Foundations of Contemporary Economics
Foundations of Contemporary Economics was created to help you understand, with clarity and depth, how modern economies function. This collection integrates microeconomics, macroeconomics, economic globalization, and economic development to explain how production systems, markets, price formation, incentives, economic growth, and financial crises are structured.
Throughout the series, you will see how individual decisions shape supply and demand, how market structures influence competition and prices, how monetary and fiscal policy affect inflation and business cycles, and how global value chains connect countries within the international economy. You will also examine inequality, productivity, public debt, international trade, and the structural limits of sustainable development in the 21st century.
Without excessive mathematical formalism or ideological simplification, the books focus on the real mechanisms that organize contemporary economic systems. If you want to understand inflation, interest rates, growth, recession, globalization, and inequality with solid conceptual foundations, this collection provides the structure you need to interpret economics beyond headlines.
Economic Development
Why do some economies succeed in diversifying their productive structures while others remain dependent on primary sectors?
How does industrialization reshape productivity, employment, and income distribution?
In what ways do inequality, fragile institutions, and external constraints shape economic growth trajectories?
This book provides a structured analysis of the foundations of economic development, examining the processes that enable economies to transform their productive structures over time. It distinguishes economic growth from structural transformation, highlighting the roles of industrialization, human capital, technological innovation, and institutions in shaping sustainable development paths. The approach emphasizes conceptual clarity and analytical rigor while avoiding excessive mathematical formalism, making the core debates of development economics accessible.
Contemporary Economy
How do markets coordinate millions of decisions made by individuals, firms, and governments?
Why do economic crises continue to occur even in economies with established institutions and active public policies?
How are digital technology, automation, and data transforming work, productivity, and market structures?
This book presents a structured analysis of contemporary economics, connecting theoretical foundations, economic institutions, and historical transformations that shape modern economies. The work combines conceptual rigor with clear explanation, avoiding excessive reliance on mathematical formalism. Its objective is to provide an organized understanding of the mechanisms that structure production, exchange, economic growth, and crises in today’s economic system.
How the Globalized Economy Works
Why do countries specialize in the production of certain goods while importing others?
How do global value chains distribute production, technology and income across different economies?
In what ways can international capital mobility stimulate growth while also increasing external vulnerability?
This book presents the foundations of economic globalization through a clear and structured analysis of international trade, productive integration and global financial flows. It explains the principles that guide productive specialization, the gains from trade and the distributive effects associated with economic integration among countries. With accessible language and analytical rigor, the book examines the mechanisms that organize the global economy without relying on excessive mathematical formalism.
Applied Macroeconomics
Why do economies fall into recession even after long periods of growth?
How are inflation, unemployment and interest rates related in the short and long run?
How do financial crises spread through the banking system and affect production, investment and employment?
This book presents the foundations of macroeconomics through a clear and structured analytical approach, avoiding excessive mathematical formalism. It shows how aggregate analysis makes it possible to understand the main economic phenomena at the national level, such as economic growth, inflation, unemployment and business cycle fluctuations. By integrating different macroeconomic traditions, the book offers a broad view of the mechanisms that shape stability and instability in modern economies.
Applied Microeconomics
How do individuals make decisions when facing scarcity and budget constraints?
Why do prices behave differently in competitive, monopolized, or oligopolistic markets?
How do externalities, imperfect information, and digital platforms reshape how markets operate?
This book presents the foundations of microeconomics through an analytical and conceptually clear approach, avoiding excessive mathematical formalism. It explains how preferences, constraints, and incentives shape the decisions of consumers and firms, and how these individual choices translate into aggregate outcomes in markets. By examining the basic mechanisms of economic coordination, the book provides a structured understanding of the logic behind production decisions, consumption choices, and price formation.
This collection explores the foundations that sustain a coherent life. Rather than offering quick techniques or promises of instant change, the books gathered here begin with a more fundamental question: from which inner axis does a person live, choose, and take responsibility for their life?
Across its volumes, the collection addresses core themes such as personal identity, lived values, meaning in life, autonomy, and responsibility. The focus is not on abstract theory, but on everyday experience: recurring decisions, internal conflicts, silent inconsistencies, existential fatigue, and the challenge of sustaining choices over time.
