Posts Tagged ‘Economía’
Applying the VAT to the basket of consumer goods?
It is true that VAT exemptions in the basket of consumer goods is not only ideal, but the best we have at the moment.
Read MoreEconomic Thinking, Economists’ Education and Human Rights
Economic thinking and education must have an approach that protects what really matters: human rights
Read MoreBooks and Dollars
The increasing value of the dollar is an opportunity for us to think about the Colombian editorial industry.
Read MoreGreek Tragedy
I was lucky enough to be present during the recent Greek referendum regarding its negoations with the Eurozone.
Read MoreWhat Are the Roots of the Countryside?
Today, in the middle of Bogotá, people say that the roots of business are in the countryside.
Read MoreWhere Are Taxes in Human Rights?
How are taxes connected to human rights or how should they be? Why should human rights researchers and activists in the Global South care about taxes?
Read MoreEthics and Economics
Some weeks I can’t find a topic to write about and on others I have too many topics. On this occassion I have in mind three topics: one about the Oxfam report about global inequality published on January 20th, another about President Obama´s State of the Union last Tuesday, and another about a conference that Michael Sandel gave last Thursday at Los Andes University.
Read MoreShopping in Bogotá
For this new year of 2014, I decided to leave behind my usual cheapness. On Christmas Eve, keeping in mind that the traditional wishes for peace and harmony never come true, my wishes took a radical turn.
Read MoreWas the Health Reform the Victim of a Stampede?
In his Treaty on Probability (1920) and the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1937) John Maynard Keynes made a fundamental distinction between the notion of “risk” and “uncertainty.”
Read MoreThe Tea Party without a State
An article in the New Yorker from last weeks tells the story of how members of the Tea Party – the radical branch of the American Republican Party – began to doubt their decision to block the passage of the federal budget as a way to oppose the implementation of Obamacare, when they saw that this lead to fewer police officers on duty and the closure of the World War II monument.
Read MoreIntervention in the lawsuit against Articles 14 to 17 of the Anti-smoking Act (1335 of 2009).
Dejusticia intervenes to defend the constitutionality of Articles 14-17 of Act 1335 of 2009 (Anti-smoking act), which ban the advertisement of tobacco derivatives.
Read MoreIntervention against the Modificatory Protocol of the Free Trade Agreement between Colombia and the United States
Civic intervention within the process of No. LAT319 of automatic, integral and prior review of the Modification Protocol of the Free Trade Agreement between Colombia and the United States and its enclosed letter, approved via Law 1166 of 2007.
Read MoreIntervention against the Free Trade Agreement between Colombia and the United States
Intervention in the process LAT311 against the Law 1143 from 2007 “by which the Free Trade Agreement between Colombia and the United States of America is approved”, plus the annexed letters and agreements, signed at Washington, DC on November 22, 2006.
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