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 ...

Los objetivos mundiales de desarrollo sostenible

(Cuadernos de Derecho para Ingenieros, Nº 43, año 2018)

La preocupación por combatir la pobreza y la desigualdad dieron lugar a la Declaración del Milenio del año 2000, que proclamó los 8 Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio (ODM) que debieran alcanzarse en 2015. En la Conferencia de Río de Janeiro de Desarrollo Sostenible de ...

Economía colaborativa

(Cuadernos de Derecho para Ingenieros, Nº 46, año 2018)

La economía colaborativa o la nueva economía son términos que están absolutamente en boca de todo el mundo. Se repiten en seminarios, medios de comunicación y foros técnicos. La crisis económica parece superada por estos nuevos mercados donde las posiciones de oferta y demanda pueden ...

Bankers and Bolsheviks

international finance and the russian revolution

Following an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the worst sovereign default in history. Bankers and Bolsheviks tells the dramatic story of this boom and bust, chronicling the forgotten experiences of leading financiers of the age. Shedding critical new light ...

Edge of chaos

why democracy is failing to deliver economic growth?and how to fix it

From an internationally acclaimed economist, a provocative call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracy Around the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes. Liberal democracy, history's greatest ...

Prosperity for all

how to prevent financial crises

In this important and provocative reassessment of the causes and consequences of economic downturns and stagnation, Roger Farmer argues that the central problem is recurring and debilitating crises of confidence in the stock market. The instability caused by the animal spirits creates unemployment and disruptions ...

La China de Xi Jinping

Este libro, muy documentado, pero con un estilo directo, crítico e irónico, expone el asombroso progreso de China desde 1949 hasta nuestros días, profundizando en la última etapa. Frente a la extendida idea de que China, tras la muerte de Mao, entró en una fase ...

Un mundo de tres ceros

La nueva economía de pobreza cero, desempleo cero y cero emisiones netas de carbono

Muhammad Yunus es uno de los críticos sociales más agudos de la actualidad. En Un mundo de tres ceros constata que el motor del capitalismo está roto: que tal como se concibe actualmente conduce inevitablemente a una desigualdad desenfrenada, un desempleo masivo y la destrucción ...