In the analysis of the economic motivation of the war, the financial evaluation around resourcing stands; In Colombia has made considerable effort to understand and quantify the finances of the guerrillas. If you remove a small fraction of funding from public funds, it can be said that the...

This essay addresses the effects of journalism on politics, democracy and cultural production in Colombia during the past decade. The first part describes the characteristics of journalism and strategies used by mass media to increase market participation, as well as journalism’s influence in...

In recent years empirical research about economic growth’s determinants has tended to incorporate political and social factors as explanatory variables, motivated by the evidence arisen from traditional analysis that the differences in countries’ economic performance can not be explained...

The mutualist movement of the industrial era took root in the Iberian Peninsula and Europe, but also in Latin America, from midway through the XIX century. The Spanish Associations Act of 1887 treated the benefit and mutual, or friendly societies as one more method of association. The first...

The concept of social capital has gained importance within economic studies only until the present decade. This article analyses the origin and evolution of the concept of social capital, it also establishes its connection with the economic growth of nations basically through two ways: that...

The goal of the article is to highlight the importance of institutions, organizations and social capital within the growth process, either as efficiency or inefficiency promoters. This is particularly valid for underdeveloped countries which are characterized by an inefficient institutional...

This paper seeks to reexamine the traditional view of agricultural stagnation built by the contrast between the stagnation of the agricultural area vis-à-vis the booming of meat packing houses. The paper focuses on three aspects: 1) the increase in the quantum and variety of the production...