Guilherme SAMPAIO

 Project at the MaCI

October 2025 - September 2027

Histories of post-1945 global economic governance revolve around narratives juxtaposing ‘North’ capitalist exploitation to ‘South’ resistance, with intergovernmental organisations and private business bodies starring as repositories of ideas for each side. Instead, this project studies how intergovernmental organisations (IGOs) globally repurposed Keynesian macroeconomics after 1945. It will result in a more accurate narrative that accounts for how women and men hailing from North and South used IGOs to co-create today’s instruments of macroeconomic governance, in dialogue with private business organisations. 

Moving beyond the nation-state as the sole producer of Keynesianism, the project offers a new explanation of why, despite its problematic relation with climate change, the growth bias of Keynesian macroeconomics still underpins the operational work of IGOs and nation-states across the globe. It achieves that goal through three case studies that will generate a publication each: firstly, by examining the dissemination of national income accounting in Asia through the United Nations; secondly, by investigating the UN System’s sponsoring of global forecasting models; and thirdly, by surveying critiques of Keynesianism in the International Chamber of Commerce. Those publications will be complemented by a workshop about the intergovernmental making of macroeconomic knowledge.

‘The MaCI’s interdisciplinarity in the social sciences offers an intellectually stimulating setting to develop my work, which I hope will encourage wider cross-disciplinary collaborations between history and economics. I am particularly looking forward to taking advantage of the MaCI’s Digital Arts Humanities Lab to accelerate my training in Digital Humanities. Being at the MaCI will also allow me to develop my research in connection with the laboratory PACTE and its specialists on international history, gender, and political economy.’

For this project, Guilherme Sampaio will be affiliated to PACTE Laboratory and will collaborate with Jean-François Ponsot (Professeur des universités) from the Regulations team. Pr.Jean-François Ponsot specialises in the histories of Keynesianism and Post-Keynesianism, as well as in the post-1945 evolution of the international monetary system.

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Supported by the GATES project (Grenoble ATtractiveness and ExcellenceS), funded by the French government's Programme d'Investissement Avenir and implemented by ANR France 2030