La inflación

(al alcance de los ministros)

En este libro, José Luis Sampedro y Carlos Berzosa procuran mostrar al ciudadano lo que la economía oficial prefiere ignorar o enmascarar. La inflación vuelve a ser la protagonista de nuestro día a día y se ha convertido una vez más en la excusa en ...

Análisis del entorno económico internacional

instrumentos y políticas

La segunda edición de este manual recopila, desde las perspectivas teórica y práctica, el estudio del entorno económico y de las políticas que se aplican en el escenario internacional. Asimismo tiene en cuenta el marco institucional de las relaciones económicas. Introduce los cambios metodológicos que ...

The political origins of inequality

why a more equal world is better for us all

Inequality is the defining issue of our time. But it is not just a problem for the rich world. It is the global 1% that now owns fully half the world's wealth-the true measure of our age of inequality. In this historical tour de ...

Instrumentos básicos de análisis económico

En la que fuera bautizada por la escuela neoclásica como la era del homo economicus, la economía se ha convertido, por suerte o por desgracia, en una disciplina cada vez más presente en nuestras vidas. Todo tiene una lectura en clave economicista. La Economía como ...

Trabajo, utilidad y verdad

De manera novedosa, al autor analiza todo lo que ha influenciado sobre los precios (la ciencia, la cultura, la historia y la filosofía) y el impacto que ello tiene en el debate sobre las teorías del valor desde un enfoque rompedor.

Los datos macro americanos y su efecto en los activos financieros

Con este libro, el autor quiere transmitir sus experiencias en el día a día de los mercados financieros analizando los datos macroeconómicos y el efecto que estos puedan tener en los activos financieros para facilitar al inversor una herramienta de apoyo en sus decisiones de ...

Governance by indicators

global power through quantification and rankings

The use of indicators as a technique of global governance is increasing rapidly. Major examples include the World Bank's Doing Business Indicators, the World Bank's Good Governance and Rule of Law indicators, the Millennium Development Goals, and the indicators produced by Transparency International ...

The little big number

how GDP came to rule the world and what to do about it

n one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. It is our universal yardstick of progress. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by ...

Decrecimiento

vocabulario para una nueva era

El decrecimiento se resiste a una definición simple. Como la libertad o la justicia, el decrecimiento expresa una aspiración que no puede ser encerrada en una frase. El decrecimiento es un marco en el que coinciden diferentes líneas de pensamiento, imaginarios o propuestas para actuar ...

Inteligencia económica y seguridad nacional

La inteliencia económica es una "nueva disciplina" vertebrada a partir de un proceso sistemático de recolección de información, análisis y diseminación de la anterior acerca del actual entorno económico, y de las previsiones sobre el mismo, que relaciona variables jurídicas, relacionadas con el conepto de ...

¿Qué hacemos con el paro?

Desde 2007 se han destruido 3,8 millones de empleos en España. Se suman a los casi dos millones de parados que había en los años de crecimiento, efecto de un modelo productivo que siempre mantuvo altas tasas de paro y que, cuando creaba empleo ...

The wellbeing of nations

meaning, motive and measurement

What is national wellbeing and what is progress? Why measure these definitions? Why are measures beyond economic performance needed and how will they be used? How do we measure national wellbeing & turn the definitions into observable quantities? Where are we now and where to next ...

Collision course

endless growth on a finite planet

The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that "growth" is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The public has been convinced that growth is the natural solution to virtually all social problems -- poverty, debt, unemployment, and even ...

Perché il sud è rimasto indietro

«I meridionali sono privati non soltanto della libertà: la libertà di poter decidere del proprio destino, che solo un reddito decente, una buona istruzione, la fruizione di diritti collettivi e personali consentono. Sono privati anche della verità, quella di poter capire perché sono a questo ...

Trading economics

a guide to economic statistics for practitioners and students

A practical guide to understanding how key economic and market statistics drive financial market trends The recent global financial crisis stressed the need for economists who understand how key economic and market statistics drive financial market trends and how to mitigate the risks for businesses ...

The index number problem

construction theorems

A theft amounting to GBP1 was a capital offence in 1260 and a judge in 1610 affirmed the law could not then be applied since GBP1 was no longer what it was. Such association of money with a date is well recognized for its importance ...

The atlas of economic complexity

mapping paths to prosperity

Why do some countries grow and others do not? The authors of The Atlas of Economic Complexity offer readers an explanation based on "Economic Complexity," a measure of a society's productive knowledge. Prosperous societies are those that have the knowledge to make a larger ...

A citizen's guide to deficits and debt

the politics of taxing, spending and borrowing

America is currently involved in one of the worst economic crises of modern times. As alarm increases over how the government will balance the budget, handle the debt, and maintain prosperity for the future, the minutia of debts and deficits remains incomprehensible to many. Why ...

GDP

a brief but affectionate history

Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013 - or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008 ...

Code red

how to protect your savings from the coming crisis

Wall Street Journal Bestseller Valuable insights on monetary policies, their impact on your financial future, and how to protect against them Written by the New York Times bestselling author team of John Mauldin and Jonathan Tepper, Code Red spills the beans on the central banks ...