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Cuando se habla de progreso social se apunta al hecho de que se hace referencia a un proceso por el cual la sociedad, los individuos o ambos están sujetos a cambios que se consideran positivos. Y, en consecuencia, este concepto lleva siempre implícito juicios de valor. Una cuestión que no...
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Poverty is a problem of extreme seriousness in any society that limits and hinders the path to social progress. Much has been said about poverty, but the essential and inescapable point is that the real solution to the problem is to remove the factors that sustain it over time. And this is the...
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Tradicionalmente el PIB había sido el indicador utilizado para medir el nivel de actividad, el desarrollo global de la sociedad, el progreso y el bienestar. Pero nuevas demandas han ido surgiendo en el siglo XXI y el PIB ya no puede medirlas y tampoco orientar las políticas para su logro. Han...
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Neoclassical growth theory assumes that economic growth is an atomistic process in which changes in distribution play no role. Unfortunately, when this assumption is tested against real-world evidence, it is systematically violated. This paper argues that a reality-based growth theory must...
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Neoclassical growth theory is the dominant perspective for explaining economic growth. At its core are four implicit assumptions: 1) economic output can become decoupled from energy consumption; 2) economic distribution is unrelated to growth; 3) large institutions are not important for growth;...
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ideology, I use a sample of 43 introductory economics textbooks. My claim is that these textbooks deal mostly in capitalist … sample of biblical and economics text, I first isolate the jargon words of each corpus. Then I use the Google English corpus …, biblical jargon became less popular and was slowly replaced by economics jargon. I also find evidence that the popularity of …
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mainstream economics textbooks as my corpus of capitalist thinking, I isolate the jargon of these books and then track its … replaced by the language of economics. Surprisingly, however, I find that since the 1980s, the trend has reversed. Today, the … language of economics is waning, while biblical language is on the rise. Is this evidence that we’ve passed the peak of …
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