Crisis global de la economía

análisis de la coyuntura desde distintas perspectivas

Eds. Jorge Turno Arnal, Ángel Rodríguez García-Brazales. Nos encontramos en medio de una crisis económica de mucha profundidad, que alcanza a la gran mayoría de las economías # sean desarrolladas, emergentes o en desarrollo- , que afecta a casi todos los sectores y cuyo fin todavía no ...

The Princeton encyclopedia of the world economy. .Volume I, A-H. Volume II, I-W

Increasing economic globalization has made understanding the world economy more important than ever. From trade agreements to offshore outsourcing to foreign aid, this two-volume encyclopedia explains the key elements of the world economy and provides a first step to further research for students and scholars ...

África más allá del espejo

El escritor senegalés Boubacar Boris Diop reúne en este libro diferentes ensayos con una misma premisa: para los atacados y humillados de África, la resistencia cultural es más imperativa que nunca. La imagen que recibimos de África no sólo no se corresponde con la realidad ...

The political economy of the world trading system

the WTO and beyond

The Political Economy of the World Trading System is a comprehensive textbook account of the economics, institutional mechanics and politics of the world trading system. This third edition has been expanded and updated to cover developments in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) since its formation ...

Reforming the World Bank

twenty years of trial-and error

In the many studies of the World Bank a critical issue has been missed. While writers have looked at the bank's political economy, lending, conditions, advice, ownership and accounting for issues such as the environment, this study looks at the bank as an organization ...

Africa's turn?

Foreword by William Easterly. By the end of the twentieth century, sub-Saharan Africa had experienced twenty-five years of economic and political disaster. While 'economic miracles' in China and India raised hundreds of millions from extreme poverty, Africa seemed to have been overtaken by violent conflict ...

Beyond western economics

remembering other economic cultures

This book combines intellectual history with contemporary events to offer a critique of mainstream economic thought and its neoliberal policy incarnation in global capitalism. The critique operates both theoretically, at the level of metaphysics and the philosophy of science, and concretely, in case studies of ...

China and India in the age of globalization

The rise of China and India is the story of our times. The unprecedented expansion of their economic and power capabilities raises profound questions for scholars and policymakers. What forces propelled these two Asian giants into global pacesetters, and what does their emergence mean for ...

Economic prosperity recaptured

the finnish path from crisis to rapid growth

Aut. Seppo Honkapohja...[et al]. Many countries have experienced major economic changes since the mid- 1980s as a result of the deregulation and liberalization of national financial systems - two key aspects of globalization - with some experiencing boom and bust in rapid succession. The small Northern ...

Guía de bolsillo para personas inquietas

¿Qué cosas hay que saber? ¿Qué conocimientos son "indispensables para ir por el mundo"? Hablamos del derecho a conocer pero... ¿tenemos el deber de conocer ciertas cosas? El conocimiento es un derecho y un privilegio, pero hay casos en los que también es un deber ...

The north korean economy

between crisis and catastrophe

Viewed from afar, North Korea may appear bizarre, or positively irrational. But as Nicholas Eberstadt demonstrates in this meticulously researched volume, there is a grim coherence to North Korea's political economy, and a ruthless logic undergirding it - one that unreservedly subordinates economic welfare to ...

The world is curved

hidden dangers to the global economy

Confronting the ever-increasing challenges of globalism and the economic problems plaguing the U.S. from a downward spiraling value of the dollar to the subprime mortgage crisis, Smick argues again and again that the solution to the problem is deregulation and encouraging entrepreneurship. While he ...

Claves de la economía mundial 2009

Dir. Enrique Jiménez de Córdob. Acompaña CD-ROM. En la edición 09 las secciones Tema Central, Tribuna Empresarial y La economía en Imágenes están dedicados a las infraestructuras y energía. Se trata la inversión en infraestructuras como política anticíclica en la actual crisis global, se describen ...

Military economics

the interaction of power and money

Military power and conflict have fuelled economic growth throughout history. Money matters to the military; it is needed to finance war and the desire to acquire it is often the motive for fighting. This book examines the interaction of economics and conflict, it explains the ...

El mundo en cifras

país a país

VV.AA. La información recogida en El mundo en cifras, país a país y su cuidadosa edición dotan a esta obra de un carácter único en el mercado editorial español ya que aglutina, ordena y sintetiza en formato de ficha los datos de variables económicas ...

Anales de economía aplicada 2008

Introducción a la economía

preguntas y casos resueltos

Este libro va dirigido a todas aquellas personas interesadas en comprender los conceptos económicos más comunes y, en concreto, puede ser especialmente útil para los estudiantes de economía y para los profesores. El libro incluye una batería de preguntas tipo test, ejercicios numéricos, propuestas de ...

The Pirate´s Dilemma

How Hackers, Punk Capitalists and Graffiti Millionaires are Remixing or Culture and Changing the World

Music journalist Mason, a former pirate radio and club DJ in London, explores how open source culture is changing the distribution and control of information and harnessing the old system of punk capitalism to new market conditions governing society. According to Mason, this movement's ...

La gestión estratégica del siglo XXI

Hoy nadie discute que la gestión de la economía, la política y las cuestiones sociales han de plantearse desde una perspectiva estrategica. En ese sentido, en este libro revisamos las estrategias de desarrollo económico y social y la gestión de la política en el mundo ...

Balance económico regional

(Autonomías y Provincias), años 2000 a 2007