Economía

It’s hard to escape the feeling that in Britain today nothing works. In the face of mounting inflation and widespread industrial action, this book offers an incisive analysis of the UK’s problems and …

Adam Smith’s groundbreaking work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, delves into the principles that underpin economic prosperity and the functioning of free markets. Wri …

In The Banker’s Blacklist , Julia C. Morse demonstrates how the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has enlisted global banks in the effort to keep ‘bad money’ out of the financial system, in the proc …

Liberia is a dysfunctional country as the result of its patronage practices, which include nepotism, bribery, and election fraud. Stephen H. Gobewole, who grew up in Liberia, explains how these corru …

Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance, the crisis-ridden capitalism of the 21st century lingers on. To understand capital’s paradoxical expansion and entrenchment …

Contemporary capitalism produces more and more money, debt, and inequality. These three trends have a common cause: the privilege of private banks to create money by means of accounting – by the stro …

What if our financial system were organized to the benefit of the many rather than simply empowering the few? Robert Hockett and Fred Block argue that an entirely different financial system is both d …

What if the problems of modern society don’t come from production, but rather consumption and the system of cultural signs? In this classic work from the defining intellectual of the postmodern, Jean …

Banking on Growth Models contends that China’s rapid economic rise from the late 1970s to today has been built on and shaped by a highly politicized and inefficient bank-centric financial system . St …

This book explores the relationship between the state and war within the context of seismic technological change. As we experience a fourth industrial revolution, technology already exerts a huge imp …