Bancarota moral

violencia político-financiera y resiliencia ciudadana

Hay numerosos estudios sobre la crisis que se inicióen el 2008 y sus efectos empobrecedores sobre amplios sectores de la población mundial. ¿Qué aporta el que ahora tiene en sus manos? En lo esencial, un cambio de perspectiva y una puerta a la ilusión. Bancarrota ...

Social movements in times of austerity

bringing capitalism back into protest analysis

Recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic institutions and the very civil, political and social rights that form the basis of democratic life. Beginning with Iceland in ...

El choque de ideas económicas

los grandes debates de política económica de los últimos cien años

Este libro nos acerca a las más señaladas disputas entre economistas, y a la relación entre los planteamientos teóricos y los grandes experimentos de política económica de los últimos cien años. White nos ofrece una lúcida visión del liberalismo económico, la economía mixta, el socialismo ...

Stateness and sovereign debt

Greece in the european conundrum

This book examines the present crisis of Greece's political economy as a crisis of stateness, tackling the domestic as well as the international dimensions. It represents the first attempt by Greek academics to put forward a theoretically-informed, interdisciplinary analysis of Greece's fiscal, economic ...

Public sector entrepreneurship

U.S. technology and innovation policy

Public sector entrepreneurship refers to innovative public policy initiatives that generate greater economic prosperity. These initiatives can transform a status quo economic environment into one that is more conducive to economic units engaging in creative and innovative activities in the face of uncertainty. Public Sector ...

España por reformar

propuestas políticas, económicas y sociales

Encontramos en este libro material para el análisis, el diálogo y el compromiso orientado a las profundas reformas que España requiere para salir de la crisis apostando por el bien común. En un periodo marcado por la crisis y en un año electoral como el ...

El decrecimiento infeliz

Desde el inicio de la crisis, los ciudadanos han sentido el reproche constante de “haber vivido por encima de sus posibilidades". Pero, muy al contrario, la inmensa mayoría de la población ha vivido por debajo de unas mínimas posibilidades de dignidad por la constante imposición ...

Activos intangibles

una inversión necesaria para el crecimiento económico en España

Este libro analiza el impacto que las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (TIC) están teniendo en el desarrollo de la denominada economía del conocimiento, iniciada en la década de los noventa. En ella, las actividades basadas en el conocimiento, que constituyen su capital ...

The Federal Reserve and the financial crisis

In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Reserve and the 2008 financial crisis, as part of a course at George Washington University on the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy. In ...

Achieving democracy

the future of progressive regulation

Democracy is the ability to participate freely and equally in the political and economic affairs of the country. Americans have relied on philosophical pragmatism and on the impulse of political progressivism to express those creedal democratic values. Achieving Democracy argues that, in the last 30 ...

American insecurity

why our economic fears lead to political inaction

Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. While one might expect that these concerns would motivate people to become more politically engaged on the issues, this often doesn ...

Government versus markets

the changing economic role of the State

Vito Tanzi offers a truly comprehensive treatment of the economic role of the state in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from a historical and world perspective. The book addresses the fundamental question of what governments should do, or have attempted to do, in economic activities ...

The trillion dollar economists

how economists and their ideas have transformed business

A detailed look at how economists shaped the world, and how the legacy continues Trillion Dollar Economists explores the prize-winning ideas that have shaped business decisions, business models, and government policies, expanding the popular idea of the economist's role from one of forecaster to ...

Applied intermediate macroeconomics

This textbook offers a complete course in applied macroeconomics at the intermediate level that emphasizes the application of economic theory to real-world data and policy. Topics covered include national and international income, financial accounts, business cycles, financial markets, economic growth, labor markets, aggregate supply and ...

Austerity

the history of a dangerous idea

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts-austerity-to solve ...

State of insecurity

government of the precarious

"If we do not understand precarization, then we understand neither the politics nor the economy of the present." After years of the welfare state, the rise of technology, combined with neoliberal governmental apparatuses have established a new society of the precarious. In this new way ...

The future of multi-pillar pensions

Pension systems are under serious pressure worldwide. This pressure stems not only from the well-known trend of population aging, but also from those of increasing heterogeneity of the population and increasing labour mobility. The current economic crisis has aggravated these problems, thereby exposing the vulnerability ...

Measuring happiness

the economics of Well-Being

Can money buy happiness? Is income a reliable measure for life satisfaction? In the West after World War II, happiness seemed inextricably connected to prosperity. Beginning in the 1960s, however, other values began to gain ground: peace, political participation, civil rights, environmentalism. "Happiness economics" -- a ...

El precio de la desigualdad

el 1% de la población tiene lo que el 99% necesita

El 1 % de la población disfruta de las mejores viviendas, la mejor educación, los mejores médicos y el mejor nivel de vida, pero hay una cosa que el dinero no puede comprar: la comprensión de que su destino está ligado a cómo vive el otro ...

Currency politics

the political economy of exchange rate policy

The exchange rate is the most important price in any economy, since it affects all other prices. Exchange rates are set, either directly or indirectly, by government policy. Exchange rates are also central to the global economy, for they profoundly influence all international economic activity ...