Abstract This paper presents a restricted defence of the revealed preference theory (RPT) considering the critical argumentation of Villacís (Revealed preference versus the utilitarian approach) against it. It is shown that the RPT is an improvement in methodological terms for economic research and an improvement as a formal microeconomic foundatio...
In the Declared Preferences methods (DP) questions are developed to different persons in order to establish alternative hypothetical scenarios. The most important methods which are based in a Declared Preferences hypothesis are the Contingent Valuation (CV) method and those which are based in a Choice Experiment (CE) Approach. In DP methods questio...
We calculated the value of statistical life (VVE) of the Peruvian miner in 2012 using the hedonic wage methodology. This study is the first of its kind to be applied to a Peruvian labor market. We employed the equalizing differences theory and the expectation is that the higher the risk of death in mining activities, the higher the associated wage....
The article presents the way in which Sen attachs the social choice theory to the reasoned search for justice, taking into account interpersonal comparisons such as different kinds of moral information. These types of information is the concept of agency linked to the republican idea of civic virtue. The goal is to lay out the argument according to...
The economic and financial analysis of wastewater reuse systems projects has laid emphasis on the issues of private costs and benefits, both because of methodological difficulties related to estimating existing externalities and the lack of available data needed for its measurement. Taking full account of the environmental costs and benefits allows...
São freqüentes os casos nos quais expoem-se avaliar opções para o melhoramento no nível de servicio dum sistema de transporte no contexto interurbano, este é o caso do corredor do Magdalena Medio em Colômbia, onde há três modos em interacção: viário, fluvial e ferroviário. Para o planejamento deste tipo de sistema para transporte de passageiros, ca...
