Nowadays all countries acknowledge that human capital contributes to economic development as much as physical capital does. Education is taken as an important tool for economic and social development. Investing in education leads to human capital accumulation which constitutes a key factor for a...

This article presents some guidelines to design an educational policy from an economic point of view. First, a brief description of the structure and evolution of the Colombian educational sector from an international perspective is described. Then, the author discusses the distribution of...

A rapad extensión of the so called systemic paradigm has been produces in the last three decades. Niklas Luhmann, with his general theory of systems, is one of its leading representatives. His theory tries to explain the complex social phenomena and the modrn World society. Its is presented as...

Economists worries about the potencial exhaustion of natural resources and the deterioration of the environment as well as its effects upon present and future generations welfare have led to disputes as for the relevancy of having as the only goal a long run economic growth without parallel...

In this article the author presents the Human Development Indicator (HDI) for four Colombian cities (Santafé de Bogotá, Medellin, Santiago de Cali and Barranquilla). The HDI is an approximate measure of the living conditions of the population, taking into account economic aspects such as...

El texto analiza la cooperación desde la economía política. Presenta, en su primera parte, tres autores clásicos que analizan este fenómeno social (Hobbes, Marx y Axelrod); muestra como para unos la cooperación es un resultado de las interacciones sociales, es fruto de la conveniencia y...