Social, political, cultural, and economic transformations develop in the different historical times as defined by the various academic disciplines, theoretical and ideological orientations and interests of social groups. In this classification and perspective, social time can accelerate or can freeze; it can jump in disruptive movements that also have as their objective the possibility of influencing the orientation of power exercised by the elites and in which subordinate groups try to influence or modify the correlation of forces between possessors and dispossessed. F. Braudel has established a reference of historical time under the concept of the long duration in order to analyze aspects of social transformations over time; or, N. Elías has problematized the notion of time and how in it the projects of the dominant and subordinate classes are interconnected, as well as their struggles. In the field of reflection, the economic actions within any of the perspectives of social time that is chosen are definitive. In the last 50 years, the time of the social, political, cultural horizon, etc., has been crossed by the economic modifications deployed, and without a doubt that the reference to the long cycles of N. Kondrátiev here is obligatory; similarly, social, political, cultural, etc. transformations have influenced the economic sphere.

The reflection on this last historical period has occupied various groups of academics in the world, among which is one formed in Mexico, by women at the UNAM. In this reflection, this group of women has been able to form and shape a space for analysis and reflection to critically analyze these transformations of the real economy and its discourse, as well as its effects on society at various levels and degrees of depth, not only with respect to Mexico, but rather from the broader global perspective. The names of these women, Eugenia Correa, Alicia Girón and Patricia Rodríguez, are heard from the mouths of students, national and international colleagues, and senior officials, who discuss their contributions, their ability to organize reflection, not only on the central aspects and urgency regarding the change in the perspective of the harmful power of financialization, but also in the constitution, dynamics and actors of these changes. These processes and areas of reflection are carried out in a garden, tended by them, where a horizontal treatment allows the circulation of ideas, opinions, controversies, etc. with collective benefits; that garden is the Seminario de Economia Fiscal y Fianciera that has come of age, not chronologically, but because of its maturity and scientific rigor. This river of knowledge has been fed with respect, affection and solidarity and its flow passes through universities in Latin America, such as Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, etc., and extends to the United States, Canada, and passes through Great Britain, Spain, France... Today that flow has been both reduced and expanded. Eugenia Correa has physically left her space in that group but her wake has grown in the awareness of her academic, social and ethical contributions. The present issue of www.olafinanciera.unam.mx, and others to come, pays tribute not only to her theoretical contributions, but also to her organizational ones, her indefatigable promotion of this digital medium, of which she was a founder, along with her inseparable colleagues, co-religionists, Alicia Girón and Patricia Rodríguez, also her sisters. Thus, Ola Financiera, and all its collaborators, friends, colleagues and those who carry it out, wish you a happy journey and we will continue to honor you by deepening our analysis of the economic issues that you also studied, and it has been with the perfume and that of your colleagues and friends that has permeated intellectual endeavors, which, above all, have been forms of ethical reflection, thinking of the common good.

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