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In this paper, a claim for transdisciplinary in economics is put forward, pleading for a change of paradigm in economics and the introduction of a new area of study, physiconomics. William Stanley Jevons is presented as a forerunner of this transdisciplinary view. He introduced an emphasis on the importance of the relationship between economics and...

En este artículo se describe la historia del pensamiento económico como un flujo dialéctico de tesis, síntesis y antítesis, en el que lo individual y lo comunitario pugnan por su reconocimiento en un proceso en el que la síntesis araña mayores grados de libertad a una realidad en que ambos están imbricados uno en el otro. Primero describiremos ese...

The selection of a certain location for the placement of a solar facility depends on the solar resource availability, which is generally assessed though exceedance probabilities. However, the choice of the specific exceedance probability is arbitrary and the assessment will be different depending on the choice taken. Furthermore, exceedance probabi...

Este artículo detalla de manera esquemática las diferencias entre las teorías de David Hume y Adam Smith en los diversos temas que tratan. Para ello, se abren cuadros de doble entrada que dan muestra de la contraposición de ambas teorías, y que demuestran que Adam Smith quiso rebatir en sus distintas obras las teorías de David Hume.

The lives of Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) and Robert Schumann (1810–1856) reflect the spirit of Romanticism. In both biographies, dawn and dusk merge, for they were both child prodigies and both suffered premature deaths. Both were born in Germany and suffered from mental illness. In their lyrically intense works, musical complexity is interwoven...

Este artículo pone en evidencia una de las derivas que una sociedad anarquista, defendida por algunos ecofeministas, puede tener: el sometimiento de las mujeres. En particular, desde la sociología de la economía, la cultura y el arte, muestra cómo el pintor anarquista francés Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), amigo íntimo del pensador Pierre Joseph Prou...

This chapter relates the work of the pioneers of the study of innovation who were part of the Scottish Enlightenment with current theorists. All of them search for a non-individualistic concept of innovation. The individualistic innovation paradigm is based on the seminal work by the british author Jeremy Bentham, Defence of Usury (1787). Bentham c...

In this chapter, the Jevons paradox is studied in the context of the debate on the limits to Growth. This “Jevons paradox” is part of a more general criticism of William Stanley Jevons to classical economics. For Jevons, when the cost of production declines due to resource efficiency, the marginal utility of commodities that use the given resource...

In this volume, a link has been established between Science, technology, and innovation in the history of economic thought. Innovation depends on our flexibility to change. And change is law of nature, but institutions also give us safe harbour. They address to a common reality and give sense to the common world, which allows ourselves to be carrie...

La innovación fue el problema económico clave del Siglo XVIII, una época privilegiada donde empiezan a resonar unos discursos exaltados, enaltecedores de la necesidad de innovación constante, pero en la que muchos señalaban también los riesgos de esta innovación. En este artículo se presentan las visiones de la innovación que surgieron en el siglo...

This is a critical-hermeneutical and historical-comparative study on Political Economy, Economic History and Social Thought, applied to the American utopias in the 19th century and its role in the colonisation of the United States (US) west. This review is based on a heterodox economic approach, used in the disciplines of Religion and Economics. It...

The aim of this paper is to shed light on the effects of the only privatisation that existed in the street cleaning service in Madrid. Framed within the international processes of privatisation since the 1970s and through a search in historical archives, it analyses the political-administrative and social factors that influenced this privatisation...

Este artículo estudia la evolución de la doctrina de la usura desde la escolástica hasta el siglo dieciocho. Se estudian los antecedentes en la economía Antigua que llevaron a plantear los principios escolásticos y el concepto de precio justo y usura, en que tiempo y espacio se consideraba un “bien común”. En el salto al siglo dieciocho desaparece...

This is a critical paper (based in knowledge review & constructivist proposal), under the global economics & cross-cultural management approach, as a comparative research to have an overview of the complex issue, with a bootstrapping method of analysis and some singular cases to illustrate. It offers a balance of the labour relations development in...

El objetivo de este trabajo es arrojar luz sobre los comportamientos de los agentes e instituciones de los servicios públicos básicos determinando los elementos que desembocaron en la única municipalización de la limpieza viaria de Madrid y los comportamientos en los primeros años de municipalización (finales S.XIX). Para ello, a través de una inte...

In this work, a viability study of algal wastewater treatment projects under outdoor conditions is proposed. The viability analysis of solar plant projects based on annual exceedance probability, which is the probability that a certain energy value will be exceeded, is applied. The two outputs used (algal productivity and ammonium uptake rate) are...

The economic risk of solar plant projects due to the inter-annual solar resource variability is usually quantified by the exceedance probabilities. The estimation of these probabilities depends on the datasets used for the study; actually, the uncertainty associated to these datasets affects the viability study of the project. Due to this dependenc...

After the Great Recession of 2008, there was a strong commitment from several international institutions and forums to improve wellbeing economics, with a switch towards satisfaction and sustainability in people–planet–profit relations. The initiative of the European Union is the Green Deal, which is similar to the UN SGD agenda for Horizon 2030. I...

