The three trillion dollar war

the true cost of the Iraq conflict

The $3 Trillion War will be a devastating reckoning of the true cost of the Iraq war - quite apart from its tragic human toll - which the Bush administration has estimated at $50 billion, but which Stiglitz and Bilmes will show underestimates the real figure by ...

Obamanomics

how bottom-up economic prosperity will replace trickle-down economics

Obama has shown he knows that divisions among races, religions, and political views have prevented Americans from coming together to solve the most important problems of our age. Obamanomics, infused with Obama's speeches, campaign policy statements, and other writings, describes a government acting according ...

Greenspan's bubbles

the Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve

This is the book that bursts easy Al's bubble - revealing the real story behind Alan Greenspan. "The New York Times" nicknamed him "Mr. Bubble" for his role in creating the two largest bubbles in recent years: in the stock market and the housing market ...

Economía del conocimiento y la innovación

nuevas aproximaciones a una relación compleja

El vínculo entre conocimiento e innovación es complejo y muchos son los factores #tecnológicos, sociales, institucionales, políticos, etc.# que concurren en los procesos innovadores actuando en diferentes planos. La necesidad de mejorar la comprensión de los mismos y la conveniencia de disponer de guías prácticas ...

Ben Bernanke's Fed

the Federal Reserve after Greenspan

In this first in-depth look at Ben Bernanke's chairmanship of the Fed, Ethan Harris, Lehman Brothers' Chief U.S. Economist, demystifies the policy choices and pronouncements of the Fed chair - and explains how they influence the global economy. Harris's accessible portrayal also helps ...

Economics in Russia

studies in intellectual history

Eds. Vincent Barnett, Joachim Zweynert. The history of Russian economic thought largely remains a grey area in the international literature, with a lack of comprehensive studies not only in the West, but also in Russia itself. Whilst over the last 15 years increasing amounts of ...

Central Banking as global governance

constructing financial credibility

Money is a social convention, but with what social consequences? In this innovative study, Rodney Bruce Hall argues that those who govern the parameters of money's creation, its destruction, and its valuation are responsible for the governance of international finance. The volume is an ...

El futuro del Estado capitalista

Robert Jessop ofrece en este libro una interpretación novedosa de los Estados capitalistas y de su probable desarrollo futuro. Centra su análisis en las cambiantes formas, funciones, escala y efectividad de las políticas económicas y sociales que han emergido desde la década de 1950 en ...

Tax justice

putting global inequality on the agenda

Eds. Matti Kohonen, Francine Mestrum. Tax justice is a massive issue worldwide. Never before has there been so much wealth, and yet even the world's richest countries seem to lack public finances to fund the most basic needs of their citizens. It is a ...

The case for big government

Political conservatives have long believed that the best government is a small government. But if this were true, noted economist Jeff Madrick argues, the nation would not be experiencing stagnant wages, rising health care costs, increasing unemployment, and concentrations of wealth for a narrow elite ...

Estado, capitalismo y democracia en América Latina

Una mirada rigurosa a las mal llamadas democracias latinoamericanas concluiría que salvo unos poquísimos casos: Cuba, Venezuela, ahora Bolivia y Ecuador, en el resto lo que tenemos son regímenes oligárquicos vestidos con los ropajes externos de la democracia. Oligárquicos porque, fiel a la definición aristotélica ...

The design and use of political economy indicators

challenges of definition, aggregation and application

This book addresses a need: the most commonly employed Political Economy Indicators (PEIs) frequently give little useful information and lead to problematic results. This volume will examine measurement issues, relate PEIs to economic theory, and suggest better measures than at present.It is relevant for ...

The return of depression economics and the crisis of 2008

Our newest Nobel Prize-winning economist shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression--and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe.In 1999, in The Return of Depression Economics, Paul Krugman surveyed the economic crises that had swept across Asia ...

Progreso y miseria

Henry George (Filadelfia, 2 de septiembre de 1839- Nueva York, 1897) ha sido una de las grandes figuras del reformismo social y económico, en un largo periodo que se extiende desde la segunda mitad del siglo diecinueve hasta el primer tercio del siglo veinte. Fue ...

The american economic history reader

documents and readings

Eds. John W. Malsberger, James N. Marshall. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Economics as a discipline often relies on abstract theories and formulas to explain the functions of national economies. "American Economic History: Documents and Readings" is a collection of primary documents and essays illustrating the practical applications of these ...

From economic crisis to reform

IMF programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe

The wave of neoliberal economic reforms in the developing world since the 1980s has been regarded as the result of both severe economic crises and policy pressures from global financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Using comparative evidence from the initiation and ...

Super rich

the rise of the inequality in Britain and United States

In the past 25 years, the distribution of income and wealth in Britain and the US has grown enormously unequal, far more so than in other advanced countries. The book, which is aimed at both an academic and a general audience, examines how this happened ...

La economía de Michal Kalecki y el capitalismo actual

ensayos de teoría económica y economía aplicada

La experiencia económica reciente invita a una nueva reflexión teórica y de la realidad. Un punto de partida útil son los clásicos de la época de alto crecimiento. El virtual rechazo a las ideas económicas de John Maynard Keynes, de Michal Kalecki, y de los ...

Money employment and inflation

This is a textbook on macroeconomic theory that attempts to rework the theory of macroeconomic relations through a re-examination of their microeconomic foundations. In the tradition of Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (published in 1936), and Patinkin's Money, Interest, and ...

The Euro

its origins, development and prospects

This important new book provides a non-technical, comprehensive overview of the central issues surrounding the euro. Following an introduction to the origins of European integration, the authors proceed to examine the first concrete steps in the process that led to the creation of the euro ...