La espiral de la austeridad: España intervenida

Economistas Aterrados

La realidad no ha hecho más que confirmar el grito de alarma que representó el "Manifiesto de Economistas Aterrados". Primero Grecia, Irlanda y Portugal, ahora España, demuestran que las políticas neoliberales y la sumisión a los mercados financieros, que provocaron la crisis, continúan agravándola. La ...

La dinámica del capitalismo

Volumen que recoge las reflexiones del autor sobre la vida material y la vida económica. Asimismo, ofrece una brillante exposición sobre lo que él denomina los juegos del intercambio, que definen cómo se ha desenvuelto la economía de mercado y el capitalismo. El libro culmina ...

Historia del Banco Popular

la lucha por la independencia

El Banco Popular de los Previsores del Porvenir fue fundado en 1926. Nacía estrechamente asociado a una compañía de seguros llamada Los Previsores del Porvenir. Se trataba de una institución de dimensiones y pretensiones modestas que, haciendo honor a su nombre, aspiraba a recoger el ...

Historical capitalism

In this short, highly readable book, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a condensation of the central ideas of The Modern World-System, his monumental study of capitalism as an integrated, historical entity. In developing an anatomy of capitalism over the past five centuries, Wallerstein provides one of the ...

Capitalism and the jews

The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism, separates ...

Beyond our means

why America spends while the world saves

If the financial crisis has taught us anything, it is that Americans save too little, spend too much, and borrow excessively. What can we learn from East Asian and European countries that have fostered enduring cultures of thrift over the past two centuries? "Beyond Our ...

The 1970s

a new global history from civil rights to economic inequality

"The 1970s" looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis ...

The economist's voice

top economists take on today's problems

In this valuable resource, more than thirty of the world's top economists offer innovative policy ideas and insightful commentary on our most pressing economic issues, such as global warming, the global economy, government spending, Social Security, tax reform, real estate, and political and social ...

Objective economics

how Ayn Rand's philosophy changes everything about economics

CONTENTS: Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter One: Method and Context Chapter 3 Chapter Two: Objective Economic Value Chapter 4 Chapter Three: Fundamental Economic Concepts Chapter 5 Chapter Four: Foundational Theories Chapter 6 Chapter Five: Introduction to the Theory of Objective Prices Chapter 7 Chapter ...

Imposing values

an essay on liberalism and regulation

A major question for liberal politics and liberal political theory concerns the proper scope of government. Liberalism has always favored limited government, but there has been wide-ranging dispute among liberals about just how extensive the scope of government should be. Included in this dispute are ...

La economía del miedo

Alguien escribió una alegoría. En ella, la Gran Recesión dice a los perdedores: lamentamos sinceramente el destino que habéis tenido, pero las leyes de la economía son despiadadas y es preciso que os adaptéis a ellas reduciendo las protecciones. Si os queréis enriquecer debéis aceptar ...

Political transformations and public finances

Europe, 1650-1913

How did today's rich states first establish modern fiscal systems? To answer this question, Political Transformations and Public Finances by Mark Dincecco examines the evolution of political regimes and public finances in Europe over the long term. The book argues that the emergence of ...

Trade policy disaster

lessons from the 1930s

The recent economic crisis--with the plunge in the stock market, numerous bank failures and widespread financial distress, declining output and rising unemployment--has been reminiscent of the Great Depression. The Depression of the 1930s was marked by the spread of protectionist trade policies, which contributed to ...

The man of numbers

Fibonacci's arithmetic revolution

In 1202, a 32-year old Italian finished one of the most influential books of all time, which introduced modern arithmetic to Western Europe. Devised in India in the seventh and eighth centuries and brought to North Africa by Muslim traders, the Hindu-Arabic system helped transform ...

El dinero de Dios

Iglesia y fiscalidad en el occidente medieval (siglos XIII-XV)

A través de análisis concretos de distintos servicios, en la Corona de Castilla, de sistemas de recaudación de las alcabalas y de participantes en la misma, en la citada Corona y en el Reino de Navarra, y del crédito, en Cataluña, en cada uno de ...

El liberalismo no es pecado

la economía en cinco lecciones

Carlos Rodríguez Braun y Juan Ramón Rallo defienden el liberalismo rebatiendo los argumentos de sus fustigadores. Por ejemplo: la crisis la provocó la liberalización y la desregulación; no manda la política, mandan los mercados; toda reducción del Estado del Bienestar atenta contra las conquistas sociales ...

Thinking, fast and slow

Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound and widely regarded impact on many ...

El financiero

Frank Cowperwood (personaje inspirado de forma evidente en el magnate Charles Tyson Yerkes) es un hombre de negocios ferozmente ambicioso, la encarnación misma de la codicia, que busca satisfacción de forma despiadada en la riqueza, las mujeres y el poder. Negocia, trampea, traiciona y a ...

Bourgeois dignity

why economics can't explain the modern world

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was ...

The institutional revolution

measurement and the economic emergence of the modern world

Few events in the history of humanity rival the Industrial Revolution. Following its onset in eighteenth-century Britain, sweeping changes in agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and technology began to gain unstoppable momentum throughout Europe, North America, and eventually much of the world, with profound effects on socioeconomic ...