You're paid what you're worth

and other myths of the modern economy

A myth-busting book challenges the idea that we’re paid according to objective criteria and places power and social conflict at the heart of economic analysis. Your pay depends on your productivity and occupation. If you earn roughly the same as others in your job ...

El Capitalismo no es el problema, es la solución

un viaje a través de la historia reciente de los cinco continentes

Este libro es de obligada lectura para partidarios del capitalismo y sus detractores. Con tanta riqueza de hechos y cifras bien investigados, presenta un verdadero desafío para los anticapitalistas. Los partidarios del capitalismo apreciarán la fuerza de los argumentos de Zitelmann, los cuales nunca se ...

Mission economy

a moonshot guide to changing capitalism

A powerful intervention, challenging governments to apply the same determination and co-ordination to the problems of society and economy as were once applied to putting men on the moon The extraordinary efforts that took mankind to the moon 50 years ago were more than a ...

Free lunch thinking

how economics ruins the economy

Economic theories and models shape our everyday lives. They are relied on by politicians when tax rises or cuts are being considered. They inform debates about everything from bonuses for CEOs to minimum wage rates to the level of job protection enshrined in law. They ...

Narrativas económicas

cómo las fake news y las historias virales afectan la marcha de la economía

Desde antes de que existiera la idea de «viralidad», las historias que la gente se contaba sobre sus experiencias o los rumores que había oído han transformado los mercados y la economía. Muchas veces, los pánicos, las burbujas inmobiliarias, los precios de las acciones o ...

Wealth

The pursuit of wealth has captivated people’s attention for centuries. Yet, as a topic of social research, the way in which wealth is accumulated and unequally distributed has largely been neglected, remaining hidden beneath data on income inequality. Wealth aims to address this blind ...

Behavioural economics

psychology, neuroscience, and the human side of economics

For centuries, economics was dominated by the idea that we are rational individuals who optimise our own ‘utility’. Then, in the 1970s, psychologists demonstrated that the reality is a lot messier. We don’t really know what our utility is, and we care about people ...

Love, money and parenting

how economics explains the way we raise our kids

An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequality Love, Money, and Parenting investigates how economic forces shape how parents raise their children. In countries with increasing economic inequality, parents push harder to ensure their children have a ...

Narrative eonomics

how stories go viral and drive major economic events

From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a new way to think about how popular stories help drive economic events In a world in which internet troll farms attempt to influence foreign elections, can we afford to ignore the power ...

The Myth of Economic Development

Critical South

This classic work remains one of the most incisive contributions to dependency theory in the Latin American context. While agreeing with other dependency theorists that underdevelopment on the Latin America periphery was structurally connected to the accumulation of capital in the advanced economies at the ...

How to Fight Inequality

And Why That Fight Needs You

Inequality is the crisis of our time. The growing gap between a few at the top and the rest of society damages us all. No longer able to deny the crisis, every government in the world is now pledged to fix it - and yet it ...

Estabilizando una economia inestable

En 1986, Hyman Minsky (1919-1996) escribió esta innovadora -y profética- obra sobre economía e inversión. Estabilizando una economía inestable es un clásico de la teoría económica que describe, entre otros temas: • La inclinación natural de las economías complejas y capitalistas hacia la inestabilidad. • El auge ...

Rockonomics

how the music industry can explain the modern economy

Alan Krueger, the former chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, uses the music industry, from rock artists to music executives, from managers to promoters, as a way in to explain the principles of economics, and the forces shaping our economic lives. The ...

Radical uncertainty

decision-making beyond the numbers

Some uncertainties are resolvable. The insurance industry?s actuarial tables and the gambler?s roulette wheel both yield to the tools of probability theory. Most situations in life, however, involve a deeper kind of uncertainty, a radical uncertainty for which historical data provide no useful ...

Revenge capitalism

the ghosts of empire, the demons of capital, and the settling of unpayable debts

Capitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere dispassionate cruelty of 'ordinary' structural violence, it appears today as a global system bent on reckless economic revenge; its expression found in mass incarceration, climate chaos, unpayable debt, pharmaceutical violence and the relentless degradation ...

The economics of belonging

a radical plan to win back the left behind and achieve prosperity for all

Fueled by populism and the frustrations of the disenfranchised, the past few years have witnessed the widespread rejection of the economic and political order that Western countries built up after 1945. Political debates have turned into violent clashes between those who want to “take their ...

Sample size, skewness and leverage effects in value at risk and expected shortfall estimation

The thesis analyzes the effect that the sample size, the asymmetry in the distribution of returns and the leverage in their volatility have on the estimation and forecasting of market risk in financial assets. The goal is to compare the performance of a variety of ...

La civilización de la memoria de pez

pequeño tratado sobre el mercado de la atención

Nueve segundos. A eso ha quedado reducida nuestra capacidad de atención en el mundo contemporáneo: somos una sociedad incapaz de mantener la concentración más allá de la excitación inmediata del último tweet. Pero nuestra distracción endémica, auténtica plaga de la sociedad moderna, es resultado de ...

The power of experiments

decision making in a data-driven World

How organizations—including Google, StubHub, Airbnb, and Facebook—learn from experiments in a data-driven world. Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments ...

Historias antieconómicas

Este libro recopila un centenar de historias, de relatos breves, de anécdotas, de chistes, de apreciaciones, que mal que bien rompen con la lógica económica dominante. Esas historias procuran colocar lo colectivo por encima de lo individual, rehúyen la identificación entre consumo y bienestar, otorgan ...