La economía política de los romanos

IV. Aeternitas Rerum. La aspiración a la estabilidad de un sistema histórico

ÍNDICE: La investigación anterior. El concepto de Aeternitas en las fuentes. Significado de Aeternitas y otros términos afines. Roma Aeterna: las ideas sobre la eternidad de Roma. Aeternitas Rei Publicae: la aspiración a la eternidad del Estado Romano. La difuciñon del concepto de Aeternitas. Nihil ...

Economics evolving

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In clear, nontechnical language, this introductory textbook describes the history of economic thought, focusing on the development of economic theory from Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" to the late twentieth century. The text concentrates on the most important figures in the history of economics ...

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Introducción de Ernest lluch ; Estudiopreliminar y edición de Salvador Almenar. Además de un eminente político liberal, Álvaro Flórez Estrada fue uno de los economistas más distinguidos de su tiempo, consagrado con este Curso de economía política, una obra que, por su extensión y la actualidad ...

La Real Fábrica de Gas de Madrid

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the West and the Rest

If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on ...

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artful approaches to the Dismal Science

A Brief History of Economics illustrates how the ideas of the great economists not only influenced societies but were themselves shaped by their cultural milieu. Understanding the economists' visions # lucidly and vividly unveiled by Canterbery # allows readers to place economics within a broader community of ...

The Oxford handbook of judaism and economics

At once it must be recognized that religious law by its very nature regulates and restricts the conduct of its adherents. One of the major foci of The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics is therefore to describe the impact economic regulation in Jewish law ...

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Este libro rastrea los orígenes y primer desarrollo de una empresa a la vez longeva y hoy en toda su plenitud: Telefónica. Saca, así, a la luz con minuciosidad y rigor cimentado en numerosos y diversos archivos, con el propio de Telefónica a la cabeza ...

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the battles and triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices

Unprecedented in its global impact, the Great Depression sounded the death knell of unfettered capitalism. Four men - all from wildly different backgrounds, all with decidedly disparate temperments and all equally devoted to FDR - were the primary authors of what would essentially be America's new ...

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The Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, which raised U.S. duties on hundreds of imported goods to record levels, is America's most infamous trade law. It is often associated with - and sometimes blamed for - the onset of the Great Depression, the collapse of world trade ...

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a history of risk, reward, and delusion on Wall Street

Overall, Fox has written a very good book which covers a remarkable amount of material in only 322 pages. The problem is that this book, if properly done, should run around 600+ pages. Granted, Fox is a journalist, not an academic, so his audience might ...

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the history of America in Red Ink

Before the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants. By the end of the century, however, the most profitable corporations and banks in the country lent money to millions of American debtors ...

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Front page economics

In an age when pundits constantly decry bias in the media, we have naturally become skeptical of the news. But the bluntness of such critiques masks the much more sophisticated way in which the media frame important stories. In "Front Page Economics", Gerald D. Suttles ...

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fifty years of economic folly -and the stark choices ahead

Amid the hype of China#s rise to global power, the most important story of our generation is being pushed aside: how America#s rapidly growing population of the unskilled, unemployed, and disaffected threatens the nation#s wealth and stature. In How the West Was ...

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when the Third World fell behind

Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order--two hundred years in the making--was already characterized by a vast difference in per capita income ...

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With its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system provides the framework for our lives. It is a framework of constant change, sometimes measured and predictable, sometimes drastic and out of control. Yet what is now ubiquitous was not always so. Capitalism took shape ...

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aspectos políticos, sociales y culturales

La historia de España no se comprende sin mirar al campo. Hasta bien entrado el siglo XX, la sociedad española fue en su mayoría una sociedad agrícola. Esta idea fundamenta la publicación de La España Rural, siglos XIX y XX, una innovadora aportación al estudio ...

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En El pentágono del poder, segundo y último volumen de El mito de la máquina, concluye el balance radical que Lewis Mumford hace de rancias y trasnochadas concepciones acerca del progreso humano y tecnológico. Mumford ofrece una explicación histórica completa de las irracionalidades y las ...

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Este volumen de la Historia de la Europa urbana, dirigida por Jean-Luc Pinol, estudia las ciudades extraeuropeas desde la perspectiva de sus relaciones con los modelos del Viejo Continente. Se trata de un análisis de las modalidades en las que se expresa la influencia europea ...