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Copyright of Revista de Economía Institucional is the property of Universidad Externado de Colombia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Revista de Economía Institucional is the property of Universidad Externado de Colombia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

This article explains two enigmas related to the scientific career of Thomas C. Schelling, Nobel Prize in Economics 2005: How to explain his capacity to always produce new ideas? Why have his multiple pioneer ideas had more impact on other social sciences and not on economics? The paper proposes three hypotheses: the minor impact of the acquired knowledge of his theoretical work, a heuristic that always privileged the relationship between unpublished facts and unusual angles, and the creation of a spontaneous knowledge network that covered different disciplines dedicated to social interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows the links between Hume's philosophy of customs and the basic principles of institutional theory. This relationship has been suggested by contemporary economists such as Vernon Smith and others, who see in Hume the origins of today's broadly accepted dichotomy between constructive and ecological reasoning, essential to institutional thinking. For Hume habit, as the main guide of life, can be used to comprehend individual and collective behavioural patterns. The question is whether his reflections on the subject are consistent with the foundations of his own philosophy of belief. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo discurre sobre el pensamiento económico del filósofo francés Jean-Jacques Rousseau. El autor comenta sobre la falta de reconocimiento de Rousseau en el mundo de la filosofía económica y describe sus obras en el campo de la fisiocracía, una teoría económica basada en la productividad agrícola.

El artículo trata las tres leyes del desarrollo económico del economista Nicholas Kaldor: la alta correlación entre el crecimiento del producto industrial y del Producto Interno Bruto (PIB), la estrecha relación entre el crecimiento de la productividad industrial y del producto manufacturero y la relación positiva entre el crecimiento de la productividad económica en general y del sector industrial y negativa con el aumento del empleo en los sectores manufactureros.