The European Union Green Deal aims at curbing greenhouse gas emissions and introducing clean energy production. But to achieve energy efficiency, the opportunity cost of different energies must be assessed. In this article, two different energy self-sufficient systems for wastewater treatment are compared. On the one hand, high-rate algal ponds sys...

In this paper, we present some Bentham’s theory features that make him precursor of marginalist economics. The author described the ideas of decreasing marginal utility and equimarginality, he made a commodity classification that distinguished between an upper and a lower class of goods depending on the proximity to use and his defi-nition of prope...

The European Union Green Deal aims at curbing planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions and introducing clean energy production. But to achieve energy efficiency, the opportunity cost of different energies must be assessed. In this article, we analyse two different systems for the treatment of wastewater that, at the same time, produce energy for its...

This paper is an analytical-empirical review of the evolution of Spanish Business Schools and how they have been affected by the accreditation system. This system has made it possible for the Spanish Business Schools to rank among the best (10 of them are in the World top-25 and 4 have been accredited with the triple crown, which is the highest dis...

This edited volume examines the relationship between economic ideas, economic policies and development institutions, analysing the cases of 11 peripheral countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It sheds light on the obstacles that have prevented the sustained economic growth of these countries and...

In the 19th century the liberal author Joseph Garnier (1813-1881) had a clear influence on Spanish economists; however, his discourse has not been much studied in the literature. His Elements were adopted as an economics textbook at Spanish universities and it was one of the most recommended books on political economy. In contrast, other authors su...

This chapter absolves Hume from the charge of moral scepticism, but not from the charge of epistemological scepticism. David Hume consciously followed the tradition of essay writing. He did it to play by dropping arguments through the Discourse so as to let the reader get to sceptical conclusions on his own instead of providing him with those concl...

In this chapter, we see that their philosophy affect the economics of David Hume and Adam Smith. Hume’s economics is imbued with his cyclical vision of history and institutional Darwinism. As in all his social philosophy, the final goal of Hume’s economics seems to be to explain how a common world is created from private and subjective elements. On...

Similarities and differences between Hume and Smith personalities will be highlighted. Their friendship and intimacy seem to be based on their similarities; their esteem and mutual attraction was based on the interest taken in each other due to their differences. They began walking along the path of a similar literary strategy but over time they di...

The recent contribution by Rasmussen claims that Adam Smith was somehow a Humean, with only some questioning points to the theory of Hume. In this chapter, we show that Smith was clearly criticizing Hume. Smith was presenting an alternative theory. Smith claims that perception is not a bundle of sensations but something whole, where depth makes us...

“I share with the author the conviction that Smith’s interest for and theories of rhetoric and language need to be re-assessed to better understand his political economy, and more generally his system of thought. This book has important insights to offer on Smith’s views on rhetoric and language and also on Hume and Smith’s economics” – Benoît Walr...

Roots of different Rhetoric usages of economic science were established in the period of the Scottish Enlightenment. This chapter stands up for the need of pushing up for the value of differences, not similarities, in the debates of the Scottish Enlightenment. During the Scottish Enlightenment there was an interesting debate on philosophical subjec...

This chapter shows in context the differences between the theories of language and the arts of Hume and Smith. Confronting the theories of Hobbes, Locke and Hume, who considered that words correspond to ideas in the mind, Smith starts by speaking about nouns to make after an analysis of the process of abstraction. This does not mean that we have in...

In the economic theory of the Austrian School, the market process is driven by entrepreneurial alertness, or discovery, where the subjective perception of information is an essential element. According to Mises, this perception is unequal in different agents, as entrepreneurs are talented individuals that respond to encouragement. But some other Au...

In the early 1800s, Robert Owen was a mill owner, political figure, and an advocate for social reform, and his publications attained considerable circulation. He believed that people need good working conditions in order to be encouraged to work and motivated to learn. Despite the higher costs associated with this kind of operation, compared to the...

John Stuart Mill inicialmente basaba su concepción del suicidio en la teoría de Hume y en la aritmética moral de Bentham; sin embargo, tuvo una experiencia transformadora en su juventud, momento en que deseó quitarse la vida que superó leyendo a los románticos ingleses. Este artículo muestra la visión de Mill sobre el suicidio, que silenció durante...

The shape of the curves relating the scaling exponents of the structure functions to the order of these functions is shown to distinguish the Dow Jones index from other stock market indices. We conclude from the shape differences that the information-loss rate for the Dow Jones index is reduced at smaller time scales, while it grows for other indic...

Jeremy Bentham invested an important amount of money in New Lanark's cotton mills, which at that time were run by Robert Owen. However, apparently Bentham never took a serious interest in the organisation of such a successful entrepreneurship and new model society, although it seemed to fit in with Bentham's ideas of the entrepreneur (‘projector’)...

