The evolutionary analysis of economic policy

#This study is a pioneering effort to attempt to integrate evolutionary and economic theory in order to have a better understanding of the way in which political, economic and social systems evolve over time. The result is an exciting series of essays exploring the various ...

Structural reform in Japan

breaking the iron triangle

In this unusually candid book, Japan#s former top financial diplomat asserts the urgent need for wholesale structural reform to revitalize the long-stagnant Japanese economy. Eisuke Sakakibara, whose influence over global currency markets earned him the nickname of #Mr. Yen,# envisions a social and economic ...

Structural impediments to growth in Japan

As the much-lauded "miracle" of Japan's stunning economic growth has ground down into a seemingly unshakeable economic stagnation, analysts have focused their attention on the underlying systems that present obstacles to continued success. In this, the first book-length academic treatment of this important issue ...

Las formas del trabajo y de la historia

una introducción al estudio de la economía política

El libro define el objeto de estudio de esta disciplina como una forma social específica e históricamente determinada que asume el trabajo de los hombres. No es lo que normalmente se acepta en los manuales y textos convencionales, en los cuales la economía se present ...

Políticas emancipatorias

crítica al estado, las vanguardias y la representación

In an uncertain world

tough choices from Wall Street to Washington

From his early years in the storied arbitrage department at Goldman Sachs to his current position as chairman of the executive committee of Citigroup, Robert Rubin has been a major figure at the center of the American financial system. He was a key player in ...

Nuevas ideas republicanas

autogobierno y libertad

Governance in a global economy

political authority in transition

This volume presents 17 papers, each of which explores how global economic integration produces changes in governance. The book concludes that a new and intricate fabric of governance has been created, but one that fails to serve the purpose of beleaguered govenments.

Reliable partners

how democracies have made a separate peace

Democracies often go to war but almost never against each other. Indeed, "the democratic peace" has become a catchphrase among scholars and even US presidents. But why do democracies avoid fighting each other? "Reliable Partners" offers a systematic and definitive explanation. Examining decades of research ...

Juegos de poder

ganar o perder: cómo juegan la partida los grandes líderes políticos de la historia

Gangs of America

the rise of corporate power and the disabling of democracy

Through a series of fascinating stories populated by colorful personalities, Gangs of America details the rise of corporate power in America. Driven to answer the central question of how corporations got more rights than people, Ted Nace delves deep into the origins of this institution ...

Economis as ideology

Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the creation of contemporary politics

Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek and the Creation of Contemporary Politics explores the lives and thought of three powerful theorists who shaped the foundations of the center, left, and right of the political spectrum in the 20th century. Noted scholar Kenneth R. Hoover examines ...

Going public

the role of labor-management relations in delivering quality government services

The public sector currently employs around 40 per cent of all union members in the United States. Pressures for cost-effective and quality government services have placed new demands on the labour-management relationship. A fluctuating set of expectations about the appropriate responsibilities of government and a ...

Administracion institucional autonómica

Consideración especial de la Comunidad de Madrid

The political economy of a plural world

critical reflections on power, morals and civilization

Hacia el partido de oposición : foro social mundial / Porto Alegre 2002

Pretender reunir en el presente volumen la ingente multitud de aportaciones y documentos de todo tipo que surgieron en el II Foro Social Mundial, celebrado en Porto Alegre (Brasil), del 31 de enero al 5 de febrero de 2002 es, evidentemente, una tarea imposible. Pero ...

Future of the capitalist state

In this important new book, Bob Jessop offers a radical new interpretation of capitalist states and their likely future development. He focuses on the changing forms, functions, scales and effectiveness of economic and social policy that have emerged since the 1950s in advanced western capitalist ...

Economía Política de la Estabilidad Cambiaria

Una perspectiva desde la Teoría de los Bienes Públicos Globales.

Fairness versus welfare

By what criteria should public policy be evaluated? Fairness and justice? Or the welfare of individuals? Debate over this fundamental question has spanned the ages. Fairness versus Welfare poses a bold challenge to contemporary moral philosophy by showing that most moral principles conflict more sharply ...

Political economy

the contest of economic ideas

Political Economy looks at the competing currents of political economic thought. INDICE ECONOMIC PROCESSES AND PROBLEMS: The current context . ECONOMIC SYSTEMS: What's so Special about Capitalism . BACK TO BASICS: Classical Political Economy . THE CRITQUE OF CAPITALISM: Marxist Economics . THE IDEOLOGY OF THE MARKET: Neoclassical ...