La fragilidad financiera del capitalismo

La fragilidad financiera es uno de os problemas endémicos del Capitalismo. Un problema que que no parece encontrarse en vías de solución como lo prueban las crisis bursátiles, cambiarias y bancarias de la última década, algunas de las cuales son objeto de análisis del presente ...

The politics of money

towards sustainability and economic democracy

The book opens with a review of the role of money in currnt society, an overview of the history of money creations and a critique of the main theoretical developements in economic thought. Alternative perspectives on money are then presented through a review of a ...

Monetary transmission in diverse economies

This 2002 volume explains different aspects of the transmission mechanism. It scrutinizes the relevance of practical issues such as asymmetries, recent structural changes and estimation errors using data on the US, Euro area and developing countries. Also focuses on modelling crucial aspects including productivity, the ...

Moving money

banking and finance in the industrialized world

Daniel Verdier's book is an analysis of how politics influences financial systems. He shows that differing national political institutions have led to different regulatory policies and thus different financial structures. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of financial politics and ...

Political economy

the contest of economic ideas

Political Economy looks at the competing currents of political economic thought. INDICE ECONOMIC PROCESSES AND PROBLEMS: The current context . ECONOMIC SYSTEMS: What's so Special about Capitalism . BACK TO BASICS: Classical Political Economy . THE CRITQUE OF CAPITALISM: Marxist Economics . THE IDEOLOGY OF THE MARKET: Neoclassical ...

Too sensational

on the choice of exchange rate regimes

Most of the literature on exchange rate regimes has focused on the developed countries. Since the recent crises in emerging markets, however, attention has shifted to the choice of exchange rate regimes for developing countries, especially those that are more integrated into the world capital ...

La evolución económica de las provincias españolas (1955-1998)

Este segundo volumen dedica su atención al estudio de la desigualdad y convergencia entre las diferentes provincias españolas en el periodo considerado, lo que realiza a través de una rigurosa metodología y con amplia base cuantitativa, complementando así el análisis realizado en el primer volumen ...

La macroeconomía del desarrollo

Análisis acerca de la política macroeconómica de los países en vías de desarrollo. Resulta esencial para quienes están relacionados directamente con los programas de estabilización, de ajuste estructural, y de desarrollo económico. Recorrido de temas esenciales como la estructura del mercado, funciones de comportamiento, dirección ...

El desafío de la pobreza

Esta obra plasma el desafio que hoy enfrentan los gobiernos y la sociedad civil en América Latina: La construcción de propuestas de sociedad equitativas y abiertas a la globalización.

Monetary regimes of the twentieth century

Abstract economic theory may be timeless and potentially universal in its application, but macroeconomics has to be seen in its historical context. The nature of the policy regime, the behaviour of the economy and the beliefs of professional economists all interact, and influence each other ...

Transition and institutions

the experience of gradual and late reformers

This volume reviews the role of initial structural and institutional conditions and their subsequent development during the course of the transition and examines economies which are in the very early phases of the reform process.

Introducción a la economía

Libro de prácticas. Macroeconomía

Este Libro de Prácticas es el complemento natural del manual de Introducción a la Economía: Macroeconomía, coordinado por Gimeno, G. Rabanal y Ruiz Huerta; pero es también aplicable a cualquiera de los muchos manuales de introducción que se utilizan en el mercado. El libro pretende ...

Cycles, growth and structural change

This volume gathers together key new contributions on the subject of the relationship, both empirical and theoretical, between economic oscillations, growth and structural change. Employing a sophisticated level of mathematical modelling, the collection contains articles from, amongst others, William Baumol, Katsuhito Iwai and William Brock.

Cycles, growth and structural change

This volume gathers together key new contributions on the subject of the relationship, both empirical and theoretical, between economic oscillations, growth and structural change. Employing a sophisticated level of mathematical modelling, the collection contains articles from, amongst others, William Baumol, Katsuhito Iwai and William Brock.

Applied macroeconometrics

This text provides graduate students of macroeconomics, econometrics, and monetary economics with discussion and practical illustrations of the techniques used in applied macroeconometrics. Until the 1970s, there was consensus regarding both the theoretical foundations and the empirical specification of applied macroeconometric modelling, commonly known as ...

The spirit of capitalism

nationalism and economic growth

The Spirit of Capitalism answers a fundamental question of economics, a question neither economists nor economic historians have been able to answer: what are the reasons (rather than just the conditions) for sustained economic growth? Taking her title from Max Weber's famous study on ...

Economics of development

This textbook, from present and past members of the Harvard Institute of International Development, emphasizes sustainable development, trade and industrialization, and managing an open economy.

Microeconomics

Macroeconomics

Brad DeLong's Macroeconomics offers a new approach to the subject. Drawing upon his vast experience teaching, researching, and advising the U.S. government on Economy policy has enabled him to write an intermediate macroeconomics book that will set the standard for books in this ...

The fabulous decade

macroeconomic lessons from the 1990s