Spanish Abstract: El modelo metodológico planteado por Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, basado en la propuesta epistemológica popperiana, cuya idea central consiste en dar orden a las proposiciones mediante el uso de la lógica y clasificarlas en dos categorías: alfa (α), proposiciones...

Spanish Abstract: Coartada para intervenciones militares, sacralización para la tiranía del mercado, fundamento ideológico para el fundamentalismo de lo políticamente correcto: ¿puede la “ficción simbólica” de los derechos humanos recuperarse para la politización progresiva de las...

Herbert Simon disseminated his bounded rationality approach in his vast academic production. The recognition of the complex environment and the cognitive limits led him to study about the use of heuristics in the decision-making. Around this idea, a new path to the study of human decisions has...

A new Development Economics is being built, combining the return to the heritage of the “old” Structuralism with contributions brought by the renewal of the Institutionalism. This paper begins with a balance of the first development economists’ contributions and insufficiencies and of the...

Neo-Schumpeterian economics has elaborated a theory of the role of science and technology in capitalist dynamics. We argue that this approach may be improved if it takes Marx's theory of capital into account. This (collective) effort should also consider contributions from some classic authors...

In recent years, Brazilian economic performance has been influenced by increasingly volatile financial flows and episodes of capital flight, which have occurred mainly due to external events, out of control or influence of the domestic monetary authorities. This paper aims to measure the...