IDENTITY, VALUES AND MEANING presents an inner journey that connects self-knowledge, ethical coherence, and existential direction. Each book serves as a practical philosophical guide, offering clear criteria for acting with greater clarity, consistency, and responsibility, without motivational rhetoric or idealized models of success.
It is a structural foundation for readers seeking deep personal development, applied philosophy, and a mature understanding of what it means to live an examined and self-assumed life.
Personal Values And A Life In Conflict
You do not live in conflict because you lack values, but because they compete without a clear hierarchy. In everyday life, this appears as postponed decisions, poorly sustained boundaries, and choices made to avoid immediate discomfort. Taken separately, nothing seems serious. Over time, the accumulation produces fatigue, diffuse irritation, and the persistent feeling of constantly negotiating with yourself.
Purpose And Meaning In Times Of Disorientation
You may be working hard, making decisions, meeting responsibilities, and still feel that something doesn’t hold together inside. The exhaustion doesn’t come from lack of action, but from the sense that life moves forward without clear direction. Choices solve immediate problems, yet fail to create continuity. Time passes, and effort seems disconnected from meaning.
Autonomy, Responsibility And Choice
Have you noticed how many important decisions in your life are constantly postponed? At some point, life starts to feel heavy — not because options are lacking, but because decisions are delayed, responsibilities are avoided, and meaningful choices are never fully assumed. Daily life moves on, commitments pile up, and you begin to feel as if you are always reacting, as though your life were being shaped by circumstances rather than by you.
Self-Knowledge And Practical Life
Many of the difficulties that shape everyday life do not arise from a lack of information or ability. They emerge when decisions are postponed, habits are repeated without reflection, and small choices made to avoid immediate discomfort slowly begin to define who you become. Over time, a quiet sense of incoherence settles in: you know what you value, yet you live otherwise; you recognize patterns, but remain caught in them.
Blockchain, Cryptoeconomy and the Future of Digital Structures
The series Blockchain, Cryptoeconomy and the Future of Digital Structures presents a comprehensive academic and technical examination of the structural transformations driven by blockchain technology and digital assets in the global economy. Each volume explores — in depth and with analytical precision — the technical foundations, financial dynamics, regulatory challenges, and social impacts that shape the emerging digital infrastructure.
Designed for professionals, researchers, regulators, and institutional investors, the collection offers a reference-level analysis of topics such as asset tokenization, stablecoins and digital currencies, decentralized infrastructures, digital finance ecosystems, algorithmic governance, and behavioral shifts in networked economies.
Through rigorous language and conceptual clarity, the series provides an essential framework to understand how blockchain evolves from a technological innovation into a new economic and institutional paradigm.
Crypto Market
The crypto market has emerged as one of the most complex and contested economic phenomena of the 21st century. Far from being merely a collection of digital assets or a technological novelty, it represents a distinct financial system shaped by new infrastructures, price formation mechanisms, risk dynamics, regulatory disputes, and power asymmetries. Understanding it requires moving beyond simplified explanations, speculative promises, or ideological narratives.
DeFi
This work provides an in-depth analysis of decentralized finance (DeFi) as a technical, economic, and historical phenomenon. DeFi is examined as a structural reorganization of financial intermediation, where code, incentives, and distributed governance partially replace traditional institutions without fully eliminating them.
Tokenization
This book examines tokenization as the core architecture of the digital economy, providing a rigorous analysis of its technical foundations, macroeconomic effects, and philosophical implications for the future of value.
Bridging finance, law, and technology, it explores how blockchain, artificial intelligence, and decentralized finance are reshaping real-world assets, digital identities, and smart contracts, transforming intermediation, regulation, and ownership.
Blockchain
Blockchain technology has become the cornerstone of debates on financial innovation, digital governance, and economic sovereignty. This book offers an in-depth examination not only of the technical foundations of distributed ledgers but also of their structural implications for the economy, law, politics, and culture.
Stablecoins
The rise of stablecoins represents one of the most profound transformations in the modern monetary system. This book examines the technical, economic, and regulatory foundations of digital stable currencies, analyzing their impact on financial sovereignty, global payment infrastructures, and emerging models of digital trust.
Crypto Culture
Crypto Culture: NFTs, Memecoins and the New Economy of the Imaginary dives into the symbolic revolution of the digital era. This book shows how NFTs and memecoins transcend finance to become cultural icons and identity tools, shaping attention economies, online communities, and collective imaginaries in the 21st century.
