The 2008 global financial crisis was the consequence of the process of financialization, or the creation of massive fictitious financial wealth, that began in the 1980s, and of the hegemony of a reactionary ideology, namely, ...

This paper analyses the work and rhetoric of Douglass North. After discussing his main proposals for the economics of institutions -1973, 1981, 1990- we investigate the author's speech. It is shown that his conciliatory ...

Unlike the methodological sciences such as mathematics and decision theory, which use the hypothetical-deductive method and may be fully expressed in complex mathematical models because their only truth criterion is logical ...