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Argentina?s economic crisis can be explained from the basis of its structural contradiction: foreign currency proceeds from economic sectors and activities which are independent and even antagonic with domestic market di...

The economic and social thinking of Latin America was enriched by the Latin American Development School(LDS). That is the name given in this essay to the contributions from distinguished social scientists who, during fif...

Capital accumulation can modify the relative productivity between skilled and unskilled workers, thus leading to changes in the wage structure. In particular, if capital goods are relatively more complementary to skilled...

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the he...

Most practitioners add the country risk to the discount rate when valuing projects in Emerging Markets. In addition to the problems already pointed out in the literature, in this paper we claim that such practice leads t...

The agricultural sector of many countries shows increasing farm size with corresponding decrease in farm numbers. Despite abundant research, the determinants of these changes have not been clearly identified. This paper ...

BOWLING ALONE warns Americans that their stock of social capital, the very fabric of their connections with each other, has been accelerating down. Putnam describes the resulting impoverishment of their lives and communi...

Abstract The mark of a capitalistic society is that resources are owned and allocated by such nongovernmental organizations as firms, households, and markets. Resource owners increase productivity through cooperative spe...

Our usual representations of the opposition between the "civilized" and the "primitive" derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our social science sets up between the observer and the observed. In fac...

Whereas traditional explanations of differences in long-run paths of development across the Americas generally point to the significance of differences in national heritage or religion, we highlight the relevance of star...

The paper demonstrates that two relatively unknown features of the employment cycle in U.S. manufacturing industries can provide a clue to understanding the role of sectorial shocks in the evolution of aggregate employme...

Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is s...

Economic theory has suffered in the past from a failure to state clearly its assumptions. Economists in building up a theory have often omitted to examine the foundations on which it was erected. This examination is, how...

From headwaters to mouth, the physical variables within a river system present a continuous gradient of physical conditions. This gradient should elicit a series of responses within the constituent populations resulting ...