Este artículo presenta una teoría que analiza la propagación de variantes culturales que inducen la cohesión al interior de la sociedad civil y, por ende, fortalecen la capacidad de un país para resolver problemas de acción colectiva. El modelo combina elementos de la teoría de juegos...

This paper analyzes economic development through a co-evolutionary process where formal institutions linked to the rule of law are transformed jointly with cultural values. This type of dynamic makes possible to attain multiple equilibriums and, hence, economic backwardness is explained by the...

This paper presents a research program that links complexity theory with the study of socioeconomic systems. This approach of the evolutionary paradigm is referred to as sociomatics since it covers different disciplines in the social sciences and makes use of computers to simulate the behavior...

Introducción. El sistema económico mexicano, como todo sistema, está sustentado por instituciones políticas y económicas. Los actores sociales que se desenvuelven dentro de estas instituciones (o estructuras) tienen comportamientos interdependeintes; es decir, las acciones de unos afectan...

This paper presents a theory of political change that combines structural and strategic elements which determine elites' degree of fragmentation with cultural factors that exert an influence on the cohesiveness of civil society. Therefore, political change is seen as an outcome of modifications...

This essay suggests that the orthodox economic theory is in a quandary because of its poor performance in explaining the international financial crisis that started in 2008. Likewise, it claims that the social complexity theory is a better paradigm to explain socioeconomic phenomena, especially...

This paper develops a socioeconomic model to analyze the construction and ulterior collapse of an entrepreneurial diaspora. The mathematical model is motivated by some empirical facts of the Barcelonnettes diaspora, a group of French immigrants who came to Mexico in the XIX century. Moreover, it...

Introducción. A partir de 1982 el sistema financiero en México se ha venido modificando considerablemente; en dicho años los bancos fueron tomados por el Estado y el flujo de crédito externo(en terminos netos) se interrumpió. En consecuencia el gobierno mexicano se vio forzado a replantear...