City of gold

an apology for global capitalism in a time of discontent

INDICE Part One: Desire's Constitution 1. Conception 2. Money as Communication 3. Finance and the War Against Time 4. Urban Renewal 5. Governance Part Two: Constitutional Critique 6. Alienation 7. Inauthenticity 8. Identity, Tense Part Three: Exhausted Philosophies 9. The Reformation of Economics 10 ...

Qu'est-ce que la mondialisation?

petit traité à l'usage de ceux et celles qui ne savent pas encore s'il faut être pour ou contre

The new regional politics of development

A broad-ranging assessment of the various development strategies being pursued in the various major regions of the world written to a tight editorial remit by leading authorities on each region. Its aim is to map new patterns of development and inequality moving beyond outdated distinctions ...

Las nuevas guerras en el mundo global

la convergencia entre desarrollo y seguridad

Apenas concluido el siglo XX, el triunfo del modelo liberal conservador en el Norte ha hecho que pronto quedaran viejas las políticas de ayuda y asistencia humanitaria que hasta ese momento orientaban las relaciones con el Sur subdesarrollado. El peso creciente de las empresas e ...

Free trade in the Bermuda Triangle

...and other tales of counterglobalization

An alternative approach to mapping the world offers a new way to contest capitalism and globalization. Shangri-La, the Bermuda Triangle, Transylvania, the Golden Triangle#far- flung in popular conception, these anomalous places nonetheless occupy the same mysterious zone, a mythography of unruly cartographic practices. And ...

The corporation

the pathological pursuit of profit and power

As incisive as Eric Schlosser's bestselling Fast Food Nation, as rigorous as Joseph E. Stiglitz's Globalization and Its Discontents, and as scathing as Michael Moore's Stupid White Men, Joel Bakan's new book is a brilliantly argued account of the corporation's ...

Chomsky y la globalización

Noam Chomsky, aclamado por algunos como el «Einstein de la lingüística moderna», también es bien conocido como un disidente político no conformista y un agudo crítico de la sociedad contemporánea. Este libro examina las opiniones libertarias de Chomsky sobre la hegemonía de la economía globalizada ...

The global market

developing a strategy to manage across borders

The twin forces of ideological change and the technology revolution make globalization the single most important issue facing executives today. But many companies who have developed a presence in the global market now face the challenges inherent in creating a multinational presence with the demands ...

La finance mondialisée

racines sociales et politiques, configuration, conséquences

Le néolibéralisme a déjà une histoire. Depuis les années 1980, les performances de l#économie mondiale ont dépendu de façon croissante de l#humeur et de la santé des « marchés » et des institutions # fonds de pension, sociétés d#assurance, banques # qui transforment l#épargne en ...

Teorías del desconcierto

viaje al fondo de la incertidumbre: los pensadores que diseñan un futuro global

Muchos analistas e intelectuales han contemplado el horizonte e intentado identificar algunos elementos que permitieran prever las tendencias principales del mañana. Henry Kisinger quiso establecer las bases de un neoimperialismo global que marcara la hegemonía de Estados Unidos, una visión que luego siguieron al pie ...

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 ...

Intellectual property,biogenetic resources and traditional knowledge

Biogenetic resources # the critical biological and chemical materials that underpin so much of medicine, both modern and traditional, agriculture, and wider economic activity in so many fields # are at the centre of heated debate regarding their use, development, and ownership, and the issues of ethics ...

Globalization and the nation state

the impact of the IMF and the World Bank

CONTENTS: 1. Whither Conditionality 2. The International and Domestic Politics of IFI Programs 3. Possible Reforms of the IFIs 4. Reflections on the International Infrastructure.

Urban governance voice and poverty in the developing world

Poverty and governance are both issues high on the agenda of international agencies and governments in the South. With urban areas accounting for a steadily growing share of the world#s poor people, an international team of researchers focused their attention on the hitherto little-studied ...

Global crises, global solutions

A unique publication exploring the opportunities for addressing ten of the most serious challenges facing the world today: Climate Change, Communicable Diseases, Conflicts, Education, Financial Instability, Corruption, Migration, Malnutrition and Hunger, Trade Barriers, Access to Water. In a world fraught with problems and challenges, we ...

La maldita trinidad

el Fondo Monetario Internacional, el Banco Mundial y la Organización Mundial de Comercio

Se calcula que unos seis millones de niños africanos,asiáticos y latinoamericanos mueren cada año a causa de los efectos del ajuste estructural que el Fondo Monetario Internacional ha impuesto a la mayor parte de los países en desarrollo si quieren seguir recibiendo sus créditos ...

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 ...

The media and globalization

There is practically no globalization without media and communications. Yet this relationship is so obvious it is often overlooked. Rantanen challenges conventional ways of thinking about globalization and shows it cannot be understood without studying the role of the media. This book offers: - a clear ...

Historia de un economista

un consultor se enfrenta al hambre y al Banco Mundial

Es la historia de un economista que durante cuatro meses trabajó para el Banco Mundial en Sierra Leona. Peter Griffiths fue contratado para impedir una hambruna inminente. Escrita como un diario, narra en primera persona la vivencia de un consultor que se verá enfrentado a ...

Anticapitalismo

la nueva generación de movimientos emancipatorios