Revista Economía is a biannual publication of the Institute of Economic Research (IIE) of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of Universidad Central del Ecuador (UCE).
The first issue of Revista Economía, when the School of Economics was attached to the Faculty of Jurisprudence and Social Sciences of the UCE, appeared in May 1951, the same year as the foundation of the Higher Institute for Research and Postgraduate Studies. When the Faculty of Economic Sciences was created in 1951, the magazine kept its validity, and today in charge of the Institute of Economic Research (IIE).
Revista Economía pursues a plural and diverse thought in the economy and in the social sciences to respond with alternative and critical voices to the problems and challenges of Latin American society.
The main objective of Revista Economía is to be an editorial space for meeting and dialogue between researchers and academics in the field of social sciences, to develop proposals and emerging alternative models; in addition to promoting and disseminating the plural and diverse economic thought of the UCE (as well as of researchers and academics outside the institution, national and international), which includes critical voices from the economy and the social sciences related to it.
The addressees of the journal are people, organizations, and, institutions of the public or private sector that are linked to the work of the critical economy in Latin America.
It should be noted that at least 75% of the content of Revista Economía has the character of original research within the scientific and academic fields.