In defining the guidelines of central governments, regional and local, the participation of civil society has been incorporated as a guiding principle in the construction of development strategies. This initiative involves promoting the participation of people and strengthening civil...

The goal of this research is to find the determinants of individual participation on civil society organizations in Chile through a social capital approach, and to evaluate whether there is a relationship between participation and economic welfare. Several regressions that correct for double...

In an institutional framework, intangible Asset Accountancy is a convenient thing for business, but it does not necessarily find a worth theoretical justification. Within perfect information and continuous activity assumptions, it remains demonstrated that the concept of intangible stands for a...

The objective of the paper is linking the concepts expressed by Arts Economics or Cultural Economics, with microeconomics and General Cost´s Theory. Processes that use as input works of art are analyzed from a theoretical point of view. As societies evolve, a greater proportion of individuals'...

The general theory of election is the foundation of microeconomic theories relating to producer's and consumer's choice. In this document, I will argue in a simple form and didactics, the basic propositions of theory of election. I will expose simple examples of life daily, such that the...

The consumer’s theory is a particular case of the theory of choice. This paper will explore the fundamental propositions that explain the behavior of a consumer agent and then be expressed in terms of the function of utility. Thus, the concept of utility is divorced of any philosophical and...

This paper discusses the formulation of the problem of consumer choice as an optimization problem, specifying the formal conditions to be met for such a case. Furthermore, some relevant theorems be derived from the existence of the utility function for the marshallian demand and the hicksian...

In this paper we present four alternative approaches to consumer theory of Hicks - Allen. Be developed revealed preference approach of Samuelson, the lexicographical preferences, the preferences of the characteristics of the goods of Lancaster and finally the focus of consumption and time...