La esclavitud a finales del Antiguo Régimen

Madrid, 1701-1837. De moros de presa a negros de nación

"La esclavitud a finales del Antiguo Régimen" nos relata un episodio bastante desconocido de la Historia de España. José Miguel López García reconstruye las peripecias vitales de unos seres humanos que fueron marginados en vida y a los que la historia oficial ha relegado al ...

A history of the world in seven cheap things

a guide to capitalism, nature, and the future of the planet

How has capitalism devastated the planet—and what can we do about it? Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed ...

The fall of the house of Speyer

The story of a banking dynasty

The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the 20th century, Speyer was the third largest investment banking firm in the United States, behind ...

Going the distance

Eurasian trade and the rise of the business corporation, 1400-1700

A historical look at the early evolution of global trade and how this led to the creation and dominance of the European business corporation Before the seventeenth century, trade across Eurasia was mostly conducted in short segments along the Silk Route and Indian Ocean. Business ...

The deals of Warren Buffett

Vol.2: The making of a billionaire

In this second volume of The Deals of Warren Buffett, the story continues as we trace Warren Buffett's journey to his first $1bn. When we left Buffett at the end of Volume 1, he had reached a fortune of $100m. In this enthralling next ...

The First Age of Industrial Globalization

An international history 1815-1918

This book offers an accessible and lively survey of the global history of the age of industrialization and globalization that arose in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars and collapsed in the maelstrom of the First World War. Through a combination of industrialization, technological innovation ...

The stock market boom and crash of 1929 was not a bubble

a book of readings

In the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1929, Yale University Economics Professor Irving Fisher remained steadfast in his view that the boom in prices had been warranted, pointing to the myriad innovations of the 1920s, including the introduction of the electric unit drive ...

El Dólar

Historia de una moneda argentina (1930-2019)

En 2019 con Mauricio Macri, en 1955 con Juan Domingo Perón, en 1976 con la dictadura cívico-militar del Proceso, en 1989 o en 2001 con las presidencias radicales de Raúl Alfonsín y Fernando de la Rúa, en cada punto de inflexión histórica en la Argentina ...

España, Norteamérica y tiempos de crisis

Los gobiernos y los medios bombardean constantemente a la sociedad con asuntos de crisis. Hay crisis humanitarias, políticas o climáticas; y, por supuesto, crisis económicas que se ven venir y otras de las que todavía hay que recuperarse. IEl punto de partida de este libro ...

Mr Five Per Cent

the many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world's richest man

When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as 'Mr Five Per Cent' for his personal share of Middle East oil. The son of a wealthy Armenian merchant in Istanbul, for half a ...

The finance course

how global finance is making us poorer

The City of London is the single biggest drain on our resources, sucking talent out of every sphere, siphoning wealth and hoovering up government time. Yet to be ‘competitive’, we’re told we must turn a blind eye to money laundering and appease big business ...

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the 10,000-year rise of the world economy

A panoramic history of trade, industry and economic thought, from prehistoric times to the present. More tracks the development of the world economy, starting with the first obsidian blades that made their way from what is now Turkey to the Iran-Iraq border 7000 years before ...

Seapower States

One of the most eminent historians of our age investigates the extraordinary success of five small maritime states Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812-winner of the prestigious Anderson Medal-turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the ...

Don't fall for it

a short history of financial scams

Learn financial and business lessons from some of the biggest frauds in history Why does financial fraud persist? History is full of sensational financial frauds and scams. Enron was forced to declare bankruptcy after allegations of massive accounting fraud, wiping out $78 billion in stock ...

Risk, choice, and uncertainty

three centuries of economic decision-making

At its core, economics is about making decisions. In the history of economic thought, great intellectual prowess has been exerted toward devising exquisite theories of optimal decision making in situations of constraint, risk, and scarcity. Yet not all of our choices are purely logical, and ...

Historia económica de la población mundial

Este clásico de la historiografía económica y social constituye la mejor síntesis histórica que se haya escrito sobre la evolución de la humanidad desde la revolución agrícola hasta nuestros días. Carlo M. Cipolla, profesor de Historia económica en las universidades de Pavía y Berkeley, describe ...

Entre el deber y el motín

lucha de clases en mar abierto

Atrapados durante meses en los barcos, obligados a trabajar sin descanso y maltratados por los capitanes, los marineros tenían uno de los trabajos más duros en los albores del capitalismo. Sin embargo, los vínculos de solidaridad y lealtad que mantuvieron entre ellos les permitieron enfrentarse ...

Guerreros y campesinos

Desarrollo inicial de la economía europea, 500-1200

Guerreros y campesinos, ensayo de erudición impecable, es una presentación de todos los aspectos relevantes de la historia medieval. Georges Duby, una figura de referencia en el medievalismo y un clásico de la historia social, analiza de manera magistral las condiciones ecológicas, estructuras demográficas, tecnológicas ...

Historia económica de la felicidad

¿Existe una relación entre desarrollo económico y felicidad? En la historia humana, desde la aparición de los primeros homínidos hasta nuestros días, hay tres grandes revoluciones que son a la vez económicas y culturales y que cambiaron la forma en que producimos, pensamos y vivimos ...

Genealogías de la reforma sanitaria en España

Esta monografía representa una contribución a la tarea de comprender adecuadamente la reforma sanitaria que se abordó a partir de 1977 y que habría de conducir a la publicación de la norma que delimita el actual ordenamiento sanitario español: la Ley General de Sanidad de ...