Showing papers in "Cuadernos de Economía in 1999"

TL;DR: The major economic approach suffers from two serious errors: it transplants the methods of the pure sciences -in which all relevant information can be obtained and controlled- to the study of social phenomenal and it reduces economic analysis to the mathematical formalism of pure logic of choice as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, Bejarano' s participation in debates on the teaching of economics in Colombia from 1980 to the present time is discussed. Among the issues raised are curricular design, their contents and sequence, the role of language, the use of primary sources in economic theory versus textbooks, mathematical formalization and pedagogy itself.

TL;DR: Ante las puertas de la ley hay un guardian, el guardian le dice que por ahora no se lo puede permitir el hombre reflexiona y entonces pregunta si podria entrar despues Es posible -dice el guardian-; pero no ahora La puerta de entrada a la leys esta abierta como siempre as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, Bejarano analyzes el problema agrario que la academia and la sociedad deben contribuir a resolver, partiendo de la necesidad de volver a pensarse como socia.

TL;DR: The main consequence of the most recent transformations is reconsideration of the role of the state and overcoming extreme formulas which claim that economic activity should be left exclusively to the interaction of market forces, eliminating the intervention of the State, or to the contrary, that supreme control of the economy should be exercised by the State as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the development of the theory in the sixties, which mainly coinsits of the contributions of McKinnon (the openness criteria) and Kenen (the diversification criteria).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose causal relations between financial internationalization, monetary policy and the real sector which allowus to understand the interaction between those two factors in the period 1991-1997.

TL;DR: In particular, el presente articulo ilustra esta proposicion advirtiendo contra la factibilidad, in ciertos cases, de la alternativa mas aceptable: un sistema de monedas nacionales vinculadas mediante tasas de cambio flexibles as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, Bejarano tuvo una preocupacion permanente por el estado de la teoria economica, and mostro un espiritu critico que lo llevo a distanciarse de la economia estandar and a proponer un punto de vista metodologico that defendia the especificidad of la economía con respecto a las ciencias naturales.

TL;DR: The honor of ser el primer expositor en el primer congreso de estudiantes de economia del pais was el honor of Decano de la Facultad de Ciencias Economicas de la Universidad Nacional as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The main contributions of Bejarano in the fields of agrarian history and agricultural economics are discussed in this paper, emphasizing the issues which most interested him from an academic standpoint.

TL;DR: The first edition of the Granja de los Animales no fue publicado en esa epoca por razones que se haran evidentes para el lector.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine fifteen fallacies which, taken together, lead to policies which at best generate economic lethargy with unemployment rates close to 5 or 6 percent, and, even worse, when carried to their ultimate consequences, in search of "budgetary equilibrium", they can lead to a deep depression.

TL;DR: In this article, los dioses habian condenado a Sisifo a hacer rodar sin cesar una roca hasta la cima de una montana donde la piedra volvia a caer por su propio peso.

TL;DR: In this article, Bejarano analiza la produccion academica de Jesus Antonio bejarano en el campo de la historia economica colombiana, in which his trabajos iniciales se fundaron en teoricos marxistas, aunque their conceptualizaciones preservaban el analisis de clase e intentaban mantener a vision holistica de los temas que le preocupaban.

TL;DR: This article present a sintesis de la actual situación de la educación superior en Colombia; analiza las propuestas del Plan de Desarrollo 1998-2002 a la luz de esa sinthesis and concluye que el plan no aborda ninguno de los grandes problemas que afectan al sistema de educacion superior.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the way that the Development Plan "Changeto Build Peace" treats the social security system and its interpretation of the causes of social exclusion, concluding that the Plan lacks a vision of the system as a whole as it does not address the aspects of professional risks and pensions; it articula tes the concept of solidarity to interpersonal relations and thus underestimates the role of the State in achieving that goal.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the development plan for the next phase of the economic expansion, which will last three years, instead of the barely one year that the previous expansion lasted.

TL;DR: The preocupacion por el metodo y el alcance de la economia fue un tema recurrente en la obra economica de Jesus Antonio Bejarano, for quien la corriente principal de la economyia estaba en crisis.

TL;DR: A continuuación de la carta del profesor Jesus A. Bejarano as discussed by the authors, in which se describe the manera actual de asignacion de presupuesto and the situacion de la investigacion en Ciencias Sociales al interior of la Universidad Nacional.

TL;DR: In this paper, a diagnosis of the national industrial situation, the advancements of the Sectorial Competitiveness Agreements, and the effects of carelessness in sectorial policy and in the formation of human capital is elaborated.

TL;DR: In this paper, a growth strategy of the development plan is based mainly on the dynamism of exports and the productivity of the internal market, and the weight falls on non-traditional exports, seeking to turn industrial exports into the main source of external income.

TL;DR: The authors argued that the current Development Plan maintains the dichotomy between economic policy and social policy, and that the latter continues to be trapped in a vision of complementarity which leads to the persistence of assistentialism and to underestimating the complexity of the structural and conjunctural factors which are at the root of violence and poverty, two problems which the Plan considers central.