The travels of a T-Shirt in the global economy

an economist examines the markets, power, and politics of world trade

"The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy" has been lauded by the "New York Times", "Financial Times", and reviewers worldwide. Translated in fourteen languages, "Travels" has received numerous awards for its frank and nuanced discussion of global economic realities. Now updated and revised ...

Seeing the elephant

understanding globalization from trunk to tail

Thanks to globalization, more countries depend on each other for trade, capital, and ideas than ever before. Yet politically, these countries are drifting further apart. In "Seeing the Elephant", author and emerging markets expert Peter Marber describes how increasing economic integration and the rise of ...

En defensa del capitalismo global

«Cuando hablo de defensa del capitalismo, entiendo por éste la libertad capitalista de actuar y de experimentar distintas soluciones sin necesidad de encomendarse a mandatarios ni controladores fronterizos. Se trata básicamente del mismo tipo de libertad que en el pasado pensé que podría proporcionar el ...

Geographies of development in the 21st century

an introduction to global south

Written by two widely published academics with many years experience in university teaching, research and consultancy, "Geographies of Development in the 21st Century" provides a concise yet informative introduction to development in the contemporary Global South. Incorporating field research from Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Colombia ...

Globalización

breve guía para no perderse

Vivimos en un mundo globalizado, crecientemente internacionalizado, en el que ningún país es ajeno a lo que sucede en el resto. Los productos que consumimos, la información que nos llega, las empresas que nos dan trabajo, los inmigrantes con que convivimos o las corrientes culturales ...

No marcas

diario de un anticonsumista

«Hace menos de un siglo, los logos que aparecían en las prendas de vestir existían para identificar la calidad y el origen de la producción. A día de hoy, estos símbolos han venido a significar un tremendo mucho más. Mediante la repetición que utiliza la ...

Does ethics have a chance in a world of consumers?

Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most admired social thinkers of our time, seeks to liberate us from the thinking that renders us hopeless in the face of our own domineering governments and threats from unknown forces abroad. He shows us we can give up belief ...

La movilización global

breve tratado para atacar la realidad

Este libro tiene por objeto una sola cosa: la realidad. Nuestra realidad, esta realidad que coincide con el capitalismo. Decir realidad capitalista es por lo tanto redundante. Hoy la realidad se ha hecho capitalista, y no deja nada afuera. Consideramos esta realidad hecha absoluto, este ...

Crisis y respuestas en la Red

Anuario de movimientos sociales 2009

Coords. Pedro Ibarra y Elena Grau. Llevamos diez años publicando el Anuario de Movimiento Sociales y al hacer un balance vemos que hemos combinado dos miradas sobre los movimientos. Relatar su práctica, lo que han hecho y cómo lo han hecho. Y profundizar, con un ...

Flat broke in the free market

how globalization fleeced working people

Growing up in an African American working class family in the American Midwest, Jon Jeter watched the jobs supporting a community disappaear. As a journalist for the "Washington Post", he reported on the free market of the IMF and the World Bank, which in a ...

Portfolios of the poor

how the world's poor live on $2 a day

Auts. Daryl Collins...[et.al]. About forty percent of the world's people live on incomes of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food ...

Viaje a los países del algodón

pequeño tratado de mundialización

El libro, a caballo del libro de viajes y el ensayo, nos sugiere un viaje por la globalización a través de la historia y la industria del algodón: los árabes, los griegos, los indios americanos... Malí, China, Texas, Mato Grosso, y un largo etcétera... ¡por ...

Why your world is a about to get a whole lot smaller

Cheap oil is equal to foreign imports. Huge houses. Big cars. Binge flying. Expensive oil is equal to local food. Local industry. Small cars. Fewer flights. Our civilization as we know it is entirely dependant on cheap oil. And that civilization is about to get ...

Where underpants come from

from checkout to cotton field-travels through the New China and the New Global Economy

British travel writer Bennett informs and endears in his quixotic quest to trace the provenance of his underpants in order to learn something about the commercial and industrial processes on which [his] easy existence depends.# Despite his publisher's misgivings, the author travels to the ...

The politics of global regulation

Eds. Walter Mattli, Ngaire Woods. Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level. In whose interest is the global economy being regulated? Under what conditions ...

Enough

why the world's poorest starve in an Age of Plenty

This is a powerful indictment of the economic, political and social dynamics that perpetuate famine - and a powerful call for change - by a renowned "Wall Street Journal" team. For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger ...

The limits of economic globalization

north-south divergence

Hard on the heels of putting the Cold War bogeyman to rest, economic globalization has loomed, at least for some, as the world system's next crisis carrier. Globalization creates winners and losers and tramples on the distinctiveness of local cultures and sovereignties. There is ...

The caribbean economy in the Age of Globalization

Examines how globalization is altering the structure of the extremely foreign trade-dependent Caribbean economies. This book treats these small economies together as a single economy by focusing on their common features.

Globalization's limits

conflicting national interests in trade and finance

So far there has been only praise for globalization. However, the export wave of China's manufacturing machine and, more recently, the Global financial crisis show that Globalization has limits. Globalization, the internationalization of trade, and financial integration are having enormous implications for businesses as ...

Animal spirits

como influye la psicología humana en la economía

Solemos dar por sentado que las grandes decisiones económicas y financieras se toman desde el análisis y la observación de los datos micro y macroeconómicos. No obstante, lo cierto es que, más a menudo de lo que creemos, son factores psicológicos e iiracionales, en forma ...