Spanish Abstract: El artículo presenta una revisión de los experimentos realizados sobre bienes públicos apoyados en el mecanismo de contribución voluntaria. La evidencia empírica existente muestra que los individuos no son solo los seres egoístas y competitivos que supone la teoría...

El ensayo intenta reconstruir la evolución teórica de Celso Furtado entre 1954 y 1959, así como la aparición del libro clásico de Celso Furtado Formación Económica del Brasil (1959). El surgimiento de lo que se llama el “estructuralismo” de Furtado puede establecerse en las...

The central aim of this investigation es our own poverty, it is a South side perspective (Africa or Latin-America). However, we do not advocate for an empirical research; we analyze theories intending to explain from the North such an economic reality. Theories, as logic-deductive bodies, can't...

Book review of Suárez Suárez, A. S. (2001): "Nueva Economía y nueva sociedad. Los grandes desafíos del siglo XXI", Prentice-Hall.

This article presents a comparative analysis of the approaches of institutional economics and Walrasian economics. After reviewing the differences between both perspectives, it argues that institutional economics is an alternative, however incomplete, to general equilibrium economics. It...

In educating economists, we should sacrifice some of the more technical aspects of economics (which can be learned later), in favour of the compulsory inclusion of philosophy, political science, and economic history. Three reasons for these interdisciplinary studies are given here. In the...

This papers starts from an analysis of the nature of power relations between countries, from a historical view, and their impact on trade. From this, the different research approaches on this subject are examined and most general epistemological positions are detected. Consequently, ethical...

In this paper, we intend to analyze some scientific questions of current importance in the Social Economy field and Non-profit sector. In the first place, we show the growing economical importance of this field in Europe, based on the results obtained in the last transnational study. Secondly,...