Professor González criticizes the separation of the microeconomic and the macroeconomics, he considers this inadequate not only from the theoretical point of view, but also from a pedagogical perspective. The first part of the article shows how economic theory has been built without...

Si bien no es una tarea fácil definir qué es aquello que conforma los principios filosóficos no solo en un nivel interpretativo de la realidad (¿qué es lo que vemos?) sino también la forma en la que observamos esta realidad (¿Cómo lo vemos?) y el uso que le damos a esta información, voy...

This article is a tribute to the economist Albert O. Hirschman and their contributions to historical thinking in Colombia, in particular, having a broad impact analysis on the role of rhetoric in political economy. Hirschman distinguished clearly enough the official discourse of power and...

This paper examines the process of ideologization of Adam Smith´sthought. In The Wealth of Nations (1776), Smith embraced free enterpriseas the foundational principle of nascent capitalism. The conceptof the invisible hand -a metaphysical idea- helped give cohesion to anewborn science that...

Spanish Abstract: Irving Fisher fue uno de los más importantes economistas norteamericanos de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Hizo aportaciones muy relevantes sobre la teoría monetaria, los ciclos económicos y las políticas estabilizadoras. En este artículo se resumen su vida, sus ideas y...

Spanish Abstract: Uno de los campos menos desarrollados en la historiografía económica de América Latina y aún menos en Colombia es el de los ensayos biográficos. Este tipo de ensayos iluminan las circunstancias en las que se forjaron los trabajos más influyentes de ciertos autores, las...

The following paper analyzes the problem of social cooperation in the provision of a public good from an evolutionary perspective. To this end we depart from behavioral programs as the basic building block for modeling individuals in the social interaction, which is based on a generalized...

How would you allocate an additional amount of 100 million among different welfare projects (WP)? Basically, this is the question that by means of a personal survey structured as a budget game has been asked to a sample of 519 people around all the Spanish territory in order to infer their...

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