Dentro de 15 años

¿escenarios improbables?

«Aventurar el futuro es una tentación apasionante que nos traslada a un mundo mágico. Me fascina tanto que confieso mi afición a provocar la generación de ideas y casualidades explorando activamente escenarios disruptivos». Los grandes foros sobre prospectiva se limitan a la agenda política y ...

The Euro area and the financial crisis

The financial crisis of 2007-10 has presented a number of key policy challenges for those concerned with the long-term stability of the euro area. It has shown that price stability as provided by the European Central Bank is not enough to guarantee financial stability, and ...

In 100 years

leading economists predict the future

This pithy and engaging volume shows that economists may be better equipped to predict the future than science fiction writers. Economists' ideas, based on both theory and practice, reflect their knowledge of the laws of human interactions as well as years of experimentation and reflection ...

Claves para el diseño de la política económica en la actualidad

Este libro pretende ser un manual útil para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje en política económica. Trata de reflejar un nuevo tiempo en el que las personas se adaptan a la sociedad de la información y el conocimiento con lo que se originan nuevos modelos ...

Applied welfare economic

cost-benefit analysis of projects and policies

What is the effect of a new infrastructure on the well-being of a local community? Is a tax reform desirable? Does the privatization of a telecommunication provider increase social welfare? To answer these questions governments and their policy advisors should have in mind an operative ...

A citizen's guide to deficits and debt

the politics of taxing, spending and borrowing

America is currently involved in one of the worst economic crises of modern times. As alarm increases over how the government will balance the budget, handle the debt, and maintain prosperity for the future, the minutia of debts and deficits remains incomprehensible to many. Why ...

Rethinking sovereign debt

politics, reputation, and legitimacy in modern finance

Conventional wisdom holds that all nations must repay debt. Regardless of the legitimacy of the regime that signs the contract, a country that fails to honor its loan obligations damages its reputation, inviting still greater problems down the road. Yet difficult dilemmas arise from this ...

In bed with Wall Street

the conspiracy crippling our global economy

The Wall Street meltdown in 2008 brought the country to its knees, and spawned nationwide protests against the lack of regulation and oversight facing Wall Street. But the average American still fails to fully grasp what was - and still is - happening: that the inmates continue ...

Times of crises

what the financial crisis revealed and how to reinvent our lives and future

For Michel Serres, economic crises are earthquakes caused by societal tectonic plates. The current crisis erupted because of the widening discrepancy between major social changes and institutions that have remained the same since WWII. Serres, one of the first to bring nature into the political ...

The Dollar trap

how the U.S. Dollar tightened its grip on global finance

The U.S. dollar's dominance seems under threat. The near collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008-2009, political paralysis that has blocked effective policymaking, and emerging competitors such as the Chinese renminbi have heightened speculation about the dollar's looming displacement as ...

GDP

a brief but affectionate history

Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013 - or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008 ...

Indecentes

cónica de un atraco perfecto

Una crónica de la disolución ética y de la desfachatez moral que ha llevado a España y a Europa a una crisis sin precedentes y que señala a sus autores intelectuales, económicos y políticos. La burbuja del dinero fácil facilitó el frenesí especulativo de una ...

Crisis económica y cambios en el sistema financiero

Analizar los motivos que desencadenaron la crítica situación que ha atravesado el sistema financiero español y proponer los cambios que se deben llevar a cabo para poner fin a uno de los periodos más convulsos de nuestra economía son el objetivo que Julio Rodríguez López ...

Wrong

nine economic policy disasters and what we can learn from them

In recent years, the world has been rocked by major economic crises, most notably the devastating collapse of Lehman Brothers, the largest bankruptcy in American history, which triggered the breathtakingly destructive sub-prime disaster. What sparks these vast economic calamities? Why do our economic policy makers ...

Austeridad

historia de una idea peligrosa

'La austeridad, nos dice Mark Blyth, profesor de la Brown University, es una idea peligrosa: no funciona en el mundo real en que habitamos. En el mundo imaginario de sus partidarios, los recortes siempre afectan a otro. Desgraciadamente, como lo demuestra Europa, en este mundo ...

La mystique de la croissance

comment s'en libérer

La mystique de la croissance Alors que les pays occidentaux font face à une crise économique et sociale d'une extrême gravité, responsables politiques et experts attendent le salut du seul retour de la croissance. Pourtant si celle-ci revenait, elle contribuerait sûrement à aggraver la ...

¡Actúen ya!

un manifiesto global para recuperar nuestras economías y salir de la crisis

¿Por qué la economía mundial sufre graves crisis una y otra vez? ¿Por qué es tan difícil controlar el sistema financiero? ¿Por qué no hemos logrado acabar con el hambre, la miseria y el desempleo en un mundo tan próspero como éste? ¡Actúen ya! es ...

Anti-crisis

Crisis is everywhere: in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the Congo; in our housing markets, money markets, financial systems, state budgets, and sovereign currencies. In Anti-Crisis, Janet Roitman steps back from the cycle of crisis production to ask not just why we declare so many crises ...

Lobbying America

Lobbying America tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s. Benjamin Waterhouse traces the rise and ultimate fragmentation of a broad-based effort to unify the business community and promote a fiscally conservative, antiregulatory, and market-oriented policy agenda to ...

La rebelión de los PIGS

la verdad oculta de la crisis y el saqueo del sur de Europa

No eramos ni de lejos los más endeudados. Nuestros bancos, a diferencia de otros, no estaban especialmente expuestos a los productos basura made in USA. La burbuja inmobiliaria no era sólo cosa nuestra, sin embargo desde el Financial Times nos colgaron el sambenito de PIGS ...