This article shows that the consensus about the importance of institutions for economic growth is derived from Weber and North, for whom legal institutions make it possible to predict the State’s and economic agent’s actions. For Weber, law based on formal rationality contributed to the...

What is institutional development? How important is it? Which institutions promote development? Why they are not naturally implemented? How can we support them? These are the questions that this article tries to answer, based on the recent international literature on the topic, within the...

Spanish Abstract: Los territorios colombianos donde existe explotación minera han sido objeto numerosos estudios desde el punto de vista económico, político y social. En este artículo se analiza la acción colectiva en Buriticá, Antioquia, para entender sus dinámicas comunitarias a pesar...

Until the eruption of the 2007-2008 international crisis, the decade was characterized by a high growth of credit - especially credit lines for consumption - and of GDP in a large part of the developed and developing worlds. By the end of the period, the process coincided with increasing...

In the present Doctoral Thesis, we offer an analysis of the Local Agenda 21 and of the achievements reached in the attainment of a Sustainable Development through these programs. With this aim, firstly, we have established the institutional and conceptual framework of the Sustainable...

The International Financial Reporting Standars have re-opened the discussion on the financial consideration of the contributions of the partners of the cooperative societies. The concept of share capital is joined to the juridical dimension of the same one. To characterize the share capital of...

The denominated International Norms (that are only European) of Accounting they have shown a latent problem that is not only terminological: they claim the resource consideration unaware of the heading that picks up the contributions of the partners of the cooperative societies, as it could not...

The purpose of this paper is to explain the scope of evolutionary infeasibility of socialism in the broad sense, in light of the theory of spontaneous order of F. A. Hayek. To that end we will study the redefinition of socialism in the context of evolutionary praxeology, we apply the theory of...