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This course deals with the main phenomena and characteristics of the Colombian Economy. It is intended to show the main determinant factors of the domestic and economic reality and provide the analytical tools to facilitate its understanding, based on a historical approach and circumstantial situations. Topics: economic indicators, economic growth, government and tax policy, Central Bank and monetary policy, external sector, financial sector, labor market and income distribution, among others.

To compete and cooperate are decision-based strategies that create, in some occasions, welfare and progress, and disasters in others. The history of humankind and the history of economic, political and philosophical thinking have been marked by different perceptions about the competition and cooperation among individuals. Today, these phenomena are analyzed by several sciences concerning society and human behavior, and also by natural sciences with great applicability to the problems of today´s world. Within the realm of transdisciplinarity, this course merges the questions about the work of societies and, particularly, about the decision-making processes undertaken by individuals related to market, state and community institutions.

There are certain processes in the development of professional activities (whether private or public), prior to the decision-making stages, that require the conduction of complex processes of information management and consolidation, so as to have them analyzed later. The Excel Workshop is aimed at developing the student ability to command not only the tools of software packages such as Excel, Power Point, etc, but also to have a basic knowledge on professional-level information management and presentation.

The course dwells on the emergence of the capitalist system in Europe and its expansion towards the rest of the world, and analyzes different constructions addressed as to explain the upcoming of the capitalist system and the reasons of its worldwide dominance, bearing in mind not only economic variables, but also social, cultural and technological ones. The period studied goes from the emergence of a feudal system in Europe to the United States as world power.

Historical perspective of the evolution of economic ideas crafted by various authors of the western world, which encompass the historical origins and the theoretical groundings of the contemporary economic analysis. Some of the topics include the ideas of Mercantilists, Physiocrats and Classicals (Smith, Ricardo and Marx), as well as the economic paradigms.