Beyond western economics

remembering other economic cultures

This book combines intellectual history with contemporary events to offer a critique of mainstream economic thought and its neoliberal policy incarnation in global capitalism. The critique operates both theoretically, at the level of metaphysics and the philosophy of science, and concretely, in case studies of ...

Heterodox macroeconomics

Keynes, Marx and globalization

Eds. Jonathan P. Goldstein, Michael G. Hillard. "Heterodox Macroeconomics" offers a detailed understanding of the foundations of the recent global financial crisis. The chapters, from a selection of leading academics in the field of heterodox macroeconomics, carry out a synthesis of heterodox ideas that place ...

The Great Depression

With a new introduction by Murray Weidenbaum. This book examines the nature and the causes of the 1929 depression, tracing its background and the broad conditions from which the depression emerged. As an influence on economic activity, Robbins sees World War I, and the political ...

Theories of urban politics

Eds. Jonathan S. Davies, David L. Imbroscio. 'Anybody who thinks the study of urban politics is stagnating needs to pick up a copy of "Theories of Urban Politics". Insightful analysis of scholarship on traditional topics is supplemented by chapters on non-traditional topics, including the new ...

The growing economy

In this sequel to his widely praised classic study of "The Stationary Economy", Nobel Prize winning economist J. E. Meade continues his systematic treatment of the entire field of economic analysis. He uses a series of simplified models designed to show the interconnections between various ...

Una investigación sobre la naturaleza y causa de la riqueza de las Naciones

En la medida en que todo individuo procura en lo posible invertir su capital en la actividad nacional y orientar esa actividad para que su producción alcance el máximo valor, todo individuo necesariamente trabaja para hacer que el ingreso anual de la sociedad sea el ...

Milton Friedman on economics

selected papers

Afterword by Gary S. Becker.Upon his death in the autumn of 2006, Milton Friedman was lauded as "the grandmaster of free-market economic theory in the postwar era" by the "New York Times" and "the most influential economist of the second half of the twentieth ...

Essays in persuasion

Essays In Persuasion written by legendary author John Maynard Keynes is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Essays In Persuasion is required reading ...

Introducing Keynes

As we find ourselves at the cusp of an economic downturn, there has been a clear reinvigoration of Keynesian economics as governments are attempting to stimulate the market through public funds. Forming his economic theories in the wake of the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes ...

Breve tratado sobre la reforma monetaria

escritos (1910-1944)

La crisis financiera ha actualizado de forma inimaginable la obra y las aportaciones de un economista que, habiendo estado en una posición central del pensamiento económico, su figura se había visto relegada en las últimas décadas del siglo XX. John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), economista británico ...

Ensayos de persuasión

La obra Ensayos de persuasión, que pronto adquirió forma e identidad propias, se consideró como una reunión de escritos dirigidos a una audiencia popular; además, contribuiría a otorgar a Keynes la notoriedad entre el público general que ya poseía entre los economistas. John Maynard Keynes ...

Say's Law and the keynesian revolution

how macroeconomic theory lost its way

This highly original contribution examines one of the most controversial concepts in the history of economics - the true meaning of the Law of Markets. This has been a contentious issue since the publication of "Keynes' General Theory", but has also divided economists since it first ...

Desarrollo y liberalización

política, economía y religión

La relevancia del tema del desarrollo plantea varios interrogantes a la reflexión teológica: ¿Cuáles son los antecedentes sobre el desarrollo por parte de la teología?, ¿desde dónde fue abordada la reflexión teológica sobre el desarrollo?, ¿cuáles fueron las propuestas de las iglesias y de los ...

Economic persuasions

Ed. Stephen Gudeman. CONTENTS: List of Figures 1 Introduction by Stephen Gudeman 2 Simplicity in Economic Anthropology: Persuasion, Form, and Substance by James G. Carrier 3 When Rhetoric Becomes Mass Persuasion: The Case of the Concept of Interest by Richard Swedberg 4 The New Social ...

Keynes on monetary policy, finance and uncertainty

liquidity preference theory and the global financial crisis

This book provides a reassessment of Keynes' theory of liquidity preference. It argues that the failure of the Keynesian revolution to be made in either theory or practice owes importantly to the fact that the role of liquidity preference theory as a pivotal element in ...

Good money. T.I

The New World

Ed. Stephen Kresge. Hayek's deep interest in the concept of money and its role within the economy is developed in "Good Money, Part I". Consisting of seven of Hayek's most significant monetary writings from the 1920s, this collection focuses on his critique of ...

The Hesitant Hand

taming self-interest in the history of economic ideas

Adam Smith turned economic theory on its head in 1776 when he declared that the pursuit of self-interest mediated by the market itself - not by government - led, via an invisible hand, to the greatest possible welfare for society as a whole. "The Hesitant Hand" examines ...

Good money.T.II

The standard

Ed. Stephen Kresge. This complementary volume provides five additional essays to expand our understanding of Hayek's ideas about money and monetary policy. "Good Money, Part II: The Standard" investigates the consequences of the predicament of composition which led to one of Hayek's most ...

"Are economist basically immoral?"

and other essays on economics, ethics, and religion by Paul Heyne

Eds. Geoffrey Brennan, A.M.C. Waterman. A well-trained theologian, a gifted and dedicated teacher of economics for over forty years, and the author of a highly regarded and widely used textbook, "The Economic Way of Thinking", Paul Heyne influenced generations of students of economics ...

The marginal productivity theory of distribution

a critical history

The Marginal Productivity Theory of Distribution (MPTD) claims that in a free-market economy the demand for a factor of production will depend upon its marginal product - where 'marginal product' is defined as the change in total product that is caused by, or that follows, the ...