This article consists of three parts. The first response to the idea of keeping TOCQUEVILLE own arguments in Old Regime and the Revolution, without reproducing copiously text line by line. This component is the main concerns and conflicting judgments about the revolution, the decisive role that...

«Reflexiones sobre el estado actual del comercio de España» —Reflections on the current state of commerce in Spain— was anonymously published in 1761. At the time both the treatise and its author, the merchant Simón de Aragorri, were well known. Nevertheless, the work vanished for...

The utility function with traditional exponential discount cannot explain individuals´ problems of inter-temporal inconsistence and self-control. Several economists have explained these problems with what is known as “present-bias”. The present-bias means that a good becomes more tempting...

This paper discusses and discusses the fundamental propositions of neoclassical consumer theory and pure exchange in light of the existence of tolerance thresholds; reviewing the contract curve and social welfare when they distinguish between a Pareto efficient situation and another

The present paper exposes and discusses the fundamental propositions of consumer theory considering the existence of thresholds tolerance to inequality or to levels of consumption of goods.

La valoración de los bienes de no mercado se constituye en un nuevo campo de estudio en el análisis económico, consolidado en el ámbito de los recursos naturales y por ahora con muy pocas aplicaciones entre los elementos del patrimonio cultural. En este trabajo se presentan los métodos de...

Ibn Khadun, un historiador musulmán que decidió revisar de manera analítica los fundamentos de la historia, acaba describiendo ciertos componentes del proceso económico que deben ser tenidos en cuenta como parte de la historia del pensamiento económico. En esta disertación doy un...

In Aristotle’s thought, economic activity refers to a kind or praxis consisting of allocating human and material means comprising the oikos –the domestic community- to fulfill its natural ends: ensure both life and means of life. By means of natural chrematistics -acquisitive art- families...

Este artículo analiza el proceso de innovación tecnológica desde laeconomía política, específicamente, desde la perspectiva evolutiva.Se adopta el enfoque schumpeteriano en el cual el proceso de innovacióntecnológica puede ser visto como un proceso de aprendizaje. Enese sentido, la...

This article tackles with the economic content of the Spanish encyclopaedic literature of the 18th Century. After having analysed the genealogy of the dictionaries of commerce of the European Enlightenment, the paper studies the Spanish projects, as well as the economic content of the Spanish...