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A fun take on some of the biggest questions in economics made accessible for non experts and dogs

La obra Interpretación económica de la historia permitirá al lector comprender diversos hechos históricos y de actualidad, entre ellos la guerra entre Ucrania y Rusia el enfrentamiento entre los israeli es, el pueblo palestino e Ira n el cambio abrupto de orientacion poli tica en paises como Estados Unidos, Colombia, Chile, El Salvador, Argentina y Portugal las tensiones para ingresar a la OTAN el descubrimiento de Ame rica el reparto de A frica, la Ruta de la Seda (One Belt, One Road) el corredor bioceanico en Suramerica la esclavitud y la carrera espacial, por citar solamente algunos eventos en el devenir de la humanidad, que pueden ser explicados de mejor manera con el enfoque economico porque constituye el factor comun que los integra, pues se trata de la obtencion de recursos para la propia subsistencia humana, la inversion productiva, acumular riqueza y ostentar poder.Por lo anterior, se asumio la tarea de traducir este libro del profesor Seligman, de la Universidad de Columbia, en NYC, quien encontro que algunos estudiosos como Morgan, Buckle, Engels, Marx, entre otros, habian sentado las bases para formular la teoria de la interpretacion economica de la historia a partir de las ideas de un sin numero de pensadores, tales como Aristoteles, Hegel y Bodin, quienes desde diferentes disciplinas y en distintas e pocas fueron planteando sus tesis, que, por fortuna para los investigadores de la actualidad, fueron decantadas para formular la sintesis que constituye esta importante obra.Conviene precisar, segun advierte Seligman, que el aporte de Marx en esta teoria es de naturaleza historica (lo que ha sucedido), bien distinta de su teoria teleologica sobre el socialismo (lo que podri a suceder), anotando que para comienzos del siglo XX ya se presagiaba el caracter utopico de esta ultima. Son, pues, dos temas bien diferentes y la importancia del trabajo sobre historia no tiene por que ser opacado por el fracaso de la otra teoria en el campo poli tico. Al concluir su lectura, el analista imparcial tendra claro que los conceptos y hechos relativos a la familia, el matriarcado, el patriarcado, las herencias, las cruzadas, el comercio, la tributacion, el desarrollo del Estado y hasta los actuales avances tecnologicos con la IA (inteligencia artificial) son fenomenos que esta n conectados por los hilos que tejieron el desarrollo economico y social de la humanidad.

Thinking beyond pandemic capitalism

A comprehensive accessible and fun guide to debt finance trade money taxation supply demand and all the other big issues that worry us all yet relatively few truly understand

The claims of economists about the successes and failures of markets have enormous influence in public debates yet the sources of those claims are often unclear Microeconomics in Words demystifies microeconomic analyses by showing how they depend on simplifying assumptions and ethical judgments that could be made differently As microeconomics is a model based discipline this book addresses what makes outcomes efficient in models of markets and it questions when market efficiency is desirable To make the material more accessible and to provide context for the ideas the book adopts a word based rather than mathematical approach and uses many examples from literary classics Starting with the basic model of supply and demand the book layers on complications of taxes market failures and their solutions limitations on correcting them and transaction costs and institutions It focuses on both the insights and the limitations of economic analyses not only what has been formally proven but also what is discussed less formally in seminars and articles The book then turns to the topics of free trade and controversial markets for cigarettes and transplant organs to show how the tools and concepts that have been developed are used and not used in practice

This book deals with myths about the market economy such as the idea that economists believe that everybody is greedy Christopher Snowdon carefully and entertainingly unpicks the misguided ideas that have taken hold Essential reading for all who wish to separate fact from fiction when it comes to understanding economic reasoning and evidence

The Business of Less rewrites the book on business and the environment For the last thirty years corporate sustainability was synonymous with the pursuit of eco efficiency and win win opportunities The notion of eco efficiency gives us the illusion that we can achieve environmental sustainability without having to question the pursuit of never ending economic growth The win win paradigm is meant to assure us that companies can be protectors of the environment whilst also being profit maximizers It is abundantly clear that the state of the natural environment has further degraded instead of improved This book introduces a new paradigm designed to finally reconcile business and the environment It is called net green which means that in these times of ecological overshoot businesses need to reduce total environmental impact and not just improve the eco efficiency of their products The book also introduces and explains the four pollution prevention principles again different less and labor not materials Together net green and the four pollution prevention principles provide a road map for businesses and for every household to a world in which human prosperity and a healthy environment are no longer at odds The Business of Less is full

