Libros de

Planificación fiscal

para ejecutivos españoles con ingresos en México

Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos es un país privilegiado, es por ello que está considerado como uno de los lugares más atractivos del mundo para la inversión extranjera debido a las múltiples ventajas que integra, siendo una de sus principales características su ubicación geográfica, ya que ...

La Hacienda real de la Nueva Planta (1713-1726), entre fraude y buen gobierno

el caso Verdes Montenegro

¿Qué significaba, para los hombres del siglo XVIII, gobernar la Hacienda real? Contamos con buenas descripciones de los cambios institucionales aportados por los Borbones en materia de Hacienda, basadas esencialmente en documentos normativos producidos por la monarquía. No tenemos tanta información sobre el significado que ...

Nudge an the Law

a european perspective

Behavioural sciences help refine our understanding of human decision-making. Their insights are immensely relevant for policy-making since public intervention works much better when it targets real people rather than imaginary beings assumed to be perfectly rational. Increasingly, governments around the world are keen to rely ...

Pauperland

poverty and the poor in Britain

In 1797 Jeremy Bentham prepared a map of poverty in Britain, which he called 'Pauperland.' More than two hundred years later, poverty and social deprivation remain widespread in Britain.Yet despite the investigations into poverty by Mayhew, Booth, and in the 20th century, Townsend, it ...

A reformulation of keynesian economics

John Maynard Keynes' response to the extreme distress of the early years of the Great Depression produced The General Theory, which represented an overhaul of the macroeconomics inherited by his generation. The economic upheaval (including the Great Recession) since 2008 raised serious doubts about the ...

The spirit of the Law

the plunder of wealth in the Armenian Genocide

Pertinent to contemporary demands for reparations from Turkey is the relationship between law and property in connection with the Armenian Genocide. This book examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth. Through the close analysis of ...

Fragile by design

the political origins of banking crises and scarce credit

Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries--but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule ...

Phishing for phools

the economics of manipulation and deception

Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize-winning economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller deliver a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing ...

On inequiality

Economic inequality is one of the most divisive issues of our time. Yet few would argue that inequality is a greater evil than poverty. The poor suffer because they don't have enough, not because others have more, and some have far too much. So ...

How economics shapes science

At a time when science is seen as an engine of economic growth, Paula Stephan brings a keen understanding of the cost-benefit calculations made by individuals and institutions as they compete for resources and reputation in scientific fields. She highlights especially the growing gap between ...

Prisoners of geography

ten maps that tell you everything you need to know about global politics

All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture.If you ...

The business of family

how to stay rich for generations

How do families build and maintain their wealth? This question has challenged families for generations. In business, any wise entrepreneur would develop a plan to guide the venture. Though most people don't have a strategy in mind for their families, it is precisely what ...

Sharing profits

the ethics of remuneration, tax and shareholder returns

Any decision by a company on how it applies its profits - to pay tax, remuneration or shareholder returns - has ethical implications. Shareholders are entitled to earn a return, and accepted asset allocation methods can help promote equality of opportunity, but will irreconcilably conflict with wider ...

Making sense of markets

an investor's guide to profiting amidst the gloom

In March 2012, the Financial Times carried a front page story headlined 'Years of struggle for a jinxed generation'. It stated that 'For the first time in half a century, young Britons embarking on their careers cannot expect to be any better off than their ...

Euro Crash

how asset price inflation destroys the Wealth of Nations

Euro Crash is a unique analysis of the European Monetary Union, arguing that it was not sub-optimal currency areas or profligate government spending but instead fatal flaws in monetary design and an appalling series of policy mistakes by the European Central Bank that lead to ...

The Public Wealth of Nations

how management of public assets can boost or bust economic growth

When you look around the world it's almost as if Thatcher/Reagan economic revolution never happened. The largest pool of wealth in the world - a global total that is twice the world's total pension savings, and ten times the total of all the ...

Safe to fail

how resolution will revolutionise banking

The recent financial crisis has changed the face of banking. The days of taxpayer bailouts are over and we now need a new way ahead - to make banks safe to fail. Academically rigorous but written in an accessible and engaging style, Thomas Huertas' new book ...

Macroeconomics

An exceptionally clear and concise introduction to macroeconomics.

Social movement dynamics

new perspectives on theory and research from Latin America

This book presents an overview of new approaches to the study of social movements emerging out of Latin America, based on original and innovative analyses of the recent changes in collective action across the region. Over the past decade, new repertoires of contention have emerged ...

Crónicas del neoliberalismo que vino del espacio exterior

«Sentíamos que Margaret Thatcher era mucho más terrorífica que cualquier monstruo al que el Doctor se había enfrentado.» Así resumía la situación el equipo de guionistas y actores de la popular serie Doctor Who de la BBC: lo que estaba ocurriendo fuera de los platós ...