El sustento del hombre – $485
El sustento del hombre. Esta obra resulta sumamente pertinente en momentos como el actual, en el que la economía de mercado se presenta como la única forma «natural» de economía. El autor pone de...
View ArticleThe wisdom of sustainability – $195
The Wisdom of Sustainability continues E. F. Schumacher s groundbreaking work on Buddhist economics in Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. Emphasizing small-scale, indigenous,...
View ArticleThe Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates – $245
The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the hidden...
View ArticleEL SITIO DE LOS CALCETINES. EL GIRO LINGÜÍSTICO DE LA ECONOMÍA Y SUS EFECTOS...
Nuestro tiempo ha conocido una transformación profunda de los procesos de producción. Mientras la cadena de montaje excluía toda forma de lenguaje como factor directamente productivo, hoy no se...
View ArticleEl arte de acumular deudas (y no pagarlas) – $280
Ofrecemos aquí dos “manuales de instrucciones” para acumular deudas con elegancia y no pagarlas sin decadencia. Se trata de dos escritos que revelan sendas formae mentis: una más política, otra más...
View ArticleDEMOCRACIA Y MERCADO – $330
El afán de libertad del hombre y la represión han generado en los últimos años un movimiento mundial hacia la implantación de la democracia política y la racionalidad económica. Nunca hasta ahora un...
View ArticleLujo y capitalismo – $385
Qué es lo que, junto con los avances técnicos, ha empujado la industria hacia el capitalismo? La opinión mayoritaria sostiene que la expansión geográfica de los mercados está detrás del advenimiento...
View ArticleA Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of...
A Game As Old As Empire is well referenced, very readable and perversely entertaining. Hard data is combined with first-person narratives and the machinations of international economics are made...
View ArticleThe Great Rebalancing: Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the...
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...
View ArticleRevolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination –...
Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so,...
View ArticleThe Pirate Organization: Lessons from the Fringes of Capitalism – $345
A short history of piracy and capitalismWhen capitalism spread along the trade routes toward the Indies…when radio opened an era of mass communication . . . when the Internet became part of the global...
View ArticleParecon: Life After Capitalism – $285
Albert offers an alternative system of participatory economics to end the dehumanizing failures and injustices of free-market capitalism. ‘What do you want?’ is a constant query put to economic and...
View ArticleThe Making of the Indebted Man: An Essay on the Neoliberal Condition...
The Making of the Indebted Man. The debtor-creditor relation, which is at the heart of this book, sharpens mechanisms of exploitation and domination indiscriminately, since, in it, there is no...
View ArticleThe Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of...
A legendary economist argues that the standard top-down, technocratic approaches to global poverty not only don’t work but also trample the individual rights of the people they’re meant to help. And...
View ArticleFragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit...
Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries–but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking...
View ArticleThe Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself – $485
There was once a time when ‘work’ was inextricably linked to survival and self-preservation; where the farmer ploughed the land so their family could eat. But the sun has long since set on this idyllic...
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