Few ideas and activities have received as hyperbolic praise as those presented by Hernando de Soto on informality. Nobel prizes in economics, presidents of various countries, important magazines, and multilateral organizations have endorsed this author’s impulse to the official...

We analyze three concepts of market competition. Although in each one of them one can appreciate the different aspects of freedom, they also contribute specially to some of them. We propose that the "neoclassical general equilibrium" mainly contributes to the discussion of the outcomes of an...

We suggest the need to distinguish between three types of scarcity: absolute, relative and comparative. In this way we relate scarcity to the three main components of the economy: production, exchange and distribution. During the XX Century, scarcity has been, by far, mainly used to deal with...

The objective of the paper is to invite to an interdisciplinary dialogue. The first part presents a summary of the “capabilities approach†that stresses the expansion of freedom as the goal. In this perspective, underdevelopment means the existence of very few alternative ways of life...

Impactos y respuestas de política económica en el Perú.

Our objective is to explore the relation between scarcity and freedom as a partially different to the classic one opposing the first term to abundance. A more complete and substantive approach to scarcity should put us in contact with freedom. We will understand substantive as related to...

This article aims to set the way in which the Encyclical Caritas in Veritate follows the pattern of criticism of the modern economy which has resulted in encyclicals the three last centuries. This tradition also corresponds to the bishops document in Aparecida. A look that serves as the basis...