The Oxford handbook of philosophy of economics

Eds. Harold Kincaid, Don Ross. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics is a cutting-edge reference work to philosophical issues in the practice of economics. It is motivated by the view that there is more to economics than general equilibrium theory, and that the philosophy ...

Teoría de la competencia en los neoclásicos y en Marx

Este pequeño libro hace una doble e importante aportación al análisis teórico de la competencia capitalista, cada una de las cuales tiene a su vez gran repercusión práctica y política. En primer lugar, presenta una alternativa a la teoría neoclásica, caracterizada por los modelos de ...

The Elgar companion to Alfred Marshall

In light of the recent and ongoing surge of interest in Alfred Marshall's work, this new and original reference volume fills a gap in the literature through a detailed examination of his thought and of his contributions to economics and social science. The Companion ...

Altermarxismo

otro marxismo para otro mundo

Frente a los discursos de consenso y de resignación hemos querido escribir un libro de combate. No una utopía. Sino una contribución a la inmensa lucha que se esboza en este principio de siglo#. Así definen Bidet y Duménil lo que han pretendido con la ...

Capitalism, socialism, and democracy

In this classic and prescient book, Joseph A. Schumpeter introduced the world to the concept of "creative destruction," which forever altered how global economics is approached and perceived. "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy" is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand where the world economy ...

Dictionnaire des grands économistes

2500 ans d'histoire de la pensée économique

Ce dictionnaire constitue un ouvrage de référence pour tous ceux qui s'intéressent à l'économie. Outil de savoir, de culture générale et de réflexion indispensable, il offre une vision synthétique et globale de l'état des savoirs de l'économie par ses grands auteurs ...

The value of money

Why is money more valuable than the paper on which it is printed? Monetarists link the value of money to its supply and demand, believing the latter depends on the total value of the commodities it circulates. According to Prabhat Patnaik, this logic is flawed ...

John Maynard Keynes

Martin Chick's book is a major economic and historical study of the development of electricity and energy policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945. Using newly available archival material the author draws important comparisons between these countries and includes all of ...

The impartial spectator

Adam Smith's moral philosophy

D. D. Raphael provides a critical account of the moral philosophy of Adam Smith, presented in his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Whilst it does not have the same prominence in its field as his work on economics, The Wealth of Nations, Smith ...

Schumpeter's evolutionary economics

a theoretical, historical and statistical analysis of the engine of capitalism

A much-needed modern interpretation of Joseph Schumpeter's views on innovation, entrepreneurship and creative destruction, which provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of this great thinker's major works.

Luces en el laberinto

autobiografía intelectual. Alternativas a la crisis (relflexiones con Óscar Carpintero y Jorge Riechmann)

Este libro tiene el doble valor de ofrecernos reflexiones del autor sobre sus propias vivencias intelectuales unidas a su trayectoria investigadora y sobre la naturaleza de la crisis actual, sus perspectivas y alternativas. La primera parte del libro recoge su autobiografía intelectual en la que ...

How do you know?

the economics of ordinary knowledge

How do ordinary people come to know or believe what they do? We need an account of this process to help explain why people act as they do. You might think I am acting irrationally - against my interest or my purpose - until you realize that ...

Beyond western economics

remembering other economic cultures

This book combines intellectual history with contemporary events to offer a critique of mainstream economic thought and its neoliberal policy incarnation in global capitalism. The critique operates both theoretically, at the level of metaphysics and the philosophy of science, and concretely, in case studies of ...

Heterodox macroeconomics

Keynes, Marx and globalization

Eds. Jonathan P. Goldstein, Michael G. Hillard. "Heterodox Macroeconomics" offers a detailed understanding of the foundations of the recent global financial crisis. The chapters, from a selection of leading academics in the field of heterodox macroeconomics, carry out a synthesis of heterodox ideas that place ...

The Great Depression

With a new introduction by Murray Weidenbaum. This book examines the nature and the causes of the 1929 depression, tracing its background and the broad conditions from which the depression emerged. As an influence on economic activity, Robbins sees World War I, and the political ...

Theories of urban politics

Eds. Jonathan S. Davies, David L. Imbroscio. 'Anybody who thinks the study of urban politics is stagnating needs to pick up a copy of "Theories of Urban Politics". Insightful analysis of scholarship on traditional topics is supplemented by chapters on non-traditional topics, including the new ...

The growing economy

In this sequel to his widely praised classic study of "The Stationary Economy", Nobel Prize winning economist J. E. Meade continues his systematic treatment of the entire field of economic analysis. He uses a series of simplified models designed to show the interconnections between various ...

Una investigación sobre la naturaleza y causa de la riqueza de las Naciones

En la medida en que todo individuo procura en lo posible invertir su capital en la actividad nacional y orientar esa actividad para que su producción alcance el máximo valor, todo individuo necesariamente trabaja para hacer que el ingreso anual de la sociedad sea el ...

Milton Friedman on economics

selected papers

Afterword by Gary S. Becker.Upon his death in the autumn of 2006, Milton Friedman was lauded as "the grandmaster of free-market economic theory in the postwar era" by the "New York Times" and "the most influential economist of the second half of the twentieth ...

Essays in persuasion

Essays In Persuasion written by legendary author John Maynard Keynes is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Essays In Persuasion is required reading ...