Este texto surgió como respuesta a una necesidad manifiesta de los estudiantes que he tenido en los distintos cursos que ofrezco desde 1998 en los programas de Economía y Ciencia Política de la Universidad de Antioquia. Una primera versión de este fue elaborada en 2003 y contó con los...

This article tries to explain the main criticism that the recent Nobel Price in Economics, Amartya Sen, has made to the ethic and methodological basis of utilitarian theories in economics. In the first parte of the work the concepts which laid the foundations to the neoclassic welfare theories...

The objective of this article is to present an analysis of the incidence of human capital as a factor to reduce poverty in the city of Medellin. With this purpose in mind the existing literature about human capital was reviewed, the educational situation of the city was analyzed and a model of...

A rapad extensión of the so called systemic paradigm has been produces in the last three decades. Niklas Luhmann, with his general theory of systems, is one of its leading representatives. His theory tries to explain the complex social phenomena and the modrn World society. Its is presented as...

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...

Based on two programs, Planning and Participatory Budgeting and TransparentManagement and Social Control from2004-2007Development Plan ofMedellín,this article presents and analyzes the link between social capital, development (economic and social) and public policies. Thiswork shows how those...