This paper provides an overview of the failure of Argentina to benefit long term from export led development in the early and middle decades of the last century. Despite being well positioned to take advantage of significant breakdowns in the international economic system Argentina largely...

In this paper we analyze the Washington Consensus, which at its original formulation reflected views not only from Washington but also from Latin America. We trace the life of the Consensus from a Latin American perspective in terms of evolving economic development paradigms. We document the...

The present paper considers the implications of the postulate that the activities of scientists constitute complex phenomena in the sense associated with the methodological writings of the Nobel Prize-winning Austrian economist, methodologist, and political philosopher, F.A. Hayek. Although...

Joseph Schumpeter lamented that capitalism would not survive because he thought that its defining process—creative destruction—would be overshadowed by large firms. Witnessing the emergence of rising numbers of increasingly large firms, Schumpeter did not think that those responsible for...

This paper considers how should regulators control electronic money? E-money transacted through cell phones has achieved rapid growth. Technology has allowed various units of value to emerge as a medium of exchange to compete with legal tender without involving banks. This practice could...

This article attempts to present the important contribution of Victor V. Novozhilov to Marxian economic theory, the proof that the theory of optimal planning is the proper field of general economic equilibrium theory and that this theory, by fully respecting the objective law of value, leads to...

The present paper considers the implications of the postulate that the activities of scientists constitute complex phenomena in the sense associated with the methodological writings of the Nobel Prize-winning Austrian economist, methodologist, and political philosopher, F.A. Hayek. Although...

This paper outlines four non-exclusive options for reforming the financial system. Three options are based on the re-introduction of cost carrying money supported by Gesell (1916), Fisher (1933) and Keynes (1936), but in electronic form. One variant is a government issue redeemable into official...