In modern day Chile the economic entrepreneurial landscape is made up of large multinational conglomerates, local economic groups, and so-called emerging economic groups (that burgeoned with the transformation of former government employees into owners of important parts of state-owned...

El neoliberalismo es un fenómeno que comienza a ser objeto de estudio desde sus inicios en el último cuarto del siglo XX. Para comprender en quéconsistió este proceso es necesario analizar casos concretos que reflejen laimplementación de las medidas neoliberales. Para tal fin, son abordados...

During the 1990s, the telecommunication sectors in most Latin American countries were privatized, liberalized and deregulated. In the literature, this shift has been accounted for by pointing to technological transformations, changing political coalitions or the pressure from international...

The paper criticizes the conception of value on behalf of the conventional economic theory, blaming it for the current economic school’s incapacity to explain the actual economic crisis and to offer an adequate perspective to settle a solution. It proposes an explanation based on the tendency...

The global financial crisis has brought discussion of financialization to the fore. Yet, what is notable is the extent to which the dysfunctional micro-economic consequences of financialization at firm level have gone largely unremarked and unchanged. By revisiting and renewing the disconnected...

Capitalism has undergone drastic transformations over the last thirty years. Among critics, theses about the financial nature of the process of accumulation have been prominent. One of these is the theory by French economist Francois Chesnais (1998, 2005) whose main proposition is that, as of...

El artículo critica la perspectiva que distintas corrientes de la economía convencional han venido levantando de la crisis económica actual, aduciendo que la explicación del origen del valor que comparten no les permite observar el conflicto que está a la base de esta situación. Propone...