Petróleo, economía y cultura

El Caso U'wa

En esta obra su autora intenta tender un puente entre la insistente pregunta por la utilidad de la filosofía y una situación histórica concreta y conflictiva: el impacto de la globalización económica sobre formas de vida arraigadas a concepciones tradicionalistas del mundo. Para lograr este ...

Population issues in social choice theory, welfare economics, and ethic

This book presents an exploration of the idea of the common or social good, extended so that alternatives with different populations can be ranked. The approach is, in the main, welfarist, basing rankings on the well-being, broadly conceived, of those who are alive (or ever ...

On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

a philosophical companion

Adam Smith was a philosopher before he ever wrote about economics, yet until now there has never been a philosophical commentary on the Wealth of Nations. Samuel Fleischacker suggests that Smith's vastly influential treatise on economics can be better understood if placed in the ...

The economics of politics

Herbert A. Simon

the bounds of reason in Modern America

El genio de Occidente

(raíces clásicas y cristianas de la civilización occidental)

Tiempo y dinero

la macroeconomía de la estructura del capital

La mirada del economista

biografía intelectual de un filósofo mundano de los 90

Hacia una reconstrucción del materialismo histórico

The rent-seeking society

Camino de servidumbre

Liberalism

Liberalism is an innovative introductory textbook exploring the dominant discourse of contemporary political theory and the core ideas that underpin it. Despite the ubiquity of liberalism there remains considerable disagreement about what contemporary political liberals believe. This book distinguishes modern political liberalism from earlier manifestations ...

An outline of the history of economic thought

Revised and updated to take account of new developments in economic thought. Provides a balanced treatment of historical and contemporary theory. Accessible, lucid explanations- suitable for all levels of students. Frames the developments of economic thought within the history of ideas

Democracia, justicia y socialismo

Integra este pequeño volumen tres ensayos basados en sendas conferencias de Hayek en Madrid, Barcelona y Valencia en la primavera de 1976

Ensayos políticos

Figura destacada de la Europa dieciochesca, Hume es un «ilustrado» que somete la Ilustración a la crítica de su propio instrumento y a la prueba de la razón. Situado en el gozne de dos épocas, se encuentra todavía lejos del momento en que la praxis ...

The wealth of ideas

a history of economic thought

The Wealth of Ideas traces the history of economic thought from its prehistory (the Bible, Classical antiquity) to the present day. In this eloquently written, scientifically rigorous and well documented book, chapters on William Petty, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, William Stanley Jevons, Carl ...

John Kenneth Galbraith

his life, his politics, his economics

John Kenneth Galbraith#s books#among them The Affluent Society and American Capitalism#are famous for good reason. Written by a scholar renowned for energetic political engagement and irrepressible wit, they are models of provocative good sense that warn prophetically of the dangers of deregulated ...

The soul of the German Historical School

methodological essays on Schmoller, Weber, and Schumpeter

This volume brings together 11 articles on Gustav von Schmoller, Max Weber, and Joseph Schumpeter. It aims to identify the methodological essence of the German Historical School (GHS) that flourished between the 1840s and the 1930s. Schmoller was a leader of the GHS, and Weber ...

The origins of Law and Economics

essays by the Founding Fathers

This unique collection of largely unpublished papers brings together the founding fathers of law and economics to provide their own views on the origins and intellectual history of the field. Law and economics emerged as a separate field of scholarship during the early 1960s, fueled ...

Reflections of eminent economists

In this collection of autobiographical essays, 26 prominent scholars detail their professional development, while offering insight into their lives and philosophies. With candor and humor they relate how they came to the field of economics, as well as how their views have evolved over the ...