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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The prosperity paradox

how innovation can lift nations out of poverty

Clayton M. Christensen, the author of such business classics as The Innovator's Dilemma and the New York Times bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life, and co-authors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon reveal why so many investments in economic development fail to generate sustainable ...

The central asian economies in the Twenty-First Century

paving a New Silk Road

This book analyzes the Central Asian economies of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, from their buffeting by the commodity boom of the early 2000s to its collapse in 2014. Richard Pomfret examines the countries' relations with external powers and the possibilities for ...

Confronting inequality

how societies can choose inclusive growth

Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the tradeoff we must accept to achieve economic growth. In this ...

El delirio del crecimiento

«Pilling es un guía sabio, informado y viajado. Su escepticismo respecto al PIB representa un inestimable primer paso si de lo que se trata es de hacer las cosas mejor. Un verdadero logro.»Angus Deaton, premio Nobel de Economía Los economistas y su culto al ...

The environment

a history of the idea

Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our children and grandchildren? Is the world sick? Can it be healed? Less than a lifetime ago, these questions would have made no sense. This ...

Economía colaborativa...¿de verdad?

La cooperación transfronteriza para el desarrollo

Esta modalidad de cooperación se centra en el abordaje de desafíos comunes para regiones que, aun estando situadas en territorios de características frecuentemente similares, han tenido evoluciones históricas dispares que han dado lugar a diferencias inherentes a su pertenencia a estados distintos. Por ello, una ...

Informe sobre la Desigualdad Global 2018

La desigualdad económica es uno de los fantasmas que hoy recorren el mundo. Lo mismo en países desarrollados que en los que se esfuerzan por salir de la miseria, este azote contemporáneo confirma de manera dolorosa que el progreso técnico, la apertura de los mercados ...

África es así

instituciones o pobreza

Tras el éxito de Globalización y generación de riqueza, publicado en esta misma colección, el autor presenta África es así, instituciones o pobreza. Se trata de un ensayo vital para desmontar los tópicos imperantes en el tratamiento mediático del subcontinente negro. Ferrandis demuestra con datos ...

The billionaire raj

a journey through India's new gilded age

A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India's new billionaire class in a radically unequal society India is the world's largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China's. But the rewards of this ...

Uneven Centuries

economic development of Turkey since 1820

The population and economy of the area within the present-day borders of Turkey has consistently been among the largest in the developing world, yet there has been no authoritative economic history of Turkey until now. In Uneven Centuries, Sevket Pamuk examines the economic growth and ...