La fatal arrogancia

los errores del socialismo

Edición española de Jesús Huerta de Soto. La fatal arrogancia, último libro escrito por Hayek, fue elaborado a lo largo de 10 años. A la edad de casi 80 años, tras una intensa vida intelectual oponiéndose valientemente a los conformismos dominantes, Hayek concibió este libro ...

La crisis de las hipotecas basura

¿por qué se cayó todo y no se hundido nada?

¿Qué ha pasado en el mundo para que los mismos que provocaron una crisis gigantesca hayan terminado poniendo a sus pies a los gobiernos y obligándoles a que tomen las decisiones que les convienen, en lugar de hacerles pagar por lo que hicieron? Este libro ...

Escritos liberales

Prólogo de Francisco Cabrillo; Prefacio de Juan Ramón Rallo. Los políticos han venido actuando, a lo largo de muchos años, como «déspotas benevolentes», según la terminología acuñada por la teoría de la elección pública. Y hoy nos damos cuenta de que los resultados de su ...

The skeptical economist

revealing the ethics inside economics

"The Skeptical Economist" will challenge us all to examine the assumptions behind the economics of our current way of life. It rediscovers the ethics at the heart of economics. Jonathan Aldred rejects the story told by other popular economics books. Responding to Western malaise about ...

El decrecimiento feliz y el desarrollo humano

¿Es posible otro mundo? ¿Existe alguna alternativa para superar la intoxicación consumista que nos está conduciendo a una eterna insatisfacción e infelicidad? Para el autor no sólo es posible, sino indispensable y urgente. Un mundo en el que se contrapongan: a la mentira sistemática y ...

The economics of John Kenneth Galbraith

introduction, persuasion and rehabilitation

The recent financial crisis has once again seen John Kenneth Galbraith return to the bestseller lists. Yet, despite the continued popular success of his works, Galbraith's contribution to economic theory is rarely recognised by today's economists. This book redresses the balance by providing ...

Principios, pensamiento e innovación empresarial

la visión de Antonio Cancelo

Prol. José María Pérez 'Peridis'. Antonio Cancelo se incorpora con treinta años al mundo empresarial asumiendo la dirección de una cooperativa de consumo creada en Eibar con el nombre de Juan XXIII. Esta cooperativa será una de las integrantes del núcleo originario de EROSKI, que ...

Economic lives

how culture shapes the economy

Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No one has played a greater role in this development ...

A Maverick's defense of freedom

Edited and with an introduction by Dwight R. Lee. Benjamin A Rogge's ability to speak and write about serious economic topics with humour, humility, and wit, but without difficult jargon, math, or diagrams, places him in a category all his own. This new collection ...

Through the mirrors of science

new challenges for knowledge-based societies

Ed. Francesco Coniglione. Is the objective that the European Union set itself in 2000, that is, to be 'the most competitive knowledge-based society and economy' by 2010 still realistic? The momentous year has arrived, but it is discouraging to note that very few steps have ...

Issues in economic thought

Eds. Miguel- Ángel Galindo Martín, Cristina Nardi Spiller. As it is well known, the present is rooted in the past. For this reason by studying the past, we can better understand not only some basic principles of the ideas proposed by modern economics, but also ...

Constructions of neoliberal reason

Amongst intellectuals and activists, neoliberalism has become a potent signifier for the kind of free-market thinking that has dominated politics for the past three decades. Forever associated with the conviction politics of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, the free- market project has since become synonymous ...

Freefall

free markets and the sinking of the global economy

This devastating and inspiring book, by one of the world's leading economic thinkers, lays out not only the course of the financial crisis which began in 2007, but its underlying causes, and shows why much more radical reforms are needed than are currently being ...

Keynes betrayed

Geoff Tily argues that Keynes was primarily concerned with monetary policy, not fiscal policy. Viewed as a coherent whole, Keynes's work was concerned with the appropriate technique and infrastructure for the management of money at low rates of interest. More specifically, his rejection of ...

John Kenneth Galbraith

This book is a thoroughly engaging depiction of the life and work of a Canadian farm boy who went on to become a jet-setting celebrity. Over a career that spanned three-quarters of a century, John Kenneth Galbraith became the world's most famous economist, a ...

La formación de la teoría económica moderna

la vida e ideas de los grandes pensadores

Edición y traducción de José Antonio de Aguirre. Esta historia de Mark Skousen sobre la vida y la obra de los grandes economistas ofrece la ventaja, sobre el resto de los libros de historia del pensamiento económico, de que, sin menoscabo de su rigor y ...

Economía contracorriente

antología de David Anisi

Eds. Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo, Fernando Esteve. Economía contracorriente recoge algunos de los textos más significativos de David Anisi, un economista orgulloso de serlo... a su manera, un economista no economicista, quien nunca se sintió demasiado cómodo por cómo se ha ido definiendo socialmente el ...

Revisiting Keynes

Eds. Lorenzo Pecchi, Gustavo Piga. In 1931 distinguished economist John Maynard Keynes published a short essay, Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, in his collection Essays in Persuasion. In the essay, he expressed optimism for the economic future despite the doldrums of the post-World War I ...

Homenaje a Juan Muñoz

ensayos y semblanzas

Ed. José Antonio Alonso. Con una fecunda trayectoria como investigador de la economía española, como docente universitario y como persona socialmente comprometida, Juan Muñoz dejó un legado intelectual notable y una amplia nómina de amigos, colaboradores y discípulos. Parte de ellos se han sumado con ...

The haves and the have-nots

a brief and idiosyncratic history of global inequality

One of the world's leading experts on global inequality tells the fascinating story of wealth and poverty through the ages in a series of short, quirky vignettes. Inequality is a surprisingly slippery issue because it involves not just straight comparisons of, say, two individuals ...