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Obra crítica, incisiva y documentada que señala nuestros defectos así como el potencial del que disponemos, en un apasionado alegato que busca un país mejor.

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was created during 1940s. It's a key indicator of economic policy, and it's considered as rule to measure the significance of a country's economy, and it's a common base for other important indicators, such as fiscal deficit and the human development index (HDI). Diane Coyle reminds us that this instrument is not supposed to turn into a fetish; on the contrary, since it possesses a history that explains its consolidation, along with a structure and strategies that show the conception of economy from those who postulate it. Nonetheless, the GDP is currently one ...

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

Este libro propone preguntas e interpelaciones científicas con la finalidad de reunir algunos de los retos que, en la actualidad, componen el ámbito de la investigación en historia de las mujeres y en historia del género femenino. Su pretensión se centra en priorizar el debate y la apertura de nuevas vías para la investigación avanzada y especializada. Está organizado a partir de tres grandes ámbitos de investigación. El primero se centra en cuestiones de teoría, métodos y fuentes documentales; el segundo formula interrogantes relacionados con la economía, la sociedad y la vida...