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La teoría económica de la informalidad: la implosión controlada de la teoría neoclásica y la alternativa popular de la demanda efectiva
[The Economic Theory of Informality: The Controlled Implosion of Neoclassical Theory and The Popular Effective Demand Alternative]

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  • Oscar Esteban Morillo Martínez

    (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)

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ES Este artículo estudia la teoría económica que se encuentra detrás de los análisis y la política pública sobre la informalidad. Para esto se realizará un repaso por la teoría hegemónica (marginalista-neoclásica) buscando comprender dicho marco teórico y su relación con la política económica. De esta manera, se presentará la principal corriente del pensamiento económico, con sus implicaciones sobre la política pública y el tratamiento de la informalidad, y se le criticará de manera profunda y concisa, hallando sus principales falencias teóricas y pretendiendo demostrar su incapacidad para describir cualquier sistema económico de forma lógica y coherente. Con esto en mente, se discutirán nociones alternativas para comprender el fenómeno de la informalidad y el desempleo, partiendo de la propuesta de la economía popular del profesor César Giraldo y continuando con la teoría de la demanda efectiva de Keynes. De aquí se desprenderán condicionantes para una política pública que pretenda, por un lado, la reducción del desempleo y, por el otro, el reconocimiento del sujeto social de la economía popular. EN The paper studies the economic theory behind the analysis and the public policy about informality. For this we will review the hegemonic economic theory (marginalist-neoclassical) to grasp such theorical framework and its relationship with economic policy. The mainstream economic thought will be presented with its implications on economic policy and its treatment of informality, and it will be criticized in a deep and concise manner, finding its principal theoretic failures and pretending to show its inability to describe any economic system in a coherent and logical manner. Alternative notions about informality and unemployment will be discussed, starting from the proposal of popular economy from the professor César Giraldo and continuing with the Keynes theory of effective demand. From here on, some conditions will be deployed for a public policy that pretends, on the one hand, a reduction of unemployment and, for the other, the recognition of the popular economy social subject.

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  • Oscar Esteban Morillo Martínez, 2024. "La teoría económica de la informalidad: la implosión controlada de la teoría neoclásica y la alternativa popular de la demanda efectiva [The Economic Theory of Informality: The Controlled Implosion of Neoclassical Theory and The Popular Effective ," Ensayos de Economía 47-66, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín.
  • Handle: RePEc:col:000418:022887
    DOI: 10.15446/ede.v34n65.110896
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