Mexico actually is suffering from a severe economic crisis, expressed in a drastic fall in real wages, an extremely high rate of inflation, daily worsening exchange rates for the peso and the following process of general impoverization with the malnutrition of the mass of the population.In...

Economics and biology have much in common in terms of their intellectual heritage and in the nature of their subject matter. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that many current controversies in biology have great relevance for economic theory. Among these is the theory of...

Many of the less developed countries not only are internally segmented and differentiated by different socio-economic-technological environments, but also have different socioeconomic groups/classes. Contrary to the mainstream economists’ fiction of perfectly competitive markets...

This paper uses vector-autoregressions to gain insights into the dynamic relationships between age at marriage, divorce, fertility, and labor force participation of women. The use of vector-autoregressions let us circumvent the statistical problems faced by previous studies. Age at marriage,...

Mainstream economics and development economics lacks a neutral cross-cultural model that may be applied to changing socioeconomic circumstances spanning historical periods at numerous levels. A combination modes theoretical model with a neutral methodology is suggested that may be used to assess...