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 ...

¿Por qué importa la desigualdad?

La desigualdad puede rebatirse porque se origina cuando un determinado agente no otorga la misma importancia a los intereses de diferentes partes a las que está obligado a proporcionar un bien. Puede rebatirse porque conlleva o produce desigualdades objetables en el estatus. Puede rebatirse porque ...

Economía y Política

El libro Economía y Política ofrece, una visión íntegra y heterodoxa del papel del Estado en la economía. Sin apartarse del enfoque metodológico que habitualmente se adopta para analizar cuál debe ser la actuación pública en la economía, amplía el catálogo tradicional de situaciones en ...

Austeridad

cuándo funciona y cuándo no

¿Por qué la austeridad es tan controvertida? Sus detractores sostienen que puede generar espirales negativas que provoquen un decrecimiento económico aún mayor. Sus partidarios argumentan que los déficits fiscales deben abordarse de forma agresiva y eliminarse cueste lo que cueste. Este libro magistral, obra de ...

The new world economy

a beginner´s guide

What is blockchain? What is Bitcoin? How can central banks be instrumental in guiding a nation’s economy? What are the underlying causes of trade deficits? Do trade wars actually help the domestic economy? How has the behavior of millennials and Generation Z affected the ...

Repensar la economía desde la democracia

"Repensar la economía desde la democracia" implica que la clase trabajadora ocupe el lugar que le corresponde, mejorando su capacidad de negociar sus condiciones de trabajo y participando en la gestión de la empresa. La negociación colectiva es un instrumento indudable de democratización de la ...

The price of Football

Professional football is the most popular sport in the world in terms of both spectator attendance and television viewing figures. As its popularity has grown so has its monetary value. Kieran Maguire examines how professional football clubs operate as businesses and explains how to read ...

Economía circular-espiral

transición hacia un metabolismo económico cerrado

Los actuales modos productivistas y consumistas deben encarar una transición rápida y justa (sin dejar a nadie atrás), evolucionando desde una economía lineal ('tomar-fabricar-consumir-eliminar') hacia una economía circular basada en procesos metabólicos de ciclos cerrados que sean ecoeficientes y sostenibles para garantizar la suficiencia de ...

The digital economy

"Tim Jordan deftly explores the workings of the trillion-dollar digital economy. He discusses the hype and significance surrounding its activities and practices in order to outline important concepts, theory, and policy questions. Rich with case studies, the book is an important reference for those getting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...