Manifiesto por el progreso social

ideas para una sociedad mejor

El progreso social puede verse como un objetivo a alcanzar o como una amenaza de la que conviene apartarse. En décadas recientes hemos atestiguado el declive de la pobreza mundial y el arribo de la democracia a numerosos países, la ampliación de programas de salud ...

Productivity

Productivity looms large in public policy discussions yet many find themselves hard-pressed to explain exactly what the term means. Even within economics, its nature and significance is contested and the focus of complex debate. Michael Haynes cuts through the jargon and political sloganeering to provide ...

Grassroots Economies

Living With Austerity in Southern Europe

The austerity crisis has radically altered the economic landscape of Southern Europe. But alongside the decimation of public services and infrastructure lies the wreckage of a generation's visions for the future. In Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal, there is a new, difficult reality of ...

Carro de combate

Consumir es un acto político

¿De dónde vienen los productos que consumimos? ¿Qué contienen los alimentos que compramos? Parecen preguntas sencillas y, sin embargo, sabemos muy poco de los elementos que componen nuestra cesta de la compra. Las etiquetas de los alimentos que adquirimos suelen ser ininteligibles para el consumidor ...

The Asset Economy

Property Ownership and the New Logic of Inequality

Rising inequality is the defining feature of our age. With the lion's share of wealth growth going to the top, for a growing percentage of society a middle-class existence is out of reach. What exactly are the economic shifts that have driven the social ...

Fully grown

why a stagnant economy is a sign of success

Most economists would agree that a thriving economy is synonymous with GDP growth. The more we produce and consume, the higher our living standard and the more resources available to the public. This means that our current era, in which growth has slowed substantially from ...

Dynamism

the values that drive innovation, job satisfaction, and economic growth

Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps and an international group of economists argue that economic health depends on the widespread presence of certain values, in particular individualism and self-expression. Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps has long argued that the high level of innovation in the lead nations of ...

Rewriting the rules of the european economy

an agenda for growth and nd shared prosperity

The problems of today's Europe can be traced directly to the rewriting of the "rules of the economic game" that has taken place over several decades under the strong influence of neoliberalism. If Europe is to return to the innovative and dynamic economy it ...

Ensayo sobre el desarrollo local y rural

Los autores de este libro, doctores en economía y agentes de desarrollo local y rural han intentado dar una visión crítica sobre la situación del mundo rural en el que viven, con especial mención al caso asturiano.

Innovación e inteligencia artificial al servicio del desarrollo rural

Vivimos en un mundo digital, interconectado y globalizado en el que la ciencia, día tras día, abre nuevos caminos hacia el futuro. En ese marco, la Universitat de València quiere ser incubadora de conocimientos y nexo de unión con nuestros pueblos para construir un desarrollo ...

Los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible

En octubre de 2.019 se celebró, en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, la Conferencia Internacional sobre los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, la Conferencia Internacional “UNMAP 2019”. Durante cuatro días se trataron los grandes bloques de desarrollo de los ODS: Alianzas para lograr los objetivos ...

La apuesta por el decrecimiento

¿cómo salir del imaginario dominante?

El término #decrecimiento# suena a desafío o a provocación, aunque seamos conscientes de que un crecimiento infinito es incompatible con un mundo limitado. El objeto de esta obra es demostrar que, aunque un cambio radical es una necesidad absoluta, optar voluntariamente por una sociedad de ...

The new environmental economics

Too often, economics disassociates humans from nature, the economy from the biosphere that contains it, and sustainability from fairness. When economists do engage with environmental issues, they typically reduce their analysis to a science of efficiency that leaves aside issues of distributional analysis and justice ...

Unbound

how inequiality constricts our economy and what we can do about it

From one of Washington's most influential voices on economic policy, a lively and original argument that reducing inequality is not just fair but also key to delivering broadly shared economic growth and stability. Do we have to choose between equality and prosperity? Many think ...

Growth

from microorganism to megacities

A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes ...

Beating the Odds

jump-starting developing countries

How poor countries can ignite economic growth without waiting for global action or the creation of ideal local conditions Countries that ignite a process of rapid economic growth almost always do so while lacking what experts say are the essential preconditions for development, such as ...

El desarrollo de las provincias del Sur

(1999-2019)

Por lo general, es siempre la política que es prioritaria sobre la economía, ella impone su ley. Después del discurso de Laâyoune en noviembre 2015, Mohammed VI sorprendió la política habitual, dando prioridad a la economía y al desarrollo inclusivo de las provincias del sur ...

Pluriverso

un diccionario del posdesarrollo

Pluriverso: Un diccionario del posdesarrollo es una estimulante colección de más de 100 ensayos sobre alternativas transformadoras a los actuales procesos dominantes del desarrollo globalizado, incluidas sus raíces estructurales ancladas en los valores de la modernidad, el capitalismo, el dominio estatal y lo masculino. En ...

The antitrust paradigm

restoring a competitive economy

A new and urgently needed guide to making the American economy more competitive at a time when tech giants have amassed vast market power. The U.S. economy is growing less competitive. Large businesses increasingly profit by taking advantage of their customers and suppliers. These ...

Institutional economics

an introduction

Why is it that some countries become rich while others remain poor? Do markets require regulation to function efficiently? If markets offer an efficient way of exchanging goods, why do individuals even create firms? How are economic transactions organized in the absence of a state ...