Economía y economistas españoles

Tomo 2: De los orígenes al mercantilismo

Economía y economistas españoles relata en ocho volúmenes la evolución de los conocimientos y del pensamiento económico de España desde la época musulmana hasta finales del siglo XX. El conjunto reúne más de ciento setenta trabajos escritos por cerca de un centenar de especialistas y ...

Teoría y acción política en el capitalismo actual

El presente volumen contiene la gran mayoría de los trabajos presentados en el IV Seminario Internacional Marx Vive, celebrado del 3 al 5 de noviembre de 2004. El mencionado evento fue organizado de manera conjunta por el Departamento de Ciencia Política de la Facultad de ...

On liberty and the subjection of women

A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. Regarded as one of the sacred texts of liberalism, his great work, "On Liberty" argues ...

The structure of Post-Keynesian economics

the core contributions of the pioneers

This is a major contribution to post-Keynesian thought. With studies of the key pioneers - Keynes himself, Kalecki, Kahn, Goodwin, Kaldor, Joan Robinson, Sraffa and Pasinetti - G. C. Harcourt emphasizes their positive contributions to theories of distribution, pricing, accumulation, endogenous money and growth. The propositions of ...

El individualismo no utilitarista de Robert Nozick

El presente trabajo de la economista Carolina Esguerra vuelve sobre algunos de los temas recurrentes de la reflexión ética actual. Tiene el inmenso mérito de que regresa por los fueros de algunos de los temas que, hasta hace poco, hicieron parte de las preocupaciones intrínsecas ...

Il miracolo economico italiano (1958-1963)

Due epoche hanno caratterizzato il Novecento: l'età dei grandi conflitti mondiali, dal 1914 al 1945, e l'età dello sviluppo economico e del benessere, dal 1945 al 1973. Nel periodo successivo all'attuazione del piano Marshall, l'economia mondiale imperniata sul dollaro e sul ...

El capital monopolista

ensayo sobre el orden económico y social de Estados Unidos

INDICE: I. Introducción. II. La corporación gigante. III. La tendencia creciente de los excedentes. IV. La absorción de los excedentes: consumo e inversión de los capitalistas. V. La absorción de excedentes: las campañas de ventas. VI. La absorción de excedentes: gobierno civil. VII. La absorción ...

Risk, uncertainty and profit

This revolutionary work taught the world how to systematically distinguish between risk -- randomness with knowable probabilities -- and uncertainty -- randomness with unknowable probabilities -- in order to accurately and properly ascertain a venture's potential profitability. Knight's methodology served as the foundation of the Chicago School ...

The reluctant ecomomist

perspectives on economics, economic history, and demography

At the start, I was not a reluctant economist. In the beginning, economics opened up a new and exciting world. The Keynesian Revolution was in full swing, and, like other graduate students, I was caught up in it. The message of the revolution was new ...

The economics of Keynes in historical context

an intellectual history of the general theory

This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the development of Keynes's economic ideas in the "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". With archival material, the historical record of the economics of Keynes's time and place and the scholarship available on Keynes's ...

Revista Investigaciones de Historia Económica, Nº4, año 2006

Revista Investigaciones de Historia Económica, Nº5, año 2006

Journal of Iberian and Latin American economic history

El desempleo de masas en la Gran Depresión

palabras, imágenes y sonidos

Este libro recrea las imágenes del desempleo forjadas y popularizadas por la brillante creación intelectual, literaria y artística de los años treinta.Trabajos de campo, memorias colectivas y relatos autobiográficos; reportajes sociales, crónicas periodísticas y observaciones de viajeros; novelas de desempleo y narraciones literarias, series ...

El azúcar y el mundo atlántico

economía y hacienda, patrimonio cultural y geobotánico. XVI Coloquio de Historia Canario-Americana (2004)

Reúne en casi 500 páginas las investigaciones de uno de los temas recurrentes de la historiografía canaria y constituye uno de los ejes de relación del Archipiélago con el mundo europeo, americano y africano. Entre las ponencias y comunicaciones seleccionadas para este volumen destacan la ...

Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the creation of a dinasty

the critical years 1806-1816

This groundbreaking history explains how Nathan Mayer Rothschild rose from comparatively humble circumstances to become the founder of an extraordinary banking and financial empire - an empire that remained preeminent in Europe for more than a century. The book focuses on the critical years of Great ...

Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy

This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. Thus democracy is preferred by the majority of citizens, but opposed by elites. Dictatorship nevertheless ...

Modernizing nature

forestry and imperial eco-development 1800-1950

"Modernizing Nature" contributes to the debate regarding the origins, institutionalization, and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial frameworks of environmental management. It departs from the widely prevalent scholarly perspective that colonial science can be understood predominantly as a handmaiden of imperialism ...

The economic future in historical perspective

In this volume, leading modern economic historians show how analysis of past experiences contributes to a better understanding of present-day economic conditions; they offer important insights into major challenges that will occupy the attention of policy makers in the coming decades. The seventeen essays are ...

The Cambridge economic history of Latin America.Vol.I: The Colonial Era and the short Nineteenth Century

This volume includes the colonial and independence eras up to 1850, linking Latin America's economic history to the pre-Hispanic, European, and African background. It also synthesizes knowledge on the human and environmental impact of the Spanish conquest, the evolution of colonial economic institutions, and ...