A History of Colombian Economic Thought

ISBN-13: 9781032266459 / Twarda / 2023 / 248 str.

Opis

Through the study of when, how and what was taught at the beginnings of the Republican Era, and why and how professional economists came to lead public debate and economic policy making in the 20th century this book explores the foundations of this permanent interaction between theory and practice.

 

Spis treści

Part 1. The Long First Century of a Nascent Republic.  Chapter 1.1. Teaching Political Economy in the awakening of a Modern Republic: Colombia 1825-1885.  Chapter 1.2. Revolutionaries, Conservatives, and Reformists. The Political Economy of Debasement and Recoinage in New Granada 1780-1821.  Chapter 1.3. Rhetoric and Practice: Protectionism and Free Trade in the Second Half of the XIXth Century.   Chapter 1.4. The role of economic thought in the administration of justice in Colombia in the second half of the 19th century.   Chapter 1.5. Fiscal reform and the origins of social spending in Colombia 1850-1886.   Chapter 1.6. Overtones of a Novel Political Philosophy: Mariano Ospina Perez and Catholic Social Thought in the Rise of Public Banking in the 1930s.   Part 2. The Short 20th Century   Chapter 2.1. Becoming Economic Experts: Philanthropic Foundations and the Internationalization of Economics in Colombia during the 1960s   Chapter 2.2. Employment missions in Colombia: discovering informality, 1949-1985.   Chapter 2.3. The failed cepalino connection in Colombian Economic Thinking.   Chapter 2.4. Between the Hedgehog and the Fox: The Birth of Colombian Economic Historiography, 1942-1955.   Chapter 2.5. Towards the Professionalization of Economics in Colombia 1934-1990: a Crossroads of Different Paradigms.   Chapter 2.6 100 years of Economics at the Board of the Banco de la República.  Chapter 2.7 A Mere Guest? The Slow Process of Women's Participation in Top Decision-Making Positions (1950-2000)

O autorze

Andrés Álvarez, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Jimena Hurtado, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia