Academic papers, a book, media articles, and popular essays. Austrian Economics, private enterprise, and institutions.
Anti-capitalist beliefs impose measurable, quantifiable costs on private firms: lower accountability, weaker asset stewardship, loyalty that evaporates under stress, and internal crisis amplification. A paradigm shift: replacing an incomplete mental model of the employment relationship with a complete one. The arithmetic follows from the perspective.
↗How Dr. Paul Dobranski's MindOS framework - Boundary · Behavior · Intellect · Decision - produces structural changes in two corporate workshops: Dinero & Finanzas Personales and Apreciación de la Empresa Privada. Applied methodology for employees and suppliers.
↗Eight indicators in three clusters - cost of growth, brand gravity, retention and expansion - that convert marketing activity into strategic language. For managers who want to speak the language of management. Marcelo Vega · Juan Fernando Carpio.
GDP is widely used as an indicator of economic progress or decline. However, it has systematic methodological flaws that make it unsuitable for that purpose. A three-part series with analysis and an alternative proposal.
The Anglo-Saxon economic mainstream has built a sophisticated conceptual edifice but one resting on incorrect assumptions. An analysis from the Austrian school of the fundamental methodological errors of the neoclassical current.
Nation-states drew their "final" lines in the last hundred years. Within the territories thus delimited, peoples, communities, and resources coexist whose ownership is philosophically and legally complex. An approach based on the liberal theory of property.
The deregulation of the global financial system has been blamed for the Great Recession. This paper uses the Hayekian Triangle to visualize the true mechanisms of the crisis and question the prevailing diagnosis.
Does buying in Colombia hurt Ecuador? On the contrary: it reveals how expensive local prices are and why. Column on arbitrage, comparative advantage, and consumer sovereignty.
Private property is not a Western or recent invention. A column on the right to dispose of one's own property, and why attacking it has a concrete economic cost.
What does Sim City have in common with dollarization and safeguards? That in both cases, restricting imports to "protect" the economy produces exactly the opposite.
Columns and essays published in Ecuadorian business sector media. Index in preparation.
Pocket guide to Austrian Economics aimed at the non-specialist reader. Debunks the most common fallacies of state interventionism using conceptual tools from Mises, Rothbard, and the Mengerian tradition - in direct language, with charts, and without unnecessary jargon. #4 Amazon Hot New Releases · Business & Investments in its launch week (August 2013).
University economics textbook that integrates the Austrian tradition with the new institutional economics and the theory of the firm. Geared toward business and economics programs in Latin America.