Este libro ofrece una selección de problemas de microeconomía intermedia un tanto alternativos. Es distinto, por tanto, de la mayoría de las compilaciones de ejercicios que se encuentran habitualmente en el mercado. Lo que diferencia a los que se incluyen en este libro es que para su solución es más importante la comprensión de las intuiciones económicas que la aplicación de ciertas técnicas matemáticas. Al plantearlos, se ha primado crear situaciones verosímiles de las que sea posible extraer alguna conclusión mediante razonamientos económicos, por lo que estos problemas permiten reflexionar sobre los principales conceptos de la microeconomía y aprender a aplicarlos en el "mundo real". El libro se estructura en cuatro capítulos: en los tres primeros se cubren la teoría del consumidor, el intercambio puro y la teoría de la empresa competitiva. En cada uno de ellos se ofrece, en primer lugar, una serie de ejercicios resueltos con mucho detalle para, a continuación, plantear un gran número de otros problemas para practicar. En el último capítulo se incluye una solución más esquemática a estos otros problemas.

This well known text helps students understand the art of model building - what type of model to build, building the appropriate model, testing it statistically, and applying the model to practical problems in forecasting and analysis.

In this shrewd and fascinating book, the renowned scholar and former foreign minister Jorge Castañeda sheds much light on the puzzling paradoxes of politics and culture of modern Mexico. Here’s a nation of 110 million that has an ambivalent and complicated relationship with the United States yet is host to more American expatriates than any country in the world. Its people tend to resent foreigners yet have made the nation a hugely popular tourist destination. Mexican individualism and individual ties to the land reflect a desire to conserve the past and slow the route to uncertain modernity. Castañeda examines the future possibilities for Mexico as it becomes more diverse in its regional identities, socially more homogenous, its character and culture the instruments of change rather than sources of stagnation, its political system more open and democratic. Mañana Forever? is a compelling portrait of a nation at a crossroads.

By the time he was killed in the jungles of Bolivia, where his body was displayed like a deposed Christ, Ernesto "Che" Guevara had become a synonym for revolution everywhere from Cuba to the barricades of Paris. This extraordinary biography peels aside the veil of the Guevara legend to reveal the charismatic, restless man behind it. Drawing on archival materials from three continents and on interviews with Guevara's family and associates, Castaneda follows Che from his childhood in the Argentine middle class through the years of pilgrimage that turned him into a committed revolutionary. He examines Guevara's complex relationship with Fidel Castro, and analyzes the flaws of character that compelled him to leave Cuba and expend his energies, and ultimately his life, in quixotic adventures in the Congo and Bolivia. A masterpiece of scholarship, Companero is the definitive portrait of a figure who continues to fascinate and inspire the world over.

In Redeemers, acclaimed historian Enrique Krauze presents the major ideas that have formed the modern Latin American political mind during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries—and looks closely at how these ideas were expressed in the lives of influential revolutionaries, thinkers, poets, and novelists. Here are the Cuban José Martí; the Argentines Che Guevara and Evita Perón; political thinkers like Mexico’s José Vasconcelos; and the writers José Enrique Rodó, Mario Vargas Llosa, Octavio Paz, and Gabriel García Márquez. Redeemers also highlights Mexico’s Samuel Ruiz and Subcomandante Marcos, as well as Venezuela’s president Hugo Chávez, and their influence on contemporary Latin America. In his brilliant, deeply researched history, Enrique Krauze uses the range of these extraordinary lives to illuminate the struggle that has defined Latin American history: an ever-precarious balance between the ideal of democracy and the temptation of political messianism.

Agriculture as a sector; Factor growth and allocation; Technology; Static and dynamic behavior.