Les économistes contre la démocratie

les économistes et la politique économique etre pouvoir, modialisation et démocratie

L'économie s'est-elle substituée à la politique ? Tel est peut-être le souhait de certains économistes. Jacques Sapir a pour cible un discours économique qui cherche à vider l'action politique de son sens, un discours qui, sous les dehors d'une soi-disant rigueur scientifique ...

Nothing is sacred

economic ideas for the New Millennium

In this text, Robret Barro applies his free market arguments to a diverse range of issues. These include global problems such as growth and debt, as well as social issues such as the predictive value of SAT scores, drug legalization, the economics of beauty, and ...

Classical general equilibrium theory

Although general equilibrium theory originated in the late 19th century, modern elaboration and development of the theory began in the 1930s and 1940s. This book focuses on the version of the theory developed in the second half of the 20th century, referrred to by Lionel ...

Enfoques filosófico-metodológicos en economía

En el libro predomina la atención a la Economía como Ciencia, de modo que hay trabajos sobre los problemas metodológicos de la ciencia de la Economía. Esto se aprecia en la estructura del volumen, que se articula en 5 apartados: 1) planteamientos filosófico-metodológicos sobre la ...

The specter of democracy

In this rethinking of Marxism and its blind spots, Dick Howard uses a critical rereading of Marx as a theorist of democracy to offer his audience an alternative way to think about this political ideal. He argues that it is democracy, rather than Marxism, that ...

After capitalism

In After Capitalism, David Schweickart moves beyond the familiar arguments against globalizing capitalism to contribute something absolutely necessary and long overdue-a coherent vision of a viable, desirable alternative to capitalism. He names this system Economic Democracy, a successor-system to capitalism which preserves the efficiency strengths ...

Modern austrian economics

Archaeology of a revival

The late 20th century has witnessed a resurgence of interest in the Austrian tradition in economics. However where once studies concentrated on the major theorists in the field, new directions are emerging. This edition takes up where Kirzner (Classics in Austrian Economics, Pickering & Chatto, 1995 ...

Harry Gunnison Brown

an orthodox economist and his contributions

Harry Gunnison Brown was born in 1880 and died in 1975. He was part of an important group of American economists that included Herbert J. Davenport, E.R.A. Seligman, J.B. Clark, Alvin S. Johnson, Frank A. Fetter, Richard T. Ely and Frank Knight ...

Rationality and freedom

Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In two volumes on rationality, freedom, and justice, the distinguished economist and philosopher Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to these difficult issues. This volume--the first of the ...

Critical bibliography of Adam Smith

This is a critical bibliography of Adam Smith. It takes as its starting point the Vanderblue Collection of Smithiana held by the Kress Library and its accompanying published catalogue. This bibliography updates the catalogue, which only had a very limited original circulation. The problem with ...

How economics became a mathematical science

In How Economics Became a Mathematical Science E. Roy Weintraub traces the history of economics through the prism of the history of mathematics in the twentieth century. As mathematics has evolved, so has the image of mathematics, explains Weintraub, such as ideas about the standards ...

Ciclos económicos

análisis teórico, histórico y estadístico del proceso capitalista

El libro, publicado originariamente en 1939, constituye una prolongación de la Teoría del desenvolvimiento económico (1911). En esta magna obra Schumpeter pretendió fijar la dinámica del capitalismo desde finales del siglo XVIII combinando su teoría de la innovación con materiales históricos y estadísticos. Tras una ...

El liberalismo económico

Las génesis de las ideas liberales desde San Agustín hasta Adam Smith.

Este libro rastrea en los autores del pasado el conjunto de ideas que han venido desarrollándose a lo largo del tiempo hasta culminar en el siglo XVIII en el pensamiento liberal. Un pensamiento que coloca en el centro al individuo, lo que implica que la ...

La teoría austriaca del valor, el capital y el interés

vida y obra de Eugen Von Böhm-Bawerk

El libro de Hennings, profesor de la Universidad alemana de Hannover constituye la mejor biografía intelectual de Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, el creador de la teoría austriaca del capital y el interés. Hay, en nuestros días, un renovado interés por insertar la teoría austriaca del capital ...

Extraordinary Popular Delusions

and the madness of crowds

More than a century before Alan Greenspan coined the phrase "irrational exuberance" to describe the speculative bubble inflating technology stocks, Charles Mackay was recording the history of "tulipomania," a speculative madness surrounding the value of tulips in the 18th century that was the ruin of ...

Reforma tributaria y fiscalidad sobre la agricultura y la propiedad en la España liberal, 1845-1900

Este libro presenta la historia de la reforma tributaria liberal, reconstruye la evolución del sistema fiscal español de 1845 a 1900 y desciende a la práctica fiscal estudiando la estadística territorial (amillaramientos, catastro) y la fiscalidad sobre la agricultura durante la segunda mitad del siglo ...

Marx más allá de Marx

cuaderno de trabajo sobre los Grundrisse

¿Qué es el comunismo? ¿Qué es el antagonismo de clase? ¿Cuál es la composición de clase que permitirá pensar y organizar la transición al modo superior de producción y reproducción de la liberación colectiva? ¿Cómo pensar ese formidable desafío intelectual y político que es organizar ...

Surfing economics

essays for the inquiring economist

Surfing Economics is a collection of essays by one of Europe's leading young economists. These essays are written to bring to life in a non-technical manner some of the fundamental ideas and concepts in contemporary economics, including new Keynesian economics, the natural rate, bounded ...

Keynes and Hayek

the money economy

John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek had serious differences of opinion when it came to assessing the fractured inter-war world. G. R. Steele picks apart this debate and argues persuasively that Hayek's outlook will prove to be the more enduring.

Economic life in the modern age

Werner Sombart (1863-1941) may well have been the most famous and controversial social scientist in Germany during the early twentieth century. Highly influential, his work and reputation have been indelibly tainted by his embrace of National Socialism in the last decade of his life. Although ...