Novedades editoriales de Economía

2013 Harvard University Press

If a country's Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic education, health care, and other opportunities, is that country really making progress? If we ...

2013 Yale University Press

While dozens of recent books and articles have predicted the near-certainty of China's rise to global supremacy, this book boldly counters such widely-held assumptions. Timothy Beardson brings to light the daunting array of challenges ...

2013 Yale University Press

As financial turmoil in Europe preoccupies political leaders and global markets, it becomes more important than ever to understand the forces that underpin the European Union, hold it together and drive it forward. This timely ...

2013 Harvard University Press

According to the reigning competition-driven model of evolution, selfish behaviors that maximize an organism's reproductive potential offer a fitness advantage over self-sacrificing behaviors--rendering unselfish behavior for the sake of others a mystery that requires ...

2013 W.W. Norton & Company Ltd.

Mired in a long, crippling economic slump and hamstrung by bitter partisan debate over the growing debt and the role of government, America faces substantial challenges, exacerbated by a dearth of vision and common sense ...

2013 Ashgate Publishing Limited

The global financial crisis, which started in the United States in 2007, spread to Europe in 2009. It especially hit Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain, countries which have introduced the single currency, the euro ...

2013 University of Chicago Press

We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn't the case - economists ...

2013 Columbia University Press

The essays in this collection boldly confront the quest for security arising out of the social, economic, environmental, and political crises and transformations of our century. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mary Kaldor begin with an ...

2013 Worth Publishers, Inc.

Each year more and more students are being introduced to the fundamental principles of macroeconomics via Paul Krugman's trusted voice and signature storytelling style. This third edition of Krugman and Well's Macroeonomics is ...

2013 Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.

Joseph Schumpeter (1883 - 1950) was one of the foremost economic thinkers of the twentieth century. Today Schumpeter is most well-known for his idea of 'creative destruction'. This is the notion that a market economy is ...

2013 Portfolio

Jim O'Neill, one of the most influential economists today, shares his insights on how and why he developed one of the most compelling economic concepts of our time in "The Growth Map". "O'Neill ...

2013 Intersentia Ltd.

The New York Convention is regarded as one of the most successful treaties in the past fifty-five years. Its simplicity and brevity in wording but complexity and diversity in application have triggered endless discussions, debates ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

Foreword by Alex J. Pollock, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington DC, USA. He was President and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago from 1991 to 2004 and is the ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

Taxation in Latin America is largely viewed as a means of generating income to keep the government in business. In recent years, progress has been made towards increasing total revenue, but most countries in the ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

In an urgent follow-up to his best-selling "Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller," Jeff Rubin argues that the end of cheap oil means the end of growth. What it will ...

2013 Oxford University Press

Conservatives in America have succeeded in casting government spending as useless profligacy that has made their economy worse, centering the policy debate in the wake of the financial crisis on draconian budget cuts. Americans are ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

An Introduction to Global Financial Markets describes the financial sector in clear, easy to understand terms, providing a broad and balanced introduction to financial markets across the world. In the constantly fluctuating state of modern ...

2013 Palgrave MacMillan

A look at how our current crises are caused by too much government, and how Ayn Rand's bold defense of free markets can help us change course. " " The rise of the Tea Party and ...

2013 Editorial Ariel, S.A.

La crisis económica y financiera de 1929 dio origen a la gran depresión de los años treinta. John Kenneth Galbraith nos presenta aquí una historia y un análisis de esos hechos, y desentraña los procesos ...

2013 Editorial Ariel, S.A.

Tras cinco siglos de expansión y desarrollo, el capitalismo se enfrenta a los retos que le plantea la gran crisis global que azota al mundo. Un capitalismo que ha dejado de ser el efecto de ...