Ser esclavo

en África y América entre los siglos XV y XIX

Entre los siglos XV y XIX, más de 12 millones de africanos fueron llevados como esclavos a las Américas para trabajar en las industrias que abastecían a los mercados europeos. Este libro otorga un papel central al continente africano y sus habitantes, esclavistas o esclavos ...

Mass Flourishing

how grassroots innovation created jobs, challenge, and change

In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s ...

Genealogy of american finance

In this unique, well-illustrated book, readers learn how fifty financial corporations came to dominate the U.S. banking system and their impact on the nation's political, social, and economic growth. A story that spans more than two centuries of war, crisis, and opportunity, this ...

Early economic thought in Spain, 1177-1740

Early Economic Thought in Spain was published in 1978, and in her Foreword the author mentions that the discussion of long-term inflation in Spain from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries ought to be of interest since “we live in a time of inflation”. The ...

La independencia de Cataluña

historia económica, política, Derecho

La obra es un análisis del independentismo catalán, visto desde cuatro perspectivas: la historia (de dónde venimos, quiénes somos) la economía (costes y beneficios de la secesión) la realidad socio-política actual (qué dice hoy el pueblo catalán) y el Derecho (reformas posibles del marco constitucional ...

Una alternativa al capitalismo neoliberal

reflexiones de un economista indignado

Una alternativa al capitalismo neoliberal pretende ser una ruptura con la linealidad evolutiva de la historia actual. Desde la mayor seriedad, valentía y creatividad, se realiza una propuesta alternativa al capitalismo neoliberal. Iniciándose con un planteamiento filosófico, avalado matemáticamente mediante la existencia de un máximo ...

Fulfilling social and economic rights

One of the most ambitious legacies of the 20th century was the universal commitment to ensure freedom from want as a human right. How far have we progressed; to what extent are countries across the world living up to this commitment? This book charts new ...

Empires and walls

globalization, migration, and colonial domination

Why do empires build walls and fences? Are they for defensive purposes only, to keep the ‘barbarians’ at the gate; or do they also function as complex offensive military structures to subjugate and control the colonized? Are the colonized subjects also capable of erecting barriers ...

The Lion wakes

a modern history of HSBC

The Lion Wakes tells the modern story of HSBC, starting in the late 1970s, when the bank first broke out of the Asia-Pacific region with its purchase of Marine Midland Bank in the US. It follows HSBC's battle to purchase Midland Bank in1992, the ...

The burdens of empire

1539 to the present

Despite the long history of debate and the recent resurgence of interest in empires and imperialism, no one seems very clear as to what exactly an empire is. The Burdens of Empire strives to offer not only a definition but also a working description. This ...

Erasing the invisible hand

essays on an elusive and misused concept in economics

This book examines the use, principally in economics, of the concept of the invisible hand, centering on Adam Smith. It interprets the concept as ideology, knowledge, and a linguistic phenomenon. It shows how the principal Chicago School interpretation misperceives and distorts what Smith believed on ...

El choque de ideas económicas

los grandes debates de política económica de los últimos cien años

Este libro nos acerca a las más señaladas disputas entre economistas, y a la relación entre los planteamientos teóricos y los grandes experimentos de política económica de los últimos cien años. White nos ofrece una lúcida visión del liberalismo económico, la economía mixta, el socialismo ...

Economía solidaria

conversaciones con el Dalái Lama sobre el altruismo, el desarrollo y la compasión

Economía solidaria presenta los debates y conversaciones que tuvieron lugar en uno de los encuentros más celebrados del famoso “Mind and Life Institute”, una institución creada a partir de una serie de diálogos interdisciplinarios entre el Dalái Lama, científicos, filósofos y contemplativos de todo el ...

La victoria de América

crónica de la recuperación económica

Estados Unidos ha demostrado en sus más de doscientos años de existencia que es capaz de sobreponerse a los grandes problemas. Su pragmatismo orientado al éxito, ha dado muy buenos resultados a Norteamérica como nación. Superó la Guerra Civil, participó como salvador en las dos ...

La economía en evolución

"Llevo años comprendiendo y afirmando que el mundo del año 2000 exige otra conceptualización de las relaciones humanas para la adecuada satisfacción de nuestras necesidades. La ciencia económica no es una técnica de relaciones entre objetos a base de variables cuantitativas, sino un estudio de ...

Economía, poder y política

crisis y cambio de paradigma

Economía, poder y política se solapan a diario violando las artificiales fronteras académicas que tratan de segregarlos en mundos separados, ocultando que el poder es la bisagra que conecta habitualmente a la economía y la política. Este libro denuncia la función mistificadora de los enfoques ...

The lords of human kind

european attitudes to other cultures in the Imperial Age

When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact with the peoples of other parts of the world and formed views ...

Making money

coin, currency, and the coming of capitalism

Money travels the modern world in disguise. It looks like a convention of human exchange - a commodity like gold or a medium like language. But its history reveals that money is a very different matter. It is an institution engineered by political communities to mark ...

Connecting the nineteenth-century world

the telegraph and globalization

By the end of the nineteenth century the global telegraph network had connected all continents and brought distant people into direct communication 'at the speed of thought' for the first time. Roland Wenzlhuemer here examines the links between the development of the telegraph and the ...

Intellectual capital

forty years of the Nobel Prize in economics

There is arguably no award more recognized in the academic and professional worlds than the Nobel Prize. The public pays attention to the prizes in the fields of economics, literature, and peace because their recipients are identified with particular ideas, concepts, or actions that often ...