Keynes ou l'economiste citoyen

Jamais sans doute la prégnance de l'économie n'a été aussi forte dans la vie politique et sociale, et jamais la pensée de Keynes n'a autant été d'actualité et aussi mal comprise. Au-delà des trop connues politiques de relance macro-économiques et de ...

Economistas extravagantes

retratos al aguafuerte

La profesión económica llevaba tiempo haciéndose lenguas de las pequeñas biografías que el correctísimo y muy sabio profesor Francisco Cabrillo venía publicando en Libertad Digital. Incluso algunos doctores de esos que detestan el libre mercado y sólo leen tan liberal publicación a escondidas comentaban lo ...

Railroading economics

the creation of the free market mythology

Most economic theory assumes a pure capitalism of perfect competition. This book is a penetrating critique of the rhetoric and practice of conventional economic theory. It explores how even in the United States- the most capitalist of countries-the market has always been subject to numerous ...

Invitación a la antropología económica

Invitación a la antropología económica presenta de forma integrada el conjunto de una rica tradición disciplinaria realizada durante el siglo xx sobre las instituciones que han permitido la obtención de sus medios de vida a una amplia variedad de sociedades y culturas. Este libro explora ...

¿Es útil la economía?

una mirada a los Premios Nobel

La pregunta acerca de la utilidad de cualquier disciplina científica es inevitable. Parece que su posible aplicación a los problemas cotidianos fuera como un barómetro para medir su importancia. En el caso de la ciencia económica, la aportación de los investigadores premiados con el Nobel ...

Ensayos bioeconómicos

Ensayos bioeconómicos recoge una selección de textos de Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, probablemente uno de los mayores economistas ecológicos del siglo XX. Esta edición tiene, además, un interés adicional: pone a disposición del lector y lectora varios artículos traducidos por primera vez al castellano, además de un ...

Economic freedom and interventionism

an anthology of articles and essays

This work serves as both a primer of the fundamental thought of Ludwig von Mises and an anthology of the writings of perhaps the best-known exponent of what is now known as the Austrian School of economics. This volume contains forty-seven articles edited by Mises ...

Keynes´s General Theory, the rate of interest and "Kynesian" economics

Keynes betrayed

This book argues that Keynesian economists have betrayed Keynes' theory and policy conclusions. Keynesian economics has not merely led to an easily dismissed justification for 'Keynesian' policies, but the world has been grossly misled about just what those policies are. Keynesians have focused attention exclusively ...

Trotskismos

Oponiéndose a Stalin desde los años veinte, León Trotsky, teórico marxista y jefe del Ejército rojo, intentó perpetuar el aliento de la revolución comunista internacional. Desterrado y posteriormente asesinado en 1940, ha legado una herencia que se disputan las distintas corrientes que reivindican su combate ...

Considerations on the fundamental principles of pure political economy

Between May 1892 and October 1893, the Giornale degli Economisti published Vilfredo Pareto's "Considerazioni sui principi fondamentali dell'economia politica pura" in 5 parts. Viewed in its entirety, the outcome is essentially a classic monograph on the fundamental issues in pure economic theory in ...

Milton Friedman

a biography

Milton Friedman is one of the world's most important - and certainly one of the most famous - economists of the second half of the twentieth century, a key figure during the resurgence of American conservatism. He was an adviser to the Reagan administration, and he ...

Theories of financial disturbance

an examination of critical theories of finance from Adam Smith to the present day

Theories of Financial Disturbance, now available in paperback, examines how the operations of market-driven finance may initiate and transmit disturbances to the economy at large, by looking in detail at how various economists envisaged such disturbances occurring. This book is more than just a study ...

The economics of Friedrich Hayek

By his intellectual contributions in economics, epistemology, ethics, law, philosophy, politic and psychology, Friederich Hayek has come closest to a unified theory of human action. The central theme is of a natural and spontaneous evolution - founded upon essentially competitive processes, the cultural selection of systems ...

Postcapitalist politics

Examining practices and projects around the world that stand as examples of alternatives to capitalist politics and economics, the authors (J. K. Gibson-Graham is the combined pen name of two feminist economic geographers who work at the Australian National U. in Canberra and the U ...

The end of capitalism (as we knew it)

a feminist critique of political economy

In the mid-1990s, at the height of academic discussion about the inevitability of capitalist globalization, J. K. Gibson-Graham presented a groundbreaking and controversial argument for envisioning alternative economies. This new edition includes an introduction in which the authors address critical responses to The End of ...

The essential John Nash

When John Nash won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994, many people were surprised to learn that he was alive and well. Since then, Sylvia Nasar's celebrated biography A Beautiful Mind, the basis of a new major motion picture, has revealed the man ...

Theories of surplus value

books I, II and III

Marx's Theories of Surplus Value is the fourth volume of his monumental Das Kapital (Capital) and is now available exclusively from Prometheus and Humanity Books. Divided into three parts, this lengthy work reviews classic economic analyses of labor and value (Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, and ...

Principles of political economic

The standard economics textbook for more than a generation, John Stuart Mill's "Principles of Political Economy" (1848) was really as much a synthesis of his predecessors' ideas as it was an original economic treatise. Heavily influenced by the work of David Ricardo, and also ...

Keynes and his battles

This fascinating book is the first to bring together and examine all aspects of the life and work of one of the most influential thinkers of the last century, John Maynard Keynes, whose theses are still hotly debated. It combines, in an accessible, unique and ...

An essay on the principle of population

English economist and professor Thomas R. Malthus (1766-1834) caused great public controversy among the optimistic positivitists of his day when his Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) showed incontrovertibly that population, when unchecked, tends to increase faster than the availability of subsistence. Therefore preventive ...