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"Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation and utterly transforming the economy again and again. Our ancestors would have presumed we would have used such powers to build utopia. But it was not so. When 1870-2010 ended, the world instead saw global warming; economic depression,...
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It may be hard to believe in an era of Wal-Mart, Citizens United, and the Koch brothers, but corporations are on the decline, says Gerald Davis. The number of American companies listed on the stock market dropped by more than half between 1997 and 2012. In recent years, some of the most storied corporations have gone bankrupt (General Motors, Chrysler, Eastman Kodak) or disappeared entirely (Bethlehem Steel, Lehman Brothers, Borders, Circuit City)....
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Estos últimos años han estado marcados por la corrección política antiliberal. El resultado de ello ha sido reforzar la idea de que nuestros males son culpa de la libertad y que debemos ser cada vez menos libres. Y siempre hay políticos dispuestos a que lo seamos. Carlos Rodríguez Braun refuta este pensamiento único en Panfletos liberales III: «la crisis no ha sido producida por la libertad sino por el intervencionismo. No es verdad...
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"Our world is burdened with disappearing economic growth, a deteriorating environment, limited natural resources, and not just too many people, but too many old people. Really? While such pessimism may mark you as a wise soul at the neighborhood cocktail party, it isn't supported by the facts. Yes, there are reasons to worry, as there have always been. But there are far more reasons to be optimistic, as author Laurence Siegel explains in his fascinating...
8) Emerging markets in an upside down world: challenging perceptions in asset allocation and investment
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The world is upside down. The emerging market countries are more important than many investors realise. They have been catching up with the West over the past few decades. Greater market freedom has spread since the end of the Cold War, and with it institutional changes which have further assisted emerging economies in becoming more productive, flexible, and resilient. The Western financial crisis from 2008 has quickened the pace of the relative rise...
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China's economic growth has been more robust in some regions than others. In a country as large as China, examinations of regional differences can provide a viable way to learn about the economy as a whole. Rongxing Guo provides a systematic introduction to the economies of China by describing their external and internal drivers and by placing them within geopolitical and even socio-cultural boundaries. His pairings of case studies and empirical techniques...
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2012
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China Versus the West is an innovative book. The author, a leading specialist on the international and Asian economy and business, presents the most comprehensive picture of the changing power balance between the emerging superpower China and the "old" developed economies of the West: mainly the US, Europe and Japan. The reader can clearly see in what areas and to what extent China has become the world leader, in what areas it is catching up and in...
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Summary of Makers and Takers by Rana Foroohar | Includes Analysis Preview: Rana Foroohar's Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business argues that finance has become an increasingly dominant force in controlling the organization of the US economy. This has weakened American business and created growing inequality. The argument against the growing power of finance capital is not an argument against capitalism itself. Rather,...
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En este ensayo se presenta una estimación del valor de la producción agregada de la actual República de Colombia, basada en algunas series de estadísticas durante el siglo XIX. El comportamiento económico que expresa la serie es bastante pobre. El PIB per cápita decrece hasta mediados de siglo, comparado con el crecimiento económico de la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII. El ingreso per cápita se recupera hasta 1885, luego decrece hasta principios...
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No hay dudas de que los economistas adquirieron, en las últimas décadas, una influencia social y política decisiva. Este hecho incontrastable da lugar, sin embargo, a lecturas antagónicas. ¿Artífices de la debacle o salvadores de la patria? ¿Meros brazos ejecutores de los intereses de las clases dominantes o detentores privilegiados de las verdades que gobiernan nuestro tiempo? Lejos de estas dicotomías simplificadoras gracias a una admirable...
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Bruce Yandle is a teacher, writer, speaker, and consultant on economics and political economy. He has worked in industry, academia, and government, serving in many roles and interacting with a variety of audiences. These experiences have directly, impacted his scholarship on regulation and macroeconomic policy.
Policymaking is complex. It is not simply the result of high-minded reformers seeking to do good, nor is it only the pernicious influence...
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Este ensayo constituye un intento de entender cómo se fue formando la economía de la Nueva Granada bajo unas relaciones sociales caracterizadas por la servidumbre y el esclavismo. Encuentra, sin embargo, que no se desarrolló un sistema político feudal, lo cual fue impedido por la política de la Corona española. Se trata en especial de realzar el legado institucional que deja España, que incluye los sistemas político, legal y religioso. Se...
17) La crisis del capital en el siglo XXI: Crónicas de los años en que el capitalismo se volvió loco
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¿Es posible que estemos retrocediendo a los niveles de desigualdad previos a la Primera Guerra Mundial? Esta pregunta es el centro mismo de este libro. En efecto, asistimos a un capitalismo enloquecido, a tal punto que la concentración de la riqueza alcanza los valores de 1900-1910 y ni siquiera se aplican los impuestos al capital que regían en el siglo XIX.
La primera gran crisis del capitalismo globalizado del siglo XXI se desató entre 2007...
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This treatise introduces the figures of shareholder, stakeholder, index tracker, bondholder and options trader as cosmopolitan financial actors in order to describe and explain the development of global capitalism with regard to a series of more or less different capitalisms. The terms shareholder and bondholder are generally known. Stakeholders appear less frequently although the economic players have taken over the role of stakeholder mostly without...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997" William G. Roy is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He specializes in large-scale political and economic transformations.
Ever since Adolph Berle and Gardiner Means wrote their classic 1932 analysis of the American corporation, The Modern Corporation and Private Property, social scientists have been intrigued and challenged by the evolution of this crucial...
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