Disminución de costes energéticos en la empresa

tecnologías y estrategias para el ahorro y la eficiencia energética

Tendencias hacia la sostenibilidad en España

Using experimental methods in environmental and resource economics

Ciudades región globales

espacios creativos y nueva gobernanza

Balance económico regional (autonomías y provincias) años 2000 a 2005

Capitalism unleashed

finance, globalization, and welfare

Free enterprise is off the leash and chasing new opportunities for profit making across the globe. After a turbulent century of unprecedented social and technological change, Capitalism has emerged as the dominant ideology and model for economic growth in the richest, most developed countries. But ...

Growth and development

with special reference to developing economies

For over thirty years, this classic text has offered students a comprehensive overview of the economic aspects of growth and development which is clearly written without sacrificing rigour. The focus is on macroeconomic issues with unique chapters on the history of economic thought, project appraisal ...

No sólo de dinero

la economía desde el punto de vista de la Naturaleza

<>. Así comienza esta obra, en la que Malcolm Slesser y Jane King insisten sobre el hecho de que estamos viviendo a costa de una herencia de recursos energéticos, como si creyésemos que no habrá un mañana. El significado de la sostenibilidad se ha degradado tanto ...

Wal-Mart

the face of Twenty-First-Century capitalism

Edited by one of the nation#s preeminent labor historians, this book marks an ambitious effort to dissect the full extent of Wal-Mart#s business operations, its social effects, and its role in the U.S. and world economy. Wal-Mart is based on a spring ...

We are poor but so many

the story of self-employed women in India

This book is a first-hand account of the vision, rise, and success of SEWA, the Self-Employed Women's Association, a trade union of self- employed women in India. It takes the reader into an up-close look at these women's daily lives, at the forces ...

Global capitalism

its fall and rise in the Twentieth Century

International trade at unprecedented levels, millions of people migrating yearly in search of jobs, the world's economies more open to one another than ever before...Such was the global economy in 1900. Then as now, many people considered globalisation to be inevitable and irreversible ...

La mano invisible

el gobierno del mundo

El poder no se otorga, se conquista, y, una vez que se posee, se oscurece. Muchos de los que ejercen el poder niegan tenerlo. Practican así una mano invisible que no tiene que ver con la que teorizó Adam Smith. Los poderosos ocultan su poder ...

Los Tsunamis de la deuda

La catástrofe del tsunami de 2004 provocó un profundo impacto en la sociedad internacional, bombardeada por imágenes que se centraban en lo emotivo, lo anecdótico y lo caritativo, e impedían comprender la verdadera naturaleza y origen de este fenómeno en los países afectados. Para los ...

The world is flat

the globalized world in the Twenty-First Century

The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization a flattening' of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means that suddenly knowledge pools and resources have ...

Globalización

nuevo desafío para la economía giennense

En la actualidad no sólo los especialistas sino el conjunto de la ciudadanía y de la opinión pública son perfectamente conscientes de la importancia de la dimensión internacional de la actividad económica de un territorio. Este trabajo pretende concretar cómo la provincia de Jaén está ...

Realizing hope life beyond capitalism

Something is profoundly wrong with capitalist globalization, as neo- liberal policies continue to vastly increase the disparity between rich and poor. 'What is the alternative?' is a question challenging activists around the world. Michael Albert has wrestled with this question for many years, and his ...

A corporate solution to global poverty

how multinationals can help the poor and invigorate their own legitimacy

World leaders have given the reduction of global poverty top priority. And yet, it persists. Indeed, in many countries whose governments lack either the desire or the ability to act, poverty has worsened. This book, a joint venture of a Harvard professor and an economist ...

Globalization and organization

world society and organizational change

All around the world, societies are experiencing an explosion of organizations and organizing: community clubs, religious groups, social movements, as well as schools, hospitals, businesses and government agencies, increasingly take the form of complex and formal organization. Why? Why is global society recast in this ...

Otro mundo, desde abajo y desde dentro

La humanidad nunca ha contado con más conocimientos y medios para producir alimentos, bienes y servicios. Sin duda estamos viviendo en los tiempos más brillantes del ingenio humano, de la creatividad y la productividad de millones de seres humanos desarrollando una capacidad de transformación jamás ...

Salvemos la comunicación

aldea global y cultura: una defensa de los ideales democráticos y la cohabitación mundial

Comunicar no significa intercambiar información entre personas que no comparten los mismos valores e intereses, sino que, sobre todo, implica la aceptación del otro para establecer relaciones sociales que contribuyan al mejor desarrollo de la vida de los seres humanos. Sin embargo, durante los últimos ...