Entrepreneurship has become a prominent and strategically important issue when talking about the driving forces of prosperity and job creation. However, entrepreneurship seems to be poorly defined. The paper studies central assumptions by questioning what many contemporaries take for granted....

In the last decades, economic historians explore human heights to analyze secular changes produced in the biological well-being of populations and the relationship between economic growth and human development. Anthropometric data are used to complement the knowledge we have about living...

This article brings together the main contributions of the recent historiography on East Asia which questions the traditional idea about the “exceptionalism” of European economic performance in the centuries prior to the industrial revolution. They suggest instead that divergence in their...

Current theories of the State would benefit from a new look at the economic role of the State in the work of the great economists of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Schumpeter’s central theme of technological innovation for long-term economic growth makes his work particularly interesting to...

In September 2007, a serious financial crisis became evident in the developed countries, due to serious mistakes in economic policy. Even against their own ideology, governments have not spared measures to reduce its effects, have failed to contain it, and it advances towards a global recession...

The Frente Amplio government macroeconomic policy continued the previous policy and was successful about the crisis administration, with better outputs fulfilling the targets agreed with the IMF. The exceptional macroeconomic success wasn´t fully reflected over better life conditions of the...

The Batllismo was a defining political and cultural phenomenon of Uruguay in the first three decades of the twentieth century. One of the most characteristic aspects of his speech and action was economic and social reformism. Within the limits of capitalism and political liberalism, it was...