Este artículo trata dos ideas básicas. La primera es que el modelo de racionalidad aplicado a la fecundidad y la interacción entre cantidad y calidad no fueron formulados inicialmente por Becker, y aunque dicha relación hoy parece clara y evidente no es obvia. La segunda es que desde el...

The knowledge in the present economic crisis constitutes thedifferential factor in the international markets competition. For thisreason, it is considered among economy theoreticians like the uniqueassets that is appraise with its use. The outstanding multinationalcompanies with presence in the...

The valuation of non-market goods is an increasingly widespread subject of study in economic analysis, both in terms of theoretical contributions and empirical applications. Analysis of natural resources has long engaged scholars’ attention, although growing interest is focusing on assets...

Este artículo presenta la primera aplicación al estudio de la realidad colombiana de culturomics, una nueva metodología de investigación de las ciencias sociales que describe tendencias culturales, sociales y lingüísticas con base en el análisis cuantitativo de textos digitalizados. El...

Empirical applications for assessing the efficiency in cultural organizations are still scarce. In this paper, we use a non-radial, output-oriented, DEA model for assessing the efficiency of a sample of 292 Musical Societies in the Valencian Community. The interest in this type of cultural...

Suele darse por sentado que la valoración de los impactos que recaen sobre las generaciones presentes no comporta dificultad alguna. Sin embargo esto no es cierto. Es más, no se dispone de una metodología ampliamente aceptada para contabilizar dichos impactos. Algunos de los aspectos más...

This article reviews research on Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISE) and social enterprises in Europe and analyses the current situation. WISE present paradigmatic examples of social enterprises within the framework of the emergence of European perspectives on social entrepreneurship and...

The purpose of this article is to analyse the most significant results of an extensive social research project on the public image of the Third Sector in Spain. The findings of an opinion survey applied to a statistically representative sample of the adult Spanish population is complemented by...

Based on literary sources and following Marshall Berman and Benedict Anderson’s theory, this article outlines some key tendencies of English society prior to World War I. Economic modernization and political imperialism emerged while the cultural avant garde (i.e. modernism) was pushed into...