El Instituto de Crédito Oficial

1971-2015

El Instituto Oficial de Crédito nació en 1971 de un desastre financiero mayor: la quiebra de Matesa, que hizo tambalear los pilares del crédito público. Al Instituto se le encomendó la tares de modernizar y renovar la gestión de las entidades oficiales de crédito.

La moneda imposible

la convertibilidad argentina de 1991

La crisis argentina del año 2001 fue un colapso que aun no ha podido ser explicado en toda su magnitud. Los desempleados, las clases medias, los pequeños ahorristas, los trabajadores de las fábricas cerradas protestaron cotidianamente en las calles; grupos enteros saquearon los supermercados; el ...

British banking

continuity and change from 1694 to the present

The Global Financial Crisis made its first appearance in Britain towards the end of 2007 with the failure of the Northern Rock Bank. It then reached an unparalleled intensity a year later when the government was forced to intervene to prevent the collapse of Lloyds ...

Elinor Ostrom

an intellectual biography

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics. She has been at the forefront of New Institutional Economics and Public Choice revolutions, discovering surprising ways in which communities around the world have succeed in solving difficult collective problems. She first ...

The future of consumer society

prospects for sustainability in the new economy

Consumer society in the United States and other countries is receding due to demographic ageing, rising income inequality, political paralysis, and resource scarcity. At the same time, steady jobs that compensate employees on a salaried or hourly basis are being replaced by freelancing and contingent ...

A theory of imperialism

In A Theory of Imperialism, economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik present a new theory of the origins and mechanics of capitalism that sounds an alarm about its ongoing viability. Their theory centers on trade between the core economies of the global North and the ...

Recuperando el norte

empresas, capitales y proyectos atlánticos en la economía imperial hispánica

El mayor interés de los investigadores por las movilidades humanas y, sobre todo, de los recursos económicos ha tejido un campo de análisis sobre el impacto en la construcción de realidades históricas a diversa escala (local, regional, nacional e imperial). El análisis conjunto y comparado ...

The great convergence

information technology and the new globalization

Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today’s wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then, that share has plummeted to where it was in 1900. As Richard Baldwin explains, this reversal of fortune reflects a new ...

Los enemigos del comercio

Vol. III: una historia moral de la propiedad. De Lenin a nuestros días

Dentro de la trilogía proyectada sobre el origen y desarrollo del movimiento comunista, este último volumen confirma una investigación sin precedentes en la bibliografía mundial. Ninguna historia del fenómeno ha añadido hasta ahora al debate ideológico el detalle de su contexto económico, la evolución de ...

An extraordinary time

the end of the postwar boom and the return of the ordinary economy

The decades after World War II were a golden age across much of the world. It was a time of economic miracles, an era when steady jobs were easy to find and families could see their living standards improving year after year. And then, around ...

The dutch moment

war, trade, and settlement in the seventeenth-century atlantic world

In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast. The fleets and armies ...

Hall of mirrors

the Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the uses-and misuses-of history

The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system. When ...

Money as God?

the monetization of the market and its impact on religion, politics, Law, and ethics

The nature of money and its impact on society has long interested scholars of economics, history, philosophy, law, and theology alike, and the recent financial crisis has moved these issues to the forefront of current public debate. In this study, authors from a range of ...

Money as God?

the monetization of the market and its impact on religion, politics, Law, and ethics

The nature of money and its impact on society has long interested scholars of economics, history, philosophy, law, and theology alike, and the recent financial crisis has moved these issues to the forefront of current public debate. In this study, authors from a range of ...

Escaparatismo

historia del comercio y del escaparate

En una sociedad moderna y consumista, donde adquiere relevancia la ley de la oferta y la demanda, el escaparate ocupa un lugar esencial como exponente de los nuevos productos y tendencias. Descifrar su historia y su evolución suscita gran interés, principalmente entre aquellas personas vinculadas ...

Breve storia del pensiero economico

Una ricostruzione completa e chiara del pensiero economico, dall’antichità classica ai giorni nostri. L’autore presenta con rigore e senza inutili tecnicismi tanto le opere dei grandi classici come Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Keynes, Schumpeter, Sraffa, quanto i contributi delle varie scuole, come i fisiocrati ...

A culture of growth

the origins of the modern economy

During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all ...

La micropolítica del capital

Marx y la prehistoria del presente

Cuando la producción de la subjetividad ha llegado a ocupar el centro de la producción social, la tarea de entendernos, de entender nuestro mundo y transformarlo pasa por revitalizar la crítica al capitalismo que en el siglo XIX elaboró Karl Marx. Pensar nuestro tiempo hoy ...

Primer ensayo sobre la población

Apriorística y filosófica en el método, atrevida y retórica en el estilo, la versión original del ?Ensayo sobre la población? (1798), donde Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) expuso por primera vez las líneas maestras de su teoría acerca de las oscuras perspectivas que crea para el ...

Prácticas agrarias y relaciones sociales

la Casa-Modelo de Labranza de Yurreamendi, Gipúzcoa, 1856-1867

Propio de una provincia mayormente agraria y que surgió desde el núcleo de las instituciones forales provinciales, sin sujeción a ninguna entidad estatal. El caserío (baserria) era el eje económico de la provincia y los campesinos (baserritarrak) constituían el grueso de su población. Estos campesinos ...