La gran transformación

los orígenes políticos y económicos de nuestro tiempo

Karl Polanyi cuestiona la subordinación del perfil social al progreso económico y propone invertir el planteamiento: encontrar primero la esencia de la convivencia histórica a través de una plena reorganización internacional de las instituciones sociales, antes de que el pragmatismo económico anule los valores esenciales ...

Family and business

during the Industrial Revolution

Small businesses were at the heart of the economic growth and social transformation that characterized the industrial revolution in Britain. In towns across north-west England, shops and workshops dominated the streetscape, and helped to satisfy an increasing desire for consumer goods. Yet despite their significance ...

La difficile arte del banchiere

Dopo il commissariamento della Banca d’Italia nel ’44, Luigi Einaudi venne nominato Governatore il 5 gennaio 1945, quando l’Italia era ancora divisa in due ed era un campo di battaglia. Non fu un caso se, in un momento tanto difficile e decisivo, per ...

Guerre, debiti e democrazia

breve storia da Bismarck a Oggi

Dal Trattato di Versailles al Piano Marshall, la gestione del debito ha rappresentato da sempre uno dei motori fondamentali della politica europea. Sergio Romano, osservatore d’eccezione, ce ne mostra tutta la complessità nell’ultimo secolo e mezzo, evidenziando le interdipendenze tra i Paesi, l ...

Gli oracoli della moneta

l'arte della parola nel linguaggio del banchieri centrali

L'arte della parola nel linguaggio dei banchieri centrali «La vita dell’uomo è dominata dalla parola o dal denaro». Se l’aforisma di Menandro ha resistito all’urto di più di venti secoli di storia e la commedia umana dell’oggi si specchia ancora ...

Silk

trade and exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity

Already in Greek and Roman antiquity a vibrant series of exchange relationships existed between the Mediterranean regions and China, including the Indian subcontinent, along well-defined routes we call the Silk Roads. Among the many goods that found their way from East to West and vice ...

Marx's inferno

the political theory of Capital

Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and ...

Essays in positive investment management

After the warm reception of Essays in Positive Investment Management, the author has published a second, expanded edition. It contains, in particular, discussion of the notion of liquidity as the missing element in modern portfolio theory, together with changes in macro-financial regime as key factors ...

La economía del bienestar

Esta obra se publico originalmente en inglés, por la Casa Editorial Macmillan & Co., bajo el titulo "First published in English by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited under the title The Economics of Welfare by A. Pigou. This edition has been translated and ...

El espíritu MacBride

neocolonialismo, comunicación-mundo y alternativas democráticas

Las propuestas de un Nuevo Orden Económico Internacional y, en su interior,un Nuevo Orden Mundial de la información y la Comunicación (NOMIC) se convirtieron en uno de los debates más apasionantes del siglo XX. La crisis que estas propuestas provocaron el seno de la ...

Nuestras mitologías económicas

cuáles son y cómo desmentirlas

El primer ensayo sobre mitos y economía, y sobre cómo desmentir la mitología económica que la política nos impone como única. La economía de hoy no es una ciencia ni un arte, sino más bien una mitología, una creencia común en un conjunto de mitos ...

La guerra y la paz en la aldea global

La riqueza desarrollada por las prolongaciones mecánicas del ser humano pronto se vio superada por los servicios eléctricos, que aumentaron el entorno informativo, desnaturalizando el origen social y tribal del ser humano. Hoy, nuestros sistemas de información y formación nos configuran como individuos dentro de ...

Forging capitalism

rogues, swindlers, frauds, and the rise of modern finance

A riveting history of raw capitalism that exposes the unscrupulousness at its heart Vice is endemic to Western capitalism, according to this fascinating, wildly entertaining, often startling history of modern finance. Ian Klaus's Forging Capitalism demonstrates how international financial affairs in the nineteenth century ...

Ciclos económicos

Parte I

Presentamos un nuevo volumen de las obras completas de F.A. Hayek, concretamente el volumen VII: Ciclos económicos. Parte I, esta obra, traducida y editada por José Antonio de Aguirre contiene las dos principales monografías de Hayek: Teoría Monetaria y la Coyuntura y Precios y ...

In the long run We are all dead

keynesianism, political economy and revolution

In the ruins of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, self-proclaimed progressives the world over clamoured to resurrect the economic theory of John Maynard Keynes. The crisis seemed to expose the disaster of small-state, free-market liberalization and deregulation. Keynesian political economy, in contrast, could put the state ...

Los tributos, la moneda y el crédito en El Quijote

The undoing project

a friendship that changed our minds

How a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality. Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which ...

The profit doctrine

economist of the neoliberal era

The economics profession has a lot to answer for. After the late 1970s, the ideas of influential economists have justified policies that have made the world more prone to economic crisis, remarkably less equal, more polluted and less secure than it might be. How could ...

Cultura

En este libro, profundamente analítico y mordazmente divertido, Eagleton explora cómo la cultura y nuestra idea de ésta han evolucionado a lo largo de los dos últimos siglos -pasando de un elevado refinamiento a prácticas más modestas, y de ser una especie de baluarte defensivo ...

The man who knew

the life and times of Alan Greenspan

The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time Sebastian Mallaby’s magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings into vivid ...