La Corona Española y el tráfico de negros

del monopolio al libre comercio

Durante el siglo XVII el tráfico de esclavos negros a la América española se monopolizó. Solo una empresa llevaba los esclavos a las Indias pagando una cantidad a la corona por cada esclavo que introducía. Al comienzo del siglo XVIII este monopolio lo obtuvo una ...

Leverage

how cheap money will destroy the world

How the wealthy and powerful abuse finance to skim immense profits Debasement of the dollar as a result of ill-use of leverage is destroying the global economy, and in "Leverage", well known market commentator Karl Denninger follows the path of money throughout history to prove ...

Building Chicago economics

new perspectives on the History of America's most powerful economics program

Lost decades

the making of America's debt crisis and the long recovery

Welcome to Argentina: by 2008 the United States had become the biggest international borrower in world history, with almost half of its 6.4 trillion dollar federal debt in foreign hands. The proportion of foreign loans to the size of the economy put the United ...

Distant tyranny

markets, power, and backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800

Spain's development from a premodern society into a modern unified nation-state with an integrated economy was painfully slow and varied widely by region. Economic historians have long argued that high internal transportation costs limited domestic market integration, while at the same time the Castilian ...

Historia económica general

La obra de Max Weber (1864-1920) se proyecta hasta nuestros días como una ráfaga de inquietante lucidez. Con mayor certeza que otros pensadores prestigiados por su radicalidad política, el sociólogo alemán supo señalar derroteros que hoy son incuestionables, como la creciente burocratización del mundo, la ...

Política, economía

sociedad y cultura afroasiática en la Edad Moderna

Coord. C.Mª Cremades Griñán. Acompaña CD-ROM.

La economía política de los romanos

IV. Aeternitas Rerum. La aspiración a la estabilidad de un sistema histórico

ÍNDICE: La investigación anterior. El concepto de Aeternitas en las fuentes. Significado de Aeternitas y otros términos afines. Roma Aeterna: las ideas sobre la eternidad de Roma. Aeternitas Rei Publicae: la aspiración a la eternidad del Estado Romano. La difuciñon del concepto de Aeternitas. Nihil ...

Economics evolving

a history of economic thought

In clear, nontechnical language, this introductory textbook describes the history of economic thought, focusing on the development of economic theory from Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" to the late twentieth century. The text concentrates on the most important figures in the history of economics ...

Curso de economía política (1852)

Introducción de Ernest lluch ; Estudiopreliminar y edición de Salvador Almenar. Además de un eminente político liberal, Álvaro Flórez Estrada fue uno de los economistas más distinguidos de su tiempo, consagrado con este Curso de economía política, una obra que, por su extensión y la actualidad ...

La Real Fábrica de Gas de Madrid

Prólogo de Pedro Antonio Fábregas, director general de la Fundación Gas Natural. Un ameno recorrido por la historia de la ciudad de Madrid (desde su fundación, centrándose en los siglos XIX y XX) en el que se incluye la información sobre la implantación del gas ...

Civilization

the West and the Rest

If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on ...

A brief history of economics

artful approaches to the Dismal Science

A Brief History of Economics illustrates how the ideas of the great economists not only influenced societies but were themselves shaped by their cultural milieu. Understanding the economists' visions # lucidly and vividly unveiled by Canterbery # allows readers to place economics within a broader community of ...

The Oxford handbook of judaism and economics

At once it must be recognized that religious law by its very nature regulates and restricts the conduct of its adherents. One of the major foci of The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics is therefore to describe the impact economic regulation in Jewish law ...

Historia de Telefónica

1924-1975. Primeras décadas: tecnología, economía y política

Este libro rastrea los orígenes y primer desarrollo de una empresa a la vez longeva y hoy en toda su plenitud: Telefónica. Saca, así, a la luz con minuciosidad y rigor cimentado en numerosos y diversos archivos, con el propio de Telefónica a la cabeza ...

Scorpions

the battles and triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices

Unprecedented in its global impact, the Great Depression sounded the death knell of unfettered capitalism. Four men - all from wildly different backgrounds, all with decidedly disparate temperments and all equally devoted to FDR - were the primary authors of what would essentially be America's new ...

Peddling protectionism

Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression

The Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, which raised U.S. duties on hundreds of imported goods to record levels, is America's most infamous trade law. It is often associated with - and sometimes blamed for - the onset of the Great Depression, the collapse of world trade ...

The myth of the rational market

a history of risk, reward, and delusion on Wall Street

Overall, Fox has written a very good book which covers a remarkable amount of material in only 322 pages. The problem is that this book, if properly done, should run around 600+ pages. Granted, Fox is a journalist, not an academic, so his audience might ...

Debtor nation

the history of America in Red Ink

Before the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants. By the end of the century, however, the most profitable corporations and banks in the country lent money to millions of American debtors ...

El hambre

una historia moderna

Al inicio del siglo XIX, el hambre se veía como una inevitable catástrofe natural o como consecuencia de la holgazanería y falta de moralidad de sus víctimas. Hacia mediados del siglo XX se configuró una nueva comprensión del fenómeno del hambre. A lo largo del ...