Rural Renaissance

acción, promoción y resiliencia

En las últimas décadas las zonas rurales han visto como la (i)lógica economía de mercado y el capitalismo depredador de recursos naturales y generador de grandes desigualdades, unido al abandono sistemático de buena parte de las Administraciones públicas de nuestro país, propiciaban una sangría ...

Fundamentos de Economía

Cuando se trata de explicar los principios económicos fundamentales basándose en temas y acontecimientos actuales, no hay nadie más capacitado que el premio Nobel y columnista del New York Times Paul Krugman y la coautora Robin Wells. Diseñado para un curso de Introducción a la ...

La economía social y el desarrollo sostenible

La presente obra, en primer lugar, analiza las necesidades que tienen quienes habitan (o pretenden hacerlo) en los pequeños municipios diseminados a lo largo de la denominada 'España vaciada' y, en segundo término, diseña distintas soluciones capaces de garantizar un desarrollo vital digno, adoptando como ...

Desigualdades de clase social en el siglo XXI

¿Tiene sentido seguir hablando de clases sociales? El multimillonario Warren Buffett decía que se está librando una lucha en la que su clase, la de los ricos, es la victoriosa. Hemos pasado de un periodo de reducción de las desigualdades en las tres décadas posteriores ...

Crecimiento y crisis de la economía brasileña en el siglo XXI

El texto de Fábio Pitta, Crecimiento y crisis de la economía brasileña en el siglo XXI, aborda de forma crítica el desarrollo político-económico de Brasil a partir de 2003 y su crisis a partir de 2012, teniendo como telón de fondo la economía de burbujas ...

Manual de inteligencia económica y competitiva

Esta segunda edición ampliada del Manual de Inteligencia Económica y Competitiva, de la colección Inteligencia y Seguridad, se dirige a todos los profesionales y estudiantes tanto del ámbito de la Inteligencia como de la Economía. Consideramos que las empresas se enfrentan a tres grandes desafíos ...

Rentier capitalism

who owns the economy, and who pays for it?

How did Britain's economy become a bastion of inequality? The author of 'The New Enclosure' provides a forensic examination and sweeping critique of early-21st-century capitalism. Brett Christophers styles this as 'rentier capitalism', in which ownership of key types of scarce assets - such as land ...

The end of the everything bubble

why $75 trillion of investor wealth is in mortal jeopardy

There are crashes and then there are Crashes. But what turns an ordinary downturn into an era-defining crisis? What makes the difference between an event like the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and a brief bear market? The answer lies in financial exuberance: speculative mania ...

The future is degrowth

a guide to a world beyond capitalism

Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ...

Beyond money

a postcapitalist strategy

'A fascinating portal into arguments about why we need to get beyond money' - Harry Cleaver What would a world without money look like? This book is a lively thought experiment that deepens our understanding of how money is the driver of political power, environmental destruction ...

Growth for good

reshaping capitalism to save humanity from climate catastrophe

From the front lines of economics and policymaking, a compelling case that economic growth is a force for good and a blueprint for enrolling it in the fight against climate change. Economic growth is wrecking the planet. It's the engine driving climate change, pollution ...

The economics of belonging

a radical plan to win back the left behind and achieve prosperity for all

A radical new approach to economic policy that addresses the symptoms and causes of inequality in Western society today Fueled by populism and the frustrations of the disenfranchised, the past few years have witnessed the widespread rejection of the economic and political order that Western ...

The currency of politics

the political theory of money from Aristotle to Keynes

Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970s In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, critical attention has shifted from the economy to the most fundamental feature of all market economies-money. Yet despite the centrality ...

Introducción a la economía

Este manual ayuda a comprender los contenidos de la asignatura de introducción a la economía, desde una perspectiva teórica y práctica.

Teoría de Juegos en entornos competitivo y colaborativo

La vida cotidiana nos presenta numerosas situaciones en las que dos o más partes, con intereses distintos y a veces divergentes, compiten por posiciones, premios o recursos escasos. Cuando dichas partes tienen la posibilidad de ejecutar diversas acciones encaminadas a alcanzar sus respectivos objetivos, se ...

Can't we just print more money?

economics in ten simple questions

Why are all my clothes made in Asia? How come I'm so much richer than my great-great-grandma? And what even is money? Whether you're buying lunch, looking for a job, or applying for a mortgage, the thing we call 'the economy' is going ...

Noise

a flaw in human judgement

From the world-leaders in strategic thinking and the multi-million copy bestselling authors of Thinking Fast and Slow and Nudge, the next big book to change the way you think. We like to think we make decisions based on good reasoning - and that our doctors, judges ...

Fragile Futures

The Uncertain Economics of Disasters, Pandemics, and Climate Change

This book revisits a distinction introduced in 1921 by economists Frank Knight and John Maynard Keynes: that between statistically predictable future events ('risks') and statistically unpredictable, uncertain events ('uncertainties'). Governments have generally ignored the latter, perceiving phenomena such as pandemics, natural disasters and climate change ...

Credit Rating Agencies

Credit rating agencies (CRAs) assess the creditworthiness of debt issuers on financial markets. They are private companies and the ratings they issue are judgements about the prospect of repayment of debt by an issuer in time and in full. A rating is not an investment ...

Thinking Like an Economist

How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy

The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s-and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions today For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious change. What ...