The collected works of Armen A. Alchian

Liberty Fund is proud to present, in two volumes, "The Collected Works of Armen A Alchian", bringing together Alchian's most influential essays, articles, editorials, and lectures to provide a comprehensive record of his thinking on a broad range of topics in economics. As various ...

Economy and economics of Ancient Greece

Whilst modern economists are primarily concerned with how people behave, classical writers such as Plato, Aristotle, and Xenophon were more interested in how people should behave, thus marking the ethical difference between economics now and economics in Ancient Greece. Partly a piece of economic history ...

El vaticano y sus banqueros

las finanzas del papado moderno, 1850-1950

Este estudio pionero en su género analiza las finanzas del Vaticano y el papel clave que desempeñaron en el desarrollo del papado moderno. Partiendo de una concepción del Papa, característica del siglo XIX, como monarca cuasi feudal, la narración aborda el trauma de la unificación ...

Economistas extravagantes

retratos al aguafuerte

La profesión económica llevaba tiempo haciéndose lenguas de las pequeñas biografías que el correctísimo y muy sabio profesor Francisco Cabrillo venía publicando en Libertad Digital. Incluso algunos doctores de esos que detestan el libre mercado y sólo leen tan liberal publicación a escondidas comentaban lo ...

Familias y poderes

actas del VII Congreso Internacional de la ADEH. Granda 1-3 abril 2004

El VII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Ibérica de Demografía Histórica (ADEH) tuvo lugar en Granada, los días 1 a 3 de abril de 2004, bajo el patrocinio de la Universidad de Granada, la Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Andalucía y el Ministerio ...

Minería y desarrollo económico en España

Esta obra colectiva reúne a los mejores especialistas en la materia y acaba así con una gran laguna en nuestra historiografía: la ausencia de un libro de referencia en castellano que proporcione una visión global de los diferentes elementos que configuran el desarrollo de la ...

Marxism after Marx

The fourth edition of "Marxism after Marx" is an updated version of what has become the classic account of Twentieth-century Marxism. It includes new bibliographical information and sections covering developments since the previous edition. This new edition represents a comprehensive and reliable guide to one ...

Personajes históricos y mundo empresarial

Este libro nace de la idea que subyace en el mundo empresarial actual donde, desgraciadamente, la incultura campea a sus anchas. Este pequeño volumen trata de ocupar el hueco del desconocimiento que tenemos los incluyentes en la vida humana.

Economic disasters of the 20th century

How do we define an economic disaster? It is a difficult question. Most centuries would claim that they have had their share of disasters, but the twentieth century certainly seems to have been more prone to them than the previous one. A number of leading ...

The United States since 1980

Describes the sharp right turn the United States has taken following the election of Ronald Reagan as president in 1980. The treatment details how the policies pursued by the Reagan administration were a break from both the policies pursued by prior administrations and those pursued ...

Gold

the once and future money

This is a fresh look at the most important investment trend of the early 21st century. Many view the current bull market in gold as a flash in the pan, doomed to fizzle. "Au contraire," say bestselling author Addison Wiggin and award winning analyst Justice ...

In gold we trust

social capital and economic change in the italian jewelry towns

"In Gold We Trust" is a historical and sociological account of how, by the late 1960s, three small Italian towns had come to lead the world in the production of gold jewelry - even though they had virtually no jewelry industry less than a century before ...

Economic development

a regional, institutional, and historical approach

This innovative textbook provides an introduction to economic development in both an historical and contemporary, comparative, and systems framework. The text takes a regional approach, with the theory developed within regional contexts. This leads to the second innovative aspect, an emphasis on institutional structures unique ...

Rethinking enviromental history

world-system history and global enviromental change

This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world systems over time. Alf Hornborg has brought together a group of the foremost writers from the social, historical and geographical sciences to provide an overview of the ...

Trade in Classical Antiquity

Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system, or a thin veneer on the surface of an underdeveloped agrarian society? Trade underpinned the growth of Athenian and Roman power, helping to ...

El dinero del exilio

Indalecio Prieto y las pugnas de posguerra (1939-1947)

¿Qué destino tuvieron los bienes que los dirigentes políticos republicanos sacaron de España en los meses finales de la guerra civil? ¿Se repartieron equitativamente entre todos los refugiados españoles o primó el favoritismo entre correligionarios? ¿Se rindió cuentas de la gestión realizada? Estas cuestiones han ...

Commerce in culture

the Sibao Book trade in the Qing and republican periods

Sibao today is a cluster of impoverished villages in the mountains of western Fujian. Yet, from the late 17th to the early 20th Century, it was home to a flourishing publishing industry. Through itinerant booksellers and branch bookshops managed by Sibao natives, this industry supplied ...

El erario del Reino

fiscalidad en Castilla a principios de la Edad Moderna (1504-1525)

Del metal al motor

innovación y atraso en la historia de la industria metal-mecánica española

Eds. Pere Pascual Domenech y Paloma Fernández Pérez. Esta obra analiza la contribución de la industria metalúrgica a la transferencia de conocimiento, innovación y crecimiento económico en nuestro país, y las causas de sus limitaciones y los obstáculos que coartaron su desarrollo. En la actualidad ...

¿Interés particular, bienestar público?

Grandes patrimonios y reformas agrarias

Compete a los historiadores contarnos la íntima relación que existe en las sociedades entre las búsqueda del interés particular y la redistribución de la riqueza, entre eficiencia y equidad. Es la dicotomía esencial de la economía en la que vivimos desde que nació el capitalismo ...