Feminist studies have developed several tools to assess the gender impact of public policy and of budgets in particular. In this paper we introduce an innovative approach to the gender auditing of public budgets inspired by the capability approach. First, we expand the scope of the assessment of...

In this paper human subsistence is used as focal perspective. Working on Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Mandeville’s Fable we speculate on the role of passions in shaping the structural dynamics of the economic system. Subsistence is here seen as a historical process of ‘making’ an...

Actualmente hay un ataque que afecta a la seguridad, al empleo, al salario, a los servicios, a las transferencias públicas, y al cuadro de derechos. Esta fase obliga a examinar la naturaleza del sistema capitalista en su particular relación entre condiciones de producción e intercambio de...