The Nobel factor

the prize in economics, social democracy, and the market turn

Economic theory may be speculative, but its impact is powerful and real. Since the 1970s, it has been closely associated with a sweeping change around the world—the “market turn.” This is what Avner Offer and Gabriel Söderberg call the rise of market liberalism, a ...

Economics for the many

Our economy is rigged in favour of a wealthy elite. We need a new approach: an economics for the many. Big challenges lie ahead for our society: the rise of automation and the threat of catastrophic climate change. But so, too, do the huge possibilities ...

Good economics for hard times

better answers to aour biggest problems

In this revolutionary book, prize-winning economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. From immigration to inequality, slowing growth to accelerating climate change, we have the resources ...

The enchantments of Mammon

how capitalism became the religion of modernity

Far from displacing religions, as has been supposed, capitalism became one, with money as its deity. Eugene McCarraher reveals how mammon ensnared us and how we can find a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world. If socialists and Wall Street bankers can ...

The Gig economy

a critical introduction

All of a sudden, everybody’s talking about the gig economy. From taxi drivers to pizza deliverers to the unemployed, we are all aware of the huge changes that it is driving in our lives as workers, consumers and citizens. This is the first comprehensive ...

General equilibrium

The theory of general equilibrium offers a simplified guide to how real economies function: it describes how price, demand, supply and production interact in multiple markets and tend towards a state of equilibrium. The first attempt to model this interaction was made in the late ...

Chicago Price Theory

An authoritative textbook based on the legendary economics course taught at the University of Chicago Price theory is a powerful analytical toolkit for measuring, explaining, and predicting human behavior in the marketplace. This incisive textbook provides an essential introduction to the subject, offering a diverse ...

Change everything

creating an economy for the common good

s it possible for businesses to have a bottom line that is not profit and endless growth, but human dignity, justice, sustainability and democracy? Or an alternative economic model that is untainted by the greed and crises of current financial systems? Christian Felber says it ...

Trading for good

how global trade can be made to serve people not money

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, but few would consider it a social good. Instead, our views on trade have polarized between two extremes: 'free trade' ideologues who regard trade as an end in itself, and 'protectionists' who view it as a destructive ...

Straight talk on trade

ideas for a sane world economy

An honest discussion of free trade and how nations can sensibly chart a path forward in today's global economy Not so long ago the nation-state seemed to be on its deathbed, condemned to irrelevance by the forces of globalization and technology. Now it is ...

Capitalism

Competition, Conflict, Crises

Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then attributed to particular imperfections in reality itself. In ...

When the President calls

conversations with economic policymakers

Interviews with thirty-five economic policymakers who advised presidents from Nixon to Trump. What is it like to sit in the Oval Office and discuss policy with the president? To know that the decisions made will affect hundreds of millions of people? To know that the ...

Capital y trabajo

50 películas esenciales sobre (la) economía

Cuando pensamos en la economía, la solemos asociar al dinero. Algo aburrido, atractivo o inmoral, según quien lo mire. Pero la economía es mucho más que eso. Son los problemas a los que los países y las personas nos enfrentamos a diario, porque intentamos ser ...

Narrative economics

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 ...

Failure

Failure explores the deeply troubling paradox by which the more technological and financial systems fail us, the more dependent on them we become. Wall Street and Silicon Valley?the two worlds this book examines?promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in ...

Economía del mundo real

la economía convencional frente al funcionamiento real de nuestras economías

En esta obra se trata de analizar por qué el paradigma dominante en Economía, como disciplina, no explica o no lo hace correctamente el funcionamiento real de nuestras economías de mercado, y eso no en cuanto a cuestiones de detalle o de especialistas, sino fundamentales ...

The inner level

how more equal societies reduce stress, restore sanity and improve eveyone´s well-being

Why is the incidence of mental illness in the UK twice that in Germany? Why are Americans three times more likely than the Dutch to develop gambling problems? Why is child well-being so much worse in New Zealand than Japan? As this groundbreaking study demonstrates ...

Reinventing capitalism in the age of big data

A provocative look at how data is reinventing the market: where big firms will no longer be dominant. Markets have long been acknowledged to be a superior mechanism for managing resources but until the advent of big data, they largely functioned better in theory than ...

El paradigma del capital social

sus aplicaciones en la cultura, los negocios y el desarrollo

El paradigma del capital social muestra la forma en que la creación de redes de apoyo, simpatía, colaboración y solidaridad construye capital y cómo este puede contribuir tanto al bienestar socioemocional como económico. El entorno social se construye a partir de lazos afectivos que pueden ...

La economista en el burdel

y otros lugares inesperados donde comprender qué es el riesgo

¿Vale la pena adentrarse en aguas infestadas de tiburones para surfear sobre una ola de quince metros? ¿Es más arriesgado rodar una película de acción o una de terror? ¿Es necesario que una trabajadora sexual invierta la mitad de sus ingresos en incrementar su seguridad ...