It is a well known fact that not all countries develop at the same time. The industrial revolution began over 200 years ago in England and has been spreading over the world ever since. In their paper Barriers to Riches, Parente and Prescott notice that countries that enter the industrial stage later on grow faster than what the early starters did. I present a simple model with learning externalities that generates this kind of behavior.

While the idea is controversial, it is quite possible that, at least under certain circumstances, the fighting effectiveness of a conscript army can equal that of a professional army.  For any army, fighting effectiveness is not only influenced by the degree of psychological cohesion among soldiers and officers, but also by the organizational culture of each particular service unit towards the preparation for war and the waging of the conflict itself.  The Malvinas (Falklands) War of 1982 demonstrates this very well.

The main goal of this paper is to show the importance of secondary education in the results of Argentine youth in the labor market, both empirically and with existing data, and differentiating impacts by gender. The evidence suggests that secondary education promotes greater participation in the labor force and it does so in a higher degree among young women than young men.

El crecimiento continuado de la producción agricola requiere mantenimiento de la capacidad productiva del suelo a lo largo del tiempo. Al respecto, este trabajo analiza la relación existente entre tamaño de empresa, sistema de tenencia y adopción de tecnología de conservación de suelos (siembra directa). Se utilizan datos microeconómicos representativos de la principal zona productora agrícola argentina. El trabajo somente a prueba diversas hipótesis relativas a determinantes de la decisión de adopción de tecnología conservacionista.

Hay procesos inexorables. Uno de ellos, ya casi consumado, fue la eventual transformación del planeta en una sola unidad debido a la acumulación de tecnologías de transporte, comunicación y armas de destrucción masiva. Aunque el triunfo del capitalismo nada tuviera de inevitable, esta globalización material  bajo uno u otro signo ideológico sí lo era.

This paper attempts to understand the factors that explain the degree of support or criticism that a reform process may be subject to.  Understanding these determinants is critical, in turn, to assess the feasibility and sustainability of those reforms.  In particular, we want to assess what are the elements that create societal consensus for reform and which are the main factors that turn public opinion against it.

This paper presents a version of the proportionally calibrated almost ideal demand system (PCAIDS) model, useful for merger simulations, which can be econometrically estimated using price data for two firms in a market. The model is then applied to a database of the Argentine gasoline market, and its results are compared to the ones obtained with other alternative specifications.

Argentina has more than twice the total debt of India whilst the latter has twenty-eight times more population in roughly equivalent territories. It was once a prosperous haven for poor Europeans, with one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, but now half its population is underneath the poverty line. It has perpetrated the greatest default in world economic history, yet if the foreign assets of its private individuals are included in the national accounts, the country is still a net creditor.

Si todas las culturas son moralmente equivalentes, entonces todos los individuos no estamos dotados de los mismos derechos humanos, porque hay culturas que adjudican a algunos hombres más derechos que a otros hombres y mujeres. Si por el contrario todos los individuos poseemos los mismos derechos, entonces todas las culturas no son moralmente equivalentes, porque hay culturas que no reconocen, ni siquiera en principio, la vigencia de esos derechos universales. Las dos afirmaciones son contradictorias y no pueden ser ambas verdaderas.

El surgimiento del peronismo presentó a los marxistas argentinos un dilema teórico: la clase obrera, para ellos el sujeto de la historia, rechazaba al partido de clase para seguir a un líder exógeno. No era éste el primer problema teórico que debían resolver, ya que en la conferencia de partidos comunistas latinoamericanos realizada en Buenos Aires en 1929, habían debido enfrentar las posiciones de José Carlos Mariátegui referidas a la cuestión indígena y al papel del imperialismo en América Latina.