Memoria sobre el pauperismo

La Memoria sobre el pauperismo se divide en dos partes. En la primera, se nos ofrece un diagnóstico, de clara inspiración rousseauniana, sobre la principal contradicción que preside el desarrollo de la sociedad moderna: el aumento de prosperidad económica no se ve acompañado del correspondiente ...

A future for Marxism?

althusser, the analytical turn and the revival of socialist theory

In recent years theorists have turned away from Marxism. This book aims to revive Marxist theory, and show how it offers a rich foundation for radical socialist thinking in the future. To do this, Andrew Levine examines two recent departures in Marxist thought - Althusserian and ...

Classical utilitarianism from Hume to Mill

This book presents a new interpretation of the principle of utility in moral and political theory based on the writings of the classical utilitarians from Hume to J.S. Mill. Discussion of utility in writers such as Adam Smith, William Paley and Jeremy Bentham are ...

La contrarrevolución de la ciencia

estudios sobre el abuso de la razón

Los ensayos que integran el presente volumen fueron escritos originariamente por el Autor en los años 1944, 1945 y 1951, y aparecieron en las revistas Economica y Measure. En 1952 se publicaron como libro por The Free Press (y, posteriormente, en 1979, por Liberty Fund ...

Austrian economics and the political economy of freedom

Richard M. Ebeling is one of the most dedicated and competent scholars engaged in research on the life and work of Ludwig von Mises. Professor Ebeling#s work on different aspects of Austrian economics is thorough and enlightening. The publication of this collection of his ...

Entender el capitalismo

un análisis crítico de Karl Marx a Amartya Sen

Entender el capitalismo reúne colaboraciones de siete destacados economistas, entre los que figuran Robin Hahnel y John Bellamy Foster, en una valoración crítica de las relaciones entre el pensamiento económico y la hegemonía del capitalismo. Con análisis de economistas que van desde Karl Marx a ...

La moderna economía del crecimiento

Este libro es una introducción a la economía del crecimiento a largo plazo. En él se hace un repaso de las diferentes aportaciones desde los autores clásicos, con especial énfasis en los modelos que han significado importantes avances en la literatura del crecimiento económico desde ...

Hayek's journey

The mind of Friedrich Hayek

While Alan Ebenstein's biography of Friedrich Hayek was the first biography of this major twentieth century thinker, the book itself was not - per se - an intellectual biography. Hayek's Journey will be the follow-up volume that will give readers an in-depth look at the ...

Keynes, Pigou and Cambridge Keynesians

authenticity and analytical perspective in the Keynes-classics debate

Historia del pensamiento económico

Este manual se propone facilitar la preparación de la asignatura de Historia del Pensamiento Económico ajustando su contenido al de los programas que actualmente se imparten en las universidades españolas. El libro está escrito por un conjunto de profesores que llevan muchos años dedicados a ...

La Escuela Economista Española

En este libro se plantea un doble objetivo. En primer lugar, analizar las ideas liberales defendidas por la escuela economista, tratando de encontrar sus elementos definitorios y las razones que llevaron a calificar estos autores como Escuela. Y en segundo lugar, estudiar las reformas económicas ...

Self-interest before Adam Smith

a genealogy of economic science

Self-Interest before Adam Smith inquires into the foundations of economic theory. It is generally assumed that the birth of modern economic science, marked by the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776, was the triumph of the 'selfish hypothesis' (the idea that self- interest ...

The roaring nineties

a new history of the world´s most prosperous decade

Turning his attention to the United States, Stiglitz argues that much of what we understood about the prosperity of the 1990s is wrong. Although jobs were created, technology prospered, inflation fell and poverty was reduced, this book asserts that this decade actually laid the foundations ...

Naked economics

undressing the dismal science

Naked Economics makes up for all of those Econ 101 lectures you slept through (or avoided) in college, demystifying key concepts, laying bare the truths behind the numbers, and answering those questions you have always been too embarrassed to ask. For all the discussion of ...

The new realities

Even in the flattest landscape there are passes where the road first climbs to a peak and then descends into a new valley. Most of these passes are simply topography with little or no difference in climate, language, or culture between the valleys on either ...

Political thinkers

from Aristotle to Marx

Memoirs of an unregulated economist

In this witty and modest intellectual autobiography, George J. Stigler gives us a fascinating glimpse into the little-known world of economics and the people who study it. One of the most distinguished economists of the twentieth century, Stigler was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1982 ...

The making of economics

Vol. I: The foundation

The Ethics of Adam Smith and for Economic Systems The Feudal Order The Slow Evolution of the Market Economy Isaac Newton and the Economics Paradigm Adam Smith and the Market Economy The Industrial Revolution: Caught Between Hedonism (Bentham) and the Clerical View (Malthus) David Ricardo ...

The legacy of Thorstein Veblen

The thoughtful anthology on studies of Veblen is most timely in an era when profits no longer have much to do with productivity and conspicuous than ever. America's greatest social scientist dealt with emotions that continue to plague us - competitive revilry, desire, envy, emulation.

Escritos económicos

(México, 1939-1969)

Manuel Sánchez Sarto (Zaragoza, 1897-México, 1980) es una de las figuras más interesantes y representativas del exilio español. Antes de la guerra civil fue profesor de Historia Económica en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Ya en México, desempeñó altos cargos políticos y académicos y fue ...