Economía del desarrollo en Colombia. Análisis de las coincidencias entre el paradigma propuesto por Rubén D. Utria y el enfoque de Amartya Sen en las instituciones y libertades instrumentales

Development Economics in Colombia. Analysis of the Coincidences between the Paradigm Proposed by Rubén D. Utria and Amartya Sen's Approach on Instrumental Institutions and Freedoms

Luis Eduardo Castellanos Rodríguez

Econógrafos, Escuela de Economía from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, FCE, CID

Abstract: Development is a complex and dynamic phenomenon that refers to the process of transformation and evolution of institutions and systems through which individuals in a country relate both to their compatriots and people in the rest of the world. The dominant economic approach has relegated to the background the analysis of essential variables for the study of development, such as the average level of schooling, air quality, level of inequality, consumer confidence, the political risk of corruption within government entities, among others. The present essay seeks, based on the theoretical contributions of Amartya Sen and Ruben Darío Utria, aims to analyze development in Colombia from a more complete perspective than that offered by traditional economic theory, which has confused development with growth and has tried to quantify the level of development of countries through the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita.

Keywords: development; inequality; poverty; complexity; freedom; system; quality of life; institutions. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O15 O17 O43 O54 P25 P26 P36 P48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36
Date: 2019-04
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