<title>Abstract</title> This paper shows that modern monetary theory can be better understood through the differences between Menger and Walras. Since the 1980s, attempts to establish coherent microfoundations for monetary exchange have brought Menger's theory of the origin of money to the forefront and sent...

This paper is part of a larger research project on the evolution of the Perfect Competition concept in a historical perspective. We try to follow the changes this concept has gone through from the different alternative views during the so-called Marginal Revolution" towards the consolidation of...

This paper presents a novel monthly dataset of job vacancies in Bogota between 1960 and 2010. The dataset was constructed by counting the number of help-wanted announcements published in the most important newspaper with national circulation—namely, El Tiempo. We describe the methodology used...

Este trabajo estudia la arquitectura de la organización bancaria y monetaria construida en los años 1870s hasta 1880s en Colombia y en particular en el Estado de Cundinamarca y en su capital, Bogotá. Utilizando indicadores financieros de liquidez y solvencia, construidos a partir de los...

Based on the counting of Help-wanted advertisements in print newspapers, we present national vacancy indexes and vacancy rates for Colombia. These series will allow tackling a myriad of questions related to the functioning of the labor markets in emerging economies, where such datasets were not...

Introduction: What’s a Money Doctor? -- Money Doctors in the Medieval/Pre-Modern Period -- Is Oda Nobunaga the Final Champion of the Medieval Era or A Pioneer of the Early Modern Era? -- A Money Doctor in the 16th Century Japan -- Johan Palmstrüch, A Copper Money Doctor: Stockholm Banco and...

Spanish Abstract: ¿Qué podemos aprender de la evolución del sistema de seguridad social y de las instituciones del mercado laboral para los futuros procesos de reforma en Colombia? Contestamos este interrogante desde una perspectiva histórica y de análisis institucional la evolución de las...