Benigno Valdés,
PhD
Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados (IMDEA)
Professor of Economics
ICADE, Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Madrid
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Biography
Benigno Valdés is Director
General of the Social Sciences Division of iMdea and Professor of Economics at the ICADE
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (Universidad Pontificia Comillas) in Dr. Valdés has
contributed articles to scientific journals on a number of topics, including
the economics of technical change, applied econometrics, higher education,
economic development, and the history of economics. He is the au- thor of the
book Economic Growth: Theory, Empirics
and Policy (Edward Elgar, 1999, 2000), and a contributor to Professor Valdés
is the recipient of various academic awards, including the “Premio
Extraordinario” for the Degree of Licenciatura in Economics (University
of Ovie- do, 1980), the Fulbright Fellowship (from 1980 to 1983), the Elizabeth C. Bogan Award for Superior Scholarship (University
of New Hampshire, 1982), the Marc Rich Foundation Fellowship (from 1990 to
1992), and the Teaching Prize for Economics (Univ. of Salamanca, 1997). As an academic
administrator, Dr. Valdés has written about innovations in teaching;
participated in the devel- opment and launching of new degrees; served on
univer- sity curriculum committees; revised and updated pro- gram majors and
degrees; conducted evaluations of exist- ing programs; prepared assessments
for new programs; negotiated contractual agreements with other institutions
for the implementation of academic programs; chaired faculty committees;
worked and consulted with diverse ethnic groups; written significant portions
of the accredit- ation reviews; served on the academic governance com-
mittees responding to accreditation standards; hosted representatives from
national and international educa- tional institutions and agencies; and
negotiated, imple- mented and supervised a large number of international
exchange programs for students and faculty. Currently, he is a member of the
Committee for the Evaluation of University Professors at the University
System in An indefatigable
traveller, Dr. Valdés has visited many countries, often as an academic
economist –and always as an interested observer. He lives in Madrid
with his wife, Silvia, and their eight years old daughter, Adriana. In his free
time, he enjoys cooking and hiking. Selected Publications
(2003) Valdés, Benigno, “An
Application of Conver-gence Theory to Japan’s Post-WWII Economic
‘Miracle’,” The
Journal of Economic Education,
Winter 2003, V.34, N.1, pp.61-81. (Financed through the Exchange of Schol-ars
Program, Institute for Global Business, (2000) _________, “Docencia e Investigación en la
Uni-versidad Española: Situación Actual y Futuro
Deseable,” Revista de
Educación, Núm. 323 (2000), pp. 137-159. For print- ing, use this PDF file. (1999) _________, Economic Growth: Theory, Empirics and
Policy, Northampton, (1993) _________, “Cigarette Consumption in Spain: Empirical Evidence and Implications for Public Health Policy,” Applied Economics, 25, 2 (1993) February, pp. 149-156. (Financed by a grant from the Marc Rich Foundation). (1988) _________, “Cambio Técnico,
Rentabilidad y Crisis Económicas,” El
Trimestre Económico, Vol. LV (3), 219, 559-578.
(Financed with a grant from the Instituto de Cooperación
Iberoamericana). (1987) _________, “Technical Change and Profitability: The «Law of the Falling Tendency of the Rate of Profit» Revisited,” in Richard W. England (ed.), Economic Processes and Political Conflicts: Contributions to Modern Political Economy, New York : Praeger. ISBN 0-275-92451-3. (Financed with a grant from the Fulbright Foundation). (1985) _________, “Acumulación de Capital y Desarrollo Económico en las Economías de la Periferia Socialista: El Caso de Nicaragua,” Investigaciones Económicas, 27, pp. 153-164. (Financed by a grant from the Fulbright Foundation). (1981) _________, “Valor-Precio y
Plusvalor-Ganancia en la Teoría Económica de Marx: (II) El
‘Problema de la Transforma- ción’,” El Basilisco: Revista de
Filosofía, Teoría de (1980)
_________,
“Valor-Precio y Plusvalor-Ganancia en la
Teoría Económica de Marx: (I) El Modelo Teórico,” El Basilisco: Revista de
Filosofía, Teoría de
(2009) «La
ciencia es el motor del crecimiento económico». Press interview for Revista CEIM, the official magazine of the Madrid
Federation of Entrepreneurs, Nov. 10.
