The Cambridge companion to Keynes

John Maynard Keynes (1883 1946) was the most important economist of the twentieth century. He was also a philosopher who wrote on ethics and the theory of probability and was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group of writers and artists. In this volume contributors ...

The end of Laissez Faire

the economic consecuences of the peace

In THE END OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE (1926), Keynes presents a brief historical review of laissez-faire economic policy. Though he agrees in principle that the marketplace should be free of government interference, he suggests that government can play a constructive role in protecting individuals from the worst ...

El Capital II

crítica de la economía política

En el tomo II de El capital, con el título "El proceso de circulación del capital", se analizan las metamorfosis, la rotación, la reproducción y circulación del capital. Se incluyen fragmentos de cartas entre Marx y Engels sobre este tomo y textos de V. I ...

El Capital I

crítica de la economía política

Pocos libros han sido discutidos con tanta pasión como El capital. Desde que vio la luz pública, fue censurado y elogiado prácticamente en todo el mundo. Sin embargo, la base de la polémica radica en su contexto social, pues figura desde hace tiempo como tema ...

Petróleo, economía y cultura

El Caso U'wa

En esta obra su autora intenta tender un puente entre la insistente pregunta por la utilidad de la filosofía y una situación histórica concreta y conflictiva: el impacto de la globalización económica sobre formas de vida arraigadas a concepciones tradicionalistas del mundo. Para lograr este ...

Population issues in social choice theory, welfare economics, and ethic

This book presents an exploration of the idea of the common or social good, extended so that alternatives with different populations can be ranked. The approach is, in the main, welfarist, basing rankings on the well-being, broadly conceived, of those who are alive (or ever ...

On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

a philosophical companion

Adam Smith was a philosopher before he ever wrote about economics, yet until now there has never been a philosophical commentary on the Wealth of Nations. Samuel Fleischacker suggests that Smith's vastly influential treatise on economics can be better understood if placed in the ...

The economics of politics

Herbert A. Simon

the bounds of reason in Modern America

El genio de Occidente

(raíces clásicas y cristianas de la civilización occidental)

Tiempo y dinero

la macroeconomía de la estructura del capital

La mirada del economista

biografía intelectual de un filósofo mundano de los 90

Hacia una reconstrucción del materialismo histórico

The rent-seeking society

Camino de servidumbre

Liberalism

Liberalism is an innovative introductory textbook exploring the dominant discourse of contemporary political theory and the core ideas that underpin it. Despite the ubiquity of liberalism there remains considerable disagreement about what contemporary political liberals believe. This book distinguishes modern political liberalism from earlier manifestations ...

An outline of the history of economic thought

Revised and updated to take account of new developments in economic thought. Provides a balanced treatment of historical and contemporary theory. Accessible, lucid explanations- suitable for all levels of students. Frames the developments of economic thought within the history of ideas

Democracia, justicia y socialismo

Integra este pequeño volumen tres ensayos basados en sendas conferencias de Hayek en Madrid, Barcelona y Valencia en la primavera de 1976

Ensayos políticos

Figura destacada de la Europa dieciochesca, Hume es un «ilustrado» que somete la Ilustración a la crítica de su propio instrumento y a la prueba de la razón. Situado en el gozne de dos épocas, se encuentra todavía lejos del momento en que la praxis ...

John Kenneth Galbraith

his life, his politics, his economics

John Kenneth Galbraith#s books#among them The Affluent Society and American Capitalism#are famous for good reason. Written by a scholar renowned for energetic political engagement and irrepressible wit, they are models of provocative good sense that warn prophetically of the dangers of deregulated ...