In this paper we propose to understand the present economic crisis looking to the disequilibria created by the capital accumulation in deregulated conditions. The concentration and centralization of value, produced by this process, establish a misbalanced development of society, disabling its...

Esta tesis es un esfuerzo por desentrañar el papel que juega el campo financiero dentro del proceso de acumulación de capital y la manera en que condiciona el desarrollo de la lucha entre las clases sociales por la distribución de la riqueza y el control político de la comunidad. El punto de...

This paper work assesses the key aspects of a framework for research on revolutions. Our approach includes a heuristic based on an idea suggested by Marx in the 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte: “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living”. From...

In this paper, we review the literature on social and economic determinants of crime. We analyze the behavior that crimes in Mexico over the last 15 years dividing those who threaten national security (federal crimes) and those against property and integrity of people (ordinary crimes) and...

This article analyses the 1989-2005 economic growth in the transitional economies in Europe and Central Asia, and signals factors that help to explain the differences in outcome. An econometric analysis finds prominent indices of property rights, corruption, economic freedom, tax incidence and...

The main characteristic of the transition from a planned to a market economy in Russia has been the barter economy. Firms are using non-monetary transactions as a result of the scarcity of the means of payment and as a means to avoid taxes and reduce fiscal obligations. The barter economy is a...

Spanish Abstract: En este artículo examino el efecto del Acuerdo de Paz entre el gobierno de Colombia y la guerrilla de las FARC sobre los homicidios en el país. Utilizando un modelo de diferencias en diferencias, muestro que después de la firma del Acuerdo de Paz en septiembre de 2016, los...

Spanish Abstract: Estudiamos el impacto de la descentralización en la capacidad fiscal local en Colombia. Específicamente, estimamos el efecto de mediano plazo del gran incremento en transferencias de origen nacional durante la década de los noventas sobre las fuentes principales del recaudo...

This is a review on gender issue foundations and its comparative development, to carry out an economic analysis of costs, incentives, efficiency and welfare. Attention is focused on questioning the contributions of Public Economics, trying to de - ideologize gender and address it from the Social...