A never ending recession? On the vicissitudes of Economics and economic policies

Authors

  • Alicia Puyana Mutis FLACSO MÉXICO

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18504/pl2651-014-2018

Keywords:

Economics, economic crisis, neoclassical economics, economic growth, economic metaphors, ergodic axioms.

Abstract

The crisis facing the world economy since the end of 2007 has shaken to the core the economic paradigms that were the basis of models for economic policies and governmental roles for the last thirty years. It affected the real economy, the political dispute and the teaching of economics. So intensive debate illustrates the intensive need to deeply revise the macroeconomics theory, abandon the failed paradigms and construct new teaching curricula to produced professionals better equipped to analyze real word economic problems.

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Author Biography

Alicia Puyana Mutis, FLACSO MÉXICO

Doctora en Economía por la Universidad de Oxford. Profesora e investigadora de FLACSO México. Ha sido profesora visitante de la Universidad de Oxford, El Colegio de México y la London School of Economics. Ha trabajado los efectos de la inserción de América Latina en economía globalizada, entre los cuales se destacan los efectos dinámicos de la inserción en el crecimiento, el empleo y la desigualdad; la convergencia económica; la aplicación a México de la Teoría de la Fragmentación y del Comercio Intra-Industrial (CII), así como del concepto de desigualdad horizontal. La Dra. Puyana también ha estudiado los efectos de la economía política del petróleo en México y Colombia.

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Puyana Mutis, A. (2017). A never ending recession? On the vicissitudes of Economics and economic policies. Perfiles Latinoamericanos, 26(51), 351–378. https://doi.org/10.18504/pl2651-014-2018

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