Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins

Full Professor

Bio

Nuno Martins has a PhD in Economics by the University of Cambridge, and a licenciatura in Economics by the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto), where he also obtained his habilitation in History of Economic Thought.

He is currently full professor at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa where he teaches History of Economic Thought and Social Philosophy and Ethics.

He also taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of the Azores.

He is a member of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group (CSOG) interdisciplinary research network, and of the editorial board of various academic journals.

He published the book The Cambridge Revival of Political Economy in 2013 (London and New York, Routledge), and several international book chapters and numerous articles in various international academic journals in Economics and Philosophy, including, amongst others, the following journals:

Economics: Cambridge Journal of Economics; Ecological Economics; New Political Economy; Review of Political Economy; Journal of Post Keynesian Economics; Journal of Economic Issues; Review of Social Economy, American Journal of Economics and Sociology; Journal of Economic Methodology; Economic Thought; Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review.

Philosophy: Journal of Business Ethics; Journal of Global Ethics; Philosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy; International Journal of Philosophy and Social Values; Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia; Revue de Philosophie Économique; Journal of Critical Realism; Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour.

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A circular economy within a place-based approach as a means to a European full employment policy

Alexandra Paula Branco Pinto Leitão, Leonardo Filipe Seixas Barreto Costa & Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Leonardo Costa). 2018. 1º Encontro Anual de Economia Política, Lisboa, Portugal, 25/01/18
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Adam Smith and Catholic Social Teaching

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2021. Journal of Business Ethics
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Adam Smith on power and maritime trade

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2014. Mediterranean Studies
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Advancing heterodox economics in the tradition of the surplus approach

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Martins, N.O.). 2015. Advancing the Frontiers of Heterodox Economics: Essays in Honor of Frederic S. Lee
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Advancing heterodox economics in the tradition of the surplus approach

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2015. Advancing the frontiers of heterodox economics
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An ontology of power and leadership

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2018. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
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Barry Eichengreen. Hall of mirrors

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2016. Mediterranean Studies
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Cambridge economics in the post-Keynesian era

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno O. Martins). 2023. Contributions to Political Economy
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Cambridge Economics in the Post-Keynesian Era: How Mainstream Economics Replaced Cambridge Economics

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno O Martins). 2023. Contributions to Political Economy
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Cambridge Social Ontology and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Martins, Nuno). 2022. Heterodox Economics: Legacy and Prospects
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Cambridge's contribution to the revival of classical political economy

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2017. The Palgrave Companion to Cambridge Economics
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Can neuroscience inform economics? Rationality, emotions and preference formation

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Martins). 2011. Cambridge Journal of Economics
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Capabilities as causal powers

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Martins). 2006. Cambridge Journal of Economics
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Classical Political Economy

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Martins, Nuno). 2023. Routledge Handbook of Macroeconomic Methodology
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Classical surplus theory and heterodox economics

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2013. American Journal of Economics and Sociology
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Contributions to social ontology

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Clive Lawson). 2013.
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Critical ethical naturalism and the transformation of economics

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2017. Cambridge Journal of Economics
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Critical realism, econometrics, and heterodox economics

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2016. Handbook of research methods and applications in heterodox economics
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Development and the revival of political economy

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2021. Journal of Economic Issues
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Ecosystems, strong sustainability and the classical circular economy

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2016. Ecological Economics
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Ethics, ontology and capabilities

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Martins). 2007. Review of Political Economy
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Garegnani's surplus equation and Marx's falling rate of profits

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Martins, Nuno). 2021. A Reflection on Sraffa’s Revolution in Economic Theory
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Garegnani’s surplus equation and Marx’s falling rate of profits

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2021. A reflection on Sraffa’s revolution in economic theory
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Globalisation, inequality and the economic crisis

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Martins). 2011. New Political Economy
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Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Martins, Nuno Ornelas). 2016. Mediterranean Studies
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Human development

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2020. New Political Economy
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Human Development: Which Way Now?

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2020. New Political Economy
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Inequality, sustainability and Piketty's capital

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2015. Ecological Economics
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Interpreting the capitalist order before and after the marginalist revolution

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2015. Cambridge Journal of Economics
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Introduction: Ontology, philosophy and the social sciences

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Latsis, J.). 2013. Contributions to Social Ontology
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Joan Robinson and the reconstruction of economic theory

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2023. Cambridge Journal of Economics
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Justice and the social ontology of the corporation

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2018. Journal of Business Ethics
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Lebret’s Christian-inspired societal project and integral human development

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Martins). 2021. Journal of Global Ethics
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Marshall and the notions of welfare and value in the Cambridge tradition

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2025. Cambridge Journal of Economics
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Materiality and discursivity in the study of organizations

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2018. Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia
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Microeconomic Foundations of Macroeconomics

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Martins, Nuno). 2023. Routledge Handbook of Macroeconomic Methodology
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On some criticisms of critical realism in economics

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Mário da Graça Moura). 2008. Cambridge Journal of Economics
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Political aspects of the capital controversies and capitalist crises

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2016. Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
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Portugal's bailout and the crisis of the European Union from a capability perspective

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Realism, universalism and capabilities

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Martins). 2007. Review of Social Economy
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Realism, universalism and capabilities

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Martins). 2014. Social ontology and modern economics
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Reconsidering the notions of process, order and stability in Veblen

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2020. Cambridge Journal of Economics
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Rules, social ontology and collective identity

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Martins). 2009. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
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Sampaio Bruno e Leonardo Coimbra

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Leonardo Costa). 2016. Working papers: economics
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Sampaio Bruno e Leonardo Coimbra

Leonardo Filipe Seixas Barreto Costa & Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Leonardo Costa). 2018. A obra e o pensamento de Sampaio Bruno
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Sen's capability approach and Post Keynesianism

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2009. Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
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Sen's capability approach and Post Keynesianism: similarities, distinctions, and the Cambridge tradition

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with MARTINS, NO). 2009. JOURNAL OF POST KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS
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Sen, Sraffa and the revival of classical political economy

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2012. Journal of Economic Methodology
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Social exclusion of immigrants from a capability perspective

Américo Manuel dos Santos Carvalho Mendes & Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2012. Globalization trends and regional development
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Social exclusion of immigrants from a capability perspective: The case of portugal

Américo Manuel dos Santos Carvalho Mendes & Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Martins, N.O.). 2012. Globalization Trends and Regional Development: Dynamics of FDI and Human Capital Flows
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Social positioning and the pursuit of power

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2022. Cambridge Journal of Economics
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Some further considerations on the Sraffian Methodenstreit

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2019. Cambridge Journal of Economics
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Some further considerations on the Sraffian Methodenstreit

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2020. Cambridge Journal of Economics
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Space, time and political economy

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Gonçalo Marcelo). 2022. Regional Science Policy and Practice
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Spatial dimensions of Antonio Gramsci's contribution

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2017. Regional Science Policy and Practice
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Sraffa on fixed capital, money and the phases of capitalism

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno O. Martins). 2014. Review of Political Economy
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Sraffa, Marshall and the principle of continuity

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2013. Cambridge Journal of Economics
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Sraffian economics

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno O. Martins). 2023. Dictionary of ecological economics
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Sraffian models

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno O. Martins). 2023. Dictionary of ecological economics
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Sraffian Political Economy

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Martins, Nuno). 2022. Elgar Handbook of Alternative Theories of Political Economy
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Sraffian political economy

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2022. Handbook of alternative theories of olitical economy
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Subjective preferences

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno O. Martins). 2023. Dictionary of ecological economics
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Sustainability and development through the humanistic lens of Schumacher and Sen

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2022. Ecological Economics
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Sustainability economics, ontology and the capability approach

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Martins). 2011. Ecological Economics
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The Cambridge economic tradition and the distribution of the social surplus

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2021. Cambridge Journal of Economics
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The Cambridge revival of political economy

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2013. The Cambridge Revival of Political Economy
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The Classical Circular Economy, Sraffian Ecological Economics and the Capabilities Approach

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Martins, N.O.). 2018. Ecological Economics
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The classical circular economy, sraffian Eecological economics and the capabilities approach

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2018. Ecological Economics
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The economics of biodiversity

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2021. Ecological Economics
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The economics of biodiversity: Accounting for human impact in the biosphere

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Martins, N.O.). 2021. Ecological Economics
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The economy as substantive reality

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Manuel Couret Branco). 2019. Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais
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The economy as substantive reality: The first meeting of the Portuguese association of political economy. An introduction

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Branco, M.C.). 2019. Revista Critica de Ciencias Sociais
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The implications of inequality for European economic policy

Alexandra Paula Branco Pinto Leitão & Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2019. Economia, ética e sociedade
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The influence of critical realism on managerial prediction

Ricardo Alexandre Morais & Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Martins). 2015. Management working papers
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The place of the capability approach within sustainability economics

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno O. Martins). 2013. Ecological Economics
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The revival of classical political economy and the Cambridge tradition

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Martins). 2011. Review of Political Economy
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The Revival of Classical Political Economy and the Cambridge Tradition: From Scarcity Theory to Surplus Theory

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Martins, N.). 2011. Review of Political Economy
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The role of language in Keynes’ General theory and Sraffa’s Production of commodities

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2025. Economics and semiotics
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The Sraffian Methodenstreit and the revolution in economic theory

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2019. Cambridge Journal of Economics
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Values, objectivity and moral realism

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2012. Facts values and objectivity in economics
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Values, objectivity and moral realism: Nuno Ornelas Martins

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins 2012. Facts, Values and Objectivity in Economics
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Veblen, Sen, and the formalization of evolutionary theory

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Martins). 2015. Journal of Economic Issues
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Wellbeing Economics: How and Why Economics Needs to Change

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2021. The Journal of Development Studies
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Why is this ‘school’ called neoclassical economics?

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Nuno Ornelas Martins). 2015. What is neoclassical economics?
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Why is this ‘school’ called neoclassical economics? Classicism and neoclassicism in historical context

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Martins, N.O.). 2016. What is Neoclassical Economics?: Debating the Origins, Meaning and Significance
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Why is this ‘school’ called neoclassical economics?: Classicism and neoclassicism in historical context

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with Martins, N.O.). 2015. What is Neoclassical Economics?: Debating the Origins, Meaning and Significance
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‘If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix it’: A Critical Realist Approach to Industrial Policy

Nuno Miguel Ornelas Martins (with João Paiva-Silva). 2025. Review of Political Economy