Filosofía de la economía

principios fundamentales

La economía es, sin duda, uno de los aspectos que más atrae la atención en los actuales debates políticos. No podría ser de otra manera considerando que el bienestar de cada sociedad depende precisamente de la clase de decisiones económicas que tomen los gobernantes y ...

The impacts of monetary policy in the 21st Century

perspectives from emerging economies

Since the turn of the 21st century, the global economy has faced several significant financial crises such as the monetary mismanagements of the EURO Zone countries struggling with sovereign debt problems, the Global Financial Crisis between 2007 and 2009 preceded by the housing market collapse ...

La apuesta por el decrecimiento

¿cómo salir del imaginario dominante?

El término #decrecimiento# suena a desafío o a provocación, aunque seamos conscientes de que un crecimiento infinito es incompatible con un mundo limitado. El objeto de esta obra es demostrar que, aunque un cambio radical es una necesidad absoluta, optar voluntariamente por una sociedad de ...

La gran revelación

de cómo la Teoría Monetaria "Moderna" pretende salvarnos del capitalismo salvando el capitalismo

Aunque es poco conocida en nuestro país, la llamada Teoría Monetaria 'Moderna' (TMM) sueña con convertirse en el nuevo referente económico de la izquierda reformista. Sus sorprendentes ideas sobre la naturaleza del dinero contemporáneo y sobre el poder monetario de los Estados parecen abrir las ...

Economía circular-espiral

transición hacia un metabolismo económico cerrado

Los actuales modos productivistas y consumistas deben encarar una transición rápida y justa (sin dejar a nadie atrás), evolucionando desde una economía lineal ('tomar-fabricar-consumir-eliminar') hacia una economía circular basada en procesos metabólicos de ciclos cerrados que sean ecoeficientes y sostenibles para garantizar la suficiencia de ...

Por un futuro brillante

una defensa radical del ser humano

Entre el reportaje periodístico, el ensayo, la crítica cultural y la historia social, Por un futuro brillante se presenta como una defensa radical y apasionada del ser humano, de nuestros derechos y libertades universales y de nuestro poder para cambiar el mundo que nos rodea ...

The digital economy

"Tim Jordan deftly explores the workings of the trillion-dollar digital economy. He discusses the hype and significance surrounding its activities and practices in order to outline important concepts, theory, and policy questions. Rich with case studies, the book is an important reference for those getting ...

Capital markets union and beyond

Experts from economics, finance, law, policy, and banking discuss the design and implementation of a future capital market union in Europe. The plan for further development of Europe's economic and monetary union foresees the creation of a capital market union (CMU)—a single market ...

The Nobel factor

the prize in economics, social democracy, and the market turn

Economic theory may be speculative, but its impact is powerful and real. Since the 1970s, it has been closely associated with a sweeping change around the world—the “market turn.” This is what Avner Offer and Gabriel Söderberg call the rise of market liberalism, a ...

Economics for the many

Our economy is rigged in favour of a wealthy elite. We need a new approach: an economics for the many. Big challenges lie ahead for our society: the rise of automation and the threat of catastrophic climate change. But so, too, do the huge possibilities ...

Good economics for hard times

better answers to aour biggest problems

In this revolutionary book, prize-winning economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. From immigration to inequality, slowing growth to accelerating climate change, we have the resources ...

The new environmental economics

Too often, economics disassociates humans from nature, the economy from the biosphere that contains it, and sustainability from fairness. When economists do engage with environmental issues, they typically reduce their analysis to a science of efficiency that leaves aside issues of distributional analysis and justice ...

The enchantments of Mammon

how capitalism became the religion of modernity

Far from displacing religions, as has been supposed, capitalism became one, with money as its deity. Eugene McCarraher reveals how mammon ensnared us and how we can find a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world. If socialists and Wall Street bankers can ...

The Gig economy

a critical introduction

All of a sudden, everybody’s talking about the gig economy. From taxi drivers to pizza deliverers to the unemployed, we are all aware of the huge changes that it is driving in our lives as workers, consumers and citizens. This is the first comprehensive ...

Money

Few economic phenomena provoke as much confusion as money. From the first measures of value and the physical coins that circulated at the dawn human civilization to the era of ‘virtual’ money transmitted through cyberspace, it is ubiquitous and hugely important, yet economists cannot even ...

General equilibrium

The theory of general equilibrium offers a simplified guide to how real economies function: it describes how price, demand, supply and production interact in multiple markets and tend towards a state of equilibrium. The first attempt to model this interaction was made in the late ...

Money in a human economy

A human economy puts people first in emergent world society. Money is a human universal and now takes the divisive form of capitalism. This book addresses how to think about money (from Aristotle to the daily news and the sexual economy of luxury goods); its ...

The debt delusion

living within our means and other fallacies

The basic public understanding of how a government should handle its debt is debunked as misinformed in this primer for people looking to cut through the rhetoric and misinformation.

Why austerity persists

The ongoing appeal of austerity to the right-wing and centre-right governments across the globe in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis is considered in relation to austerity's evident ineffectiveness and tyranny.

The case for community wealth building

Guinan and O'Neill argue that traditional economic strategies waste billions and the transformational effects of community wealth building would be preferable.