Introducing Keynes

As we find ourselves at the cusp of an economic downturn, there has been a clear reinvigoration of Keynesian economics as governments are attempting to stimulate the market through public funds. Forming his economic theories in the wake of the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes ...

Breve tratado sobre la reforma monetaria

escritos (1910-1944)

La crisis financiera ha actualizado de forma inimaginable la obra y las aportaciones de un economista que, habiendo estado en una posición central del pensamiento económico, su figura se había visto relegada en las últimas décadas del siglo XX. John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), economista británico ...

Ensayos de persuasión

La obra Ensayos de persuasión, que pronto adquirió forma e identidad propias, se consideró como una reunión de escritos dirigidos a una audiencia popular; además, contribuiría a otorgar a Keynes la notoriedad entre el público general que ya poseía entre los economistas. John Maynard Keynes ...

Say's Law and the keynesian revolution

how macroeconomic theory lost its way

This highly original contribution examines one of the most controversial concepts in the history of economics - the true meaning of the Law of Markets. This has been a contentious issue since the publication of "Keynes' General Theory", but has also divided economists since it first ...

Desarrollo y liberalización

política, economía y religión

La relevancia del tema del desarrollo plantea varios interrogantes a la reflexión teológica: ¿Cuáles son los antecedentes sobre el desarrollo por parte de la teología?, ¿desde dónde fue abordada la reflexión teológica sobre el desarrollo?, ¿cuáles fueron las propuestas de las iglesias y de los ...

Economic persuasions

Ed. Stephen Gudeman. CONTENTS: List of Figures 1 Introduction by Stephen Gudeman 2 Simplicity in Economic Anthropology: Persuasion, Form, and Substance by James G. Carrier 3 When Rhetoric Becomes Mass Persuasion: The Case of the Concept of Interest by Richard Swedberg 4 The New Social ...

Keynes on monetary policy, finance and uncertainty

liquidity preference theory and the global financial crisis

This book provides a reassessment of Keynes' theory of liquidity preference. It argues that the failure of the Keynesian revolution to be made in either theory or practice owes importantly to the fact that the role of liquidity preference theory as a pivotal element in ...

Good money. T.I

The New World

Ed. Stephen Kresge. Hayek's deep interest in the concept of money and its role within the economy is developed in "Good Money, Part I". Consisting of seven of Hayek's most significant monetary writings from the 1920s, this collection focuses on his critique of ...

The Hesitant Hand

taming self-interest in the history of economic ideas

Adam Smith turned economic theory on its head in 1776 when he declared that the pursuit of self-interest mediated by the market itself - not by government - led, via an invisible hand, to the greatest possible welfare for society as a whole. "The Hesitant Hand" examines ...

Good money.T.II

The standard

Ed. Stephen Kresge. This complementary volume provides five additional essays to expand our understanding of Hayek's ideas about money and monetary policy. "Good Money, Part II: The Standard" investigates the consequences of the predicament of composition which led to one of Hayek's most ...

"Are economist basically immoral?"

and other essays on economics, ethics, and religion by Paul Heyne

Eds. Geoffrey Brennan, A.M.C. Waterman. A well-trained theologian, a gifted and dedicated teacher of economics for over forty years, and the author of a highly regarded and widely used textbook, "The Economic Way of Thinking", Paul Heyne influenced generations of students of economics ...

The marginal productivity theory of distribution

a critical history

The Marginal Productivity Theory of Distribution (MPTD) claims that in a free-market economy the demand for a factor of production will depend upon its marginal product - where 'marginal product' is defined as the change in total product that is caused by, or that follows, the ...

Conversations on the neture of political economy

Jane Marcet is not writing for the working classes, but for women and men of the educated classes of the nineteenth century. She draws her principles and materials from the writings of the great masters who have written about political economy, particularly Adam Smith, Thomas ...

Capitalism without capital

Capitalism Without Capital explores the events which took place in the financial markets from September 2008 to March 2009, including the dramatic 'historical week' at Wall Street of September 11, 2008. This book follows on the heels of another book by Dimitris N. Chorafas, Financial ...

Joseph A. Schumpeter

This is the fourth volume in the "Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers" series. Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950) was one of the foremost economic thinkers of the twentieth century. Today Schumpeter is most well-known for his idea of 'creative destruction'. This is the notion that a market ...

Adam Smith and the character of virtue

Recent years have witnessed a renewed debate over the costs at which the benefits of free markets have been bought. This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith, capitalism's founding father, to recover his understanding of the morals of the market ...

Socialism and war

essays, documents, reviews

Ed. Burce Caldwell. In the essays in this volume Hayek contributed to economic knowledge in the context of socialism and war, while providing an intellectual defence of a free society. The connection between the two topics is illuminated through essays containing some of Hayek's ...

En defensa del capitalismo

diálogos filosóficos sobre el Mercado y el Estado

Este libro es, a la vez, una original introducción a la economía y una defensa del capitalismo frente a todos aquellos que acuden a juzgarlo con la sentencia de muerte en la mano. Está destinado tanto a los enemigos del capitalismo que lo critican sin ...

The trend of economic thinking

essays on political economists and econommic history

Eds. W.W. Bartley III, Stephen Kresge. In this book, Hayek presents many of the figures that influenced the development of his economic thought. The articles range from well-known economists such as Mandeville, Hume, Smith, and Bastiat, to lesser-known figures such as Dupuit and Gossen ...

Análisis económico y revolución liberal en España

economistas académicos en las Cortes Liberales, 1834-1874

Éste es un libro de historia del análisis y de las ideas económicas en España en el periodo 1834-1874, en el que tuvo lugar la llamada revolución liberal, con la consagración definitiva de los derechos individuales fundamentales, en la forma que los definió Tomás y ...