Éthique et ordre économique

une enterprise de séduction

The secret sins of economics

Milton Firedman

la política económica de un pragmatisma liberal

What should economists do?

Prensa económica

de la Lloyd's List al WSJ.com

Naturaleza y lógica del capitalismo

Naked economics

undressing the dismal science

Naked Economics makes up for all of those Econ 101 lectures you slept through (or avoided) in college, demystifying key concepts, laying bare the truths behind the numbers, and answering those questions you have always been too embarrassed to ask. For all the discussion of ...

Mas allá del pensamiento único

hacia una renovación de las ideas económicas en América Latina y El Caribe

A critique of welfare economics

First published in 1950, A Critique of Welfare Economics was enormously influential. It was concerned with the exposition, criticism, and appreciation of the theory of economic welfare as it had been developed to that date. Now reissued to coincide with the publication of Professor Little ...

Is there progress in economics?

knowledge, truth and the history of economic thought

This text discusses the concept of progress in economics and investigates whether any advance had been made in its different spheres of research. The authors look back at the history, successes and failures of their respective fields and thoroughly examine the notion of progress from ...

Elementos de análisis económico marxista

los engranajes del capitalismo

El gran argumento de los teóricos del nuevo capitalismo es decir que el trabajo directo sólo ocupa ya un lugar subalterno dentro de la actividad productiva: la creación del valor económico pasa cada vez más por servicios inmateriales y por la circulación de la información ...

Nothing is sacred

economic ideas for the New Millennium

In this text, Robret Barro applies his free market arguments to a diverse range of issues. These include global problems such as growth and debt, as well as social issues such as the predictive value of SAT scores, drug legalization, the economics of beauty, and ...

Les économistes contre la démocratie

les économistes et la politique économique etre pouvoir, modialisation et démocratie

L'économie s'est-elle substituée à la politique ? Tel est peut-être le souhait de certains économistes. Jacques Sapir a pour cible un discours économique qui cherche à vider l'action politique de son sens, un discours qui, sous les dehors d'une soi-disant rigueur scientifique ...

Classical general equilibrium theory

Although general equilibrium theory originated in the late 19th century, modern elaboration and development of the theory began in the 1930s and 1940s. This book focuses on the version of the theory developed in the second half of the 20th century, referrred to by Lionel ...

Enfoques filosófico-metodológicos en economía

En el libro predomina la atención a la Economía como Ciencia, de modo que hay trabajos sobre los problemas metodológicos de la ciencia de la Economía. Esto se aprecia en la estructura del volumen, que se articula en 5 apartados: 1) planteamientos filosófico-metodológicos sobre la ...

The specter of democracy

In this rethinking of Marxism and its blind spots, Dick Howard uses a critical rereading of Marx as a theorist of democracy to offer his audience an alternative way to think about this political ideal. He argues that it is democracy, rather than Marxism, that ...

After capitalism

In After Capitalism, David Schweickart moves beyond the familiar arguments against globalizing capitalism to contribute something absolutely necessary and long overdue-a coherent vision of a viable, desirable alternative to capitalism. He names this system Economic Democracy, a successor-system to capitalism which preserves the efficiency strengths ...

Modern austrian economics

Archaeology of a revival

The late 20th century has witnessed a resurgence of interest in the Austrian tradition in economics. However where once studies concentrated on the major theorists in the field, new directions are emerging. This edition takes up where Kirzner (Classics in Austrian Economics, Pickering & Chatto, 1995 ...

Harry Gunnison Brown

an orthodox economist and his contributions

Harry Gunnison Brown was born in 1880 and died in 1975. He was part of an important group of American economists that included Herbert J. Davenport, E.R.A. Seligman, J.B. Clark, Alvin S. Johnson, Frank A. Fetter, Richard T. Ely and Frank Knight ...

Progressive assault on Laissez Faire

Robert Hale and the first law and economic movement