In praise of empires

globalization and order

Multinationals and global capitalism

from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century

This book provides an essential historical framework for understanding global business. The author shows how entrepreneurs built a global economy in the nineteenth century by creating firms that pursued resources and markets across borders. It demonstrates how firms shifted strategies as the first global economy ...

The territorial politics of welfare

Since the mid-1970s, European states have been reassessing the welfare state and reconfiguring their relationships with each other. The inter- linkages between these phenomena, however, have never been comprehensively examined. This innovative volume situates the expansion and ongoing development of the welfare state within the ...

Globalization, governmentality and global politics

regulation for the rest of us?

Globalization is moving fast, impacting on the life of nations with accelerating force. This book delivers a keen assessment of how it is being handled by specific groups seeking positive outcomes for the people and causes they represent. Transnational social regulation is increasingly becoming the ...

En defensa de la globalización

el rostro humano de un mundo global

Este es un libro valiente, polémico y atrevido, tanto para quienes detestan la palabra «globalización» como para aquellos que creenen el progreso que suponen las diversas formas de integración internacional en terrenos como el comercio, la inversión y la difusión de las tecnologías. Un libro ...

The decline of the welfare state

demography and globalization

Movimientos de resistencia al capitalismo global

Liberating economics

feminist perspectives on families, work, and globalization

The end of poverty

how we can make it happen in our lifetime

Marrying vivid, passionate storytelling with profound, rigorous analysis, Jeffrey Sachs explains why, over the past two hundred years, wealth has diverged across the planet and why the poorest nations have so far been unable to improve their lot. He explains how to arrive at an ...

Contabilidad General en España

Globalization

a short history

"Globalization" has become a popular buzzword for explaining today's world. The expression achieved terminological stardom in the 1990s and was soon embraced by the general public and integrated into numerous languages. But is this much-discussed phenomenon really an invention of modern times? In this ...

Treball infantil i de menors

Las crisis de la globalización

marco teórico y estudio de los casos de México y Corea del Sur

Mercado sin ciudadanía

las falacias de la globalización neoliberal

Este libro reflexiona sobre el proceso de mercantilización y de privatización de la sociedad y de los seres humanos,al que está conduciendo la ideología neoliberal de las actuales estrategias de la globalización .El proceso de globalización en sí mismo no es negativo,lo malo ...

Globalización y democracia

Mundialización

saberes y creencias

Economía aplicada

introducción teórica y práctica

Parecon

vida después del capitalismo

«¿Qué es lo que quieres?» es una pregunta que se hace constantemente a los activistas antiglobalización que protestan contra la pobreza, la alienación y la degradación de nuestro mundo. En esta nueva y elogiada obra, Michael Albert propone una respuesta: economía participativa (participatory economics en ...

European welfare states

comparative perspectives

"European Welfare States" is a timely textbook that offers a comprehensive but accessible overview of issues concerning European welfare states. It brings together a discussion of the theories and techniques of comparative policy analysis and a description of current developments in selected welfare state regimes ...

Ahead of the curve

a Commonsense guide to forecasting business and market cycles

Today's managers and investors are bombarded with so many conflicting economic reports and data that it seems impossible to know which way the market will turn until it's too late. Now, a thirty-five year "Wall Street" veteran enables managers and investors to stop ...