Historia de la pobreza en EE.UU.

Premio Michael Harrington de Ensayo. Esta obra del profesor Pimpare, apoyada en reveladores documentos, estadísticas y testimonios, revela como la potencia hegemónica mundial, ejemplo de progreso y desarrollo económico, esconde una dramática situación de exclusión social. Millones de ciudadanos de EE.UU. viven en la ...

The political construction of business interests

coordination, growth, and equality

Many societies use labor market coordination to maximize economic growth and equality, yet employers' willing cooperation with government and labor is something of a mystery. The Political Construction of Business Interests recounts employers' struggles to define their collective social identities at turning points in capitalist ...

A country merchant, 1495-1520

trading and farming at the end of the Middle Ages

Around 1500 England's society and economy had reached a turning point. After a long period of slow change and even stagnation, an age of innovation and initiative was in motion, with enclosure, voyages of discovery, and new technologies. It was an age of fierce ...

'Merely for money'?

business culture in the British Atlantic, 1750-1815

In 1780 Richard Sheridan noted that merchants worked 'merely for money'. However, rather than being a criticism, this was recognition of the important commercial role that merchants played in the British empire at this time. Of course, merchants desired and often made profits, but they ...

The rise of fiscal states

a global history, 1500-1914

From the Netherlands to the Ottoman Empire, to Japan and India, this groundbreaking volume confronts the complex and diverse problem of the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia between 1500 and 1914. This series of country case studies from leading economic historians reveals that distinctive ...

España, un gran país

transición, milagro y quiebra

Al calor de la crisis son muchos los mitos que han empezado a desvanecerse en España. Si el crédito de la Unión Europea ha bajado muchos enteros, otro tanto cabe decir del modelo político articulado en virtud de la transición iniciada treinta años atrás. Las ...

Les grands économistes

Ce livre présente de façon synthétique neuf grands économistes: Smith, Ricardo, Say, Malthus, Marx, Walras, Keynes, Schumpeter et Friedman, dont les contributions sont à l'origine de la science économique moderne et qui, par leurs écrits, ont contribué à la compréhension du monde dans lequel ...

La financiación de la Guerra Civil española

una aproximación histórica

Este gran libro, que culmina veinte años de estudios sobre las finanzas de la guerra civil española, nos ofrece una amplia y detallada visión de conjunto, que abarca desde los inicios del conflicto, desde la preparación de la sublevación y las primeras ayudas financieras y ...

America's first Great Depression

economic crisis and political disorder after the panic of 1837

For a while, it seemed impossible to lose money on real estate. But then the bubble burst. The financial sector was paralyzed and the economy contracted. State and federal governments struggled to pay their domestic and foreign creditors. Washington was incapable of decisive action. The ...

El mercado de la acuicultura en el siglo XXI

Presente, pasado y tendencias de futuro

Siendo una actividad que se lleva a cabo desde tiempo inmemorial, la acuicultura comenzó su desarrollo como industria en la segunda mitad del siglo XX con un prometedor futuro impulsado por el continuo declive de la producción procedente de la pesca extractiva. Las ventajas competitivas ...

Rules of exchange

french capitalism in comparative perspective, Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries

The control of competition is designed, at best, to reconcile socioeconomic stability with innovation, and at worst, to keep competitors out of the market. In this respect, the nineteenth century was no more liberal than the eighteenth century. Even during the presumed liberal nineteenth century ...

Money and power

how Goldman Sachs came to rule the world

'If they could screw you over, they totally would ...' Goldman Sachs are the investment bank all other banks - and most businesses -want to emulate; the firm with the best talent, the best clients, the best strategy. But is their success just down to the gilded ...

The power of Gold

the history of an obsession

“The need for realism in reform of its monetary system is what makes Bernstein's story of the Power of Gold so timely. It is a compelling reminder that maintaining a fixed price for gold and fixed exchange rates were difficult even in a simpler ...

La figura empresarial en el pensamiento económico

una aproximación histórica

En el presente libro, la Profesora Pérez Vila trata de arrojar un poco de luz sobre ciertos periodos de oscuridad que, en el ámbito del pensamiento económico, sufrió la figura empresarial, ignorada u olvidada unas veces, y poco comprendida y casi despreciada, otras. Esa noción ...

The Oxford handbook of the history of consumption

The study of the desire, acquisition, use, and disposal of goods and services, consumption, has grown enormously in recent years, and has been the subject of major historiographical debates: did the eighteenth century bring a consumer revolution? Was there a great divergence between East and ...

Why nations fail

the origins of power, prosperity, and poverty

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of ...

Las guerras del oro

una visión detrás de los hilos del poder de un banquero privado en Suiza

En este apasionante libro, editado en colaboración de la GoldMoney Fundation y la Asociación Española de Metales de Precioses, cautiva al lector desde sus primeras páginas, se desvela: ­- Por qué el oro es considerado como el dinero por excelencia. - Los motivos por los que el ...

The politics of inequality

a political history of the idea of economic inequality in America

Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of ...

Racconti della civiltà capitalista

dalla Venezia del 1200 al mondo del 1939

Carandini in modo apparentemente neutrale (perché si serve, appunto, della storia scritta da altri) dimostra che il capitalismo non è la democrazia, non è il mercato, non è conflitto tra individui, non è una religione, ma è un'intera civilizzazione. Paolo Leon Questo non è ...

The accidental capitalist

a people's story of the new China

In the last three decades China has experienced the largest population movement in human history. Millions have left behind homes to find work and new opportunities in the emerging mega-cities. Through months of sustained interpersonal contact with migrant workers and factory owners, Behzad Yaghmaian paints ...