The economy of Renaissance Florence

Richard A. Goldthwaite, a leading economic historian of the Italian Renaissance, has spent his career studying the Florentine economy. In this magisterial work, Goldthwaite brings together a lifetime of research and insight on the subject, clarifying and explaining the complex workings of Florence's commercial ...

Discurso instructivo sobre las ventajas que puede conseguir la industria de Aragón con la nueva ampliación de puertos concedida por S.M. para el comercio de América

Este discurso hay que contextualizarlo en la expansión económica aragonesa de finales del siglo XVIII y el incremento del tráfico comercial de Cataluña con América. El libro tiene un fuerte componente didáctico.

La fiscalidad en la Historia de España

Época Antigua: años 753 a.C. a 476 d. C.

A través del análisis de la actividad financiera se recorren las diversas etapas por las que atraviesa el mundo romano y viendo la influencia que tuvo en su devenir histórico. Así mismo, también se ve la importancia del gasto público inseparable de los gravámenes ya ...

Felipe II: el Imperio en bancarrota

La Hacienda Real de Castilla y los negocios financieros del Rey Prudente

Con una metodología renovadora y un exhausto uso de fuentes documentales y bibliografías, esta obra desentraña el proceso de toma de decisiones hacendísticas y la naturaleza de las operaciones financieras que suscribieron Felipe II y sus banqueros. Por su planteamiento, por su profusión de datos ...

Collected papers in theoretical economics

welfare, Law and globalizaton

This is the third volume of Kaushik Basu's collected papers. Their focus is on welfare economics and law, and applications to the world of policymaking, in particular, the design of regulation, in the context of the domestic economy and global matters.

Comunidad

en busca de seguridad en un mundo hostil

«Comunidad» es una de esas palabras que producen una buena sensación: está bien «tener una comunidad», «estar en comunidad». La «comunidad» representa el tipo de mundo que anhelamos habitar pero al que, por desgracia, no podemos acceder. Hoy, «comunidad» es sinónimo de paraíso perdido, aunque ...

Marxian political economy

an outline

This book combines a lucid exposition of the fundamental categories of Marxian political economy with an interpretive analysis of advanced capitalist development. Unlike neo-Marxist economists, who attempt to reinterpret Marx in the light of Keynes, Professor Becker adopts an unalloyed Marxist approach to the leading ...

Revisiting Keynes

economic possibilities for our grandchildren

1931 distinguished economist John Maynard Keynes published a short essay, "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren," in his collection Essays in Persuasion. In the essay, he expressed optimism for the economic future despite the doldrums of the post-World War I years and the onset of the ...

Capital and language

from the new economy to the war economy

The Swiss-Italian economist Christian Marazzi is one of the core theorists of the Italian postfordist movement, along with Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno, and Bifo (Franco Berardi). But although his work is often cited by scholars (particularly by those in the field of "Cognitive Capitalism"), his ...

Development of economic analysis

Now in its seventh edition, Ingrid Rima's classic textbook charts the development of the discipline from the classical age of Plato and Aristotle, through the middle ages to the first flowering of economics as a distinct discipline - the age of Petty, Quesnay and Smith ...

The real price of everything

rediscovering the six classics of economics

In his "New York Times" bestsellers "Liar's Poker", and "Moneyball", Michael Lewis gave us an unprecedented look at what goes on behind the scenes on Wall Street. Now he takes us back across the centuries to explore the four classics that created and defined ...

Global political economy

a marxist critique

This is an ambitious survey of the history and state of the world economy, covering the major upheavals of the capitalist system over the last 100 years. Bill Dunn provides an original and enlightening explanation of the state of the world economy. He covers all ...

Main Currents of Marxism

The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown

Moral Markets

The Critical Role Values in the Economy

Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it? Drawing on converging evidence from neuroscience, social science, biology, law, and philosophy, "Moral Markets" makes the case that modern market exchange works only because most people, most of ...

Las trampas del deseo

cómo controlar los impulsos irracionales que nos llevan al error

«Después de leer este libro, entenderá las decisiones que toma de un modo totalmente distinto» (Nicolas Negroponte). ¿Por qué compramos lo que compramos? ¿Somos realmente dueños de nuestras decisiones o se nos puede manipular como consumidores? ¿Tienen trampa las ofertas? ¿Qué influye en que un ...

Looking Backward 2000-1887

'No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.' Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siecle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year ...

La fábrica de porcelana

una nueva gramática de la política

La crisis del socialismo obliga a plantear cambios profundos en la estructura del Estado: cambios en la organización del trabajo y la implantación de nuevas configuraciones de los modos de gobernar. Todo ello en el marco general de una transformación radical de la realidad política ...

Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life

The ideas of the English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) have shaped evolutionary theory, philosophy of science, sociology and politics. He was a colossus of the Victorian age, and his works ranked alongside those of Darwin and Marx in the development of disciplines as wide ranging ...

John Stuart Mill

victorian firebrand

John Stuart Mill was the 'Saint of Rationalism' according to William Gladstone. But in the first definitive biography of Britain's greatest public intellectual, Richard Reeves reveals Mill as a passionate man of action: a philosopher, radical MP and reformer who profoundly shaped Victorian society ...

Conceptos para pensar el siglo XXI

Este libro plantea diferentes propuestas de trabajo y reflexión crítica acerca de algunos de los conceptos que estructuran o vertebran nuestros discursos acerca del mundo social, económico, político y jurídico. Aquí se revisan algunos tópicos significativos que recogen aportaciones de la filosofía y de las ...