Este artículo analiza la calidad del empleo en las principales ciudades colombianas en 2009. Los resultados muestran que aun cuando el índice ha mejorado con respecto a 2001, sigue siendo inferior al nivel necesario para tener un empleo de calidad. Además, comprueba la endogeneidad de la...

We explore reasons underlying the economic prosperity of certain popular merchants in Bolivia. Even if economics often associates popular merchants with poor economic performance and low productivity, anthropological evidence shows the existence of large fortunes in the bolivian popular economy...

La teoría económica predice una relación positiva y creciente entre recaudo tributario e ingreso nacional. La evidencia empírica de los países subdesarrollados muestra que el recaudo es inelástico al ingreso. El contraste entre la predicción teórica y la experiencia muestra, al menos...

En este ensayo exploramos los supuestos epistemológicos y ontológicos que se adoptaron para que la ciencia política fuera “científica”. Mostramos que adoptó en general una filosofía ontológicamente reduccionista de la ciencia derivada de la física newtoniana. Este marco mecánico...

This article shows that the consensus about the importance of institutions for economic growth is derived from Weber and North, for whom legal institutions make it possible to predict the State’s and economic agent’s actions. For Weber, law based on formal rationality contributed to the...

Over time, the CAP has had a very important role for the economic objectives of the EU. It is the institutional policy with the highest share of the community budget. This article examines the evolution of the CAP since the nineties, with the aims of reducing surpluses, developing an...

The economic slowdown experienced in Colombia since 1980 is explained by the structural stagnation of the national economy and the escalation of violence associated with the expansion of drug trafficking. The available data do not reject this hypothesis. The article sustains that...

Globalization has made it evident that the traditional separation between trade and competition policies is not only artificial but in overt contradiction with international economy. This paper discuses the relationship between the agricultural sector and competition policy in a free trade...