El flamante ministro de Economía griego, Yanis Varoufakis, nos invita a conocer de una forma amena, educativa y crítica una serie de cuestiones fundamentales sobre economía: qué es la riqueza, qué es la pobreza, cuándo y por qué se generaron estas desigualdades, cuál es la relación entre poder y dinero o qué son los mercados …
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After the Fall: The Future of Global Cooperation: Geneva Reports on the World Economy 14 (Geneva Reports on World Economy) by Jeffry Frieden (2015-04-06)
After the Fall: The Future of Global Cooperation: Geneva Reports on the World Economy 14 (Geneva Reports on World Economy)
The latest title in CEPR/ICMB’s Geneva Reports on the World Economy series asks the following questions: What are likely to be the principal issues facing the international economy over the next decade? What could a realistic analysis hope for in the way of progress in confronting the problems of the future? What are the constraints …
Read More »Europe after the Minotaur: Greece and the Future of the Global Economy
Syriza’s victory in the Greek general election in January 2015 is a truly historic and profound event – the first government of the radical left in Europe since World War Two. In this short ebook, extracted from the updated edition of The Global Minotaur, Yanis Varoufakis, the new finance minister of Greece and a Syriza …
Read More »Conversando Sobre Economia com Minha Filha (Em Portuguese do Brasil)
Conversando sobre economia com a minha filha, escrito pelo economista grego Yanis Varoufákis, tem o principal objetivo de levar ao público jovem um texto sobre economia esclarecedor e que aproxime os adolescentes desse tema tão central e importante na sociedade. Os leitores poderão utilizar este livro para ver com outros olhos o colapso recente da …
Read More »L. Randall Wray: Modern Money Theory : A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems (Paperback); 2015 Edition
Le Minotaure planétaire: L’ogre américain, la désunion européenne et le chaos mondial (French Edition)
“Pénétrant. Percutant. A lire d’urgence.” Romaric Godin (La Tribune) L’équilibre économique du monde, et sa prospérité, sont des choses bien trop sérieuses pour qu’on les laisse aux mains des marchés. C’est ce qu’ont bien compris les États-Unis, qui s’arrogèrent, au sortir de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale le rôle de maître d’œuvre de la reconstruction du …
Read More »Financialization: The Economics of Finance Capital Domination by Thomas I. I. Palley (2014-11-03)
The Great Rebalancing: Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy
China’s economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating serious trade disadvantages. Another Great Depression? Not quite. Noted economist and China expert Michael Pettis argues instead that we are undergoing a critical rebalancing of the world economies. Debunking popular misconceptions, Pettis shows that severe trade imbalances spurred on …
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