Revista Economía is a biannual publication of the Economic Research Institute (IIE) of the 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 journal kept its validity, today in charge of the current IIE. Revista Economía pursues a plural and diverse thought in the economy and the social sciences to respond with alternative and critical voices to the problems and challenges of Latin American society. The main objective of the Revista Economía is 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—, who include criticisms of 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 in the work of the critical economy in Latin America.