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"David Dayen explains how a narrow interpretation of the Sherman Act four decades ago spawned an age of unprecedented deregulation and corporate dominance... Dayen offers a riveting account of what it means to live in this period--and how we might resist this corporate hegemony."--Dust jacket flap.
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The recent crisis, created by finance capitalism, has brought us to the economic abyss. The excessive freedom of international markets has rapidly transformed into international panic, with states struggling to rescue and bail out a globalised financial sector. Reform is promised by our leaders, but in governments dominated by financial interests there is little hope of meaningful change.
Decent Capitalism argues for a response that addresses...
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To predict our future, we must look to the extremes. So argues the economist Richard Davies, who takes readers to the margins of the modern economy and beyond. These extreme economies illustrate the forces that test human resilience, drive societies to failure, and promise to shape our collective future. Reviving a foundational idea from the medical sciences, Extreme Economies turns the logic of modern economics on its head by arguing that these outlier...
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Our economy is designed by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent. This book offers a compelling vision of an equitable, ecologically sustainable alternative that meets the essential needs of all people. We live in a world where twenty-six billionaires own as much wealth as half the planet's population. The extractive economy we live with now enables the financial elite to squeeze out maximum gain for themselves, heedless of damage to people or planet....
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In this work, F.A. Hayek, a pioneer in monetary theory and proponent of libertarian philosophy, gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even on logical, grounds and that its repeated failures in the many different practical applications of socialist ideas that the twentieth century witnessed were the direct...
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La Riqueza de las Naciones, es la famosa obra de Adam Smith. Además de análisis teóricos sobre el funcionamiento de las llamadas sociedades comerciales, las ventajas y problemas asociados a la división del trabajo, el valor, la distribución del ingreso y la acumulación de capital, el libro trae consideraciones históricas y abundante material empírico, siendo considerado un momento de inflexión en el desarrollo de la historia del pensamiento...
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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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"One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019: Economics" "One of the Financial Times' Readers' Best Books of 2019" "One of Business Insider's Richard Feloni's best books of 2019 on how we can rethink today's capitalism and improve the economy" "A Project Syndicate Best Read in 2019" Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law and director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation at Columbia Law School. She is the coauthor...
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“The Theory of the Leisure Class” is criticism of capitalism. Conspicuous consumption, along with "conspicuous leisure," is performed to demonstrate wealth or mark social status. The book is a treatise on economics and a detailed, social critique of conspicuous consumption, as a function of social class and of consumerism, derived from the social stratification of people and the division of labour, which are the social institutions of the feudal...
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Gordon L. Clark is professor and executive director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, and the Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Monash University. Adam D. Dixon is lecturer and university research fellow at the University of Bristol and visiting research associate at the University of Oxford. Ashby H. B. Monk is a research director at Stanford University and senior research associate...
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"¿Por qué las riquezas naturales no generan necesariamente riquezas económicas, a los estados que las poseen?
¿Por qué si en 1988 la pobreza en México era del 52%, y al cierre de esta administración andamos casi igual, y seguimos aplicando los mismos programas asistencialistas, con diferentes nombres? Con estas políticas públicas para el combate a la pobreza, lo único que estamos logrando es crear EL CLUB DE LA POBREZA.
¿La pobreza en nuestro...
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Pressure for independence remains a major force in Scotland, but the case for it has changed substantially since the referendum of 2014. In the 2016 Brexit referendum, 60 per cent of the Scottish electorate voted to remain part of the European Union– the only part of the UK to reject Brexit so unequivocally. This new analysis takes into account a host of economic issues including deficit, debt, currency, energy (including North Sea oil and gas),...
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Henry George in Protection or Free Trade presented international trade from the angle of poverty, wages and unemployment. The book details the systematic dissertation of the effects that protectionist and free-trade policies have on the wealth of a nation and its individuals. As opposed to protective prescriptions, Henry George arrives at a conclusion that is decidedly in favor or free trade as a solution to the ills of poverty. The systematic dissertation...
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The digitally-enabled economy is unleashing a new wave of change, something we are only just beginning to feel and understand. The economic evidence shows that this innovation-the development and adoption of new products, services, processes and business models-is vital to support rising living standards. But making the political case for the progressive power of innovation, and the digital economy, can be more challenging. The forces of "creative...
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In 1968, there were sixty-two lobbyists in Washington; today there are thirty-four thousand, outnumbering members of Congress and their staffers two to one. By 2008, these lobbyists were spending approximately $8.2 million for influence per day. Few, if any, of these lobbyists represent the majority of Americans in the middle class. So, it's not surprising, given these statistics, that real median household income in America has stagnated for over...
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En 1986, en momentos en que se organizaban las nuevas fuerzas vivas del periodo postoligárquico, la prensa acuñó el término "Doce Apóstoles" cuando los doce mayores empresarios fueron convocados por el presidente Alan García para discutir el rumbo que el país debía tomar. Desde entonces se acostumbra a hablar de los Doce Apóstoles, entendiendo por ello los jefes de la docena más grande y fuerte de empresas peruanas conglomeradas. Sin embargo,...
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"One of Bloomberg View's "Five Books to Change Conservatives' Minds," chosen by Cass Sunstein" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016" "Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers" "Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2016" Robert H. Frank is the H. J. Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics at Cornell University's Johnson School of...
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Philippe Van Parijs y Yannick Vanderborght quieren que el gobierno te dé dinero: una cantidad frecuente, en efectivo, que no dependa de tu situación laboral, de tu edad, de si tienes muchos o pocos recursos, de si eres mujer o eres hombre. Eso es el ingreso básico. La creciente desigualdad en la distribución de la riqueza, la profunda transformación en el trabajo que están produciendo diversas innovaciones tecnológicas, el fracaso de las políticas...
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The Financial Times said of the author's previous book The Greatest Crash: How contradictory policies are sinking the global economy, "Radical thinkers might have a point."
Now the author challenges the existing academic and political consensus about how economies should be managed, showing that finance is the root cause of public dissatisfaction with the elite and their policies. Serious problems of both inequality and populism have their origin...
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A look at the American health care system through analysis of consumer and provider behavior.
The health care industry in the US is peculiar. We spend close to 18% of our GDP on health care, yet other countries get better results-and we don't know why. To date, we still lack widely accepted answers to simple questions, such as "Would requiring everyone to buy health insurance make us better off?" Drawing on behavioral economics as an alternative...
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