Inequality, cooperation, and environmental sustainability

Would improving the economic, social, and political condition of the world's disadvantaged people slow - or accelerate - environmental degradation? In "Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability", leading social scientists provide answers to this difficult question, using new research on the impact of inequality on environmental sustainability ...

International economic indicators and central banks

This book presents an in-depth look at the investment implications of international indicators and foreign central banks. This book fills a major information void on measures of international economic performance. It discusses how major industrial countries measure and report their national economic performance information and ...

Poverty and discrimination

Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In "Poverty and Discrimination", economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty ...

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trends for the future

From the world-renowned trendspotting duo who has predicted everything from metrosexuality to the growth of global brands comes a new, enlightening look at the future. Based on intensive research and interviews as well as the authors' real-world and business experience in locations across the globe ...

All politics is global

explaining international regulatory regimes

Has globalization diluted the power of national governments to regulate their own economies? Are international governmental and nongovernmental organizations weakening the hold of nation-states on global regulatory agendas? Many observers think so. But in All Politics Is Global, Daniel Drezner argues that this view is ...

Hacia una economía con rostro humano

Una pregunta de fondo recorre esta obra heterodoxa y no convencional: ¿ es posible una economía con rostro humano? El autor demuestra que es viable y que es la salida real a los angustiosos problemas de América Latina. Para ello cuestiona con profundidad las diez falacias ...

An Introduction to economic geography globalization, uneven development and palce

Today's rapidly flowing global economy means the geographical economic perspective has never been more important. "An Introduction to Economic Geography" comprehensively guides students through the core issues and debates of this vibrant and exciting area, whilst simultaneously exploring the range of approaches and paradigms ...

The secret history of the American Empire

economic hit men, jackals, and the truth about global corruption

In the Secret History of the American Empire, Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world today and, drawing on interviews with other hit men, jackals, CIA operatives, reporters, and activists, examines the current geopolitical crisis. Instability is the norm: It's clear that ...

Les enjeux de la mondialisation

les grandes questions économiques et sociales III

Ce livre est le dernier d'une série de trois " Repères" qui ont pour ambition de couvrir les principales questions économiques et sociales contemporaines, à l'échelle nationale, européenne et mondiale. Leur particularité est d'avoir été conçus et écrits par des spécialistes de ces ...

The world economy towards global disequilibrium

American-Asian indifference and european fears

This book stresses how the rise of China and India has completely changed the world economy, moving it towards disequilibrium. Several alternative economic policies are tested to seek a way towards high growth in any continent associated with long-run real and financial equilibrium. The Authors ...

National perspectives on globalization

This book brings together authors from eleven countries to analyze and reflect on what globalization means to them. Does it mean the same in Russia as it does in the U.S.? The same in China as in South Africa? This book provides a global ...

La mafia siciliana

el negocio de la protección privada

En una sociedad invadida por la desconfianza, donde la democracia y las instituciones son débiles, es inevitable que una organización como la mafia tome en sus manos una obligación del Estado: garantizar las transacciones comerciales a través de la venta de protección. Ése es el ...

Capitalism as if the world matters

Fully revised and updated edition of Porritt's groundbreaking work includes fresh coverage of the USA and China, corporate giants such as Wal-Mart and GE, the evolving politics of climate change and the rise of religious environmentalism. When first published in 2005, "Capitalism as if ...

Resisting global toxics

transnational movements for enviromental justice

This title examines the export of hazardous wastes to poor communities of color around the world and charts the global social movements that challenge them.Every year, nations and corporations in the "global North" produce millions of tons of toxic waste. Too often this hazardous ...

El futuro imposible del capitalismo

ensayos en memoria de José María Vidal Villa

Jose María Vidal Villa fue pionero en el análisis sobre la globalización capitalista durante su trayectoria intelectual y académica en el estudio de la economía mundial y el imperialismo. Cinco años después de su desaparición, diversos colegas y discípulos quieren rendir un homenaje a su ...

Las cuentas de la Nación. Tomo II.

Ejercicios

Las cuentas de la nación pretendió ser una introducción a la economía aplicada a través de las magnitudes y cuentas más relevantes de una economía moderna, precisamente porque el sistema de cuentas nacionales permite obtener una visión global de un sistema económico.

Global economic decay

war, future crises and changes in global governance

What are the possibilities for and conditions of global security in the 21st century? This book provides an innovative study of future wars, crises and transformations of the global political economy. It brings together economic theory, political economy, peace and conflict research, philosophy and historical ...

Cómo los ricos destruyen el planeta

Nos encontramos en un momento de la historia que plantea un desafío radicalmente nuevo a la especie humana: por primera vez, su dinamismo prodigioso colisiona con los límites de la biosfera y pone en peligro su porvenir. Vivir este momento significa que debemos encontrar colectivamente ...

Mujeres contra la explotación

la resistencia femenina en un mundo globalizado

¿Cómo afecta la globalización a las mujeres? Es evidente que hay desigualdades entre los sexos, pero ¿acaso existían ya mucho antes de la globalización neoliberal? Por supuesto, la opresión de las mujeres es anterior al capitalismo. Está ligada a la existencia de una división sexual ...

Mito y realidad de la globalización neoliberal

Presentación Claude Serfati. Esta obra trata los grandes mitos y paradigmas generados por la globalización mientras invita al debate y análisis sobre las ideas presentadas. El texto indaga en los procesos globales y desiguales que se gestan en la actualidad, y presenta el cuadro institucional ...