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Behind the alarming headlines about job losses, bank bailouts, and corporate greed is a little-known story of bad ideas. For fifty years or more, economists have been busy developing elegant theories of how markets work-how they facilitate innovation, wealth creation, and an efficient allocation of society's resources. But what about when markets don't work? What about when they lead to stock market bubbles, glaring inequality, polluted rivers, real...
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"William D. Nordhaus, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics" "One of Foreign Affairs' Best Books" "A Project Syndicate Commentators' Best Reads of the Year" "Winner of the Silver Medal in Philanthropy / Nonprofit / Sustainability, Axiom Business Book Awards" "A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" William D. Nordhaus, the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics, is the Sterling Professor of Economics and Professor in the School of the...
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The free-market capitalist system is in the process of collapse and we must now adjust to the reality of declining prosperity in the West. We should forget about growth and concentrate instead on the creation of jobs and reducing fossil fuel use-and it isn't impossible to achieve these two apparently conflicting aims. This is the thrust of the author's arguments and through the use of clear consistent charts he builds his case up from first principles....
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Before the Great Financial Crisis of 2008–09, significant reductions in official interest rates typically proved sufficient to generate sustainable economic recoveries from downturns. However, with economies and financial markets in freefall during the crisis despite a cut in interest rates to effectively zero, policymakers in some advanced economies launched a major new tool called quantitative easing (QE). This involved central banks purchasing...
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This book is about how governments could, if they really wanted to, create jobs for all those who want them and pay decent pensions or benefits to those who are unable to work. It is also about how to ensure easily affordable, even free, education at all levels; and affordable healthcare, energy, transport, communications and much more. It is, in short a prescription for enabling and ensuring sustainable equity in the distribution of income and other...
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Economics of any country determines the growth of the country. The subject is of utmost importance to know the exact status of a Nation in comparison to others, especially in the present globalized world. Both the branches namely, microeconomics and macroeconomics, has its own significance in compounding the economic conditions. Macroeconomics deals with the larger picture and provides the aggregate of all the factors which affects the country as...
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Este documento acude a los datos inéditos sobre rutas, costos y precios del negocio del narcotráfico de Arias (2019), datos que el autor construyó a partir de entrevistas realizadas durante su estadía de más de dos años en el Federal Detention Center de Miami a numerosas fuentes vinculadas a cada uno de los eslabones del negocio del narcotráfico colombiano. La información de Arias (2019) se utiliza junto a bases de datos convencionales (i....
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La formación del capitalismo global, a través de un análisis sorprendentemente original de la primera gran crisis económica del siglo xxi, la relaciona e identifica con la centralidad de los conflictos sociales que se producen en el seno de los estados, más que entre estados. fallas emergentes que alumbran la posibilidad de unos nuevos movimientos políticos que transformen los estados-nación y trasciendan los mercados globales.
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Vollrath challenges our long-held assumption that growth is the best indicator of an economy's health.
Most economists would agree that a thriving economy is synonymous with GDP growth. The more we produce and consume, the higher our living standard and the more resources available to the public. This means that our current era, in which growth has slowed substantially from its postwar highs, has raised alarm bells. But should it? Is growth actually...
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El presente texto pretende acompañar el proceso de aprendizaje de un curso introductorio de Macroeconomía. Para ello, recoge la experiencia de los autores en la enseñanza de los fundamentos de la Macroeconomía en la Universidad del Pacifico y otros espacios académicos. Un primer aporte importante del libro es el esfuerzo didáctico al momento de desarrollar cada uno de los temas que abarca. Otra de sus principales contribuciones es la orientación...
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Macroeconomic forces affect all of us in our daily lives. Inflation rates influence the prices we pay for goods and services and, in turn, the value of our incomes and our savings. Interest rates determine the cost of borrowing and the yield on bank accounts and bonds, while exchange rates affect our command over foreign products as well as the value of our foreign assets. And all of this represents just the tip of the iceberg. Numerous macro variables-ranging...
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Macro economics examines the events and forces that effects one's economy but which originates from outside of one's defined geo-economic area. Macro events may be financial events such as the faltering of an economy of another country as well as non financial events such as the effects on a societies economy as a result of a major nature event such as a flood or earthquake. A chart would help outline the key factors in a marco economic society.
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In this thought-provoking book, Jonathan McMillan dissects banking to reveal its inner workings. He cuts through the complexity of modern finance and explains how banking almost crashed our financial system. Banking is broken, and McMillan reveals why we can no longer fix it. The digital revolution turns out to be the game changer that calls for the end of banking. But McMillan refrains from merely pointing out flaws. Building on economic research...
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Over the last few decades, economists and psychologists have quietly documented the many ways in which a person's IQ matters. But, research suggests that a nation's IQ matters so much more. As Garett Jones argues in Hive Mind, modest differences in national IQ can explain most cross-country inequalities. Whereas IQ scores do a moderately good job of predicting individual wages, information processing power, and brain size, a country's average score...
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Giuseppe Bertola is Professor of Economics at the University of Turin. Reto Foellmi is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich. Josef Zweimüller is Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich.
This book looks at the distribution of income and wealth and the effects that this has on the macroeconomy, and vice versa. Is a more equal distribution of income beneficial or harmful for macroeconomic growth, and how does the...
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Six years on from the worst financial crisis in history, politicians and economists offer the same old arguments. This book explains why a return to 'business as usual' is impossible and offers a practical, sustainable alternative. A deeper look at the issues raised by the acclaimed Four Horsemen film. As the global economy veers from crisis to catastrophe, people have finally had enough. Billions are denied effective access to an economy that has...
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Austerity has dominated economic debate since the financial crisis of 2008. Governments have implemented austerity policies by reducing their spending on goods and services, increasing taxation and cutting welfare budgets.
John Fender explains how austerity (or "fiscal consolidation") works in theory and how it has played out in practice especially in the UK and the eurozone. He provides a clear and rigorous guide to the principles and mechanisms...
19) Diálogos sin corbata: Para pensar la economía, la política (y algunas cosas más) en el siglo XXI
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¿Cómo funciona un golpe económico y qué hacer para desactivarlo? ¿Cómo opera un banco con los ahorros de la gente? ¿Qué viene primero: la redistribución o el crecimiento? ¿Hasta qué punto cambió la estructura productiva en la última década? ¿Qué destino dar a los dólares disponibles en el país? ¿Cómo afrontar la tendencia a la dolarización y la fuga de capitales? ¿Cómo gestionar el pago de la deuda y el litigio con los fondos...
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As inequalities widen and the effects of austerity deepen, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared. Why we can't afford the rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional mechanisms that allow the top 1% to siphon off wealth produced by others, through the control of property and money. Leading social scientist Andrew Sayer shows how over the last three decades the rich worldwide have increased their ability to hide their wealth, create indebtedness...
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