http://blog.unijimpe.net/rss https://www.bubok.es/ Puedes comprar en nuestra librería todos los libros publicados en Bubok. es info@bubok.com (Bubok Publishing) info@bubok.com (Bubok Publishing) https://www.bubok.es/libros/284072/applied-economics This book presents a set of unpublished essays on how economic theory helps understand issues apparently unrelated to economics. Some of the chapters emphasize the relationship between economic and social institutions. Going back into colonial times, it researches on how the market oriented hacienda is many times more productive than the encomienda, a chapter that emphasizes the importance of the relationship between the production function and institutional factors on development.. Another chapter is devoted to explaining the relationship between how labor intensive the agricultural production is and the prevalence of slavery, again emphasizing the importance of the relationship between the production function and institutional factors on development. The chapter on pension reform basically shows how important the rules associated to whom and when an individual receives his social security assistance pension partially determines whether he stays in the labor market or not.