Conservatives today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our belts. This view conveniently forgets where all that debt came from. Not from an orgy of government spending, but as the direct result of bailin...

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our belts. This view conveniently forgets where all that debt came from. Not from an orgy of ...

This book picks up where Karl Polanyi's study of economic and political change left off. Building upon Polanyi's conception of the double movement, Blyth analyzes the two periods of deep seated institutional change that characterized the twentieth century: the 1930s and the 1970s. Blyth views both sets of changes as part of the same dynamic. In the 1930s labor reacted against the exigencies of the market and demanded state action to mitigate the market's effects by 'embedding liberalism.' ...

**"An essential dose of clear thinking on one of the most contentious issues in economic policy." —Adam Tooze"[A] brilliant primer about a phenomenon that we thought was behind us but has come back with a vengeance." —Edward Luce, Financial TimesA fresh, revealing, and myth-busting guide to the ins and outs of inflation from two leading political economists.**Inflation is back, and its impact can be felt everywhere, from the grocery store to the mortgage ma...

No livro Austeridade – A História de Uma Ideia Perigosa, Mark Blyth oferece ao leitor uma sólida argumentação construída a partir de uma constatação tão óbvia quanto ausente das análises dos economistas convencionais. Blyth desvela as razões das políticas de austeridade que se seguiram à crise de 2008. "A Europa precisa ser austera porque os balanços financeiros dos Estados nacionais têm que funcionar como amortecedores de choques para o conjunto do sistema…Primeiro ocorreu a crise bancári...

Inflation is back, and its impact can be felt everywhere, from the grocery store to the mortgage market to the results of elections around the world. Yet the conventional wisdom about inflation is stuck in the past. Since the 1970s, there has only really been one playbook for fighting inflation: raise interest rates, thereby creating unemployment and a recession, which will lower prices. But this simple story hides a multitude of beliefs about why prices go up and how policymakers can wres...

當專家宣稱國家越來越富裕，為什麼我們卻覺得生活越來越難過？★★★　經濟學家 × 避險基金經理　★★★五大主題對談思辨，正面迎戰資本主義運作的長期病灶將整個世代的集體憤怒轉化為創新解方──《金融時報》年度最佳圖書──◤ 一個人的格局，從讓他憤怒的事情就能看出。◢──邱吉爾│英國前首相【當現實與理想的差距越來越大】當經濟學家和政治人物告訴我們，我們正經歷景氣的高點，經濟從來沒有這麼熱絡過時，為什麼壓力和焦慮的衡量標準卻都在節節高升？雖然統計數據告訴我們，絕大多數人正在變得越來越富有，但為什麼大多數人對於日常生活所處的世界，卻感到越來越不確定、不公平，而且越來越昂貴？【我們能從憤怒中得到什麼啟發？】在《憤怒經濟學》中，作者洛內甘與布萊斯透過對話，深入探索這股不斷上升的憤怒浪潮的起源。從如何定義憤怒、傳統經濟學的運作模式，到不同的憤怒類型，藉由了解憤怒的肇因來標記現今資本主義的問題所在，並為日益兩極分化和混亂的世界提出激進的...

Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer, the world most of us experience day in and day out feels increasingly uncertain, unfair, and ever more expensive.In Angrynomics, Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth explore the rising tide of anger, sometimes righteous and useful, sometimes destructive and ill-targeted, and p...

Um livro que mudará a forma como você entende a inflação — e quem realmente paga por ela. Quando os preços sobem, a explicação costuma vir pronta: "excesso de gastos", "é preciso apertar os cintos", "não há alternativa". Mas e se essa narrativa estiver incompleta? E se a inflação estive menos relacionada aos números e mais ao poder? Em linguagem acessível e sem jargões desnecessários, os autores combinam teoria econômica, história recente e análise política para derrubar mitos consolidados...

A set of state of the art empirical analyses at the country, regional, and global level that work from a new theoretical framework that analyzes the politics of growth and stagnation. As highlighted by the recent debate on 'secular stagnation,' economic growth has slowed down considerably, and this has given rise to a host of new problems, from financial instability to the collapse of mainstream parties. What happens when growth—the main mechanism of capitalist legitimatio...

¿Por qué aumentan los niveles de estrés y ansiedad, si los economistas y los políticos nos dicen que nunca hemos estado tan bien? Mientras las estadísticas nos informan de que la mayor parte de la gente se está enriqueciendo de forma constante, el mundo con el que la mayoría de nosotros interacciona día a día se percibe como cada vez más inseguro, injusto y caro. Eric Lonergan y Mark Blyth exploran en Angrynomics la creciente ola de ira, a veces justa y útil, a veces destructiva y mal diri...

Artificial intelligence is transforming work, politics and culture at an unprecedented rate. Universities are at the frontlines of change and academics are confronted daily by AI’s impact on teaching, research and institutional life. This book situates the rise of AI within its larger cultural context, tracing its origins in myth, fiction and computational history. It explores urgent questions around the impact of AI on scholarship and ideas of the university. What happens to universities ...