Tesla

inventor of the electrical age

Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his ...

Grand pursuit

the story of economic genius

In a sweeping narrative, the author of the megabestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet. It’s the epic story of the making of ...

Constitutional money

a review of the Supreme Court's Monetary decisions

This book reviews nine Supreme Court cases and decisions that dealt with monetary laws and gives a summary history of monetary events and policies as they were affected by the Court's decisions. Several cases and decisions had notable consequences on the monetary history of ...

Makers

la nueva revolución industrial

En este su último libro, Chris Anderson, el consagrado inventor del término de la economía Long Tail sigue analizando el futuro de las sociedades que vienen. En este libro se adentro en lo que llama los "Makers", personas que diseñan y producen sus propios productos ...

Historia económica mundial

una breve introducción

El punto de partida de esta breve introducción a la “Historia económica mundial” es la pregunta clásica de por qué ciertos países son ricos y otros pobres. ¿Por qué es Europa, y no Asia o África, la región en la que el crecimiento económico despega ...

The alchemists

three central bankers and a world on fire

When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007, suddenly the most powerful men in the world were three men who were never elected to public office. They were the leaders of the world’s three most important central banks: Ben ...

The origins, history, and future of the Federal Reserve

a return to Jekyll Island

This book contains essays presented at a conference held in November 2010 to mark the centenary of the famous 1910 Jekyll Island meeting of leading American financiers and the US Treasury. The 1910 meeting resulted in the Aldrich Plan, a precursor to the Federal Reserve ...

Crónicas de la Gran Recesión

T.II: (210-2012)

Crónicas de la Gran Recesión II (2010-2012) es el testimonio de una etapa esencial de la crisis española: la etapa de la desconfianza y del desencanto; de la desconfianza hacia la ascendente decadencia del zapaterismo, y del desencanto con el decadente ascenso del rajoyismo. En ...

The great deformation

the corruption of capitalism in America

The controversial businessman and former Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan condemns the corruption of capitalism, especially over the last 30 years, sparing no one in his feisty and brilliant depiction of how government and finance has all but ruined ...

Political arithmetic

Simon Kuznets and the empirical tradition in economics

We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn't the case - economists simply didn't have the necessary information or statistical tools ...

Austerity

the history of a dangerous idea

Conservatives in America have succeeded in casting government spending as useless profligacy that has made their economy worse, centering the policy debate in the wake of the financial crisis on draconian budget cuts. Americans are told that they need to live in an age of ...

El crash de 1929

La crisis económica y financiera de 1929 dio origen a la gran depresión de los años treinta. John Kenneth Galbraith nos presenta aquí una historia y un análisis de esos hechos, y desentraña los procesos y mecanismos que, desde los años del boominmobiliario de Florida ...

Historia del capitalismo

de 1500 a nuestros días

Tras cinco siglos de expansión y desarrollo, el capitalismo se enfrenta a los retos que le plantea la gran crisis global que azota al mundo. Un capitalismo que ha dejado de ser el efecto de la economía de occidente sobre el resto de países para ...

Balance

The economics of great powers from Ancient Rome to Modern America

In this groundbreaking book, two economists explain why economic imbalances cause civil collapse— and why the United States could be next. From the Ming Dynasty to Ottoman Turkey to imperial Spain, the Great Powers of the world emerged as the greatest economic, political, and military ...

La Escuela Austriaca desde adentro

historias e ideas de sus pensadores. Vol.II

Este segundo volumen agrupa otras 20 entrevistas a reconocidos miembros y seguidores de la Escuela Austriaca, desde Ludwig von Mises hasta Peter Klein, concentrándonos en teóricos que han dedicado décadas de docencia e investigación al desarrollo de esta tradición, sea difundiendo las teorías de los ...

I invented the Modern Age

ther rise of Henry Ford

Every century or so, our republic has been changed by a new technology: 170 years ago it was the railroad; today it's the microprocessor. But in the early twentieth century it was the gasoline-combustion engine, built by a young, unknown, industrious man named Henry ...

The economy of modern India

from 1860 to the twenty-first century

Rapid economic growth has put India at the centre of current debates about the future of the global economy. In this fully revised and updated text, B. R. Tomlinson provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the Indian economy over the last 150 years. He ...

L'histoire économique globale

Ce livre déconstruit la vision européanocentrique du développement économique. Il met en évidence le rôle majeur de réseaux commerciaux asiatiques plurimillénaires, la technicité financière du monde musulman entre VIIIe et XIe siècle, l’avance d’une Chine qui a inventé presque toutes les techniques productives ...

Caminos abiertos

un análisis filosófico de la historia de la epistemología de la economía desde fines del siglo XIX hasta 1982

Los diversos economistas neoclásicos y neokeynesianos saben que sus paradigmas están en crisis, pero la literatura especializada sigue esperando de las pruebas empíricas la sustitución de una paradigma por otro, mientras que los que debaten cuestiones filosóficas lo hacen con una gran incomprensión de los ...

Smuggler nation

how illicit trade made America

Smuggler Nation is the first book that retells the story of America and its foreign relations as a series of intense battles over illicit trade. As Andreas argues in this fascinating and provocative account, clandestine commerce-and campaigns to suppress it-has played a vital but too ...