A particular narrow way of thinking about the economy is dominant in society today This book explores how this came to be why the system cannot continue and how to build a better future

From the early barter system through the Industrial Revolution to the emergence of globalisation economics has defined our lives Think Like an Economist is a fun introduction to the main ideas of economics untangling its intricacies and revealing the ways in which individuals societies and nations allocate resources Using a Q&A format the book delves into questions such as Why don t we just print more money Is cash on the way out How does the stock market work Is the whole world capitalist now Written in an amusing and easy to understand style Anne Rooney investigates how economics can be used to improve living standards and make the world a better place

What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental and social limits The publication of Prosperity without Growth was a landmark in the sustainability debate Tim Jackson s piercing challenge to conventional economics openly questioned the most highly prized goal of politicians and economists alike the continued pursuit of exponential economic growth Its findings provoked controversy inspired debate and led to a new wave of research building on its arguments and conclusions This substantially revised and re written edition updates those arguments and considerably expands upon them Jackson demonstrates that building a post growth economy is a precise definable and meaningful task Starting from clear first principles he sets out the dimensions of that task the nature of enterprise the quality of our working lives the structure of investment and the role of the money supply He shows how the economy of tomorrow may be transformed in ways that protect employment facilitate social investment reduce inequality and deliver both ecological and financial stability Seven years after it was first published Prosperity without Growth is no longer a radical narrative whispered by a marginal fringe but an essential vision of social progress in a post cr

Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P Minsky 1919 96 Although a handful of economists raised alarms as early as 2000 Minsky s warnings began a half century earlier with writings that set out a compelling theory of financial instability Yet even today he remains largely outside mainstream economi

Finance serves the rich and powerful We need to democratize it

Our democracy has gone profoundly wrong Economists have failed us Politicians have lied to us Things must change This fearless new book will help make it happen Owen Jones An explosive call for change packed with original research a case study for the question we should all be asking since the crash how have the elites in Westminster in the City in economics stayed in charge Aditya Chakrabortty Guardian Utterly compelling and sobering Ha Joon Chang A century ago the idea of the economy didn t exist Now economics is the supreme ideology of our time with its own rules and language The trouble is most of us can t speak it This is damaging democracy Dangerous agendas are hidden inside mathematical wrappers controversial policies are presented as proven by the models of economic science Government is being turned over to a publicly unaccountable technocratic elite The Econocracy reveals that economics is too important to be left to the economists and shows us what we can do about it A rousing wake up call from a collective of dissident graduate students technically assured well argued and informative Robert Skidelsky If war is too important to be left to the generals so is the economy too important to be

Los estudios sociológicos sobre la formación de las sociedades modernas consideran que la transición a la vivienda independiente, como forma material de separación entre la esfera pública y privada, desempeña un papel central en la transicion a la sociedad burguesa. En reste sentido, el libro es un analisis de Sobre la cuestion de la vivienda, de Engels (y de sus limites en el contexto del siglo XXI) y al mismo tiempo un estudio de la situacion actual y de las posibles estrategias para sacar la vivienda del mercado (al menos parcialmente). El texto engancha con el debate sobre la estructura de la propiedad, y tambien con las iniciativas politicas que se han desarrollado en torno a la vivienda: sindicatos de inquilinas, cooperativas de viviendas, accion institucional, organizacion autonoma, etcetera.

It is going to change the way in which we understand many modern debates about economics politics and society Ha Joon Chang author of 23 Things They Don t Tell You About CapitalismOver the past fifty years the way we value what is good and right has changed dramatically Behaviour that to our grandparents generation might have seemed stupid harmful or simply wicked now seems rational natural woven into the very logic of things And asserts Jonathan Aldred in this revelatory new book it s economics that s to blame Licence to be Bad tells the story of how a group of economics theorists changed our world and how a handful of key ideas from free riding to Nudge seeped into our decision making and indeed almost all aspects of our lives Aldred reveals the extraordinary hold of economics on our morals and values Economics has corrupted us But if this hidden transformation is so recent it can be reversed Licence to be Bad shows us where to begin

This book demonstrates the concept of CSR and how it is included as an element of valuebased marketing Using research from the Polish market the author explores the concept of valuebased marketing how organisations are implementing CSR and analyses the effect on consumer behaviour

What makes the modern world work The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four grand transitions of civilization in populations agriculture energy and economics which have transformed the way we live Now a fifth transition is underway the environmental changes that will determine the success or eventual failure of the preceding transitions that have made the world we inhabit today