For
printing, use
this PDF file. (2008) «La Política con
mayúscula consiste en hacer posible lo necesario y no al
revés». Press interview for La Nueva España and other Spanish regional newspapers,
Nov. 30. For print-
ing, use this PDF file. (2005) «Sabiduría
económica y política de salario mínimo», in Expansión, 14 March. (2005) «Una ronda de
indiciación salarial», in Expansión, February 3. (2005) «El comisario
y el PEC», in
(2004) «El ‘Plan Kerry’
para Irak», in
(2004) «A vueltas con el precio
de la vivienda», in Expan-
sión, 24 June. (2004) «El eje París-París», in (2004) «Terrorismo, educación y pobreza», in Expansión, 10 June. (2005) «Teoría
económica de alto voltaje político»
Teaching
It has become
fashionable for university professors to make statements on their teaching
philosophy (sic) and to disclose their method for correcting exams. I correct
exams as follows:
As regards teaching and related matters, I
have collected my thoughts in a recent article, “Docencia e Investigación en la Universidad
Española: Situación Actual y Futuro Deseable,” Revista de Educación, 323 (2000), pp. 137-159.
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WHY the Chinese
authorities no longer believe in central planning
Peking . - Chinese soldiers in the Xisha Islands
in South China Sea imported chickens to add
to their diets.
The fowl ran wild and were attacked by rats. The soldiers imported cats but they went after seabirds so they brought in dogs “to control the cats in the war on the rats which were eating their chickens that laid their eggs,” the China Daly reported.
But the cats scurried up the nearest tree, and the dogs spent most of their time barking and fighting among themselves.”
POLITICA de reducción del gasto públi-co:
The Spanish method.
Spain.-EL GOBIERNO parece
haberse tomado en serio su promesa de reducir el gasto público. No
cabe otra explica-ción si se atiende al requerimiento formulado por el
Ministerio de Administraciones Públicas al Ayuntamiento de Carrascalejo
(Cáceres), de 337 habitantes, negando el pago
de las obras de ejecución de 24 nichos en el cemen-terio municipal que
había sido aprobado inicialmente a través de los fondos del
Plan E. El alcalde se muestra sorprendido: la partida aprobada era de 14.830,99 euros y las
obras han costado 14.831. Pero el gobierno entiende
que esta diferencia de un céntimo resulta
escandalosa, to-do un despilfarro, por lo que requiere al municipio a que
“justifique
sin dilación el alza sufrida en el importe”, infor-ma el diario El Mundo.
Según el alcalde, “el error se produce al aplicar el re-dondeo en el
IVA y el requerimiento del gobierno es una ridiculez, pues
aunque un ordenador detecte esa mínima diferencia, los funcionarios
deberían corregirlo y no gastar dinero en notificaciones y
reenvíos”. El primer edil esgri-me una segunda posibilidad:
“Se trata de una maniobra del gobierno para no pagar a los Ayuntamientos”.
WHY I no longer believe in the European
social welfare system as much as I used to
But government spokesman Jack Straw defended the policy. “We need useless people in government,” he said, “to do the kind of work that competent people will not do (…)”
WHY I’m not very optimistic about our
educational system.
PEOPLE’s behavior —or WHY Economic Theory as we practice it
today may have a problem
Multiple places. – The data set you are about to see shows people’s behavior as regards safety at work. (You can imagine what their behavior will be as regards any- thing else!) See it and then, on a scale from 1 to 10, grade the rationality of the human species. Now you [you smart economist] model people’s behavior … the usual way!
SPAIN.-June 2008: A huge economic and institutional crisis is in
the making. “A crisis, you say? What crisis?” —or what the classic and the modern Spain
Classic
Modern
Links
I invite you to visit the following web sites. I do
not agree with everything they say, but they aren’t here for being
agreeable: They are here for being smart!
Nódulo
Materialista.
Gustavo Bueno and his crew. They publish the online journal Catoblepas. Related links: Fundación Gustavo Bueno and Filosofía en
Español.
Institut Economique Molinari
A European liberal think tank —already a
merit. Here you will find a
provocative stand on such issues as the global warming, the precautionary
principle, and the like.
Juan Urrutia
A forerunner in the
analysis of the economic and social implications of the internet. Start
reading now.
Santiago
González
The acute and sardonic Blog de Santiago
González.
Students
Macroeconomía.ICADE,
curso 2006-2007
Programa del
curso
(1)
Contenido del Temario
(2)
Notas
sobre el Tema 1
(3)
Notas
sobre el Tema 2
Ejercicios
sobre:
(1) Magnitudes
Macroeconómicas
(2) Mercado de Trabajo y Curva de Oferta Agregada
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