Respect

In a world of inequality

The Big Mac index

applications of purchasing power parity

PPP is one of the most widely researched areas in international finance and one of the most controversial in the theory of exchange rate determination. This book demonstrates the applications of Purchasing Power Parity in exchange rate determination as well as more practical applications of ...

Globalization and the poor

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

¿Qué nos esta pasando?

el dolor de la sociedad

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 ...

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 ...

The other war

global poverty and the millennium challenge account

Globalización, Internet y marketing

una respuesta ética

Pobreza, desarrollo y globalización en el sur del sur

Maukaku propugna que sean los africanos quienes diseñen y protagonicen su propia evolución, estableciendo unas relaciones democráticas en un entorno de libertad. En el aspecto económico defiende la potenciación del mercado interior africano (globalización interna) para así poderse incorporar en condiciones de igualdad al comercio ...

La globalización de los Derechos Humanos

La tan llevada y traída globalización no tiene como propósito que todos los habitantes de la tierra se benefiecien de ella, sino que es, en realidad, un proceso sistemático de exclusión que permite a la economía de mercado mundial quedarse con la parte del león ...

The limits of convergence

globalization and organizational change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain

This work challenges the notion that globalization encourages economic convergence and cultural homogenization across national borders. A systematic comparison of organizational change in Argentina, South Korea and Spain since 1950 finds that global competition forces countries to exploit their distinctive strengths, resulting in unique development ...

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 ...

Mujeres y desarrollo

respuestas a la globalización

Globalization under construction

governmentality,law,and identity

kaleidoscopic look at the intersections of globalization and governance. The future outlines of the new global order are the constant object of speculation#economic, political, and metaphysical. From the sunny new world proclaimed by global free marketers to the rebellion against globalization unleashed in the ...

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 ...