In recent years empirical research about economic growth’s determinants has tended to incorporate political and social factors as explanatory variables, motivated by the evidence arisen from traditional analysis that the differences in countries’ economic performance can not be explained...

As part of a broader discussion of fiscal federalism in Argentina, this research analyzes the role of the National Budget as an instrument of resource allocation that has an impact located in the provinces. To do this, we consider the evolution between 2004 and 2007 transfers and budget programs...

To promote and contribute to the discussion of fiscal federalism in Argentina, this paper presents a proposal to amend the distribution of the revenue from the Income Tax between the Nation and the provinces. The proposal is based on the need to help reinvigorate the discussion on the...

This paper presents estimates of the rate of profit on fourteen countries in the long run. The performance shows a clear downward trend, although there are periods of partial recovery in both core and peripheral countries. The behavior of the profit rate confirms the predictions made by Marx,...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze from a critic and systematic approach, and in the assumption of a governance crisis, the transformation of institutions towards new shapes, structures and processes and mechanisms in a emergent global economic [em]governance[/em]. It is described briefly...

Legal positions (such as rights, duties, liberties, powers, liabilities and immunities) are linked together by strong institutional complementarities that differ from the usual institutional complementarities that have been recently considered in economic literature. Legal positions not only...

The society of the knowledge is not nowadays a simple political slogan, but joined the concept of new economy and globalization it expresses a special relation of power. Of dependence of the world with the only existent superpower from the ends of the 20th century: the United States. It is the...

The strategies globalizadoras of the capital cannot analyze starting from the present, obviating their historical dimension. The more and more frequent and indiscriminate use of the expression of this phenomenon made necessary to carry out a revision of the most significant stages in the...

En esta investigación se analiza el proceso contractual de apertura petrolera venezolana, actores, estrategias y consecuencias de este proceso.

El discurso político se caracteriza por ideologizar y buscar artificios idóneos para evitar decir lo que no hay que decir. En Venezuela, el enfrentamiento entre el Estado propietario de los yacimientos petrolíferos y el capital internacional, tuvo indiscutibles aspectos políticos; los...