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 ...

Cents and sensibility

what economics can learn from the humanities

In Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities-especially the study of literature-offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and just. Arguing that Adam Smith ...

Competencia y cooperación

problemas clásicos de la teoría de juegos

Esta "Lección Inaugural" leída esta a caballo entre la Matemática y la Economía, al menos en sus orígenes, pues ahora son muchas las disciplinas con las que interactúa. Partiendo del formalismo de la Matemática, con la seguridad que proporcionan los modelos y los resultados de ...

Prosperity and justice: a plan for the new economy

The final report of the IPPR Commission on economic justice

The Final Report of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice The UK economy is broken. It no longer provides rising living standards for the majority. Young people face an increasingly insecure future. The gap between rich and poor areas is widening. Meanwhile the rise of ...

Finance capital today

corporations and banks in the lasting global slump

In this sweeping analysis of the state of contemporary capitalism, French economist Francois Chesnais draws on key Marxist concepts to explain the operations of transnational corporations in today's globalised world. He argues that our economic moment is one in which large amounts of capital ...

Divine games

game theory and the undecidability of a superior being

A game-theoretical analysis of interactions between a human being and an omnipotent and omniscient godlike being highlights the inherent unknowability of the latter's superiority. In Divine Games, Steven Brams analyzes games that a human being might play with an omnipotent and omniscient godlike being ...

Decisiones instintivas

la inteligencia del inconsciente

El proceso para tomar decisiones correctas no consiste en amasar una gran cantidad de información, sino en descartar intuitivamente aquella que no necesitamos. Decisiones instintivas propone un análisis de los múltiples factores e influencias (innatas y adquiridas) que condicionan nuestro proceso de decisión. Este libro ...

Money and government

a challenge to mainstream economics

The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only a minor role in economic life. Money, it is claimed, is nothing more than a medium of exchange; and economic outcomes are best left to the 'invisible hand' of the market. The ...

Economía feminista

desafíos, propuestas, alianzas

Este libro nace de la necesidad de apostar por nuevos enfoques que nos lleven a procesos emancipadores e incluyentes ante el llamado "conflicto capital-vida", explorando y recogiendo retos y desarrollos desde las diferentes aportaciones de la economía feminista. Con él queremos contribuir a la construcción ...

Winners take all

the elite charade of changing the world

An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner ...

La guerra económica global

ensayo sobre guerra y economía

Aunque no lo parezca, guerra y economía son conceptos intercambiables. La guerra encierra siempre intereses económicos; y la economía sustenta las luchas por el poder; convirtiéndose ella misma en un arma de combate. Y en medio, formando un todo con ambas, surge la política como ...

Propiedad de la empresa y bien común

Guillermo Rovirosa escribió una propuesta práctica desde la aplicación de los principios de la enseñanza social de la Iglesia a la actividad empresarial. Aquellas intuiciones de Rovirosa sobre la propiedad de la empresa suscitan interés hoy día. Con un intenso sentido antropológico, los autores de ...

Superfreakonomics

enfriamiento global, prostitutas patrióticas y por qué los terroristas suicidas deberían contratar un seguro de vida

a economía trata sobre la inflación, los tipos de interés y la bolsa. Superfreakonomics habla de prostitutas, traficantes de droga y luchadores de sumo fracasados. Han sido cuatro años buscando no solo las preguntas más difíciles, sino las más sorprendentes: ¿Es más peligroso conducir borracho ...

The community of advantage

a behavioural economist's defence of the market

The Community of Advantage asks how economists should do normative analysis. Normative analysis in economics has usually aimed at satisfying individuals' preferences. Its conclusions have supported a long- standing liberal tradition of economics that values economic freedom and views markets favourably. However, behavioural research shows ...

Economics

For courses in Principles of Economics. Acemoglu, Laibson, List: An evidence-based approach to economics Throughout Economics, 2nd Edition, authors Daron Acemoglu, David Laibson, and John List use real economic questions and data to help students learn about the world around them. Taking a fresh approach ...

The Market

We have become accustomed to economists and politicians talking about "market forces" as if they are immutable laws of the universe. But what exactly is "the market"? Originally an abstract idea from economic theory - the locus of supply and demand - it has come to inform ...

Everyday economics

a user's guide to the modern economy

Much of economics is a top-down analysis that simplifies and reduces the huge varieties between individuals to a predictable range of characteristics that lend themselves to systematic analysis. This book eschews this conventional perspective, which sees national economies as simply agglomerations of the activities of ...

Economía

Analytical political economy

Offering a unique picture of recent developments in a range of non-conventional theoretical approaches in economics, this book introduces readers to the study of Analytical Political Economy and the changes within the subject. Includes a wide range of topics and theoretical approaches that are critically ...

Modern evolutionary economics

an overview

Evolutionary economics sees the economy as always in motion with change being driven largely by continuing innovation. This approach to economics, heavily influenced by the work of Joseph Schumpeter, saw a revival as an alternative way of thinking about economic advancement as a result of ...