Mercedes Sanz-Bachiller

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was created during 1940s. It's a key indicator of economic policy, and it's considered as rule to measure the significance of a country's economy, and it's a common base for other important indicators, such as fiscal deficit and the human development index (HDI). Diane Coyle reminds us that this instrument is not supposed to turn into a fetish; on the contrary, since it possesses a history that explains its consolidation, along with a structure and strategies that show the conception of economy from those who postulate it. Nonetheless, the GDP is currently one ...

El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior, is the earliest Euro-American trade route of cultures and commerce in the United States. It spanned about 1,800 miles from Mexico City, where the road originated, to Santa Fe, in New Mexico. For three centuries, this Spanish colonial road followed a network of ancient Native American footpaths and trails that followed the wide expanse of the Rio Grande valley. There were parajes, or campgrounds, along the way for travelers, and early Spanish settlements were established too. Some of the towns and villages are now modern cities, ...

10 palabras clave sobre Jesús de Nazaret El protagonista de este libro es Jesús de Nazaret, una de las personalidades decisivas de la historia de la humanidad, junto con Confucio, Buda y Sócrates, al decir de Karl Jaspers. Es un personaje de permanente actualidad como incitador de conductas alternativas, despertador de conciencias adormecidas... Es, a su vez, objeto de estudio desde las más plurales disciplinas.

Para promover la devoción a las ánimas y popularizar en Europa los dogmas del purgatorio, las indulgencias y los sufragios como medio de salvación, desde el siglo XV hasta el XVII la iglesia tridentina y postridentina se apoyó en unos sencillos relatos, anónimos en su mayoría, denominados ejemplos e exempla.