Product Description: Hasta el siglo XVIII, las élites lograron preservar el poder y distribuir el superávit a su entera conveniencia por virtud de una ideología que legitimó a los gobernantes por derecho divino. Convencer a las víctimas de explotación de que su sufrimiento les garantiza la entrada al paraíso fue el papel del clero...read more

Product Description: Yanis Varoufakis, el ministro de Finanzas griego que ha desafiado a la cancillería de Angela Merkel y a la Comisión Europea, que se ha resistido a poner en marcha el draconiano programa económico de austeridad marcado por el FMI y el Banco Central Europeo, demuestra que la crisis financiera no es producto del despilfarro ni de la corrupción, que la austeridad extrema dista mucho de ser la solución...read more

Product Description: In this provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis—the fiery former finance minister in Greek’s new Syriza-led government—explodes the myth that financialization, ineffective regulation of banks, and generalized greed and globalization were the root causes of the global economic crisis...read more

In this remarkable and provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis explodes the myth that financialisation, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globalisation were the root causes of the global economic crisis. Rather, they are symptoms of a much deeper malaise which can be traced all the way back to the Great Crash of 1929, then on through to the 1970s: the time when a 'Global Minotaur' was born. Just as the Athenians maintained a steady flow of tributes to the Cretan beast, so the 'rest of the world' began sending incredible amounts of capital to America and Wall Street. Thus, the Global Minotaur became the 'engine' that pulled the world economy from the early 1980s to 2008.Today's crisis in Europe, the heated debates about austerity versus further fiscal stimuli in the US, the clash between China's authorities and the Obama administration on exchange rates are the inevitable symptoms of the weakening Minotaur; of a global 'system' which is now as unsustainable as it is imbalanced. Going beyond this, Varoufakis lays out the options available to us for reintroducing a modicum of reason into a highly irrational global economic order.An essential account of the socio-economic events and hidden histories that have shaped the world as we now know it.

Product Description: Game theory is rapidly becoming one of the cornerstones of the social sciences. The articles gathered here chart the intellectual history of game theory from its place in the Enlightenment tradition, through the explosion of literature in the late 1970s, to issues of current and emerging debates...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)