The challenge of orthodoxy and the ideas of Medina Echavarria

It is a serious commitment for an economist to take part in a meeting of distinguished sociologists, and all the more so when that meeting pivots upon the work and personality of so eminent a thinker as Medina Echavarria. The only valid explanation would seem to be that I am among those who followed his work with interest and profit, especially those studies based on political economy which, in some way and to some degree, are common ground for all the social disciplines.