The aim of this paper is to offer a general overview of the institutionalist approach to economics, hoping to make clear some of its main advantages as a framework of study of the economic process. In doing so, a brief exposition about some of the weaknesses of neoclassical economics will be...

This article proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the concept of private protection agencies in the works of Schelling / Nozick / Gambetta. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict and changes from its author’s scientific output. A...

This article proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the concept of private protection agencies in the works of Schelling / Nozick / Gambetta. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict and changes from its author’s scientific output. A...

We show an introduction to the econometric research that uses panel-data. In the first part, we describe the development of panel-data models from the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first one. In the second part, we describe the models with fixed, random and dynamic effects....

We show an introduction to the econometric research that uses panel-data. In the first part, we describe the development of panel-data models from the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first one. In the second part, we describe the models with fixed, random and dynamic effects....

Este artículo introduce la Evaluación Realista (ER) para el análisis de políticos públicas. La ER encuentra justificación en las limitaciones de prácticas dominantes, como las técnicas de evaluación de impacto, para ofrecer explicaciones sobre el porqué una intervención o programa...

The concept of power is central to the social thought of Bertrand Russell and can be taken as the frame of reference for understanding his thinking outside the boundaries of analytic philosophy or the foundations of mathematics. This article of reflection analyzes Russell from the sciences of...

In the field of economics could highlight three theses models to evaluate information and arguments that are opposed to the schemes existing political economy. Thesis work we derive Albert Hirschman around what he calls "rhetorical intransigence." Explain this author: (1) the perversity thesis,...

This article hopes to facilitate dialogue within political studies by presenting a general description of the conceptual structure of Rational Choice Theory, RCT. The main goal is to present precisely and concretely the basic precepts of RCT both on its original formulation and on the...

The scientific literature that studies the economic cycles contains a historical debate between random and deterministic models. On the one hand, models with explanatory variables that follow a stochastic trajectory and produce, through transmission mechanisms, the observed cycles. Its...