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 ...

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 ...

Work to welfare

how men become detached from the labour market

Respect

In a world of inequality

The economics of social policy

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 ...

The roaring nineties

seeds of destruction

The 1990s promised prosperity for the world: a new era of unprecedented economic growth, with capitalism American-style reigning supreme. So why did it all go wrong? As chairman of Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors and Chief Economist at the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz was ...

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

Economía y familia

la solidaridad intergeneracional

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

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 ...

The globalization reader

Globalization effectively captures the growth of linkages across national boundaries, the global expansion of a market economy and the rise of a complex but integrated world society. "The Globalization Reader" makes sense of a term that has become an all-purpose catchword in contemporary debates. The ...

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 ...

EL ALCA y las cumbres de las Américas

¿una nueva relación público-privada?

Un equipo de invetigadores de distintas instituciones de la región, coordinados por el Programa de Estudios sobre Instituciones Económicas Internacionales (PIE) de FLACSO- Argentina y con el apoyo de la Fundación Ford, analiza los alcances e impactos de esta nueva dialéctica generada entre gobiernos, mercados ...

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 ...