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The current global recession has cast doubts about the work of macroeconomists, the usefulness of their theories and their capacity to anticipate and deal with crises. This paper discusses that, while incapable of dealing with all the complexities of the
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This essay examines how the field of economics works, understood to be the space of symbolic production of economic knowledge and its distribution networks. It therefore analyzes the relationship between the producing agents and the institutions involved. The economy is a scientific field with...
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This essay makes reference to the Scholastic doctrine of moral probabilism and explores the possible links between this theological perspective and the modern concept of probability. It shows that these concepts are more related than is suggested by common etymological approaches. Moral...
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In this short essay Hodgson denounces the superficiality in the teaching of economics and agrees with the student protests which have urged deep academic reforms. He also censures the absence of plurality and tolerance in teaching methods and argues that excessive mathematical formulation,...
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Spanish Abstract: Este artículo analiza el significado de la expresión “mano invisible” de Smith. ¿La usó para describir el comportamiento de los mercados como algo inexorable y predeterminado, como se supone usualmente, o como una metáfora de la “mano de Dios”? Para responder esta...
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Spanish Abstract: Este artículo recoge algunas reflexiones en lo referente al carácter científico de la economía y sus efectos sobre la administración como disciplina afín. El ejercicio se hace desde una perspectiva crítica en el que se ponderan los aspectos epistemológicos con respecto...
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This work is the product of a study on the energy sector crisis and on the alternative solution offered by nuclear energy. The topic is mainly addressed to those readers interested in knowing some historical and current aspects, legislation and projection of the Colombian energy sector, as well...
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This article presents a series of reflections about the probable behaviour of the colombian economy during this year. In this article, there are shown and sustained the macroeconmic projections of the Grupo de Macroeconomia Aplinada. Equally, there are some hypotheses that are established about...
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From a general perspective, one could argue that large State transformations are reflect-ed in income, expenditure and employment. The information that the National Bureau of Statistics (Dane) have on income (tax and nontax) is accessible and more orderly than spending and employment. This...
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In this paper we study the state's role in the modernization and urban transformation in Buenos Aires in the period 1850-1910. This transformation was connected with the economic movements of the second half of the nineteenth century. It was a modernizing movement, a radical alteration of the...
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