Afirmaciones y negaciones

"Discussion by academics, government officials, and private sector leaders on the virtues of reducing the role of the Colombian State in favor of private interests, with the objective of increasing economic efficiency. Although a selective process of privatization has long been praised as beneficial for economies such as Colombia's, major sales of nationalized industries have not yet been achieved and successive governments have failed to elaborate a comprehensive privatization plan. The authors describe the benefits of moving in this direction and point out that the new Constitution opens...

El autor muestra en detalle como la cultura politica de los anos cuarenta hunde sus raices en un horizonte imaginario tradicional, compartido de igual modo por liberales y conservadores. Unos y otros recurren a conceptos modernos que van, sin embargo, inseparablemente unidos a motivaciones y sentimientos ancestrales. Democracia y pueblo, por ejemplo son invocados para estimular pasiones que arraigan en un pasado inmemorial. El autor toma distancia tambien de la lectura liberalizante de la historiografia dominante, de inspiracion liberal, que opone un partido conservador tradicionalista,...

Includes correspondance, literary works, philosophical and political essays and reports presented to the Colombian Congress.

"Careful and detailed portrayal of the professorial community and scholarly culture in the New Kingdom. Rightly insisting that intellectual development in Nueva Granada is not limited to the era of Charles III, despite an analytical focus on the Enlightenment, Silva traces growth of the university corporation over the entire colonial period in terms of numbers, identity, and influence"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.