The politics of poverty reduction

Globally, there is a commitment to eliminate poverty; and yet the politics that have caused anti-poverty policies to succeed in some countries and to fail in others have been little studied. The Politics of Poverty Reduction focuses on these political processes. Analysis is based partly ...

Cultures of anyone

studies on cultural democratization in the spanish neoliberal crisis

Cultures of Anyone studies the emergence of collaborative and non-hierarchical cultures in the context of the Spanish economic crisis of 2008. It explains how peer-to-peer social networks that have arisen online and through social movements such as the Indignados have challenged a longstanding cultural tradition ...

Nine visions of capitalism

unlocking the meanings of wealth creation

This important book examines the values essential to wealth creation. Some of the world’s most successful Capitalist economies have absorbed very different values from those espoused in the Anglo-American system. In East Asia, for example, East and West have mingled in a way rarely ...

The global economy in turbulent times

PRAISE FOR THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IN TURBULENT TIMES "The depth of analysis and breath of coverage can only come from someone with a sound understanding of the issues involved, and written in a style that is easy to read and can be understood by the ...

The struggle for food sovereignty

alternative development and the renewal of peasant societies today

The Struggle for Food Sovereignty explores the problems faced by Southern and Northern family agricultures in the current neoliberal era. The contributors, who include Samir Amin, Joao Pedro Stedile and Utsa Patnaik, base their arguments on an understanding of the revival of peasant struggles for ...

The struggle for food sovereignty

alternative development and the renewal of peasant societies today

The Struggle for Food Sovereignty explores the problems faced by Southern and Northern family agricultures in the current neoliberal era. The contributors, who include Samir Amin, Joao Pedro Stedile and Utsa Patnaik, base their arguments on an understanding of the revival of peasant struggles for ...

Postcapitalism

a guide to our future

From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal society. Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone continual change - economic cycles that lurch from ...

Endeudamiento de España

¿quién debe a quién?

INDICE: Marco conceptual: el papel del endeudamiento en la crisis. El endeudamiento de España: análisis comparado. El mapa de la deuda por sectores institucionales. Consideraciones sobre la sostenibilidad de la deuda. Los bancos como acreedores de la deuda privada y pública. Conclusiones generales del estudio.

Agentes sociales, cultura y tejido productivo en la España actual

INDICE: La intensidad de agencia, su anclaje y su paisaje: clase obrera y élites, mercado de trabajo y cultura en la España actual. Empresarios y tejido productivo en España. Sindicatos, estrategias productivistas e intensidad de la agencia de los trabajadores en España. Cultura, capital social ...

Renovación de la política económica y cambios sociales

ensayos en honor de Josep María Jordán

En este libro se abordan algunos temas de actualidad de política económica agrupados, por un lado, en disciplina de la Política Económica y, por otro lado, en estudios de política económica sobre áreas concretas (Unión Europea, España y ámbito regional). Los trabajos van desde el ...

Economía, trabajo y sociedad. Memoria sobre la situación socioeconómica y laboral

España 2014

Esta Memoria sobre la situación socioeconómica y laboral de España en 2014 ofrece una amplia recopilación de los datos, de las magnitudes, de los hechos que conforman el panorama socioeconómico español. La Memoria tiene así la vocación de trasladar a todos los interesados la visión ...

Governance by indicators

global power through quantification and rankings

The use of indicators as a technique of global governance is increasing rapidly. Major examples include the World Bank's Doing Business Indicators, the World Bank's Good Governance and Rule of Law indicators, the Millennium Development Goals, and the indicators produced by Transparency International ...

Fracking

el espectro que sobrevuela Europa

Al inicio de la actual década un nuevo espectro comenzó a sobrevolar Europa. Tenía su origen en Estados Unidos y se llamaba fracking, en castellano fractura hidráulica. De creer a sus apologistas, el “nuevo maná” que estaba devolviendo a los Estados Unidos a la posición ...

Fracking

el espectro que sobrevuela Europa

Al inicio de la actual década un nuevo espectro comenzó a sobrevolar Europa. Tenía su origen en Estados Unidos y se llamaba fracking, en castellano fractura hidráulica. De creer a sus apologistas, el “nuevo maná” que estaba devolviendo a los Estados Unidos a la posición ...

Social work challenges in the XXI century

perspectives from the USA

By the work challenge we refer to conditions or situations that demand new and innovative responses and to situations that may demand time, knowledge and/or resources we may not currently have. Examples of challenges faced by our profession of social work may include: the ...

Economics after capitalism

a guide to the ruins and a road to the future

'There is no alternative' has been the unofficial mantra of the neoliberal order since its utterance by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. As Derek Wall argues in Economics After Capitalism, there is in fact an alternative to our crisis-ridden, austerity-inflicted world - and not just one ...

Conceptualizing capitalism

institutions, evolution, future

A few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered capitalism's relatively recent emergence? Until now, the conceptual toolkit available to answer this question has been inadequate ...

Recuperación económica y grandes empresas

La economía española crece desde el tercer trimestre de 2013. 2014 fue un año bisagra en que, por primera vez, el Producto Interior Bruto creció todo el ejercicio. 2015 ha de ser el año en que se consolide la recuperación económica y el empleo, así ...

Miradas libertarias

Se están esbozando numerosas alternativas al decadente sistema capitalista que parten de una ciudadanía activa, que participa y se implica en la solución de los problemas comunes. Sin duda, la influencia que están teniendo en la sociedad resulta innovadora y parte de su éxito se ...

Making money

coin, currency, and the coming of capitalism

Money travels the modern world in disguise. It looks like a convention of human exchange - a commodity like gold or a medium like language. But its history reveals that money is a very different matter. It is an institution engineered by political communities to mark ...