Globalization and growth

case studies in national economic strategies

This text contains cases developed for use in teaching international political economy at the Harvard Business School. They represent the major developmental trajectories that have defined the recent history of economic growth. These cases empirically describe the strategies of China, India, Japan, Mexico, South Africa ...

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 ...

Why globalization works

A bestseller in hardback, this book offers a powerful defence of the global market economy. Martin Wolf explains how globalization works, critiques the charges against it, argues that the biggest obstacle to global economic progress has been the failure not of the market but of ...

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 takes the reader on a fascinating, around-the-world journey to reveal the economic and political lessons from the life story of a simple t-shirt. Over five years, business professor Pietra Rivoli traveled from a Texas cotton field ...

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 next global stage

challenges and opportunities in our borderless world

Globalization is a fact. You can't stop it; it has already happened; it is here to stay. And we are moving into a new global stage. A radically new world is taking shape from the ashes of yesterday's nation-based economic world. To succeed ...

Las nuevas fuerzas del desarrollo

¿Es posible el desarrollo económico sostenible en un contexto de creciente competencia y globalización de la economía y la sociedad? ¿Cuáles son los mecanismos que lo hacen posible? ¿Qué acciones y relaciones favorecen un proceso continuo y duradero de desarrollo? El autor da respuesta a ...

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 ...

Debating globalization

"Debating Globalization" is a short, accessible introduction to the debate about globalization written by many of the most prominent figures in the field. Published by Polity in association with open Democracy, the book is notable not just for focusing on the pressing difficulties facing our ...

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 ...

Globalization and international economic instability

This book is an authoritative collection of important previusly published articles addressing the changing nature of the linkages between domestic financial system caused by the globalization of economic activity and capital flows. How these linkeges affect developed emerging and eveloping economies are investigated as well ...

Globalización de las resistencias

el estado de las luchas 2005

De Seattle a Génova, del Otro Davos a Porto Alegre, las protestas contra las políticas neoliberales se multiplican. La dinámica de convergencia entre movimientos sociales antiguos y nuevos, urbanos y rurales, del Norte y del Sur, en gestación desde hace varios años, se cristaliza en ...

Economía liberal para no economistas y no liberales

Convencido de las bondades de la economía liberal de mercado, Sala i Martín expone su pensamiento con el carácter divulgativo que caracteriza sus colaboraciones en los medios de comunicación. Un libro serio y a la vez entretenido y asequible. Un libro de economía para no ...

China

la trampa de la globalización

China como la vencedora incontestable, inesperada y afortunada de la globalización. Tal es el severo e inquietante diagnóstico de este libro. Mientras tanto, Occidente continúa ciego y sordo ante las señales, bastante obvias sin embargo, de tal presagio y de sus severas consecuencias para el ...

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 ...

A new World order

Global governance is here--but not where most people think. This book presents the far-reaching argument that not only should we have a new world order but that we already do. Anne-Marie Slaughter asks us to completely rethink how we view the political world. It's ...

Las causas de la pobreza en el Tercer Mundo

imagen social y conducta de ayuda

La conducta de ayuda a los países pobres es diferente a la que practicas con quien tienes cerca de ti, aquel con quien interaccionas. El necesitado no pide la ayuda directamente, nos la solicita un intermediario, una ONG. Por eso las características de la ayuda ...

The millennium development goals

raising the resources to tackle world poverty

How can the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) be made a reality by 2015? If the MDGs are to halve global poverty and significantly improve conditions for the world's poor on schedule, it is essential to put the requisite funding in place. This is an ...

Questioning globalization

Globalization has become the cliche of our times. The virus of neo- liberal globalization has struck almost everybody including within the ranks of the left. Its proponents claim that it produces 'accelerated, efficient' development along with democracy and human rights. Reality shows the opposite. Economic ...