The undercover economist strikes back

how to Run or ruin an economy

A million readers bought The Undercover Economist to get the lowdown on how economics works on a small scale, in our everyday lives. Since then, economics has become big news. Crises, austerity, riots, bonuses - all are in the headlines all the time. But how does ...

Ego

las trampas del juego capitalista

Vivimos en un estado permanente de subasta. Toda nuestra biografía, los logros conseguidos, nuestros sentimientos… todo se evalúa en un constante “me gusta”. Los modelos mentales económicos han conquistado al resto de ciencias sociales, y la absurda idea de que “el ser humano es egoísta ...

Economía para todos

Esta obra sirve de guía al alumno de Ciencias Sociales en general, y de Ciencias de la Información en particular, para ordenar ideas y conceptos, relacionarlos y prever resultados posibles ante alternativas diferentes en los temas fundamentales de la Economía. Imprescindible lectura para quien desee ...

50 cosas que hay que saber sobre economía

50 cosas que hay que saber sobre economía nos presenta y aclara las ideas básicas de la economía en 50 pequeños ensayos claros y atractivos. Empezando por los más básicos, como “la mano invisible” de Adam Smith y concluyendo con las últimas investigaciones sobre economía ...

Revista La Maleta de Portbou, Nº 3, Año 2014

Real business cycle models in economics

The purpose of this book is to describe the intellectual process by which Real Business Cycle models were developed. The approach taken focuses on the core elements in the development of RBC models: (i) building blocks, (ii) catalysts, and (iii) meta-syntheses. This is done by ...

El hombre, la economía y el Estado

tratado sobre principios de economía. Volumen II

El presente volumen es el segundo de los tres que integran la obra. Retomando los últimos capítulos de la primera parte, Rothbard examina aspectos tan sustanciales de la producción como son la función empresarial y los precios de factores e ingresos; más adelante, continúa con ...

Minority games

interacting agents in financial markets

The Minority Game is a physicist's attempt to explain market behaviour by the interaction between traders. With a minimal set of ingredients and drastic assumptions, this model reproduces market ecology among different types of traders. Its emphasis is on speculative trading and information flow ...

Les expérimentations aléatoires en économie

Depuis le début des années 2000, une économiste française, Esther Duflo, professeure au MIT, occupe le devant de la scène en économie du développement et, plus généralement, en évaluation des politiques publiques. Avec son laboratoire, le J-PAL, elle a contribué à populariser une méthode les ...

Development economics

theory, empirical research, and policy analysis

Development Economics: Theory Empirical Research and Policy Analysis by Julie Schaffner offers a means to think about development and policy in a way that is disciplined by economic theory and informed by empirical research. The main goal of this text is to get readers to ...

The map and the territory

risk, human nature, and the future of forecasting

Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. No one with any meaningful role in economic decision making in the world saw beforehand the ...

Antifragile

things that gain from disorder

In "The Black Swan", Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. Here Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays ...

Revista La Maleta de Portbou, Nº 2, Año 2013

The creative economy

how people make money from ideas

Creativity is the fastest growing business in the world. Companies are hungry for people with ideas - and more and more of us want to make, buy, sell and share creative products. But how do you turn creativity into money? In this newly rewritten edition of ...

Essentials of economics

Essentials of Economics brings the captivating writing and innovative features of Krugman/Wells to the one-term micro/macro module. It is ideal for teaching basic economic principles in a real-world context.

The Oxford handbook of post-keynesian economics

Vol.1: Theory and origins

This two volume Handbook contains chapters on the main areas to which Post-Keynesians have made sustained and important contributions. These include theories of accumulation, distribution, pricing, money and finance, international trade and capital flows, the environment, methodological issues, criticism of mainstream economics and Post-Keynesian policies ...

Economics after the crisis

The global economic crisis of 2008--2009 seemed a crisis not just of economic performance but also of the system's underlying political ideology and economic theory. But a second Great Depression was averted, and the radical shift to New Deal-like economic policies predicted by some ...

Las trampas del deseo

cómo controlar los impulsos irracionales que nos llevan al error

¿Por qué compramos lo que compramos? ¿Somos realmente dueños de nuestras decisiones o se nos puede manipular como consumidores? ¿Tienen trampa las ofertas? Qué influye en que un producto nos parezca caro o barato? ¿Gasta más quien paga con tarjeta de crédito? ¿Por qué compramos ...

The Oxford handbook of post-keynesian economics

T.2: Critiques and methodology

This two volume Handbook contains chapters on the main areas to which Post-Keynesians have made sustained and important contributions. These include theories of accumulation, distribution, pricing, money and finance, international trade and capital flows, the environment, methodological issues, criticism of mainstream economics and Post-Keynesian policies ...

The why axis

hidden motives and the undiscovered conomics of everyday life

Can economics be passionate?… Can it center on people and what really matters to them day-in and day-out.… And help us understand their hidden motives for why they do what they do in everyday life? Uri Gneezy and John List are revolutionaries. Their ideas and ...