Governance by indicators

global power through quantification and rankings

The use of indicators as a technique of global governance is increasing rapidly. Major examples include the World Bank's Doing Business Indicators, the World Bank's Good Governance and Rule of Law indicators, the Millennium Development Goals, and the indicators produced by Transparency International ...

Política económica

elaboración, objetivos e instrumentos

INDICE: Parte I: CONCEPTOS Y PROBLEMAS BÁSICOS. ELABORACIÓN DE LA POLÍTICA ECONÓMICA 1. Economía y política económica. 2. El marco de la política económica: de la economía de mercado a las economías mixtas. 3. Objetivos, instrumentos y políticas: un marco conceptual básico. 4. La elaboración ...

Crónicas del austericidio

¿Conocemos realmente la realidad política en la que vivimos? ¿Hacia dónde nos lleva la política neo-liberal del Partido Popular? ¿Existen realmente ‘brotes verdes’? ¿’Austeridad’ estatal o ‘Austericidio’ neo-liberal?

The economics of race in the United States

Brendan O Flaherty brings the tools of economic analysis incentives, equilibrium, optimization, and more to bear on contentious issues of race in the United States. In areas ranging from quality of health care and education, to employment opportunities and housing, to levels of wealth and ...

Caída libre

el libre mercado y el hundimiento de la economía mundial

La llamada Gran Recesión ha afectado a más personas que ninguna otra crisis desde la Gran Depresión. En Esta-dos Unidos, las políticas públicas deficientes y una falta de escrúpulos generalizada han favorecido el desastre financiero actual, cuyo contagio al resto del planeta ha sido devastador ...

The end game

how inequality shapes our final years

Senior citizens from all walks of life face a gauntlet of physical, psychological, and social hurdles. But do the disadvantages some people accumulate over the course of their lives make their final years especially difficult? Or does the quality of life among poor and affluent ...

Aspectos jurídicos e institucionales de las políticas monetarias de los principales Bancos Centrales ante la actual crisis financiera

La presente Monografía tiene por objeto analizar los principales aspectos jurídicos e institucionales que caracterizan el conjunto de políticas monetarias (algunas de ellas de carácter no convencional) que de un tiempo a esta parte vienen implementando el conjunto d los principales Bancos Centrales que operan ...

Global political economy

and modern state system

In this ambitious and masterful polemic ten Brink contributes to an understanding of the modern state-system, its conflicts and transformation. In contract to the politically attractive optimistic theoretical approaches to globalization, this book demonstrates how an analytical approach rooted in Global Political Economy helps to ...

The great divide

unequal societies and what we can do about them

A singular voice of reason in an era defined by bitter politics and economic uncertainty, Joseph E. Stiglitz has time and again diagnosed America's greatest economic challenges, from the Great Recession and its feeble recovery to the yawning gap between the rich and the ...

Error

nueve grandes desastres en políticas económicas y qué podemos aprender de ellos

Es septiembre de 2008 y Lehman Brothers acaba de quebrar. Puede parecer una pieza pequeña en el gran tablero mundial, pero su caída está a punto de desencadenar un efecto dominó que hará crujir los cimientos económicos de Occidente. Inmediatamente, el Dow Jones se desploma ...

Contra la renta básica

por qué la redistribución de la renta restringe nuestras libertades y nos empobrece a todos

¿Qué es la renta básica? ¿Por qué la han defendido tanto liberales como socialdemócratas, comunistas, feministas o ecologistas? ¿Es eficiente desde el punto de vista del crecimiento económico y de la creación de empleo? Y sobre todo: ¿es justa? Éstas son algunas de las preguntas ...

The business of America is lobbying

how corporations became politicized and politics became more corporate

Corporate lobbyists are everywhere in Washington. Of the 100 organizations that spend the most on lobbying, 95 represent business. The largest companies now have upwards of 100 lobbyists representing them. How did American businesses become so invested in politics? And what does all their money ...

Wasting a crisis

why securities regulation fails

The recent financial crisis led to sweeping reforms that inspired countless references to the financial reforms of the New Deal. Comparable to the reforms of the New Deal in both scope and scale, the 2,300 - page Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 - the main regulatory reform ...

Austerity

the great failure

Austerity is at the center of political debates today. Its defenders praise it as a panacea that will prepare the ground for future growth and stability. Critics insist it will precipitate a vicious cycle of economic decline, possibly leading to political collapse. But the notion ...

Hubris

why economists failed to predict the crisis and how to avoid the next one

The failure of economists to anticipate the global financial crisis and mitigate the impact of the ensuing recession has spurred a public outcry. Economists are under fire, but questions concerning exactly how to redeem the discipline remain unanswered. In this provocative book, renowned economist Meghnad ...

Finance and Law

twins in trouble

From the start of the financial crisis in 2007, which turned into an economic crisis soon afterwards, it was obvious that public law could not prevent the genesis of this crisis although it has adequate instruments to make a reoccurrence of such a crisis unlikely ...

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 ...