Bienvenida
Este blog es de todos y para todos; son bienvenidos todos aquellos aportes que contribuyan al crecimiento de la ciencia económica y de otras ciencias afines, bajo el objetivo común del desarrollo de las naciones (especialmente aquellas que constituyen nuestro sustento, hogar y nuestra constante inquietud: las latinoamericanas).
Esperen mayores aportes futuros con la misma dedicación que les damos la bienvenida ahora.
Gracias por creer en nuestro trabajo y permitirnos intentar hacer la diferencia.
Quito, enero 2009
domingo, 14 de febrero de 2010
Acerca de la crisis y la inclusión de ideas al debate
Libro Recomendado del Mes ( Febrero 2010)
Libro recomendado
ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age
Autor: Frank, Andre Gunder.
Año: 1998
Editorial: University of California Press
Idioma: Inglés
Materias Relacionadas: Problemas del Mundo Contemporáneo, Economía Internacional, Historia d
Se demuestra también, de forma tangencial a su objetivo pero evidente para el lector, la importancia de las relaciones económicas como factores primordiales en la construcción de las sociedades que incluso parece recordar las categorías marxista de "estructura" y "superestructura".
Finalmente, constituye una obra que llama a la reconsideración científica de los hechos y la redefinición de lo científico, al criticar las posturas que defienden que la ciencia debe ser producto de una gran especialización y destacar la necesidad de visiones más integrales de los problemas para llegar a respuestas que se aproximen a la realidad y que se liberen progresivamente de los dogmas a los que la excesiva especialización está expuesta
Frases, citas:
“The theoretical, analytical, empirical , and -in a word- «perspective» limitations of contemporary receivede theory are the heritage and reflection of our «classical» social theory and the equally (or even more so) Eurocentric historiography on which it is based”
“... my book will show that we live in one world, and have done so for a long time.”
“Marx argued that humans make their own history, but not in conditions of their choosing [...] The more we learn about the structure of these conditions, the better we can manage our «agency» wuthun them; indeed, the better we can perhaps affect or even change these conditions.”
Frases de Economistas
Thomas Schelling, Nobel Prize 2005
“We all talk about the same things, but we have not yet agreed what it is we are talking about”
Lionel Robbins (acerca de la definición de Economía), 1945
"We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things."
A. Von Hayek, Nobel Prize 1974
“I confess that I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much indetermined and unpredictable, to a pretence of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.”
A. Von Hayek, 1974
"Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions…. Year after year economic theorists continue to produce scores of mathematical models and to explore in great detail their formal properties; and the econometricians fit algebraic functions of all possible shapes to essentially the same sets of data without being able to advance, in any perceptible way, a systematic understanding of the structure and the operations of a real economic system."
Wassily Leontief, 1973 Nobel Memorial Prize Winner in Economic Science
“Scarcity is power, and more power than you might have thought”
Tim Harford, 2008
...What does the economist economize? " 'Tis love, 'tis love," said the Duchess, "that makes the world go round." "Somebody said," whispered Alice, "that it's done by everybody minding their own business." "Ah well," replied the Duchess, "it means much the same thing." Not perhaps quite so nearly the same thing as Alice's contemporaries thought. But if we economists mind our own business, and do that business well, we can, I believe, contribute mightily to the economizing, that is, to the full but thrifty utilization of that scarce resource Love—which we know, just as well as anybody else, to be the most precious thing in the world.
Sir Dennis H. Robertson