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This paper exposes a relation between the accumulation and dispossession process of land in Colombia as a product of war, from a perspective of space. The theoretical frame of this paper assumes that coloniality of power is a complex form of dissociation of the land, one that transforms the experience of serfdom. Via reading thinkers like Marx, Harvey, Castro-Gómez, and Mariátegui, this paper problematizes the experiences of dispossession of land in Colombia and the economy of power that it engenders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, I will show how the tendency to a bigger growth of capital than the one of the overall economy has generated an excessive inequity. I will also show how this is linked to a regression in the welfare state and the transformation of the citizen into a producer of goods and a consumer. I will try to show that this situation contradicts the principles of protection of the social and economic minimal conditions stated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and how international capitals influence political decisions and how it helps to transform the traditional concepts of sovereignty and citizenship. It is then evident that it is necessary to make political decisions to impose taxes to capital in particular to the international one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper examines what is the strategy of incentives that takes two people to achieve the advantages of an efficient breakdown, based on the assumption that the marriage is, since the marriage market, inefficient and, therefore generates in the relationship and in the family environment more harm than good. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article links up sociological concerns with the communitarian proposal of Michael Walzer and the spheres of justice. Starting from the basic premise that there can be no such thing as a single universal distributive criterion for all the spheres and that effectively all the different spheres require different criteria, this paper tries to answer the following question: Based on the recognition of certain urgent realities in today's world, what ideas of global justice may be valid, on what basic criteria and for which spheres taking into account the diversity of social goods? Likewise, the spheres of money and political power are analyzed and also two strategies to try to achieve global justice are proposed: The Citizen Basic Income in the sphere of money and the recognition of the plurinational State in the political sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper presents the results obtained during the development of the Project of impact assessment of the quality management processes in liquidity and profitability of the industrial area of Via 40. This is initially a detailed description of evaluation of organizational systems, systems of quality management, liquidity ratios, profitability ratios, the criteria for evaluating the impact of systems of quality management in liquidity and profitability of the Via 40 area and the industrial use ofdiscriminant analysis technique. This was developed through a qualitative and quantitative, descriptive and purposeful perspective. From the discriminant function obtained and the analyzed statistics we can conclude that the ISO 9001 quality certification, positively affects the financial indicators Net Capital (NC) Gross Margin (GM) and Operating Income (EBIT) of the sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Cooperativism and strategy have been in recent days important topics in the academy and at research level. Cooperativism is an alternative model that aims at the organization of production and work. Strategy, on the other hand, is a study and practical field, whose understanding depends on the characteristics of the people who study and define them. This paper follows the Hafsi, Séguin and Toulousse's strategy model in order to explain how this topic has been understood in submitted articles about worker's cooperatives, through literature review in academy journals in cooperativism and management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The public contracting in Colombia is conflicting and inefficient. It frequently leads to the patrimonial damage to the State. Colombian legal system can not assure the efficient and transparent public contracting. The cause is the institutional environment characterized by high transaction costs. The Colombian law makes things worse by recognizing the principle of economic equilibrium of the public contracts. This principle augments the contract incompleteness and makes impossible the use of the economic incentives to control the opportunism of the economic agents. The authors present the hypothesis that the economic equilibrium principle increases the conflictive nature of the public contracting. They make the empirical test of the hypothesis. The first section of the paper presents the summary of the literature on the transaction costs economics, as well as the legal literature on the historical origin and the content of the economic equilibrium principle. The second section describes the methodology of the empirical study. The third section shows the empirical evidence of the effects that the economic equilibrium principle exerts over the public contracting. The last section presents the conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]