El texto analiza la cooperación desde la economía política. Presenta, en su primera parte, tres autores clásicos que analizan este fenómeno social (Hobbes, Marx y Axelrod); muestra como para unos la cooperación es un resultado de las interacciones sociales, es fruto de la conveniencia y...

There's an existing trend on the current public service dynamics that thinks the State as entity. Such entity is limited to establishing prices and qualities of the services it regulates, based on costs and information offered by agents: thus, full-filling a function essentially technical. The...

Un modelo de equilibrio parcial que permite la toma de decisiones simultáneas

The concept of social capital has gained importance within economic studies only until the present decade. This article analyses the origin and evolution of the concept of social capital, it also establishes its connection with the economic growth of nations basically through two ways: that...

The goal of the article is to highlight the importance of institutions, organizations and social capital within the growth process, either as efficiency or inefficiency promoters. This is particularly valid for underdeveloped countries which are characterized by an inefficient institutional...

This article is a synthesis of the demand theory and it intends to establish the link-unusual among as-between this theory and its applications which make it necessary to emphasize some particular aspects. After a brief review of the basic theoretical elements the author presents some...

This paper studies the effects of school attributes on test scores in the city of Bogotá. The paper shows, first, that both teacher-pupil ratios and teacher education are positively correlated with higher test scores, and, next, that these associations are circumscribed to private schools. In...

This paper examines the effects of family background and school characteristics on standardized test results. We use the ICFES test: the Colombian equivalent to the American SAT. The paper reaches three main conclusions. First, parental schooling has a substantial effect on test results. Second,...