An economic history of Nineteenth-Century Europe

diversity and industrialization

Why did some countries and regions of Europe reach high levels of economic advancement in the nineteenth century, while others were left behind? This new transnational survey of the continent's economic development highlights the role of regional differences in shaping each country's economic ...

The great persuasion

reinventing free markets since the Depression

Just as today's observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression. The Great Persuasion is an intellectual history of that project. Angus ...

Metals, culture and capitalism

an essay on the origins of the Modern World

Metals, Culture and Capitalism is an ambitious, broad-ranging account of the search for metals in Europe and the Near East from the Bronze Age to the Industrial Revolution and the relationship between this and economic activity, socio-political structures and the development of capitalism. Continuing his ...

Thorstein Veblen

economics for an Age of Crises

After his death Thorstein Veblen was hailed as ‘America’s Darwin and Marx’ and is normally portrayed as the perennial iconoclast. He severely criticised traditional economics and attempted to create an alternative approach based on a much more complex view of human beings. He is ...

The Atlantic in world history

As the Atlantic Ocean was transformed from a terrifying barrier into a highway uniting four continents, the lives of people all around the ocean were transformed. After 1492 merchants and political leaders around the Atlantic refocused their attention from trade highways in their interiors to ...

The history of mining

the events, technology and people involved in the industry that forged the Modern World

This book deals with the industry that forged the modern world. Throughout history metals and raw materials have underpinned human activity. So it is that the industry responsible for extracting these materials from the ground - mining - has been ever present throughout the history of civilisation ...

Sed de poder

la verdadera historia de Mario Conde

Una crónica de la disolución ética y de la desfachatez moral que ha llevado a España y a Europa a una crisis sin precedentes y que señala a sus autores intelectuales, económicos y políticos. La burbuja del dinero fácil facilitó el frenesí especulativo de una ...

The european economy since 1914

The fifth edition of The European Economy provides a succinct and lucid account of the development and problems of the European economy since the first world war. It covers the whole of Europe including Russia and Turkey. The text divides into several clearly defined sub-periods ...

A world connecting

1870-1945

Between 1870 and 1945, advances in communication and transportation simultaneously expanded and shrank the world. New technologies erased distance and accelerated the global exchange of people, products, and ideas on an unprecedented scale. A World Connecting focuses on an era when growing global interconnectedness inspired ...

Tap dancing to work

Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012

"Tap Dancing to Work" compiles six decades of writing on legendary investor Warren Buffett, from Carol Loomis, the reporter who knows him best. Warren Buffett built Berkshire Hathaway into something remarkable - and "Fortune" journalist Carol Loomis had a front-row seat. When Carol Loomis first mentioned ...

The illusion of free markets

punishment and the myth of natural order

It is widely believed today that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. Just as fundamental as faith in the free market is the belief that government has a legitimate and competent role in policing and the ...

Contra el intervencionismo

El nuevo libro de Álvaro Lodares es una defensa de los principios liberales en una realidad que no va precisamente por este camino. El autor muestra, una vez más, su oposición a las políticas económicas keynesianas, las practiquen quienes las practiquen. El aumento de los ...

España e Italia del nacionalismo económico a la globalización = La Spagna e l'Italia dal nazionalismo economico alla globalizzazione

El evidente paralelismo de la evolución económica de España e Italia justifica el interés por la historia comparada de ambos países. Los ensayos que se recogen en este volumen constituyen una nueva contribución al estudio de este argumento y se proponen mantener vivo el interés ...

Planificación para la libertad

y otros ensayos

Los ensayos y conferencias recopilados aquí constituyen aquella parte de las publicaciones de Mises cuyo destinatario es el lector común. Pueden considerarse como introductorias a sus ideas expuestas en sus obras más medulares y voluminosas. En ellos se tratan los asuntos económicos trascendentales que dividen ...

Los ferrocarriles españoles (1854-1913)

el gran negocio de los franceses

Este libro recoge, en esencia, la traducción del amplio capítulo que estudiaba el negocio ferroviario español en la tesis de Estado del profesor Albert Broder. Esta tesis, estuvo dirigida por Pierre Vilar y constituye hoy en día un referente clásico en la Historia Económica de ...

El Sector Público

su evolución en la historia del pensamiento económico

La presente monografía ofrece una incursión clara y concisa en la historia de la hacienda pública y de las ideas que sobre ella han desarrollado casi todas las civilizaciones. Realiza también un breve análisis sobre el rol jugado por el sector público a partir de ...

The making of global capitalism

the political economy of american empire

Panitch and Gindin's monumental study offers a significant rethinking of the development of global capitalism. Transcending classical theories of interimperialist rivalry and the false dichotomy between states and markets in the neoliberal era, this book produces an exceptionally rich account of postwar global capitalism ...

Los errores de la vieja economía

un refutación de la teoría general del empleo, el interés y el dinero de John Maynard Keynes

Probablemente La Teoría General del Empleo, el Interés y el Dinero de John Maynard Keynes sea el tratado de Economía más influyente del siglo XX. A fecha de hoy, y pese a haber sido publicado hace 75 años, todavía sigue siendo citado como una referencia ...

John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes is arguably the most important and influential economist of the twentieth century, and stands alongside Adam Smith and Karl Marx as one of the most famous economic thinkers of all time. Keynes's radical reassessment of the accepted principles of economics led ...

El dinero en The New Yorker

la economía en viñetas

«Tiene el lector en sus manos una rareza: un libro de viñetas sobre el mundo de las finanzas y la economía extraídas de las páginas de The New Yorker. Digo “rareza” porque la nuestra es una revista dirigida a un público para el que el ...