Political thinkers

from Aristotle to Marx

Memoirs of an unregulated economist

In this witty and modest intellectual autobiography, George J. Stigler gives us a fascinating glimpse into the little-known world of economics and the people who study it. One of the most distinguished economists of the twentieth century, Stigler was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1982 ...

The making of economics

.Vol. I: The foundation

The Ethics of Adam Smith and for Economic Systems The Feudal Order The Slow Evolution of the Market Economy Isaac Newton and the Economics Paradigm Adam Smith and the Market Economy The Industrial Revolution: Caught Between Hedonism (Bentham) and the Clerical View (Malthus) David Ricardo ...

The legacy of Thorstein Veblen

The thoughtful anthology on studies of Veblen is most timely in an era when profits no longer have much to do with productivity and conspicuous than ever. America's greatest social scientist dealt with emotions that continue to plague us - competitive revilry, desire, envy, emulation.

Escritos económicos

(México, 1939-1969)

Manuel Sánchez Sarto (Zaragoza, 1897-México, 1980) es una de las figuras más interesantes y representativas del exilio español. Antes de la guerra civil fue profesor de Historia Económica en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Ya en México, desempeñó altos cargos políticos y académicos y fue ...

Economis as ideology

Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the creation of contemporary politics

Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek and the Creation of Contemporary Politics explores the lives and thought of three powerful theorists who shaped the foundations of the center, left, and right of the political spectrum in the 20th century. Noted scholar Kenneth R. Hoover examines ...

The Elgar companion to post Keynesian economics

In this definitive volume, over 80 distinguished contributors from four continents provide authoritative critical discussion of the principal areas of controversy in post Keynesian economics, including all significant issues in methodology, economic theory, applied economics and policy.

John Maynard Keynes

1883-1946: economist philosopher, statesman

John Maynard Keynes was one of the seminal thinkers of the twentieth century, a luminary whose groundbreaking ideas remain even today at the center of political and economic discussion. In this work of clarity and erudition, Robert Skidelsky offers a revised and abridged version of ...

Teoría general de la ocupación, el interés y el dinero

En medio de la gran depresión de los años 30 del pasado siglo, John Maynard Keynes sorprendió a la comunidad de economistas académicos desafiando los principios de la economía clásica y dando comienzo a lo que se denominó la revolución Keynesiana. Mientras que el saber ...

Keynes y el nacimiento de la macroeconomía

Este libro analiza la vida y obra de John Maynard Keynes, mostrando todos aquellos elementos que configuran el análisis macroeconómico actual. A su vez, se exponen las corrientes más significativas en este ámbito, tanto las que profundizan y desarrollan las ideas de este autor, como ...

The accumulation of capital

Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally murdered by a group of right-wing soldiers. Her body was recovered days later from ...

Adam Smith's marketplace of life

Adam Smith wrote two books, one about economics and the other about morality. His Wealth of Nations argues for a largely free-market economy, while his Theory of Moral Sentiments argues that human morality develops out of a mutual sympathy that people seek with one another ...

Aventuras marxistas

Marshall Berman ha reunido en 'Aventuras marxistas' una colección de artículos (incluyendo el seminal 'Todo lo sólido se desvanece en el aire') en los que encontramos análisis muy estimulantes de las obras sobre Marx y el marxismo escritas por Gyorgy Lukács, Walter Benjamin, Meyer Schapiro ...

La moral del mercado

El sistema de mercado libre y competitivo ha producido y sigue produciendo -en la medida en que se le deja actuar- un desarrollo económico y social sin parangón. A pesar de ello, ha sido denigrado y atacado durante mucho tiempo, haciéndose le responsable de todas ...

Knowledge, institutions and evolution in economics

Historia de las doctrinas económicas

Análisis científico de la historia de las ideas económicas: génesis y causas del surgimiento de grandes corrientes del pensamiento, desde algunos textos bíblicos, hasta la nueva economía.

The historicity of economics

continuities and discontinuities of historical thought in 19th and 20th century economics

Marshall's tendencies

what can economists know?

The essential John Nash

Competing economic theories

essays in memory of Giovanni Caravale