Helena Lopes completed her PhD in economics at Université Paris I - Sorbonne. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Economy at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon and senior researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-IUL. She has coordinated several interdisciplinary projects for national and international public bodies, including projects financed by the European Union Framework Programmes. She has papers published in several international economics journals, including Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Institutional Economics, Economic and Industrial Democracy, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Review of Social Economy.