Crecimiento económico en el mundo desarrollado

En Estados Unidos, en el siglo XIX, a pequeña ciudad de Concord, cerca de Boston, vio florecer una comunidad de intelectuales que se convirtieron en grandes renovadores del pensamiento, la literatura, la lucha por los derechos civiles y otros sueños sobre los que se forjarían los Estados Unidos. Ese grupo de fascinantes personajes, que fueron el núcleo de lo que se llamó el Renacimiento Americano, se reunieron alrededor de quien puede considerarse como el padre de la filosofía norteamericana, Ralph Waldo Emerson. En torno a él, se reunieron figuras como el pensador Henry David Thoreau, ...

Los límites de la mujer en la sociedad francesa del medioevo es uno de los temas que se desarrolla en esta serie de ensayos elaborados por el historiador francés Duby, quien otorga al estudio de las ideologías un papel relevante para un mayor conocimiento de la ciencia social; en esta época en que las ideas catastróficas por el fin del primer milenio y las ideas renovadoras del siguiente permeaban el ambiente.

Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat -- to tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank...

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