Economía para no economistas. Un regalo de la formación del pensamiento económica

Economía para no economistas. Un regalo de la formación del pensamiento económica

Author: Juan Manuel Ospina

Publisher: U. Externado de Colombia

Published: 2020-02-27

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 9587901339

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El libro invita al lector a hacer, básicamente, un recorrido por el mundo occidental, que nos lleva desde las cuevas del Neolítico hasta Wall Street en la mitad de la crisis de 2007. Un recorrido que tiene escalas importantes para conocer la realidad y el pensamiento desarrollado a partir de esta en el mundo preindustrial, en sus componentes de mundo antiguo, de Grecia y Roma; del Medievo escolástico; del mercantilismo colmado del pragmatismo de los comerciantes; del amarre con la tierra del pensamiento fisiocrático hasta llegar a Adam Smith, colocado en el cruce de caminos entre ese mundo mercantil y tímidamente industrial; el mundo de la Revolución Industrial que alimenta y desafía el pensamiento de Ricardo, Marx y Stuart Mili, y luego de los socialistas utópicos y los marginalistas con sus tres ramas, de la escuela austriaca, de los walrasianos y de los anglosajones de la escuela de Cambridge. El recorrido nos lleva por el estallido político, económico y social que trajo la Primera Guerra Mundial y sus secuelas, de donde surge la propuesta de un capitalismo reformado con fuerte presencia del Estado, que es el pensamiento de Keynes, pensamiento que a su vez hará crisis en la década de los años setenta, abriendo paso al regreso del liberalismo clásico con Milton Freidman y la llamada revolución neoliberal. El libro concluye en un pasado próximo, en el 2007, hace una década, cuando estos planteamientos entran en crisis y se abre una discusión que continúa al orden del día sobre perspectivas de futuro, tanto de la realidad económica como de su análisis. Es un llamado a ese reencuentro del pensamiento económico con el rico y diverso tronco del conocimiento y análisis social, con el cual debe mantener un diálogo respetuoso, dejando de lado las vanas pretensiones de un economicismo pedante; que sea enriquecedor en el proceso inacabado de acercarnos a una plena comprensión de la condición humana y de sus expresiones sociales.


World Anthropologies

World Anthropologies

Author: Gustavo Lins Ribeiro

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-07-12

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1000184498

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Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the 'provincial cosmopolitanism' of alternative anthropologies and the 'metropolitan provincialism' of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting 'world anthropologies' challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight - and hence more power - than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and provide the outline for a veritable world anthropologies project.


Econometric Models and Economic Forecasts

Econometric Models and Economic Forecasts

Author: Robert S. Pindyck

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 9780079132925

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This well known text helps students understand the art of model building - what type of model to build, building the appropriate model, testing it statistically, and applying the model to practical problems in forecasting and analysis.


Carbon-Energy Taxation

Carbon-Energy Taxation

Author: Mikael Skou Andersen

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2009-10-29

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0191610089

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When taxes are introduced on carbon and energy, and the revenue is used to reduce other taxes, will a positive effect be achieved both for the environment and for the economy? In 1990 Finland was the first country to introduce a tax on CO2. Later, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Slovenia, Germany and the UK followed suit with tax reforms that shifted taxation from labour to carbon and energy. Over the years, CO2 and energy taxes have gradually been raised, so that in Europe taxes of more than 25 billion Euros a year have been shifted. This book examines carbon-energy taxation in detail and looks at tax shifting programmes for lowering other taxes. It offers extensive analysis on the basis of historical data and seeks to answer important questions for policy-making, such as: What was the impact of tax shifting for economic performance and competitiveness? By how much were emissions of CO2 reduced? Could energy-intensive industries cut further down on their fuel demand or did they loose market shares? To what extent was there 'leakage' from Europe, so that production and CO2 emissions were shifted to other countries or regions without CO2-abatement policy? The use of unique and original data, including sector-specific energy prices and taxes, as well as the use of advanced statistical techniques, such as co-integration analysis and panel-regression techniques along with the time-series estimated macro-economic model E3ME, make this a truly comprehensive volume. On the basis of the lessons learned in Europe, this volume indicates how carbon-energy taxation could usefully be combined with emissions trading, and discusses implications for future international climate policy, including how the IPCC recommendations for a gradual escalation in carbon price could be accomplished while preventing carbon leakage.


Open Budgets

Open Budgets

Author: Sanjeev Khagram

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0815723377

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Explicates political economy factors that have brought about greater transparency and participation in budget settings across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. This title presents the strategies, policies, and institutions through which improvements can occur and produce change in policy and institutional outcomes.


The Forbidden Religion

The Forbidden Religion

Author: Jose M. Herrou Aragon

Publisher: José M. Herrou Aragón

Published: 2012-07-03

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 1471725693

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Gnosis means knowledge. But we are not referring to just any knowledge. Gnosis is knowledge which produces a great transformation in those who receive it. Knowledge capable of nothing less than waking up man and helping him to escape from the prison in which he finds himself. That is why Gnosis has been so persecuted throughout the course of history, because it is knowledge considered dangerous for the religious and political authorities who govern mankind from the shadows. Every time this religion, absolutely different from the rest, appears before man, the other religions unite to try to destroy or hide it again. Primordial Gnosis is the original Gnosis, true Gnosis, eternal Gnosis, Gnostic knowledge in its pure form. Due to multiple persecutions, Primordial Gnosis has been fragmented, distorted and hidden.


Utopias in Latin America

Utopias in Latin America

Author: Juan Pro

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781845199821

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Latin America has historically been a fertile ground where utopian projects, movements, and experiments could take root and thrive. Each of the thirteen authors in this collective volume address a particular case or specific aspect of Latin American utopianism from colonial times to the present day. The America that the Spanish and Portuguese discovered became, from the sixteenth century onwards, a space in which it was possible to imagine the widest variety of forms of human coexistence. Utopias in Latin America reconsiders the sense and understanding of utopias in various historical frames: the discovery of indigenous cultures and their natural environments; the foundation of new towns and cities in a vast colonial territory; the experimental communities of nineteenth-century utopian socialists and European exiled intellectuals; and the innovative formulae that attempts to get beyond twentieth-century capitalism.


'Mixed Race' Studies

'Mixed Race' Studies

Author: Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-24

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1135170711

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Mixed race studies is one of the fastest growing, as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnic relations. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and the biological sciences, as well as the humanities, this reader charts the evolution of debates on 'race' and 'mixed race' from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book is divided into three main sections: tracing the origins: miscegenation, moral degeneracy and genetics mapping contemporary and foundational discourses: 'mixed race', identities politics, and celebration debating definitions: multiraciality, census categories and critiques. This collection adds a new dimension to the growing body of literature on the topic and provides a comprehensive history of the origins and directions of 'mixed race' research as an intellectual movement. For students of anthropology, race and ethnicity, it is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities and paradoxes of 'racial' thinking across space, time and disciplines.