Inequality, cooperation, and environmental sustainability

Would improving the economic, social, and political condition of the world's disadvantaged people slow - or accelerate - environmental degradation? In "Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability", leading social scientists provide answers to this difficult question, using new research on the impact of inequality on environmental sustainability ...

Global capitalism

its fall and rise in twentieth century

Globalisation is a choice, not a fact. It is the result of policy decisions and the politics that shape them. Jeffry A. Frieden's insightful history explores the golden age of globalisation during the early years of the twentieth century, its swift collapse in the ...

Poverty and discrimination

Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In "Poverty and Discrimination", economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty ...

¿Es posible acabar con la pobreza?

Muhammad Yunus, Premio Nobel de la Paz 2006, cuenta cómo se gestó su gran proyecto de los microcréditos, orientado a erradicar la pobreza desde su raíz y la revolución que ha supuesto la aplicación de sus teorías en las ideas y prácticas económicas.

All politics is global

explaining international regulatory regimes

Has globalization diluted the power of national governments to regulate their own economies? Are international governmental and nongovernmental organizations weakening the hold of nation-states on global regulatory agendas? Many observers think so. But in All Politics Is Global, Daniel Drezner argues that this view is ...

Hacia una economía con rostro humano

Una pregunta de fondo recorre esta obra heterodoxa y no convencional: ¿ es posible una economía con rostro humano? El autor demuestra que es viable y que es la salida real a los angustiosos problemas de América Latina. Para ello cuestiona con profundidad las diez falacias ...

Los conflictos y la paz

En el mundo hay tanta violencia que debemos comprender sus causas y encontrar el modo de enfrentarnos a ella. En este libro se proponen soluciones al conflicto partiendo siempre de la base que el conflicto en sí no es malo pero puede descontrolarse fácilmente y ...

Brewing justice

fair trade coffe, sustainability, and survival

Fair trade is a fast-growing alternative market intended to bring better prices and greater social justice to small farmers around the world. But is it working? This vivid study of coffee farmers in Mexico offers the first thorough investigation of the social, economic, and environmental ...

The secret history of the American Empire

economic hit men, jackals, and the truth about global corruption

In the Secret History of the American Empire, Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world today and, drawing on interviews with other hit men, jackals, CIA operatives, reporters, and activists, examines the current geopolitical crisis. Instability is the norm: It's clear that ...

Globalisation, development and transitio

conversations with eminent economists

This unique book provides a comprehensive survey of the major economic issues that have helped shape the modern world. It includes discussions of the latest research findings in the international economic development literature and scrutinizes some of the most important debates in contemporary economics. Brian ...

The world economy towards global disequilibrium

American-Asian indifference and european fears

This book stresses how the rise of China and India has completely changed the world economy, moving it towards disequilibrium. Several alternative economic policies are tested to seek a way towards high growth in any continent associated with long-run real and financial equilibrium. The Authors ...

Regional perspectives on globalization

In this book, twelve regional chapters, encompassing all of the major regions of the world, provide a global dialogue on globalization. The authors provide much-needed new perspectives on how we should think about globalization, its impacts and forms of resistance and response. By grounding their ...

National perspectives on globalization

This book brings together authors from eleven countries to analyze and reflect on what globalization means to them. Does it mean the same in Russia as it does in the U.S.? The same in China as in South Africa? This book provides a global ...

La doctrina del shock

el auge del capitalismo del desastre

La doctrina del shock es la historia no oficial del libre mercado. Desde Chile hasta Rusia, desde Sudáfrica hasta Canadá la implantación del libre mercado responde a un programa de ingeniería social y económica que Naomi Klein identifica como «capitalismo del desastre». Tras una investigación ...

The shock doctrine

the rise of disaster capitalism

The bestselling author of "No Logo" argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for 50 years.

Capitalism as if the world matters

Fully revised and updated edition of Porritt's groundbreaking work includes fresh coverage of the USA and China, corporate giants such as Wal-Mart and GE, the evolving politics of climate change and the rise of religious environmentalism. When first published in 2005, "Capitalism as if ...

Resisting global toxics

transnational movements for enviromental justice

This title examines the export of hazardous wastes to poor communities of color around the world and charts the global social movements that challenge them.Every year, nations and corporations in the "global North" produce millions of tons of toxic waste. Too often this hazardous ...

Free trade reimagined

the world division of labor and the method of economics

El fin de la pobreza

cómo conseguirlo en nuestro tiempo

Por primera vez en la historia nuestra generación tiene la oportunidad de acabar con la pobreza extrema de los países más necesitados del mundo. Pero ¿cómo detener el círculo vicioso de enfermedad, endeudamiento y catástrofes naturales que mantiene en el atraso amás de mil millones ...

Global economic decay

war, future crises and changes in global governance

What are the possibilities for and conditions of global security in the 21st century? This book provides an innovative study of future wars, crises and transformations of the global political economy. It brings together economic theory, political economy, peace and conflict research, philosophy and historical ...