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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Las políticas económicas en Argentina

una visión histórica y analítica

El análisis de las políticas económicas desde la organización institucional del país hasta 2019, con especial énfasis en los últimos setenta años, es el propósito de este libro. En los diferentes capítulos se recorre la Argentina integrada a la división internacional del trabajo en la ...

El coste de la desigualdad

lecciones y advertencias de América Latina para el mundo

De Estados Unidos al Reino Unido, de China a la India, la creciente desigualdad ha provocado, además de una crisis económica, un enorme malestar social y el surgimiento de partidos populistas. Por eso necesitamos con urgencia una mejor comprensión de las causas y los costes ...

Diccionario del desarrollo

una guía del conocimiento como poder

Algunos de los académicos y profesionales de la crítica del desarrollo…más eminentes del mundo han realizado esta guía crítica…para entender los conceptos clave en estudios de desarrollo.…Cada ensayo de este repertorio ya clásico examina un concepto…fundamental del desarrollo, desde medio ambiente ...

Entre pandemia y pospandemia

¿Retorno al pasado? Un águila imperial sobrevuela a un cisne negro

La pandemia y la salida de ella están cuestionando el modelo de globalización y los gobernantes se ven llevados a sentar las bases de una nueva globalización condicionada por los cambios tecnológicos y, más recientemente, por la política belicista de Rusia. Esta nueva globalización tendrá ...

How the world became rich

tthe historical origins of economic growth

Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich? Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin dive into the many theories of why modern ...

How to spend a trillion dollars

the 10 global problems we can actually fix

If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advancement of science, what would you do? It's an unimaginably large sum, yet it's only around one per cent of world GDP, and ...

The lords of easy money

how the Federal Reserve broke the American economy

If you asked most people what forces led to today's unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press. When the economy grew, it was ...