Abstract
We live in a time of socio-cultural inequality, unemployment, poverty, moral degradation, conflict, lack of imagination and creativity. Is all this the consequence of an incorrect adjustment of the markets (economic crisis) or the end of a socio-cultural model incapable of responding to the problems of man as a person not as an object (anthropological crisis)?
This article attempts to respond to this question by discussing the role of economics as a science and a self-referential cultural model based on finance.
Keywords: Neoliberalism; Economics; Finance
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