La cara oculta de China

una década en el corazón del gigante asiático

Descubrir China, más allá de las luces de neón, y a los chinos, con sus contratiempos y alegrías, con sus apuros para llegar a final de mes y sus humildes aspiraciones… Conocerla más allá de la propaganda. Esa es la propuesta que nos hace el ...

The great reversal

how America gave up on free markets

Why are cell-phone plans so much more expensive in the United States than in Europe? It seems a simple question, but the search for an answer took one of the world's leading economists on an unexpected journey through some of the most hotly debated ...

Reescribir las reglas de la economía europea

propuesta para el crecimiento y la prosperidad compartida

Europa está en crisis. La pandemia provocada por la COVID-19 no ha hecho más que poner de manifiesto de forma aún más cruda sus debilidades: un crecimiento económico lento en muchos países y una recesión con graves consecuencias políticas y sociales, los recortes sociales y ...

Política económica 2019

Este libro constituye la quinta entrega de un anuario de Política Económica que inició su edición en 2016. En estos libros se difunden ideas actuales para renovar las ideas de política económica, que se enfrentan a una nueva realidad en este siglo XXI. Este libro ...

Un modelo económico justo y exitoso

la economía boliviana, 2006-2019

Luis Alberto Arce Catacora presenta un análisis comparativo de las distintas políticas económicas que ha tenido el país desde 1985, cuando se instauró el modelo neoliberal. Relata el contexto histórico e impacto económico y social del neoliberalismo hasta 2005. Un año después llegó al poder ...

The political economy of the special relationship

Anglo-American development from the gold standard to the financial crisis

How America’s global financial power was created and shaped through its special relationship with Britain The rise of global finance in the latter half of the twentieth century has long been understood as one chapter in a larger story about the postwar growth of ...

Laws of chaos

a probabilistic apporach to political economy

A defining work of Econophysics, republished for the first time since 1983, Laws of Chaos is an attempt to construct a non-deterministic theoretical framework for the foundations of political economy. It relies on probabilistic and statistical methods of the kind used in the modern foundations ...

Anti-system politics

the crisis of market liberalism in rich democracies

Recent elections in the advanced western democracies have undermined the basic foundations of political systems that had previously beaten back all challenges-from both the left and the right. The election of Donald Trump to the US Presidency, only months after the United Kingdom voted to ...

La economía aplicada

políticas económicas de los gobiernos

En este trabajo se abordan los temas que son de vital importancia, para el desarrollo económico de cualquier país. Dentro del ámbito de la Teoría Económica, que trata las Políticas Económicas de los Gobiernos; de la mano de las respuestas de uno de los mejores ...

The failure of the free market and democracy

and what to do about it

In this wide-ranging but accessible overview, economist Daniel Ritter examines the changing circumstances that have led to the economic decline of the West and the rise of populism. He looks at the effects of globalisation and how increasing mechanisation has fuelled discontent, the collapse of ...

Marketcraft

how governments make markets work

Modern-day markets do not arise spontaneously or evolve naturally. Rather they are crafted by individuals, firms, and most of all, by governments. Like statecraft, "marketcraft" represents a core function of government, and it requires considerable artistry to govern markets effectively. In Marketcraft, Steven K. Vogel ...

La era de la disrupción digital

Empleo, desigualdad y bienestar social ante las nuevas tecnologías globales

Nada ha tenido tanto impacto en la historia de la humanidad como el cambio tecnológico. Si durante milenios los seres humanos vivieron básicamente con la misma renta per cápita, fue la Revolución Industrial, fruto en gran medida de nuevos hallazgos tecnológicos, la que hizo que ...

The triumph of injustice

how the rich dodge taxes and haw to make them pay

Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice is a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation. Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel ...

The politics of debt

essays and interviews

The Politics of Debt brings together philosophers, political scientists, and economists and sets them the task of reflecting on the political role played by debt. Focusing on the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis, particularly in the United States and Europe, the book is split ...

Risk, choice, and uncertainty

three centuries of economic decision-making

At its core, economics is about making decisions. In the history of economic thought, great intellectual prowess has been exerted toward devising exquisite theories of optimal decision making in situations of constraint, risk, and scarcity. Yet not all of our choices are purely logical, and ...

The case for community wealth building

Guinan and O'Neill argue that traditional economic strategies waste billions and the transformational effects of community wealth building would be preferable.

Why austerity persists

The ongoing appeal of austerity to the right-wing and centre-right governments across the globe in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis is considered in relation to austerity's evident ineffectiveness and tyranny.

The debt delusion

living within our means and other fallacies

The basic public understanding of how a government should handle its debt is debunked as misinformed in this primer for people looking to cut through the rhetoric and misinformation.

Central Bank policy

theory and practice

Discussion focuses on philosophical and conceptual theories that have key implications for central bank policy making and findings are supported by relevant quantitative analyses and case studies reflecting recent issues with respect to centralized financial policy making, including the adoption of the Inflation Targeting Framework ...

The limits of the market

the pendulum between government and market

The old discussion of 'Market or State' is obsolete. There will always have to be a mix of market and state. The only relevant question is what that mix should look like. How far do we have to let the market go its own way ...