Apuntes 30

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The articles in this issue: Present the conditions in which Peruvian agricultural activity is undertaken, and through which it can attain levels of international competitiveness; Review the works of Gary Becker, who devoted his life to extending the application of economic theory to all human activities, and won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1992; Discuss some of the criteria of basic university economics courses; Focus on natural resource theory and its environmental implications, especially the issue of optimum renewable and non-renewable resource extraction from a business standpoint; Evaluate the source and viability of the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative (or the Bush proposal), arising from structural changes in the world system. Analyze the organization and functioning of Indian cabildos in the highlands of Piura during the late colonial period, with a view to demonstrating that the indigenous and campesino community of today is a product of that period; Evaluate the current outlook for the Peruvian economy, arguing that the decades-old economic crisis calls for self-sacrifice.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21678/0252-1865-00000030

Published: 1992-12-08