Why does inequeality matter?

Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands for greater equality can seem puzzling, because it can be unclear what reason people have for objecting to the difference between what they have and what others have ...

Los altos ingresos en Francia en el siglo XX

La investigación de las estadísticas históricas realizada por Piketty establece que la proporción de los ingresos del capital en el ingreso nacional fue de seis o siete en el siglo XIX, cayó a dos después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y en el siglo XXI ...

Ingreso básico

una propuesta radical para una sociedad libre y una economía sensata

Philippe Van Parijs y Yannick Vanderborght quieren que el gobierno te dé dinero: una cantidad frecuente, en efectivo, que no dependa de tu situación laboral, de tu edad, de si tienes muchos o pocos recursos, de si eres mujer o eres hombre. Eso es el ...

No tengo tiempo

geografías de la precariedad

La demolición de los derechos de los trabajadores se observa en el lenguaje de la economía on demand: no trabajas para, sino que colaboras con; no te despiden, te desconectas; no te controlan, te valoran. Nos hemos convertido en pilas que fabrican datos, braceros de ...

India en construcción

economía, sociedad y cultura

Amartya Sen, lúcido filósofo y economista pero sobre todo un infatigable humanista, Premio Nobel de Economía (1998), describe en este libro muchas de las luces y sombras que caracterizan al multifacético país asiático. India cuenta, por ejemplo, con una pléyade de científicos, matemáticos y expertos ...

A Macat analysis of Amartya Sen's Inequality reexamined

Amartya Sen's Inequality Re-examined is a seminal text setting out a theory to evaluate social arrangements and inequality. By asking the question, 'equality of what'?, Sen shows that (in)equality should be assessed as human freedom; for people to have the ability to pursue ...

A Macat analysis of Ludwig von Mises's The Theory of Money and Credit

Ludwig Von Mises's 1912 contribution to the theory of monetary policy and the current prevailing consensus in modern economic liberalism, The Theory of Money and Credit, was a milestone achievement. The author's familiarity with the historical literature on banking and credit allows him ...

Un habitar más fuerte que la metrópoli

La sensación de vivir en un campo de concentración planetario tiene su máxima realidad en la metrópoli. Ante una devastación total de las formas-de-vida, el eco que no deja de resonar en nuestro interior es: ¿a dónde huir? Habitar plenamente, arrancar territorios a la gestión ...

El infiel y el profesor

David Hume y Adam Smith: la amistad que forjó el pensamiento moderno

Mucha gente ve a David Hume como el filósofo más importante que jamás haya escrito en inglés. Aun así, en vida se le atacó por su escepticismo religioso, llamándole el Gran Infiel, y se le consideró inapto para instruir a los jóvenes. Adam Smith, en ...

El Estado de bienestar social en la edad de la razón

El Estado de bienestar social constituye uno de los proyectos de construcción política más ambiciosos de las sociedades capitalistas. Contrario al planteamiento del fin de esta forma de Estado, en este libro se reivindica su permanencia y sentido de urgencia frente a los nuevos riesgos ...

De la especulación al derecho a la vivienda

más allá de las contradicciones del modelo inmobiliario español

Hasta 2007 el crecimiento económico español estuvo basado en una compleja combinación de turismo, finanzas y expansión inmobiliaria. Desde ese año, el estallido de la burbuja inmobiliario-financiera dio paso a un paisaje social marcado por la deuda, los desahucios y la penuria de una ...

A Macat analysis of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

The German sociologist Max Weber is considered to be one of the founding fathers of sociology, and ranks among the most influential writers of the 20th-century. His most famous book, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, is a masterpiece of sociological analysis whose ...

A Macat analysis of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan: the impact of the highly improbable

One of the primary qualities of good creative thinking is an intellectual freedom to think outside of the box. Good creative thinkers resist orthodox ideas, take new lines of enquiry, and generally come at problems from the kinds of angles almost no one else could ...

A Macat analysis of Amartya Sen's Development as freedom

Amartya Sen uses his 1999 work Development as Freedom to evaluate the processes and outcomes of economic development. Having come to the conclusion that development is best summed up as the expansion of freedom, Sen examines traditional definitions and understandings of the term. He says ...

A Macat analysis of David Graeber's Debt: the first 5000 years

Debt is one of the great subjects of our day, and understanding the way that it not only fuels economic growth, but can also be used as a means of generating profit and exerting control, is central to grasping the way in which our society ...

A Macat analysis of Thomas Robert Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population

Thomas Robert Malthus' 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population helped change the direction of economics, politics, and the natural sciences with its reasoning and problem solving. The central topic of the essay was the idea, extremely prevalent in the 18th and 19th centuries, that ...

Skin in the game

hidden asymmetries in daily life

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost ...

A Macat analysis of Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: economic change and military conflict from 1500-2000

Paul Kennedy owes a great deal to the editor who persuaded him to add a final chapter to this study of the factors that contributed to the rise and fall of European powers since the age of Spain's Philip II. This tailpiece indulged in ...

A Macat analysis of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith's 1776 Inquiry into The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - more often known simply as The Wealth of Nations - is one of the most important books in modern intellectual history. Considered one of the fundamental works of classical economics, it ...

A Macat analysis of Karen Z. Ho's Liquidated: an ethnography of Wall Street

Liquidated is a work of anthropology that treats an unusual, despised subculture - that of the Wall Street banker - much as anthropologists have traditionally treated remote 'savage' tribes. But using the techniques of ethnography, including interviews, analysis of daily lives, and fieldwork to investigate a modern ...