The thinking that has unilaterally dominated economic science for over five decades has recently come under intensive scrutiny and its validity and conceptual and empirical coherence are the subject of controversy. Thus the limitations of the prevailing paradigm for addressing the failures of...

El pensamiento que ha dominado unilateralmente la ciencia económica desde hace más de cinco décadas se ha constituido en el centro de un intenso debate con respecto a su validez y coherencia conceptual y empírica, que ha puesto en evidencia las limitantes del paradigma dominante para...

El pensamiento que ha dominado unilateralmente la ciencia económica desde hace más de cinco décadas se ha constituido en el centro de un intenso debate con respecto a su validez y coherencia conceptual y empírica, que ha puesto en evidencia las limitantes del paradigma dominante para...

This edited volume discusses the development theory advanced by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in the 1940s, and its transformations through the second half of the twentieth century. In this time frame, the authors identify two approaches: structuralism...

Introduction -- Models and structures -- The structuralist view of theories -- Idealization and concretization -- Measurement -- A general concept of an economy -- Preference and utility -- The logical structure of game theory -- Abstract labor and labor value -- Classical economics -- The...

In the 2000s a new aid regime evolved. This promised to move beyond the former neoliberal approach in a number of ways. It would involve greater consultation between donors and recipients, shift the focus from economic growth to broader factors, including poverty, and hand back the...

Legitimacy is a social source of financial power -- Legitimacy in political economy -- The financial reform nexus in England -- The financial reform nexus in Germany -- The financial reform nexus in the United States -- The financial reform nexus in Japan -- The social sources of international...