Globalization and technology

interdependence, innovation systems and industrial policy

Technology and globalization are interdependent processes. Globalization has a fundamental influence on the creation and diffusion of technology, which, in turn, affects the interdependence of firms and locations. This volume examines the international aspect of this interdependence at two levels. First, between locations, by examining ...

Insurrection

citizen challenges to corporate power

From uncovering major retailers' links to sweatshop abuses and revealing the deception of American tobacco companies, to questioning corporations' ties to repressive dictators, shaming food processors into selling dolphin-safe tuna and demanding that businesses stop destroying old growth forests, citizens have become far more aggressive ...

Poverty and exclusion in North and South

essays on social policy and global poverty reduction

Since 1990 there has been a worrying increase in poverty in the industrialized countries of the "North", while many of the developing countries of the "South" have experienced some improvement. This collection argues that there are a number of likenesses between the predicaments of North ...

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 ...

Global markets and the developing economy

E.V.K. FitzGerald takes a fresh approach to the macroeconomics of developing countries, based on the influence of global markets on domestic savings, private investment, firm behaviours, employment levels and income distribution. He suggests that a Keynesian approach is still relevant today when reformulated ...

Promises not kept

poverty and the betrayal of Third World development

The 6th edition of this very accessible introductory text - the first to be published by Palgrave Macmillan - has been revised throughout to take account of the 'new American hegemony' and 'war on terrorism' of the early 21st century. Presenting a wide range of up-to-date facts ...

Work to welfare

how men become detached from the labour market

Globalización, desigualdad y pobreza

La globalización está reduciendo la pobreza y la desigualdad en el mundo gracias a los pilares en los que se suntenta: la mayor apertura externa de los países y la movilidad creciente entre ellos de los flujos tecnológicos, de bienes y servicios, de inversión y ...

Respect

In a world of inequality

Globalization and national economic welfare

Rethinking the welfare state

the political economy of pension reform

Economía y bienestar social en Cuba a comienzos del siglo XXI

Globalization in historical perspective

As awareness of globalization grows, so too does our need to understand it historically. This volume is one of few to consider globalization in the context of the history of international trade: its eleven papers explore how the process of globalization can be measured by ...

Futurewise

six faces of global change. A personal and corporate guide to survival and success in the third millennium

This is an extraordinary time to be alive. The world is being transformed before our eyes from a technological twenty-first century society into something altogether new and different. Everyone wants to know what the future holds. On an individual, corporate and world scale, how society ...

Globalización e identidades

claves políticas y jurídicas

La reivindicación de reconocimiento de la identidad no es sólo una reacción ante el movimiento hegemónico y homogeneizador, que despliega a escala planetaria el modelo imperante de globalización, sino que constituye un factor políticamente decisivo en el inevitable proceso de transformación de la política, de ...

Trading in knowledge

developement perspectives on TRIPS, trade and sustainability

An unprecedented surge in the scope and level of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection has been engulfing the world. This globalizing trend has shifted the balance of interests between private innovators and society at large and tensions have flared around key public policy concerns. As ...

The globalization of nothing

George Ritzer theorizes in his provocative new book, The Globalization of Nothing, that the "grand narrative" or social story of this period is a movement from "something" to "nothing." Building on but going beyond his renowned McDonaldization thesis, Ritzer contends that societies around the globe ...

Translational conflitcts

Central America, social change and globalization

Contemporary capitalism has disrupted the conventional pattern of revolutionary upheaval, civil wars and pacification in Central America. This study maps the transnational processes that have shaped the region's past and its possible futures

Economía y familia

la solidaridad intergeneracional

The roaring nineties

a new history of the world´s most prosperous decade

Turning his attention to the United States, Stiglitz argues that much of what we understood about the prosperity of the 1990s is wrong. Although jobs were created, technology prospered, inflation fell and poverty was reduced, this book asserts that this decade actually laid the foundations ...