Gros, Daniel, Belke, Ansgar, (2015), “Banking Union as a Shock Absorber: Lessons for the eurozone from the US”, CEPS publications, 17 Δεκεμβρίου This book illustrates how the structure of the US banking market and the existence of federal institutions allowed regional financial shocks to be absorbed at the federal level in the US, thus avoiding local financial crisis. The authors argue that the experience of the US shows the importance of …Read More

Hatzis, Aristides N., Mercuro, Nicholas (2015), “Law and Economics-Philosophical Issues and Fundamental Questions”, Routledge publications, Νοέμβριος. The Law and Economics approach to law dominates the intellectual discussion of nearly every doctrinal area of law in the United States and its influence is growing steadily throughout Europe, Asia, and South America. Numerous academics and practitioners are working in the field with a flow of uninterrupted scholarship that is unprecedented, as is its influence …Read More

Hazari, Bharat, (2015), “Colonialism and Foreign Ownership of Capital”, Routledge publications, Ιανουάριος 2016 Foreign control of capital is a major problem for many developing countries and can lead to the exercise of a form of colonial control whereby capital is provided for political rather than economic reasons. This book discusses the implications of this phenomenon for trade theory and the amount of pressure that foreign countries can exert. Σχετικές Αναρτήσεις J. …Read More

Hodgson, Geoffrey, (2015), “Conceptualizing Capitalism-Institutions, Evolution, Future”, Chicago University Press, Οκτώβριος A few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered capitalism’s relatively recent emergence? Until now, the conceptual toolkit available to answer this question has been inadequate, and economists and other social scientists have been diverted from identifying these key institutions. Σχετικές …Read More

Rodrik, Dani, (2015), “Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science”, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc Publications, Οκτώβριος. In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science. In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and when it works, to give a surprisingly upbeat …Read More

Wray, L. Randall, (2015), “Why Minsky Matters: An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist”, Princeton University Press, Νοέμβριος. Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P. Minsky (1919–96). Although a handful of economists raised alarms as early as 2000, Minsky’s warnings began a half-century earlier, with writings that set out a compelling theory of financial instability. Yet even today he remains largely outside …Read More