The global internet economy

By 2002, all but a handful of countries were connected to the Internet. The intertwining of the Internet and the globalization of finance, corporate governance, and trade raises questions about national models of technology development and property rights. The sudden ability of hundreds of millions ...

Globalization and the poor

Migration

the boundaries of equality and justice

The freedom to choose where to live and work is a fundamental right in liberal societies. The moral equality of persons is the basic principle of democratic politics. But liberal democracy has no coherent theory of boundaries, or how members should be selected for political ...

Globalization and its discontents

In this contraversial book, the author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics argues that though globalization should be a powerful force for good, it has been badly mishandled by the West (espeically in its lead institutions, the World Bank and the IMF) and ...

International trade and developing countries

bargaining coalitions in GATT an WTO

This work provides a much-needed study of the bargaining coalitions of developing countries in the GATT and WTO. It traces, explains and theorises on the formation and achievements of coalitions from 1982 to the present day. Bargaining together in groups is common practice in international ...

Cosecha robada

el secuestro del suministro mundial de alimentos

"Este libro cuenta la historia de la destrucción de los sistemas alimentarios y agrícolas por parte de las grandes empresas globales, así como la resistencia mostrada ante dicha destrucción por parte de los movimientos populares." VANDANA SHIVA En Cosecha robada, Vandana Shiva muestra los efectos ...

Sociología del sistema global

el impacto socioeconómico y político de las corporaciones transnacionales

El poder que decide sobre el bienestar de los ciudadanos en el mundo actual está en medida creciente en manos de las corporaciones transnacionales que operan de manera casi incontrolable en todas las regiones de la Tierra. Como motor de la nueva clase capitalista transnacional ...

Motivation, agency and public policy

of knights and Knave, pawns and queens

Can we rely on the altruism of professionals or the public service ethos to deliver good quality health and education services? How should patients, parents and pupils behave - as grateful recipients or active consumers? The book provides new answers to these questions, and evaluates recent ...

Alternative capitalisms

geographies of emerging regions

This book aims to examine the effects of globalization and economic and political transformations in the 'emerging regions' of Latin America and the Caribbean, East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union and East Asia by looking at development trajectories and the pathways of both ...

New activism and the corporate response

This book looks at the new militant and radical forms of lobbying and activism and the ways in which companies and organizations can devise strategies to respond or create new communication strategies that will avoid conflict and confrontation. The book draws upon the work of ...

¿Qué hacemos con la OMC?

un programa de cambios para el comercio global

Globalización, Internet y marketing

una respuesta ética

Huir para vivir

la libertad de los refugiados en un mundo global

Eurostat yearbook 2003

The statistical guide to Europe : data 1991-2001

Economía y bienestar social en Cuba a comienzos del siglo XXI

Comunicadores para un futuro globalizado

actas de las XVII Jornadas Internacionales de la Comunicación

Globalization and corporate governance in developing countries

a micro analysis of global corporate. Interconnection between developing. African countries and developed countries

Gangs of America

the rise of corporate power and the disabling of democracy

Through a series of fascinating stories populated by colorful personalities, Gangs of America details the rise of corporate power in America. Driven to answer the central question of how corporations got more rights than people, Ted Nace delves deep into the origins of this institution ...

Handbook of international banking

The Handbook of International Banking provides a clearly accessible source of reference material, covering the main developments that reveal how the internationalization and globalization of banking have developed over recent decades to the present, and analyses the creation of a new global financial architecture. The ...

La globalización desenmascarada

el imperialismo en el siglo XXI

La globalización es un concepto que, pese a ser utilizado de forma exhaustiva, sigue siendo ambiguo y muy arbitrario, ya que está en medio de planteamientos científicos y teóricos, tendencias e intereses políticos y la orientación hacia algunas materias específicas. Aquí los autores prefieren entenderlo ...