RUI MANUEL MONTEIRO RAMOS nasceu a 22 de Maio de 1962, em Torres Vedras. É licenciado em História pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1985) e doutorado em Ciên…
Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism. His best-known works include his tetralogy about what he called the "long 19th centur…
Benjamin Graham was a British-born American financial analyst, investor and professor. He is widely known as the "father of value investing", and wrote two of the discipline's founding texts: Security…
Sun Tzu (traditional Chinese: 孫子; simplified Chinese: 孙子; pinyin: Sūnzǐ) was a Chinese military general, strategist, philosopher, and writer who lived during the Eastern Zhou period (771–256 BC). Sun …
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking writer from Prague whose work became one of the foundations of modern literature, even though he published only a small part of his writing during his lifetime. Born …
The official biographer of Winston Churchill and a leading historian on the Twentieth Century, Sir Martin Gilbert was a scholar and an historian who, though his 88 books, has shown there is such a thi…
Edward Gibbon (8 May 1737 – 16 January 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six v…
The Prince, book of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian political theorist, in 1513 describes an indifferent ruler to moral considerations with determination to achieve and to maintain power.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent 21 years as a risk taker (quantitative trader) before becoming a flaneur and researcher in philosophical, mathematical and (mostly) practical problems with probability.
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Am…
Daniel Silva was born in Michigan in 1960 and raised in California where he received his BA from Fresno State. Silva began his writing career as a journalist for United Press International (UPI), trav…
Ben Macintyre is a writer-at-large for The Times (U.K.) and the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, and Rogue Heroes, a…
Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 an…
Winifred Mary Beard (born 1 January 1955) is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and is a fellow of Newnham College. She is the Classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement, and a…
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short…
Donald George Quataert (September 10, 1941 – February 10, 2011) was a Dutch-American born historian at Binghamton University. He taught courses on Middle East/Ottoman history, with an interest in labo…
Fernão Mendes Pinto (Date of Birth, unknown c.1509 – 8 July 1583) was a Portuguese explorer and writer. His voyages are recorded in Pilgrimage (Portuguese: Peregrinação) (1614), his autobiographical m…
Simon Sebag Montefiore is the author of the global bestsellers 'The Romanovs' and 'Jerusalem: the Biography,' 'Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar' and Young Stalin and the novels Sashenka and One Night…
Friedrich August von Hayek CH was an Austrian and British economist and philosopher known for his defense of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought.…
JOSÉ MATTOSO nasceu em Leiria, a 22 de Janeiro de 1933. Professor catedrático jubilado, doutorou-se em História Medieval pela Universidade de Lovaina (Bélgica), em 1966, quando era monge beneditino do…
Byung-Chul Han, also spelled Pyŏng-ch'ŏl Han (born 1959 in Seoul), is a German author, cultural theorist, and Professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) in Berlin, Germany.
FREDERICO LOURENÇO nasceu em Lisboa, em 1963. Licenciou-se, em 1988, em Línguas e Literaturas Clássicas na Universidade de Lisboa, onde se viria a doutorar (1999) com a tese Euripidean Lyric: metre an…
José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony…
VASCO PULIDO VALENTE nasceu em Lisboa, a 21 de Novembro de 1941. Licenciado em Filosofia pela Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa e doutorado em História pela Universidade de Oxford, é Investigador-coordena…
MARIA JOÃO VIOLANTE BRANCO nasceu em Lisboa, a 2 de Fevereiro de 1961. Licenciou-se em História pela Universidade Livre (1983), e concluiu o seu Mestrado em História Medieval na Faculdade de Ciências …
Joaquim Jorge Veiguinha nasceu em Lisboa em 1953. Licenciado em Economia, foi, entre 1982 e 1988 investigador do Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade de Roma, onde realizou o presente trabalho. Act…
Maria Francisca Gama nasceu em Leiria em 1997. Aos 17 anos, mudou-se para Lisboa e formou-se em Direito, pela Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa. Trabalhou num escritório de advogados e, mai…
Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and the Director of the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development, University of Manchester. Research Fellow at CEPR, London.