This article gives a broad sweep to the influence of historical materialism on Spanish economic history. A demand and supply analysis shows that during the sixties and part of the seventies Marxism and historical materialism flourished, and that this influence was yet important during the eighties. However, during the nineties, the different school...

This article studies the observations which John Stuart Mill collected about Spain in his writings. The aim is to analyze how one of the most important thinkers of the time valued some political Spanish events, certain aspects of socioeconomic reality, or determined features which he considered to constitute the Spanish «national character». Throug...

This article fills a gap in the literature by examining the only leading classical economist whose influence on Spain has yet to be studied. In particular, it analyzes the influence John Stuart Mill had on nineteenth-century Spain by showing the impact of his multifaceted work both in scientific philosophy and utilitarian philosophy, and in politic...

This article insists upon the current relevance of Rosa Luxemburg's thought. Luxemburg had a sensibility ahead of her time and, faithful to her dreams of revolutionary change, she searched for an open society. This leftist revolutionary did not believe in the contingency of individual freedom. Instead, she argued for movement and development over t...

This article shows turbulent behavior in a series of financial indexes assuming that they follow a cascade process of the same type as do turbulent fluids. With such a model, the energy flux between the eddies that emerge in the fluid is analogous to the financial information flux over the course of time. The results obtained confirm the variabilit...

Este artículo debate con Rosa Luxemburgo sobre el tema de la crisis económica y el valor. Luxemburgo siguió la doctrina de los clásicos y aclaró el concepto de capital en Marx; sin embargo, frente ellos, quiso aclarar la contradicción que veía en el capitalismo, debida a que el consumo es necesario para la producción pero la producción no está enca...

This article studies the theories of value, economic growth and entrepreneurship of three relevant authors, David Hume, Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham. Utilitarianism and their different conceptions of time are the basis for different theories, which are even represented by different main characters. The three economic theories are original and theo...

Este artículo muestra a través de la teoría de tres importantes autores, David Hume, Adam Smith y Jeremy Bentham, que los economistas se dedican a la economía del desarrollo o al análisis microeconómico porque tienen dis-tintas filosofías de la vida y del hombre. La teoría microeconómica necesaria-mente se basa en una concepción utilitarista o ambi...

Resumen En la teoría de Adam Smith, las jerarquías económicas nunca pueden reducir los costes de transacción del mercado. Para demostrarlo, el artículo estudia la definición de libertad Smithiana, que lleva a que cualquier imposición sobre la actividad independiente y creativa sea «costosa». También explica el tratamiento del tema de la provisión d...

This paper analyses “luxemburgian” political and economic thought and tries to associate its importance with Luxemburg’s role as a socialist and as an activist in the women’s liberation movement. Luxemburg’s “feminism,” Marxism, anti-authoritarianism and independent thinking make her a figure of continuing importance within both Marxism and feminis...

La aportación de esta tesis es una nueva descripción de la realidad, tanto dentro de la filosofía del derecho, que pretende "deshacer" algunas confusiones que ha creado la teoría filosófica, ética y social actual, por estar demasiado apegada a las teorías de las ficciones utilitarias. Además, aportamos una nueva clasificación de las doctrinas en fu...

Este trabajo examina en dos documentos separados– los rasgos fundamentales de la evolución de las ideas económicas referentes a la gestión forestal en el ámbito ibérico, destacando las similitudes y contrastes entre el caso español y el portugués en lo que respecta a aspectos tales como las influencias recibidas, la temática y los debates, o el gra...

:Este trabajo examina –en dos documentos separados– los rasgos fundamentales de la evolución de las ideas económicas referentes a la gestión forestal en el ámbito ibérico, destacando las similitudes y contrastes entre el caso español y el portugués en lo que respecta a aspectos tales como las influencias recibidas, la temática y los debates, o el g...

Este trabajo examina ¿en dos documentos separados¿ los rasgos fundamentales de la evolución de las ideas económicas referentes a la gestión forestal en el ámbito ibérico, destacando las similitudes y contrastes entre el caso español y el portugués en lo que respecta a aspectos tales como las influencias recibidas, la temática y los debates, o el gr...

Este trabajo pretende demostrar que Adam Smith no era utilitarista. Una de las razones que le llevó a idear su teoría fue la de confirmar, contra lo que defendía su amigo David Hume, que el hombre no se ve motivado por una estructura que retiene su memoria de placeres ansiados y dolores temidos. El artículo se centra en el caso de la filosofía del...

Este trabajo examina ¿en dos documentos separados¿ los rasgos fundamentales de la evolución de las ideas económicas referentes a la gestión forestal en el ámbito ibérico, destacando las similitudes y contrastes entre el caso español y el portugués en lo que respecta a aspectos tales como las influencias recibidas, la temática y los debates, o el gr...

La gestión universitaria ha sido objeto de reciente debate, al hilo de la reforma de la LOU. Sin embargo, la opinión pública suele obviar el hecho de que las universidades se rigen parcialmente por un régimen de autogestión. En este artículo pretendemos contribuir al debate desde un punto de vista teórico, realizando en primer lugar una comparación...