El sutil poder de las transnacionales

lógica, funcionamiento e impacto de las grandes empresas en un mundo globalizado

Las empresas transnacionales son un actor clave en el actual proceso de globalización económica y su poder económico y político es cada vez mayor. Pero el poder de las transnacionales destaca a menudo por su sutileza, de manera que no siempre es perceptible y se ...

Development in theory and practice

Latin American perspectives

This definitive reader brings together seminal articles on development in Latin America. Tracing the concepts and major debates surrounding the issue, the text focuses on development theory through three contrasting historical perspectives: imperialism, underdevelopment and dependency, and globalization. By offering a rich array of essays ...

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 ...

The Lugano report

on preserving capitalism in the twenty-first century

This is a new edition of Susan Geroge's acclaimed satire on capitalism.Fictional experts recruited by world leaders to discuss the future of global capitalism provide their assessment of the dire state of the current economy and put forward new ideas for ensuring the ...

Europe Inc.

regional and global restructuring and the rise of corporate power

Over the past two decades, the major international corporations have become industrial lobbyists within the European Union to such an extent that they pose a threat to democracy. / This new and fully revised edition of Europe Inc. provides a much-needed insight into the systematic ways ...

¿Es sostenible la globalización en América Latina?

debates con Manuel Castells.Vol.1: La globalización y América Latina: asignaturas pendientes

En el primer volumen se contrastan con singular rigor y profundidad las dos caras que presenta la globalización en la región: de un lado las transformaciones productivas y las innovaciones tecnológicas y, por el otro, el lado oscuro conformado por el déficit de equidad, por ...

¿Es sostenible la globalización en América Latina?

debates con Manuel Castells.Vol.2: Nación y cultura. América Latina en la Era de la Información

En el segundo volumen culmina esta visión integral de la globalización con el análisis del poder de la identidad en la Era de la Información a partir del movimiento indígena, de mujeres y del fenómeno religioso. La crisis del Estado-nación que vive la región y ...

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 ...

The Kimchi matters

global business and local politics in a crisis-driven world

Globalization hype has obscured a few basic truths-that political stability and economic growth are usually determined on the local level,and that they're most affected by local institutions, local ledarship,and other such factors.Tha Kimchi Matters shows that globalization (and events like the ...

Las expresiones locales de la globalización

México y España

El estudio de la globalización se ha convertido en un desafío multidisciplinario fundamental al que este libro responde de la siguiente manera: por un lado, ofrece una mirada antropológica y con esto incita al diálogo con otras disciplinas. Por el otro lado, ofrece una mirada ...

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 ...

Los espectros de la globalización

Los análisis de la globalización económica suelen apelar a una dualidad entre lo global y lo nacional según la cual el primero de los términos acrecienta su poder a expensas del segundo. La introducción de un tercer elemento -las ciudades- le permite a Saskia Sassen ...

Un manifiesto anticapitalista

Las manifestaciones antiglobalización de Seattle, Washington, Millau, Melbourne, Praga, Seúl, Niza, Quebec City, Gotemburgo, Génova o Barcelona, ocurridas en los últimos tres años, no obedecen a brotes de protesta esporádicos. Tienen que ver con un sentimiento generalizado de rechazo a los valores del mercado y ...

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 ...

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 ...

Community water, community management

from system to service in rural areas

This book is based on the experience gained over twenty years of working to strengthen the capacities of rural communities to manage their own water supply systems. The day-to-day experiences of 22 communities in six different countries # with differing geographical, socio-economic and cultural settings # are ...

An evolutionary approach to social welfare

In social life, the adoption of norms and values typically help in settling potential conflicts of interest to the mutual benefit of all. While not evident immediately, social norms and values play a crucial role in the theory of social choice INDICE Part One: Evolution ...

Renegotiating the welfare state

flexible adjustment through corporatist concentration

Why have some countries have been more successful in welfare state reform than others? This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state and peak associations of employers and employees. This corporatist concertation has been blamed ...

Distant proximities. Dynamics beyond globalization

Has globalization the phenomenon outgrown "globalization" the concept? In Distant Proximities, one of America's senior scholars presents a work of sweeping vision that addresses the dizzying anxieties of the post- Cold War, post-September 11 world. Culminating the influential reassessment of international relations he began ...

The moral economy of welfare states

Britain and Germany compared

This text investigates why people are willing to support an institutional arrangement that realizes large-scale redistribution of wealth between social groups of society. Steffen Mau introduces the concept of "the moral economy" to show that acceptance of welfare exchanges rests on moral assumptions and ideas ...