Construir sociedades decentes

replantear el papel de la seguridad social en el desarrollo

La recesión mundial ha incrementado el desempleo y la pobreza en todo el mundo. Este libro expone las razones por las que es necesario desarrollar un sistema de seguridad social exhaustivo en todos los países, sin considerar sus niveles de bienestar, como medida orientada a ...

La richesse cachée des nations

enquête sur les paradis fiscaux

La mondialisation financière a démultiplié les possibilités d’évasion fiscale pour les plus fortunés. Les principes essentiels de justice fiscale et le bon fonctionnement de la finance internationale sont sapés par une poignée de territoires voyous qui rongent la souveraineté des États nations. Sur la ...

Justice as welfare

equity and solidarity

Justice as Welfare provides an egalitarian account of distributive justice by rethinking notions of welfare. It first considers possible forms of decentered welfare to promote communal and individual autonomy rather than the bureaucratic, centralized market-oriented control. Next, it uses theoretical resources to rethink the conventional ...

Restoring public debt sustainability

the role of independent fiscal institutions

Restoring Public Debt Sustainability: The Role of Independent Fiscal Institutions represents the first comprehensive survey of a new generation of independent fiscal institutions, established to promote transparency in public finances through real-time monitoring of the soundness of budgetary policymaking. The chapters, authored by heads of ...

La causa humana

cómo hacer buen uso del fin de un mundo

Hemos entrado en un mundo convulso en el que la exacerbación de las rivalidades puede conducirnos a unas nuevas regresiones tan terribles como las de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Sin embargo, esto no es inevitable. Por detrás de las sombras de la mundialización ...

The killing fields of inequality

Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate ...

Desiguales por Ley

las políticas públicas contra la igualdad de género

María Pazos Morán explica en este libro que las políticas públicas vigentes proporcionan incentivos económicos para que se mantenga la familia tradicional, no permiten que ambos sexos puedan repartirse igualitariamente el cuidado de sus criaturas y personas dependientes e impiden a muchas mujeres mantenerse en ...

The Age of Globalization

anarchists and the anticolonial imagination

The exchange of ideas makes history as surely as the exchange of gunfire. "The Age of Globalization "(previously published as Under Three Flags) is an account of the unlikely connections that made up late nineteenth-century politics and culture. In particular, Benedict Anderson examines the links ...

The american way of poverty

how the other half still lives

Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book "The Other America," in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It is made up of both the long-term chronically poor and ...

Economics of agglomeration

cities, industrial location, and globalization

Economic activities are not concentrated on the head of a pin, nor are they spread evenly over a featureless plane. On the contrary, they are distributed very unequally across locations, regions and countries. Even though economic activities are, to some extent, spatially concentrated because of ...

Historia de la globalización

I. Orígenes del orden económico mundial

En un recorrido que parte de las vísperas de la expansión de Europa hasta fines del siglo XVIII; Ferrer estudia los principales hitos de un proceso globalizador de cuya sorprendente evolución somos protagonistas y testigos. Libro de historia económica y política, pero también religiosa y ...

Historia de la globalización

II. La Revolución Industrial y el segundo orden mundial

Este volumen es un tratado acerca del segundo orden mundial que, de acuerdo con Ferrer, abarca desde 1800 hasta el estallido de la primera guerra del siglo XX, en 1914. Para hacer esta historia el autor consideró el entramado de las varias fuerzas que operaron ...

Destrucción masiva

geopolítica del hambre

«Sindicatos campesinos transnacionales, asociaciones de labradores y de ganaderos luchan contra los buitres del oro verde y contra los especuladores que intentan robarles sus tierras. Esa es la fuerza principal del combate contra el hambre» «El derecho humano a la alimentación, tal como se desprende ...

Law in a complex State

complexity in the Law and structure of welfare

Approximately half of the total UK population are in receipt of one or more welfare benefits, giving rise to the largest single area of government expenditure. The law and structures of social security are highly complex, made more so by constant adjustments as government pursues ...

Making peace with the Earth

In this compelling and rigorously documented exposition, Vandana Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalisation in its pursuit of profit and power and shows its devastating environmental impact. Shiva argues that consumerism lubricates the war against the earth and that corporate control violates all ...

The new industrial revolution

consumers, globalization and the end of mass production

The rapid emergence of China and India as prime locations for low-cost manufacturing has led some analysts to conclude that manufacturers in the "old economies" - the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Japan - are being edged out of a profitable future. But if countries that ...

Scarcity

why having too little means so much

Why can we never seem to keep on top of our workload, social diary or chores? Why does poverty persist around the world? Why do successful people do things at the last minute in a sudden rush of energy? Here, economist Sendhil Mullainathan and psychologist ...

Underclass

a history of the excluded since 1880

Who are those at the bottom of society? There has been much discussion in recent years, on both Left and Right, about the existence of an alleged 'underclass' in both Britain and the USA. It has been claimed this group lives outside the mainstream of ...

Perdidos

¿quién maneja los hilos del poder?. Los planes secretos del Club Bilderberg

¿Quién se ha quedado nuestro dinero? ¿Quién dirige nuestra política e instituciones? ¿Los despidos y recortes se deciden desde aquí o se pactan desde despachos en la otra punta del mundo? ¿Existe una mano invisible, férreamente organizada, que ha creado una crisis artificial con un ...

How much have global problems cost the world?

a scorecard from 1900 to 2050

There are often blanket claims that the world is facing more problems than ever but there is a lack of empirical data to show where things have deteriorated or in fact improved. In this book, some of the world's leading economists discuss ten problems ...