Stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana presents significant environmental and health challenges. This paper develops a Keynesian economic model to analyze the equilibrium between stubble burning and alternative methods, integrating the role of government intervention, central bank policies, and...

In 2023, like most of the economies in its environment, the Galician economy experienced a significant slowdown in its growth rate. Thus, Galician GDP grew by 1.8%, seven-tenths less than in Spain, this growth being not only higher than the European average and the Eurozone but also higher than...

As I am writing this book, Russia is invading Ukraine, and the world’s beliefs in global institutions, peace, humanism, and social progress have been shaken again. Understanding why conflict is endemic to any social relation, under which conditions it is a positive element in social life, and...

In social sciences there has been a long debate between the defenders of institutionalism and those of liberalism. The debate has centered around the relationship that exists between the individual (agent) and the social institutions (social structure). In general, liberalism defends that the...

Revolutions do not consolidate until they blend with the establishment to create a new world. Keynes understood it, and that is why he titled his masterwork The General Theory. But he was unsuccessful in the blending. In 2020-21, it is argued in here, we all follow Keynes, but with insufficient...

The main thesis in this manuscript is that a social choice theory based on aggregating individual preferences and values is insufficient to confront the social choices that today’s world is facing. It is defended in here that institutions play a critical role in any social choice, and that the...

The argument made in this manuscript is that the two traditional macroeconomic tools, fiscal policy and monetary policy, are insufficient to bring back efficiently into equilibrium an economy that has had a major crisis. Both traditional macro-tools only work through the demand side, and there...

In less than fifteen years, the world has experienced the worst financial crisis since the 1930’s, the worst global pandemic since the flu in 1918, and the largest war fought since the Second World War. This manuscript argues that these crises are not isolated events. The main thesis is that...

Economic conflict resolution historically has been seen, by the main schools of economic thought, as the distribution of given, scarce resources. The neoclassical school argued that the distribution was efficiently solved by the price system, and the Marxist school argued that a revolution to...

As I am writing this book, Russia is invading Ukraine, and the world’s beliefs in global institutions, peace, humanism, and social progress have been shaken again. Understanding why conflict is endemic to any social relation, under which conditions it is a positive element in social life, and...