Examines China's transition from socialism to capitalism through a case study of coal mining, focussing on the shift to a market economy, the rise of rural industry and the situation of China's working class. Provides a comprehensive treatment of issues from the establishment of…
La doctrina del shock es la historia no oficial del libre mercado. Desde Chile hasta Rusia, desde Sudáfrica hasta Canadá la implantación del libre mercado responde a un programa de ingeniería social y económica que Naomi Klein identifica como «capitalismo del desastre». Tras una…
Monograph arguing for market economy and democracy in relation to economic development and human rights, particularly in the USA - gives examples of expansion of government control relating to the 1929 economic recession, tariff policy, inflation monetary policy and price policy…
La edición europea de Macroeconomía se basa en la experimentada edición estadounidense y en la experiencia de ediciones europeas anteriores en lenguas nacionales -francés, alemán, español e italiano-, algunas de las cuales se han utilizado en universidades de toda Europa durante…
"The old discussion of 'Market or State' is obsolete. There will always have to be a mix of market and state. The only relevant question is what that mix should look like. How far do we have to let the market go its own way in order to create as much welfare as possible for ever…
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by Friedman, Milton, Rocha Pujol, Carlos, Friedman, Rose
fromBiblioteca de economía (Orbis)
This is a probing study of the interactions between ideological trends and economic reform in the era of Deng Xiaoping. It explores an important but frequently neglected issue in the contemporary study of China - the transformation from the orthodox anti-market doctrine into a m…
"Is it true that there is no alternative to the neo-liberal ideology of free trade, deregulation of markets, and government abandonment of social programmes? Must we accept, in the name of globalisation, the relentless pressure to reduce wages and cut social spending? Can poor c…