Fundamentos hipotéticos para investigar la crisis económica contemporánea.

Sergio, Reuben (2012): Fundamentos hipotéticos para investigar la crisis económica contemporánea. Forthcoming in: Revista de Ciencias Económicas , Vol. Vol. X, No. #2

Abstract

The paper seeks to integrate the theoretical developments in the field of imperfect competition and monopoly, and operation of the firm in such conditions, with the theories of income distribution, particularly among the macroeconomic aggregates of capital and labor. And formulating a working hypothesis to focus the breaking of the capital accumulation process expressed in the current economic crisis, from a holistic perspective.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Hypothetical foundations to investigate the contemporary economic crisis.
• Language: Spanish
• Keywords: Income distribution, capital accumulation, centralization of capital, dominant enterprises, efficient and effective use of resources. Overproduction crisis, Crisis by disproportional growth
• Subjects: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches > B51 - Socialist ; Marxian ; Sraffian; D - Microeconomics > D2 - Production and Organizations; L - Industrial Organization > L1 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance > L11 - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure ; Size Distribution of Firms; D - Microeconomics > D3 - Distribution > D33 - Factor Income Distribution; D - Microeconomics > D3 - Distribution; D - Microeconomics > D6 - Welfare Economics; P - Economic Systems > P1 - Capitalist Systems; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E1 - General Aggregative Models; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs > J30 - General; L - Industrial Organization > L1 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance; P - Economic Systems > P0 - General; L - Industrial Organization > L2 - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior; D - Microeconomics > D5 - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E3 - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles > E30 - General; L - Industrial Organization > L2 - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior > L26 - Entrepreneurship; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches; D - Microeconomics > D5 - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium > D50 - General; D - Microeconomics > D4 - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design; D - Microeconomics > D2 - Production and Organizations > D23 - Organizational Behavior ; Transaction Costs ; Property Rights; L - Industrial Organization > L1 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance > L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs; M - Business Administration and Business Economics ; Marketing ; Accounting ; Personnel Economics > M2 - Business Economics; D - Microeconomics > D4 - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design > D43 - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection; M - Business Administration and Business Economics ; Marketing ; Accounting ; Personnel Economics > M2 - Business Economics > M20 - General; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor > J23 - Labor Demand

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