The lack of public understanding regarding the role and impact of cooperatives upon welfare implies not recognizing cooperatives as a form of entrepreneurial activity. There is an obvious need to overcome the contradiction between reality and recognizing cooperatives. The European Community,...

This paper synthesizes, in one Leontief economic model, the arguments of exploitation and unequal distribution of wealth by Roemer (1982,1986) and of the power relationship between employers and employees concerning the labor extraction by Boyles and Gintis (1988,1990). The author introduces the...

The historical context determines for most part the order of priority of the scientific phenomena to study, the techniques (methods and tools) to use, as well as the social use which will be made of the results. Classical Economists highlighted three stages in the transformation of the...

A key market access issue for developing countries will be the inclusion of industrial products. Developing countries now depend on manufactures for an average of three quarters of their export revenues—the world is very different from that represented by

This work intends to contribute to post-capitalism debate, by mean of an historical approach. Influent Features and Variables are analyzed in relation to transition processes toward post?capitalism. In post-capitalist rationality, priority is given to political issues above economic ones and...

The essay proposes an alternative understanding of social policy, focussing on social quality and as such bringing together biographical and societal development and as well institutional and communal concerns. On this basis the author proposes a definition of precarity that goes far beyond...

The aim of the paper is to endorse the principle, recurrent in non-profit literature, that the third sector is an institution that supports the development process of economic systems. The third sector is considered as an institution that –favors, transmits and cements– the role of social...

Retomando una preocupación de la economía del desarrollo en América Latina, y en particular de los enfoques desarrollados por Prebisch, Furtado, Hirschman, se presenta un análisis de los elementos centrales en los que se fundamenta el crecimiento a largo plazo en los países de la periferia...

At any given point in time, the collection of assets existing in the economy is observable. Each asset is a function of a set of contingencies. The union taken over all assets of these contingencies is what we call the set of publicly known states. An innovation is a set of states that are not...