The cost of free money

how unfettered capital threatens our economic future

A penetrating account of how unchecked capital mobility is damaging international cooperation, polarizing the economic landscape, and ultimately reshaping the global order When it comes to the afflictions of the global economy, almost everyone-and especially Donald Trump-is quick to point the finger of blame at ...

Grassroots Economies

Living With Austerity in Southern Europe

The austerity crisis has radically altered the economic landscape of Southern Europe. But alongside the decimation of public services and infrastructure lies the wreckage of a generation's visions for the future. In Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal, there is a new, difficult reality of ...

Carro de combate

Consumir es un acto político

¿De dónde vienen los productos que consumimos? ¿Qué contienen los alimentos que compramos? Parecen preguntas sencillas y, sin embargo, sabemos muy poco de los elementos que componen nuestra cesta de la compra. Las etiquetas de los alimentos que adquirimos suelen ser ininteligibles para el consumidor ...

The Case for Degrowth

The relentless pursuit of economic growth is the defining characteristic of contemporary societies. Yet it benefits few and demands monstrous social and ecological sacrifice. Is there a viable alternative? How can we halt the endless quest to grow global production and consumption and instead secure ...

The Asset Economy

Property Ownership and the New Logic of Inequality

Rising inequality is the defining feature of our age. With the lion's share of wealth growth going to the top, for a growing percentage of society a middle-class existence is out of reach. What exactly are the economic shifts that have driven the social ...

Making a modern central bank

The Bank of England 1979–2003

Making a Modern Central Bank examines a revolution in monetary and economic policy. This authoritative guide explores how the Bank of England shifted its traditional mechanisms to accommodate a newly internationalized financial and economic system. The Bank's transformation into a modern inflation-targeting independent central ...

The European Monetary Union

Europe at the crossroads

The European Union is at a crossroads. This book analyzes the historical roots of the EU's monetary and financial institutions in order to better understand its struggle to maintain an economic and monetary union, as well as the ongoing problems facing the Euro. The ...

¿Es la inflación la próxima amenaza?

Juan Castañeda Fernández es sobradamente conocido en España por sus trabajos sobre política monetaria y su ejecución por los bancos centrales. En esta ocasión, en colaboración con Tim Congdon, que preside el Instituto de Investigación Monetaria Internacional, con sede en la Universidad de Buckingham, lanzan ...

Austerity

When is it a mistake and when is it necessary?

Austerity has dominated economic debate since the financial crisis of 2008. Governments have implemented austerity policies by reducing their spending on goods and services, increasing taxation and cutting welfare budgets. John Fender explains how austerity (or "fiscal consolidation") works in theory and how it has ...

Capitalismo (1679-2065)

una aproximación al sistema económico que ha producido más prosperidad y desigualdad en el mundo

¿Qué forma tendrá la revolución que inicie el fin del sistema capitalista? La llegada del coronavirus ha sido tan solo el acelerador de un proceso inevitable en la evolución del Sistema Capitalista. Así lo explica en este libro el profesor Santiago Niño-Becerra. Con la claridad ...

The great devaluation

how to embrace, prepare, and profit from the coming global monetary reset

The Great Devaluation is the #1 bestselling book that explains why the real crisis facing the world today is not the Coronavirus. The real crisis facing the world is explosive government debt and deficits. Governments are now left with no choice but to spend more ...

Macroeconomía

Desde su primera edición, esta obra de Gregory Mankiw ha sido la mejor valorada por profesores y alumnos para el curso de macroeconomía intermedia. La capacidad de su autor para llevar al aula los últimos avances de la teoría, la investigación y la política macroeconómica ...

The political economy of the special relationship

Anglo-American development from the gold standard to the financial crisis

How America’s global financial power was created and shaped through its special relationship with Britain The rise of global finance in the latter half of the twentieth century has long been understood as one chapter in a larger story about the postwar growth of ...

The deficit myth

modern monetary theory and how to build a better economy

Stephanie Kelton shows how misguided this question really is by using the bold ideas of modern monetary theory (MMT), the radically different approach to using our resources to maximize our potential as a society. Everything that we’ve been led to believe about deficits and ...

Fully grown

why a stagnant economy is a sign of success

Most economists would agree that a thriving economy is synonymous with GDP growth. The more we produce and consume, the higher our living standard and the more resources available to the public. This means that our current era, in which growth has slowed substantially from ...

Laws of chaos

a probabilistic apporach to political economy

A defining work of Econophysics, republished for the first time since 1983, Laws of Chaos is an attempt to construct a non-deterministic theoretical framework for the foundations of political economy. It relies on probabilistic and statistical methods of the kind used in the modern foundations ...

Macroeconomía, microeconomía y administración de empresas

(cuestiones y ejercicios resueltos)

Esta obra recoge una colección de cuestiones y ejercicios prácticos debidamente solucionados, distribuidos en 22 capítulos, con los que el autor pretende facilitar el conocimiento de la macroeconomía, microeconomía y administración de empresas a todos los estudiantes universitarios de cada uno los grados que acometen ...

La solución Nash

la reactivación económica tras el COVID-19

Nos enfrentamos a la mayor recesión económica desde el crac de 1929 y la crisis financiera del 2008, pero solo será así si reaccionamos dejando que el miedo guíe nuestras decisiones y actuando de forma individual. «Por miedo a que me despidan, dejaré de consumir ...

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics takes a broad perspective on the economy of a country or region; it studies economic changes in the aggregate, collecting data on production, unemployment, inflation, consumption, investment, trade, and other aspects of national and international economic life. Policymakers depend on macroeconomists' knowledge when making ...

Dynamism

the values that drive innovation, job satisfaction, and economic growth

Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps and an international group of economists argue that economic health depends on the widespread presence of certain values, in particular individualism and self-expression. Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps has long argued that the high level of innovation in the lead nations of ...