Vol 9, No 17 (2006)

Because of the lack of answers on behalf of the neo-classical economy to the everincreasing
environmental problems as a result of the economical activities, a new vision
has started to develop: the ecological economy. In this new focus, the bases for a new way
of seeing the relationship between the natural world and the economical world take root.
This article mainly aims at undertaking an analytical review of the main ideas expounded
within the ecological economy; and at establishing a referent about the new debate
between the ecological economy and the neo-classical economy. As a core conclusion,
the article explains that it is necessary to redirect the economy-environment relationship
towards a new examination of two core aspects of the environmental economy: 1) the
value judgment through which the environmental problems should be analyzed with
the criteria of the wellbeing; and 2) the conception that it can initiate with the analysis
of individual problems in the search for criteria that would orientate the economical
administration of natural resources.

The urban fusion in the municipalities of the Metropolitan Area of Medellin, associated with the improvement in infrastructures that connect it with the near east and west, have changed the urban, regional, social and economical realities. Nonetheless, the public responses to the phenomena of conurbation and the country-city dynamics remain local and strongly determined by the central city, Medellin. This article aims at evaluating the government structures that are viable for the city-region that orbit around Medellin, and the government functions that should be undertaken. The methodology is in essence descriptive and based upon the usage of secondary resources that would lead to the analyses of viable options from within the triangulation through interviews with deputies of the Departmental Assembly of Antioquia and with the results of some public regional policies. The essential conclusion of this work resides in the fact that the territorial and legal conditions are granted in order to build government structures of metropolitan space; nonetheless, the political viability remains uncertain as long as the supra-municipal structures cut short the possibility to build up a power within the municipal and departmental bureaucracies.

This article is derived from the research which was carried out by the Program of Business Administration in the University of Medellin over “The Last Three Antioquian Don’s”. These latter are: Don Santiago Mejia Olarte, Don Carlos Manuel Echavarria Toro, and Don Julio Ernesto Urrea Urrea. The aim this article orientated was to highlight the urge and interest of these three entrepreneurs in contributing to the social and economical development of the region; and to furthermore characterize and distinguish such a particular style of directing and administrating businesses which was that of the Don’s, and likewise to demonstrate how some entrepreneurs have managed to unit the economical purposes with the spirit of
serving other people. The technique of life story was used as a method to gather the testimonies of their collaborators and ex-collaborators. This topic of interests contributes to showing young people other human “paradigms” which would act as a reference to their own life projects and would constitute a different alternative
to “making easy money and no matter how” without caring for the others.

This article inquires about the meaning of the concepts enterprise and entrepreneur from within the lexical and etymological analyses in Spanish, French and English on one hand, while on the other, from within the theoretical approaches of two of the most influential economical thinkers in matters of the construction of suchconcepts, Richard Cantillon and Joseph Schumpeter, whose reflections are from the 18th and the 20th centuries respectively

La Constitución de 1991 instrumentó, en lo esencial, el marco legal para la internacionalización de la economía colombiana. La normativa contable para comerciantes fue reformada de manera fundamental en 1993, para responder a los retos de un ambiente de negocios con importantes contactos globales; sin embargo, se quedó corta a la hora de mejorar los niveles de comparabilidad de la información producida en nuestro país con la que necesitan los mercados internacionales. Este artículo explora el alcance de la propuesta de reforma de la contabilidad colombiana, presentada por la Superintendencia de Sociedades. Se analiza, a través de la postura de diferentes interesados en la profesión, si las motivaciones de la Superintendencia  de Sociedades tienen asidero en la realidad. Y termina concluyendo sobre la necesidad de democratizar el debate, y analizar la conveniencia de obligar a la gran mayoría de agentes económicos que no tienen contactos internacionales, a preparar información comparable con el exterior.

This text mainly aims at explaining how Health spending is related to the income, to the education level and to the type of affiliation people have within the general system of health social security in the Department of Risaralda. A review of literature is carried out as a conceptual theoretical basis; and the article hypothetically expounds the tight relationships between health, education level, and income. In
order to validate such a hypothesis, an econometrical model is estimated, wherein it validates the relationships between health spending, the level of education and the incomes in the Department of Risaralda.