After having reviewed some of the recent advances in Economics trying to incorporate new elements in our understanding of human interactions, we aim at contributing to this line of research using Adam Smith´s system of sympathy. The features Smithattributes to the intersubjective identification...

Este trabajo estudia la arquitectura de la organización bancaria y monetaria construida en los años 1870s hasta 1880s en Colombia y en particular en el Estado de Cundinamarca y en su capital, Bogotá. Utilizando indicadores financieros de liquidez y solvencia, construidos a partir de los...

Based on the counting of Help-wanted advertisements in print newspapers, we present national vacancy indexes and vacancy rates for Colombia. These series will allow tackling a myriad of questions related to the functioning of the labor markets in emerging economies, where such datasets were not...

Shorter undergraduate studies, increasing specialization and the priority of applied research in Economics represent threats for the History of Economic Thought (HET) as an integral part of the training of young economists. There are mostly sociological arguments to reduce or eliminate HET...

This paper presents a novel monthly dataset of job vacancies in Bogota between 1960 and 2010. The dataset was constructed by counting the number of help-wanted announcements published in the most important newspaper with national circulation-namely, El Tiempo. We describe the methodology used to...

El estudio de la circulación monetaria durante la llamada era de banca libre" en Colombia (1865-1885) muestra patrones diferentes según las regiones. Este trabajo estudia la complementariedad y sustitución entre moneda metálica y billetes de bancos privados. Se pone en evidencia la...