short tribute; a longer obituary will be published in the April issue of EJHET)
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