Las teorias de la poblacion de John Maynard Keynes y el concepto de optimo""

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Las políticas económicas de Keynes: reflexiones sobre la economía brasileña en el período 1995-2009

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Understanding the business cycle in Latin America: Prebisch's contributions

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Líneas de tensión: gestión política de la reforma económica. El Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) y la privatización de empresas públicas

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Retrato de un joven economista: la evolución de las opiniones de Raúl Prebisch sobre el ciclo económico y el dinero, 1919-1949

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Portrait of the economist as a young man: Raúl Prebisch's evolving views on the business cycle and money, 1919-1949

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Keynesian economic policies: reflections on the Brazilian economy, 1995-2009

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What kind of microfoundations? Notes on the evolutionary approach

The microfoundations of economic models are a hotly debated topic in the literature. The debate is important because microfoundations —the ways in which agents decide and behave— have implications that go beyond a specific firm, market or activity; they strongly condition macroeconomic outcomes. This document addresses the classical problems of rationality, uncertainty and institutions: when there is Keynes-Knight uncertainty and rationality is bounded, decision making adopts the form of conventional rules or heuristics. The hyper-rational representative agent of the rational expectations world could generate highly misleading outcomes in macro models. Section 2 applies this discussion to the study of technical change and to innovation and diffusion of technology in the international system, which transform the patterns of specialization. Section 3 discusses the forces that may trap a country in a low-growth trap and the crucial role of institutions in escaping from this trap.