Globalization and finance

The globalization of finance is widely recognised as one of the most significant features of the contemporary world. In this timely new book, Tony Porter guides students through current debates about global finance and discusses the extent to which the development of a global marketplace ...

Globalization and urban development

Most research on globalization has focused on macroeconomic and economy-wide consequences. This book explores an under-researched area, the impacts of globalization on cities and national urban hierarchies, especially but not solely in developing countries. Most of the globalization-urban research has concentrated on the "global cities ...

Globalization and growth

case studies in national economic strategies

This text contains cases developed for use in teaching international political economy at the Harvard Business School. They represent the major developmental trajectories that have defined the recent history of economic growth. These cases empirically describe the strategies of China, India, Japan, Mexico, South Africa ...

Economic nationalism in a globalizing world

Why globalization works

A bestseller in hardback, this book offers a powerful defence of the global market economy. Martin Wolf explains how globalization works, critiques the charges against it, argues that the biggest obstacle to global economic progress has been the failure not of the market but of ...

Globalización y orden internacional

The decline of the welfare state

demography and globalization

Liberal internationalism and the decline of the state

the thought of Richard Cobden, David Mitrany, and Kenichi Ohmae

Global encounters

international political economy, development and globalization

The end of poverty

how we can make it happen in our lifetime

Marrying vivid, passionate storytelling with profound, rigorous analysis, Jeffrey Sachs explains why, over the past two hundred years, wealth has diverged across the planet and why the poorest nations have so far been unable to improve their lot. He explains how to arrive at an ...

Los objetivos de desarrollo del milenio

Globalization and international economic instability

This book is an authoritative collection of important previusly published articles addressing the changing nature of the linkages between domestic financial system caused by the globalization of economic activity and capital flows. How these linkeges affect developed emerging and eveloping economies are investigated as well ...

Mercado sin ciudadanía

las falacias de la globalización neoliberal

Este libro reflexiona sobre el proceso de mercantilización y de privatización de la sociedad y de los seres humanos,al que está conduciendo la ideología neoliberal de las actuales estrategias de la globalización .El proceso de globalización en sí mismo no es negativo,lo malo ...

Organización económica internacional y globalización

los organismos internacionales en la economía mundial

Las causas de la pobreza en el Tercer Mundo

imagen social y conducta de ayuda

La conducta de ayuda a los países pobres es diferente a la que practicas con quien tienes cerca de ti, aquel con quien interaccionas. El necesitado no pide la ayuda directamente, nos la solicita un intermediario, una ONG. Por eso las características de la ayuda ...

Babilon and beyond

the economics of anti-capitalist, anti-globalist and radical green movements

"Babylon and Beyond" provides the first clear and accessible guide to the economics of anti-capitalism. Anti-capitalism is a diverse movement: critics accuse it of knowing what it is against, but not knowing what it is for. Anti-capitalists want radical change, but what shape should that ...

Media and glocal change

rethinking communication for development

Globalización y fin de la historia

Entre el sinnúmero de ideas que se produjeron a finales del siglo XX, la idea sobre el fin de la historia gozó de cierta fama. Posiblemente innecesaria o artificial por responder más a un claro afán de propaganda que a una clara inquietud por definir ...

Los nuevos feudales

.T.I: De las multinacionales a la globalización

La estrecha relación entre intereses económicos que se sobreponen a los intereses políticos y sociales es lo que trataremos en este estudio. El dominio de las multinacionales, una vez libre el camino de la Globalización, es lo que está originando las tensiones del siglo XXI ...

Globalization and the location of firms

This authoritative collection reprints the key articles in the field of locational clustering, and the relationship between local clusters and the activities of multinational firms. It covers both the principal theoretical and statistical explanations of the clustering of firms in common locations, and includes a ...