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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
¿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 ...
¿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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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