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Its on the televisions, in the papers and in our minds. Every day were bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is financial collapse, unemployment, growing poverty, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. But the rarely acknowledged reality is that the economic and social progress of the past few decades has been unprecedented and that by almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997" William G. Roy is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He specializes in large-scale political and economic transformations.
Ever since Adolph Berle and Gardiner Means wrote their classic 1932 analysis of the American corporation, The Modern Corporation and Private Property, social scientists have been intrigued and challenged by the evolution of this crucial...
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Siguiendo a Santo Tomás de Aquino, Francisco de Vitoria comenta la cuestión 66 de la Secunda secundae de la Suma de Teología en un contexto doctrinal específico: el relativo a la virtud de la justicia. El hurto y la rapiña, que atentan contra ella, presuponen la legítima propiedad de algo por parte de alguien que es su dueño o dominum. Vitoria procede a revitalizar la importante cuestión del dominio con motivo de los indios recenter inventis,...
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Las respuestas de esta moderna ciencia social a las grandes preguntas sobre la actividad económica en la sociedad. Los conceptos básicos y su aplicación práctica, la microeconomía y la macroeconomía, la economía aplicada y la política económica, las escuelas económicas y las relaciones entre la economía y otras ramas del saber.
¿Saber de economía te saca de pobre? ¿Es la economía una ciencia como las demás? ¿Sirve la economía para...
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Leviathan is back. The threat of statism has reemerged in force. The federal government has radically expanded its power - through bailouts, "stimulus" packages, a trillion-dollar health-care plan, "jobs bills," massive expansions of the money supply, and much more. But such interventionism did not suddenly materialize with the recent economic collapse. The dangerous trends of government growth, debt increases, encroachments on individual liberty,...
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"Thomas J. Sargent, Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics" "Winner of the 2003 for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Business Management & Accounting, Association of American Publishers" Thomas J. Sargent is Donald Lucas Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. A pioneer of the rational expectations school of macroeconomics, he is the author of The Conquest of American Inflation (Princeton),...
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"Una economía que fue aplicada" es una monografía que pretende explicar a través de una aproximación histórica la situación económica española en la que nos encontramos. Se realiza un repaso sobre las fases por las que ha pasado, desde el final de la Guerra Civil hasta la primera etapa de España como miembro de pleno derecho en la Comunidad Europea. Se divide en cuatro partes, la primera abarca desde el final de la Guerra Civil española...
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In early 2002, the investment community is in a state of suspended animation. Share prices plummet as the "technology bubble" bursts, and corporate scandals fill every headline. Equities and debt become toxic with the fall of Enron, Global Crossings, WorldCom, Adelphia, and other high-flying corporate giants. Moving quickly, the Federal Reserve lowers key interest rates. Wary investors sit on cash and seek direction. A small glimmer of opportunity...
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Where Art Thou, Dwight Eisenhower? In 2012, it's clear that neither America's political left or right knows or cares the first thing about dealing with the nation's challenges and ills, starting with its sick economy. It's hard to imagine even a small room filled with politicians who know how and are determined to do right by their country and planet Earth. Informed and visionary leaders, I'm guessing, can be far more easily found in universities,...
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In this concise and strategic history, Heinz D. Kurz selects major moments in the development of economic ideas to portray the growth of the field and how economic insights are acquired, lost, and reborn. His timeline focuses on the dynamic individuals who give old ideas new life and the historical events that provoke the combination and recombination of different approaches and theories. Kurz begins with classical economics in ancient Greece and...
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A vital and varied survey of economic theory in the pre-modern era, this well-chosen collection includes extracts from the works of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Antonio Serra, David Hume, and twelve other extraordinary thinkers. Their writings in this volume illustrate the ways in which great thinkers of the past sought to argue for and explain the moral, ethical, monetary, and political dimensions of trade and exchange. Translated and annotated by...
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The final work of the great sociologist, economist, and political scientist starts with descriptions and analyses of the agrarian systems, and then explores manorial system, guilds, and early capitalism, organization of industry and mining, development of commerce, technical requisites for transporting goods, banking systems, evolution of capitalism and capitalistic spirit.
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Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: "The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scholarly achievement--monumental in its sheer bulk, monumental in the definitiveness of its treatment of innumerable issues, large and small . . . monumental,...
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Paul Osterman is Professor of Human Resources and Management at the Sloan School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Getting Started: The Youth Labor Market and Employment Futures: Reorganization, Dislocation, and Public Policy. He has cowritten and edited several other books and written numerous articles on topics such as labor market policy, job training programs, economic development, anti-poverty programs, and the organization...
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"Winner of the 1992 Best Book Award of the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association"
Why do countries differ so greatly in their patterns of political cleavage and coalition? Extending some basic findings of economic theories of international trade, Ronald Rogowski suggests a startling new answer. Testing his hypothesis chiefly against the evidence of the last century and a half, but extending it also to the ancient...
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En este ensayo se presenta una estimación del valor de la producción agregada de la actual República de Colombia, basada en algunas series de estadísticas durante el siglo XIX. El comportamiento económico que expresa la serie es bastante pobre. El PIB per cápita decrece hasta mediados de siglo, comparado con el crecimiento económico de la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII. El ingreso per cápita se recupera hasta 1885, luego decrece hasta principios...
20) La crisis del capital en el siglo XXI: Crónicas de los años en que el capitalismo se volvió loco
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¿Es posible que estemos retrocediendo a los niveles de desigualdad previos a la Primera Guerra Mundial? Esta pregunta es el centro mismo de este libro. En efecto, asistimos a un capitalismo enloquecido, a tal punto que la concentración de la riqueza alcanza los valores de 1900-1910 y ni siquiera se aplican los impuestos al capital que regían en el siglo XIX.
La primera gran crisis del capitalismo globalizado del siglo XXI se desató entre 2007...
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