The shock doctrine

the rise of disaster capitalism

Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors. Thrilling and revelatory, "The ...

The Banana

empires, trade wars, and globalization

The banana is the world's most important fresh fruit commodity. The global banana industry began in the late 1880s as a result of technological advances such as refrigerated shipping, which facilitated the transportation of this highly perishable good to distant markets. Since its inception ...

África sin deuda

África sin deuda es ante todo una mordaz ironía, puesto que actualmente África se endeuda. Pese a lo que anuncian los medios de comunicación, la deuda de África continúa creciendo. Se oye hablar de reducciones de la deuda, de ayuda al desarrollo, pero la realidad ...

The influence of national competition policy on the international competitiveness of nations

a contribution to the debate on international competition rules

Two fields of economic research in competition policy have gained in importance in times of economic globalization. Firstly, globalization has resurrected the debate whether there is a need for international competition rules against private anticompetitive practices and how these rules could be implemented in the ...

La mondialisation de l'économie

genèse et problèmes

Parler de mondialisation, c'est évoquer l'emprise du capitalisme sur l'espace économique mondial. Cette emprise ne se réduit pas au triomphe d'un bloc d'Etats sur un autre, ni même à celui d'un système économique sur ses concurrents. Elle tend en ...

Managing international financial instability

national tamers versus global tigers

Recurrent instability has characterized the global financial system since the 1980s. This instability and the resultant disruptions - to financial and foreign exchange markets, causing bankruptcies and sovereign debt defaults - are linked, in this book, to shortcomings of the global financial system which tend to generate ...

Bound together

how traders, preachers, adventures, and warriors shaped globalization

Since humans migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each other. In this entertaining book, Nayan Chanda follows the exploits of traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors throughout history as they have shaped and reshaped ...

Global rice and agricultural trade liberalisation

poverty and welfare omplications for South Asia

Rice has long been one of the most protected commodities in world trade. Now the probable significant liberalisation of trade in rice is likely to have huge welfare implications for many countries dependent on its production and trade, particularly those in South Asia. This book ...

Fixing failed states

a framework for rebuilding a fractured world

Fixing Failed States addresses one of the central issues of our times: the proliferation of failed states across the world and our inability to stabilize them. There are between forty and sixty failed states, and they house one billion people. The world's worst problems-terrorism ...

Un largo día

globalización y crisis política

¿Cuál será el destino de este libro?. desde luego es un ensayo que pretende intervenir francamente en el presente, sin misericordias políticamente correctas. Tras una primera parte eminentemente teórica, que desarrolla una peculiar concepción del poder y la política, el autor se adentra después en ...

Inmigrantes

tu país los necesita

Philippe Legrain, autor del libro #Inmigrantes. Tu país los necesita.# describe en una entrevista a Intermón Oxfam las razones morales, sociales, económicas y culturales para permitir la entrada de inmigrantes a los países ricos.

Vacaciones en el paraíso

turismo y desarrollo

El negocio turístico es la principal entrada de divisas en 49 países pobres, sin embargo, es responsable de la destrucción de formas de vida y cultura, perpetúa desigualdades y permite prácticas empresariales abusivas #Vacaciones en el paraíso# analiza las ventajas y los inconvenientes del actual ...

El sector exterior: desequilibrio y tendencias en una economía global

(Revista Papeles de economía española, Nº116, año 2008)

La gouvernance de la mondialisation

Qui oserait encore nier l#impact de la mondialisation sur notre vie quotidienne, son opacité, le sentiment d#impuissance qui en découle ? Les mécanismes de régulation de la mondialisation sortent de l#environnement traditionnel de l#État et des organisations intergouvernementales. Il est désormais nécessaire ...

Hot, flat and crowded

why we need a green revolution-and how it can renew America

In his brilliant, essential new book, Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges we face today: America#s surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11; and the global environmental crisis, which is affecting everything from food ...

Googléame

la segunda misión de los Estados Unidos

En este el volumen, la autora examina las prácticas sobre las cuales la empresa propietaria del buscador de Internet Google, ha desarrollado su poder y también el tipo de moral que encarna cuando se pretende universal y democrático. Al respecto, la filósofa francesa anota: "Dicho ...

Re-orientar

la economía global en la era del predominio asiático

Andre Gunder Frank nos pide que re-orientemos nuestras perspectivas más allá del eurocentrismo y veamos el auge de Occidente como un mero accidente en lo que fue, y está siendo, un mundo centrado en Asia. Se trata de un desafío hacia la historiografía y la ...

Global development 2.0

can philanthropists, the public, and the poor make poverty history?

Eds. Lael Brainard, Derek Chollet. The fight against global poverty has quickly become one of the hottest tickets on the global agenda - with rock stars, world leaders, and multibillionaires calling attention to the plight of the poor at international confabs, such as the World Economic ...

Transnational Governance

institutional dynamics of regulation

Globalization involves a profound re-ordering of our world with the proliferation everywhere of rules and transnational modes of governance. This book examines how this governance is formed, changes and stabilizes. Building on a rich and varied set of empirical cases, it explores transnational rules and ...

The bottom billion

why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it

In this elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world's leading experts on Africa and poverty, economist Paul Collier writes persuasively that although nearly five billion of the world's people are beginning to climb from desperate poverty and to benefit from globalization ...