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 ...

Buena economía para tiempos difíciles

en busca de mejores soluciones a nuestros mayores problemas

En este libro refrescante e ideal para el momento que vivimos, los premios Nobel Duflo y Banerjee descubren al lector hasta qué punto la economía, cuando se ejerce bien, puede resolver nuestros problemas sociales y políticos más acuciantes. Tenemos los recursos para afrontar todos los ...

Sonriendo bajo la crisis

claves para dar confianza a un mundo angustiado

¿Estamos inmersos en una de las mayores crisis de la historia? SÍ. ¿Todo lo que ha pasado en el mundo es gravísimo? SÍ. ¿La recesión económica será brutal? SÍ. Pero, a pesar de la que está cayendo, la mejor solución es no perder la confianza ...

En desequilibrio

ensayos sobre procesos de mercado

En desequilibrio es una colección de ensayos que buscan determinar, desde la perspectiva de la Escuela Austriaca de Economía, si existe o no una tendencia en el mercado libre a alcanzar un estado de equilibrio general. Su autor, IVO A. Sajanovic, analiza detalladamente la evolución ...

Ingeniería económica

Esta nueva edición se enfoca en conceptos, términos, ecuaciones y pautas de decisión importantes. Prevalece la cobertura temática, los ejemplos y el estilo de escritura reconocido en ediciones previas. Los ejemplos resueltos, los problemas y los estudios de caso apuntan a muchos de los desafíos ...