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 Its aim is to map new patterns of development and inequality moving beyond outdated distinctions ...

The global politics of the environment

Debates about the causes and impacts of global environmental degradation go to the heart of economic and political systems and raise fundamental questions about power and inequity in a globalized world. The comprehensively revised 2nd edition of this popular text provides wide-ranging coverage of the ...

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 ...

Geographies of development

Geographies of Development is an established, innovative and comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate students of Development Geography, Development Studies and related fields. A pioneer of the holistic approach, it encourages critical engagement by integrating key topics throughout the text, such as development ideology, globalisation, modernity ...

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 ...

Economía mundial y globalización

La globalización de la economía mundial,entendida como la interconexión a escala mundial en tiempo real,gracias al avance tecnológico en el transporte y telecomunicaciones,ha impulsado las fuerzas competitivas y ha permitido la aparición de nuevos competidores que irrumpen con fuerza en los mercados ...

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 ...

Ploughing up the farm

neoliberalism, modern technology and the State of the World's Farmers

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.

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 ...

Una última visión del paraíso

ensayos sobre media, vanguardia y la destrucción de culturas en América Latina

Eduardo Subirats ofrece al lector siete ensayos sobre los medios técnicos de comunicación, la construcción global de la realidad y la destrucción mediática de las memorias culturales, a partir de temas artísticos, literarios y arquitectónicos, específicamente latinoamericanos, como el humanismo filosófico del Inca Gracilazo, la ...

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

Alternativas a la globalización económica

un mundo mejor es posible

Alternativas a la globalización económica, resultado de tres años de trabajo del Foro Internacional sobre la Globalización (FIG), enumera diez principios para un nuevo modelo social que nos conduzca hacia sociedades realmente democráticas y sostenibles que beneficien a la mayoría. Después de años de protesta ...