The organization of inquiry

Gordon Tullock is among a small group of living legends in the field of political economics. This volume provides an entree to the mind of an original thinker. Professor Rowley provides deliberately sparse contextual introduction to each volume, opting to allow the very able and ...

Keynes and his critics

treasury responses to the Keynesian Revolution 1925-1946

These documents, published here for the first time, present the Treasury's counter-arguments during the period when Keynes was developing the ideas that led to the Keynesian revolution in economic policy. Keynes spent much effort trying to persuade the Treasury to adopt policies designed to ...

The broadband problem

anatomy of a market failure and a policy dilemma

As the Internet revolution continues to unfold and transform telecommunications, pressure is building for faster, less expensive, and more widely accessible broadband service. Such a development would facilitate improved and less expensive traditional applications such as voice telephony and web browsing. It would also enable ...

Teoría de los sentimientos morales

La 'Teoría de los sentimientos morales', aparecida en 1759, es la primera obra publicada por el filósofo y economista escocés Adam Smith (1723 - 1790) y la que le dio la fama entre los círculos ilustrados europeos. Constituye una brillante aportación a la polémica contemporánea acerca ...

The illusion of economic stability

In one of the foremost critiques of the widespread view that in market-based economics the fluctuations of the marketplace are essentially self-regulating, Eli Ginzberg argues the reverse. He asserts that government regulation or intervention to provide stability in the capitalist marketplace is a necessity. In ...

Thorstein Veblen

teórico de la clase ociosa

Este libro confronta por vez primera la teoría social vebleniana con las de los dos grandes pensadores sociales de los tiempos modernos: Max Weber y Karl Marx. Al mismo tiempo, el autor va subrayando las afinidades, horizontes y diferencias que comparten con la figura de ...

Classics and moderns in economics, Volume I

essays on nineteenth and twentieth century economic thought

Classics and moderns in economics, Volume II

essays on nineteenth-and twentieth-century economic thought

Marshall's evolutionary economics

Reorienting economics

Imagining interest in political thought

origins of economic rationality

Les grandes économistes contemporains

problemes d'actualité et résponses de la recherche moderne

El pensamiento latinoamericano en el siglo XX

T. II: desde la CEPAL al neoliberalismo (1950-1990)

Las ideas económicas de los intelectuales españoles

Estudio y traducción de la obra: Reflexiones sobre la formación y distribución de las riquezas

de R.J. Turgot (Noviembre 1766)

The history of economic thought

a reader

With clearly written summaries putting each selection into context and useful questions for discussion, this reader should be useful to students and lecturers of the history of economic thought and goes beyond the simple reprinting of articles. Selections and discussions include such thinkers as Aristotle ...

The crisis in economics

the post-autistic economics movement: the firt 600 days

Economics can be pretty boring. Drier than Death Valley, the discipline is obsessed with mathematics and compounds this by arrogantly assuming its techniques can be brought to bear on the other social sciences. It wasn't going to be long, therefore, before students started complaining ...

El trabajo de Dionisos

El presente libro reivindica el papel del trabajo vivo frente al trabajo opresivo y alienante del sistema capitalista que domina nuestra sociedad y que se traduce en aburrimiento y tedio para unos, y dolor y miseria para otros. A lo largo de sus capítulos, los ...

The economics of Alfred Marshall

revisiting Marshall's legacy

The Economics of Alfred Marshall brings together a number of leading international scholars for a timely reappraisal of Marshall's contribution to the development of economics. The aims of the contributors are firstly to revisit the work of Alfred Marshall and to investigate the unity ...

Miseria de la prosperidad

la religión del mercado y sus enemigos

Desde la caída del comunismo viene produciéndose un enfrentamiento entre neoliberales y antiglobalizadores cada vez más exaltado. Con cierta perplejidad, el comienzo del siglo XXI asiste a un apasionado debate entre los defensores a ultranza del capitalismo y los representantes de un pensamiento supuestamente radical ...