Activism and social change

lessons for community and local organizing

And why not?

morality and business

Globalización económica y relaciones laborales

The roaring nineties

Democracy's dilemma

environment, social equity, and the global economy

The realities of global economic integration are far more complex than many of its supporters or detractors acknowledge. One consequence of simplistic thinking about globalization, claims Robert Paehlke, is that we tend to focus on economic prosperity to the neglect of other important considerations such ...

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 ...

The paradox of wealth and poverty

mapping the ethical dilemmas of global development

We live in a time of human paradoxes. Scientific knowledge has reached a level of sophistication that permits understanding of the most arcane phenomena and yet religious fundamentalism dominates in many parts of the world. We witness the emergence of a civil, liberal constitutionalism in ...

La creación del mundo o la mundialización

No dejamos de asistir con estupefacción a un mundo que ha perdido su capacidad de hacer mundo. A lo sumo, parece haber ganado solamente la capacidad de multiplicar a la medida de sus medios una proliferación de lo inmundo que nunca antes en la historia ...

Civil society

the american model and third world development

Using case studies from sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, and including such critical countries as South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico and Egypt, this text focuses on the processes and politics of dismantling "corporate" (state directed) economies in ...

Making globalization good

the moral challenges of global capitalism

How can we develop a global economic architecture that is efficient, morally acceptable, geographically inclusive and sustainable over time? If global capitalism - arguably the most efficient wealth-creating system known to man - is to be both economically viable and socially acceptable, each of its four constituent ...

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 in the twenty-first century

convergence or divergence?

"Globalization in the Twenty-First Century" explores the degrees of convergence and/or divergence attributed to the process of globalization. Theoretical contributions to the globalization debate within international political economy are empirically evaluated, covering different geographical parts of the world (Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America ...

Globalization: theory and practice

This volume brings together many leading figures from different disciplines to present a range of contributions covering key dimensions of globalization. These contributions reflect on the limitations of existing theoretical approaches and indicate possible future directions for development. This second edition includes a new introduction ...

Pasiones razonadas

una crítica al liberalismo vernáculo

Los últimos años parecían inaugurar la modernidad, sin embargo, terminaron destruyendo lo poco que teníamos. Los economismtas liberales y sus epígonos nos deslumbraron con la teoría del derrame tan sólo para encubrir el proceso de la concentración, ofreciendo primer mundo para todos. Hoy queda claro ...

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 ...

Clases, castas y jerarquías

Después de la caída del Muro y el "fracaso" de los proyectos comunistas, las tesis marxistas de la lucha de clases han sufrido una notable desvirtualización ante la ideología liber-capitalista imperante. Aun así, negar que siguen existiendo diferencias de clases, sería tratar de ver la ...

Globalización neoliberal y hegemonía de Estados Unidos

El siglo XXI se ha iniciado bajo la rotunda hegemonía de una gran potencia, Estados Unidos, que apenas encuentra oposición. Los atentados del 11 de septiembre de 2001 no han hecho sino ratificar esa condición de supremacía y colocar en un papel marginal a instancias ...

Taming globalization

frontiers of governance

In this volume some of the world's leading analysts of globalization discuss the economic, political and ethical implications of global economic integration. They assess the benefits and the costs of globalization and suggest strategies for reconciling it with the interests and aspirations of the ...

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 ...

Capital justo

la economía liberal

Pese a las recientes convulsiones que agitan el mundo, el triunfo del libre mercado global parece definitivo, y es esencial aprender a convivir con él. Partiendo de esa premisa, CAPITAL JUSTO analiza las tendencias económicas actuales buscando la respuesta a una pregunta: ¿cómo conseguir un ...