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“David Hume on Materialism”. During the 17th and 18th centuries, an intense debate concerning materialism took place. This paper aims to describe David Hume’s position within this debate. I claim that, even though Hume rejects substantialist metaphysics to focus on the study of perceptions, he defends a position concerning the relationship between mind and matter. However, this position is rather complex to reconstruct since it is not explicitly stated in the texts edited during Hume’s life. I propose to define it as a restricted materialism since, regarding the nature of mind, Hume discards both the materialist and the immaterialist positions; although concerning the causes of thought he comes close to materialist positions by using arguments based on experience and the analogy with nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the study of the dynamic relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth for a group of Latin America and Caribbean countries during 1951-2014. From the use of economic regimes and time series symbolization, a metric was introduced. Through cluster analysis, two distinct groups emerged in terms of their emissions and growth dynamics. Analyzing the existence of bidirectional relationships both in the short and long term, it was found that the relationship differs according to the groups and estimation methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]