This essay contests the view that humanity’s centuries-long experience with clocks is marked by a steady increase in time awareness that culminated in the modern compulsion known as “time discipline”. It argues, in contrast, that modern time discipline emerged during…

Electoral authoritarian regimes represent the modal type of political regimes in the developing world. To control electoral outcomes, such regimes may deploy a broad variety of repressive and manipulative measures. Despite their empirical as well as normative relevance, we possess…

La seguridad es un concepto complejo y cuestionado, cargado de valores y juicios. Por siglos, el concepto de seguridad internacional fue asociado al estudio de los conflictos internacionales, políticas de defensa, estrategia militar, control de armas, inteligencia, coerción, negociación y…

Un mundo crecientemente los individuos tienen menor capacidad para tomar decisiones óptimas debido a la falta de conocimientos sobre conceptos básicos financieros. Esto conduce a equivocaciones en decisiones claves que se toman a lo largo de la vida. El analfabetismo…

The objective of this research is to elaborate an endogenous growth
model which allows us to examine the mutual interaction between economic
growth, labour market behaviour and population growth. We show how the
introduction of disequilibrium and some nonlinearities give…

The study of natural fluctuations has been of great interest for
economists for decades. Although the earliest formal models of business
cycles, around the 1950s, were endogenous (Hicks, Kaldor, Goodwin), the
dominant strategy during the most of the last century…

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT’s) have the potential of radically change governments and the way they interact with citizens, businesses and other levels of government. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the conditions, factors, and aspects that are…

Physical orientation was a central philosophical problem for German thinkers in the late eighteenth century. Moses Mendelssohn, for instance, pondered in Morgenstunden, o Vorlesungen uber das Daseyn Gotten (1785) whether one can orient oneself in the metaphysical realm with the…

This essay argues that intellectual historians have overlooked the significance of the return of Euclid’s geometric thought to early-modern Europe. Looking at the period between 1400 and 1800, this essay shows how geometric thought not only penetrated into fundamental areas…

La traducción al español de Economía y sociedad [Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft] de Max Weber es la expresión más compleja de un proyecto para modernizar las ciencias sociales. Este documento de trabajo analiza algunas facetas de la misma que apenas han…