Republicanismo cívico

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...

Este libro trata acerca de la filosofía de los otomíes o yùhu de la sierra oriental en Hidalgo, es un texto que habla sobre la importancia del cuerpo en la vida de este grupo. Si bien el libro habla sobre lo que los yùhu dicen de su cuerpo, es más bien lo que dicen de sí mismos.

Enviado por el Museo de Historia Natural de París, a la edad de 23 años, el joven naturalista francés Alcide d'Orbigny recorrió durante ocho años la América meridonal (Brasil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Perú y Bolivia) y a su regreso a Francia compuso una monumental obra publicada entre 1835 y 1847 con el título de Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale en nueve , tomos y 11 volúmenes con más de 5 mil páginas y 500 ilustraciones. A pedido del presidente boliviano José Ballivián, en 1845 se editó un fragmento de la obra de d'Orbigny y no fue sino hasta un siglo después...

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 ...