El reloj, el gato y Madagascar

«La economía es una ciencia social. La proposición es tan obvia que parecerá inútil seguir. Puede que así sea, pero lo cierto es que verdad tan consabida es olvidada día tras día, y con catastróficas consecuencias, por los más afamados economistas, empezando por varios premios ...

Bourgeois equality

how ideas, not capital or institutions, enriched the world

There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The poorest of humanity, McCloskey shows, will soon ...

Out of the wreckage

a new politics for an age of crisis

Mainstream politics is stuck, torn between the redundant doctrines of Keynesianism and neoliberalism. Neither have much to offer a world facing environmental collapse, civic breakdown and a gathering crisis of permanent unemployment. This dismal, managerial politics fails to articulate a vision of a better world ...

Hacer negocios con palabras

el fracaso del lenguaje como clave para entender el capitalismo financiero

Los críticos del capitalismo financiero lo presentan como una bestia negra y destructora, que genera ganancias extraordinarias mientras toda la estructura de la "economía real" (dueños del capital, trabajadores, mercancías, salarios) pasa a segundo plano. Y sin embargo, lo sepamos o no, esa bestia negra ...

Materialismo

Es difícil sustraerse al encanto de Terry Eagleton y a su forma de abordar cualquier cuestión literaria o filosófica. La suya es una mirada reveladora, intelectualmente estimulante, revulsiva. En Materialismo, Eagleton compara de un modo nunca visto hasta ahora los valores y creencias de tres ...

Success and luck

good fortune and the myth of meritocracy

From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, a compelling book that explains why the rich underestimate the importance of luck in their success, why that hurts everyone, and what we can do about it How important is luck in economic success ...

The economic decoding of religion dogmas

ranking world religions in terms of economic

This book proves that each religious dogma, in any of their components, contain in an encoded manner a specific ranking of human comprehensive mega-objectives, implicitly, a specific preference for absolute wealth or, in a more common parlance, for the objective of economic performance. In turn ...

Business cycles. Part II

In the years following its publication, F A Hayeks pioneering work on business cycles was regarded as an important challenge to what was later known as Keynesian macroeconomics. Today, as debates rage on over monetary origins of the current economic and financial crisis, economics are ...

Business cycles. Part I

In the years following its publication, F A Hayeks pioneering work on business cycles was regarded as an important challenge to what was later known as Keynesian macroeconomics. Today, as debates rage on over monetary origins of the current economic and financial crisis, economics are ...

Crisis in Greece

Few countries experienced the period of turbulence surrounding the global financial crisis as intensely as Greece. The country topped the global news agenda as images of mass protests in Athens jostled for space with reports of torturous negotiations between political leaders struggling to agree support ...

La globalización de la desigualdad

Estudio sobre los pros y los contras de la globalización y de la consecuente aparición de la desigualdad y la forma en la que nuestra sociedad ha intentado lidiar con ellas. La fluidez de sus exposiciones consigue plantear argumentos irrefutables que pretenden, más que hacer ...

The culture of contentment

The world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. In The Culture of Contentment, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith shows how a contented class-not the privileged few but the socially and economically advantaged majority-defend their comfortable status at a cost. Middle-class voting against ...

Money

whence it came, where it went

Money is nothing more than what is commonly exchanged for goods or services, so why has understanding it become so complicated? In Money, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith cuts through the confusions surrounding the subject to present a compelling and accessible account of a topic ...

Historia del pensamiento económico mundial

Esta Historia del Pensamiento Económico Mundial ofrece la primera revisión global de la larga historia del pensamiento económico desde una verdadera perspectiva internacional. Aunque la globalización ha facilitado la difusión de ideas entre naciones, la historia económica ha tendido a ser estudiada bien temáticamente (por ...

La filosofía moral de Adam Smith

Durante doce años (1752 – 1764), Adam Smith fue profesor de filosofía moral en la Universidad de Glasgow, Escocia. El mismo Smith describe ese período como “el más útil y por lo tanto el más feliz y honorable de mi vida”. Fue durante ese período que ...

Libertad, emprendimiento y solidaridad

10 lecciones de economía social de mercado

La economía social de mercado, base de la recueprraación de Alemania despúes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, "surgió como una manera concreta de cambiar la libertad y el bienestar de las personas". Es un enfoque que toma distancia del captialismo rentistas, del socialismo estatista y ...

Economic thought

a brief history

In this concise yet comprehensive history, Heinz D. Kurz traces the long arc of economic thought from its emergence in ancient Greece to its systematic presentation among the classical thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to the influential work of scholars such ...

Thomas Pikkety's Capital in the Twenty-First Century

an introduction

US Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman described Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century as "perhaps the most important book of the last decade." It has sparked major international debates, dominated bestseller lists and generated a level of enthusiasm-as well as intense criticism-in a way ...

Capital in the twenty-first century

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find ...

Simbolismos del dinero

antropología y economía: una ecrucijada

El libro estudia el dinero a partir de los instrumentos analíticos de la antropología simbólica. Complementariamente, se trabaja con la teoría de las representaciones sociales y de las instituciones. La tesis central del libro es que el dinero es un hecho total que comprende no ...