In dialog with an well-known and controversial book of two French economists (Cahuc and Zylberberg (2016)), we propose, in this article, to point out the mirage implied in attempts to consider economics as the “physics of the social sciences”. Given the availability of large datasets and the...

In this paper we study the roots of the turn-over in Brazil. The usual approach identifies the workers, with their speculated strategies, and the incentives given by the institucional/legal context as the principal source of the limited time horizon of the labour’s relations. We argue that...

Regional economic integration in America / Eduardo Lizano -- Regional integration in Central America : some remarks / Victor Bulmer-Thomas -- The Coimbra Group and integration in Central America / Daniel van Eeuwen -- The prospects for Andean integration / Lois Jorge Garay -- Andean integration...