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 ...

Economis as ideology

Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the creation of contemporary politics

Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek and the Creation of Contemporary Politics explores the lives and thought of three powerful theorists who shaped the foundations of the center, left, and right of the political spectrum in the 20th century. Noted scholar Kenneth R. Hoover examines ...

The Elgar companion to post Keynesian economics

In this definitive volume, over 80 distinguished contributors from four continents provide authoritative critical discussion of the principal areas of controversy in post Keynesian economics, including all significant issues in methodology, economic theory, applied economics and policy.

John Maynard Keynes

1883-1946: economist philosopher, statesman

John Maynard Keynes was one of the seminal thinkers of the twentieth century, a luminary whose groundbreaking ideas remain even today at the center of political and economic discussion. In this work of clarity and erudition, Robert Skidelsky offers a revised and abridged version of ...

Teoría general de la ocupación, el interés y el dinero

En medio de la gran depresión de los años 30 del pasado siglo, John Maynard Keynes sorprendió a la comunidad de economistas académicos desafiando los principios de la economía clásica y dando comienzo a lo que se denominó la revolución Keynesiana. Mientras que el saber ...

Keynes y el nacimiento de la macroeconomía

Este libro analiza la vida y obra de John Maynard Keynes, mostrando todos aquellos elementos que configuran el análisis macroeconómico actual. A su vez, se exponen las corrientes más significativas en este ámbito, tanto las que profundizan y desarrollan las ideas de este autor, como ...

The accumulation of capital

Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally murdered by a group of right-wing soldiers. Her body was recovered days later from ...

Abastecimiento y alimentación en Toledo en el siglo XV

Adam Smith's marketplace of life

Adam Smith wrote two books, one about economics and the other about morality. His Wealth of Nations argues for a largely free-market economy, while his Theory of Moral Sentiments argues that human morality develops out of a mutual sympathy that people seek with one another ...

Trade and trust in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World

spanish merchants and their overseas networks

Fruitfully combining approaches from economic history and the cultural history of commerce, this book examines the role of interpersonal trust in underpinning trade, amid the challenges and uncertainties of the eighteenth-century Atlantic. It focuses on the nature of mercantile activity in two parts of Spain ...

Aventuras marxistas

Marshall Berman ha reunido en 'Aventuras marxistas' una colección de artículos (incluyendo el seminal 'Todo lo sólido se desvanece en el aire') en los que encontramos análisis muy estimulantes de las obras sobre Marx y el marxismo escritas por Gyorgy Lukács, Walter Benjamin, Meyer Schapiro ...