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"In the tradition of No Logo and Empire, Postcapitalism is a sharply polemical but deeply analytical and historically informed account of the transition from capitalism to a new economic order"--
"Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes--economic cycles that veer from boom to bust--from which it has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason's Postcapitalism argues...
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"Plagues upon the Earth is a history of human civilization and the germs that have shaped its course. At every stage in our species' past, micro-organisms have had macro-effects on the development of human societies. Kyle Harper proposes the first history of human disease to make full use of a radical new source of evidence: pathogen genomes as a biological archive and window into prehistoric times. We can now begin to reconstruct the natural history...
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"The consequential age we are living in will be remembered as one of the great turning points in civilization. Once we turn, though, where will we be? That is the compelling question Al Gore sets out to answer by examining the drivers of global change, connecting the dots among the social, economic, and political forces shaping our present and future. A rising global consciousness is forcing people around the world, but especially Americans, to rethink...
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"Economists have long based their forecasts on financial aggregates such as price-earnings ratios, asset prices, and exchange rate fluctuations, and used them to produce statistically informed speculations about the future--with limited success. Robert Shiller employs such aggregates in his own forecasts, but has famously complemented them with observations about the influence of mass psychology on certain events. This approach has come to be known...
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"Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world, today that class is declining and a new, more hierarchical society...
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What makes economies work—or not work? This concise overview of the field’s great thinkers offers a wealth of information.
Paul Heyne, one of the nation’s best-selling economists, provides an accessible overview of the discipline of economics. Economic knowledge, he contends, is not complete without reference to the totality of human society—a realization essential to a proper understanding of the fundamental principles...
Paul Heyne, one of the nation’s best-selling economists, provides an accessible overview of the discipline of economics. Economic knowledge, he contends, is not complete without reference to the totality of human society—a realization essential to a proper understanding of the fundamental principles...
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Milton Friedman (1912-2006) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and had previously taught at the University of Chicago from 1946 to 1976. He was also a member of the research staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1937 to 1981. Anna Jacobson Schwartz is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, which she joined in 1941. She is a Distinguished...
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A new edition of the seminal text by the father of modern economics.
First published in 1919, John Maynard Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace created immediate controversy. Keynes was a firsthand witness to the negotiations of the Paris Peace Conference, as an official representative of the British Treasury, and he simultaneously sat as deputy for the chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme Economic Council. In these roles, he was...
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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...
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This treatise introduces the figures of shareholder, stakeholder, index tracker, bondholder and options trader as cosmopolitan financial actors in order to describe and explain the development of global capitalism with regard to a series of more or less different capitalisms. The terms shareholder and bondholder are generally known. Stakeholders appear less frequently although the economic players have taken over the role of stakeholder mostly without...
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Bruce Yandle is a teacher, writer, speaker, and consultant on economics and political economy. He has worked in industry, academia, and government, serving in many roles and interacting with a variety of audiences. These experiences have directly, impacted his scholarship on regulation and macroeconomic policy.
Policymaking is complex. It is not simply the result of high-minded reformers seeking to do good, nor is it only the pernicious influence...
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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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Este ensayo constituye un intento de entender cómo se fue formando la economía de la Nueva Granada bajo unas relaciones sociales caracterizadas por la servidumbre y el esclavismo. Encuentra, sin embargo, que no se desarrolló un sistema político feudal, lo cual fue impedido por la política de la Corona española. Se trata en especial de realzar el legado institucional que deja España, que incluye los sistemas político, legal y religioso. Se...
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No hay dudas de que los economistas adquirieron, en las últimas décadas, una influencia social y política decisiva. Este hecho incontrastable da lugar, sin embargo, a lecturas antagónicas. ¿Artífices de la debacle o salvadores de la patria? ¿Meros brazos ejecutores de los intereses de las clases dominantes o detentores privilegiados de las verdades que gobiernan nuestro tiempo? Lejos de estas dicotomías simplificadoras gracias a una admirable...
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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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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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