This work is the product of a study on the energy sector crisis and on the alternative solution offered by nuclear energy. The topic is mainly addressed to those readers interested in knowing some historical and current aspects, legislation and projection of the Colombian energy sector, as well...

This article presents a series of reflections about the probable behaviour of the colombian economy during this year. In this article, there are shown and sustained the macroeconmic projections of the Grupo de Macroeconomia Aplinada. Equally, there are some hypotheses that are established about...

From a general perspective, one could argue that large State transformations are reflect-ed in income, expenditure and employment. The information that the National Bureau of Statistics (Dane) have on income (tax and nontax) is accessible and more orderly than spending and employment. This...

In this paper we study the state's role in the modernization and urban transformation in Buenos Aires in the period 1850-1910. This transformation was connected with the economic movements of the second half of the nineteenth century. It was a modernizing movement, a radical alteration of the...

The stability of money demand has been studied by many economists and for many countries considering the domestic interest rate and income level as determinants of this. However, when the economies begin to open to the world, the question arises how affect external variables as international...

After overcoming various financial crises in the mid-90's and early millennium (Tequila, Asian, Russian, Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador) Latin America found a proper environment conducive to reach sustained growth and macroeconomic stability. Endogenous elements - such as credit growth, the...

This article analyzes the conditions allowing the external equilibrium in Colombia during the period 1999 - 2002 associated with the performance of the external sector and the exchange rate policies. The main hypothesis in that the equilibrium achieved is precarious due to the poor level of...

The article summarises the main reasons that led Ecuador to opt for dollarization, which enabled the country to overcome and reduce the economic crisis that it was experiencing between 1998 and 2000. It analyses the consequences on the economy after the adoption of the dollar and some of the...

En los últimos 40 años se ha podido ver una tendencia casi constante y uniforme en todos los países sobre la caída en el peso de las rentas salariales sobre el total. En este trabajo intento dar un repaso básico a las teorías económicas que intentan explicar la distribución funcional de...

This paper presents estimates of the rate of profit on fourteen countries in the long run. The performance shows a clear downward trend, although there are periods of partial recovery in both core and peripheral countries. The behavior of the profit rate confirms the predictions made by Marx,...