Contemporary Nutrology: Scientific Foundations, Clinical Practice, and Public Health Policies
Contemporary Nutrology is a comprehensive academic and professional book series composed of nine volumes that explore, in a rigorous and interdisciplinary manner, the essential domains of modern medical nutrition. With a strong focus on evidence-based clinical practice, this collection integrates advanced knowledge in nutritional physiology, therapeutic nutrition, eating disorders, sports nutrition, nutrigenomics, gut microbiota, and food security policies.
Written by subject-matter experts, the series connects nutritional assessment, hospital nutrition, nutritional epidemiology, and social determinants of health, making it an essential resource for nutrologists, clinical nutritionists, health researchers, university faculty, and policy makers. Each volume is robust, up-to-date, and aligned with international guidelines from ESPEN, ASPEN, WHO, FAO, and the Brazilian Medical Association.
This series is a vital tool for those committed to advancing clinical nutrition, personalized nutritional medicine, and the promotion of equitable and science-based food systems.
Nutritional Semiotics and Metabolic Architecture
Aimed at physician nutrition specialists, clinical nutritionists, doctors, pharmacists, researchers and graduate students, it systematically addresses key topics such as energy metabolism, micronutrient supplementation, personalized dietary interventions, nutritional assessment, rational use of nutraceuticals, medical ethics in nutrition, and international guidelines for nutritional support.
Public Policies, Nutritional Epidemiology, and Food Security
Based on updated data, international legal frameworks, and robust scientific evidence, the book addresses topics such as food insecurity, nutritional transition, population obesity, chronic undernutrition, sustainable agri-food systems, and the human rights to adequate food.
Hospital Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy
Based on technical standards from leading global scientific societies (ESPEN, ASPEN, WHO, JCI), the content covers critical topics such as malnutrition screening and classification, therapeutic strategies in intensive care, oncology, geriatrics, and complex postoperative care, as well as safety protocols, supply traceability, and nutritional performance audits.
Functional Nutrology, Genomics, and Microbiota
This is an internationally recognized academic work that offers a scientific, in-depth, and interdisciplinary analysis of the foundations and clinical applications of personalized nutritional medicine. Written for health professionals, medical nutrition specialists, clinical nutritionists, researchers, and graduate students, this pioneering publication articulates the latest advances in functional nutrition, nutrigenomics, gut microbiota, and biochemical modulation, integrating them into clinical practice with technical rigor and evidence-based support.
Sports Nutrition and Physical Performance
This is an internationally recognized academic work offering a scientific, in-depth, and interdisciplinary analysis of the bioenergetic foundations, nutritional strategies, and clinical applications of nutritional medicine in sports. Written by leading experts, this publication is intended for physicians in clinical nutrition, sports nutritionists, exercise physiologists, sports physicians, physical educators, and graduate students interested in evidence-based practices and therapeutic personalization.
Nutrology and Eating Disorders
This is an internationally recognized academic and clinical reference work that offers a scientific, interdisciplinary, and thoroughly updated analysis of eating disorders and their metabolic, psychological, and social implications. Targeted at medical nutrition specialists, nutritionists, psychiatrists, psychologists, general practitioners, graduate students, and researchers in mental health and nutrition, this pioneering publication integrates neurobiological foundations, evidence-based therapeutic strategies, and ethical principles of care.
Clinical Nutrition and Chronic Diseases
A scientific publication of international reference aimed at nutrologists, clinical nutritionists, physicians, pharmacists, researchers, and postgraduate students engaged in addressing non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) through evidence-based nutritional interventions.
Nutritional Interactions with Drugs and Phytotherapy
An international scientific reference work aimed at health professionals, researchers, and postgraduate students working at the intersection of clinical nutrition, pharmacology, and complementary therapies. This book provides a comprehensive and updated analysis of the biochemical and clinical interactions between nutrients, drugs, and herbal medicines, based on robust evidence and international guidelines.
Transversal Nutrology
This is an academic and clinical reference work of international scope that offers a scientific, in-depth, and updated analysis of nutrology applied to the human life cycle, addressing in an integrated way the metabolic, physiological, immunological, and social aspects of nutrition at different stages of development.
