Sociología del sistema global

el impacto socioeconómico y político de las corporaciones transnacionales

El poder que decide sobre el bienestar de los ciudadanos en el mundo actual está en medida creciente en manos de las corporaciones transnacionales que operan de manera casi incontrolable en todas las regiones de la Tierra. Como motor de la nueva clase capitalista transnacional ...

The role of international institutions in globalisation

the challenges of reform

This book presents a critical analysis of the role of international institutions and their performance in terms of justification, effectiveness an efficiency. The authors begin by dicussing the controversies surrounding the Tobin Tax in the context of global governance. They move on to address important ...

Globalisation, economic development and the role of the state

The role of the state continues to be a key debate in economics and development studies. Dr ha-Joon Chang has been one of the leading voices questioning the axiomatic wisdom of what is called the Washington Consensus "free market" view that the role of the ...

The handbook of globalisation

The concerns of this major new Handbook are two-fold; firstly, to redefine the concept to glovalisation and dispel the haze that surrounds it by a systematic and thorough examination of the debate; secondly, to push out the forentiers of current critical thinking on the role ...

Globalization and technology

interdependence, innovation systems and industrial policy

Technology and globalization are interdependent processes. Globalization has a fundamental influence on the creation and diffusion of technology, which, in turn, affects the interdependence of firms and locations. This volume examines the international aspect of this interdependence at two levels. First, between locations, by examining ...

Bienes públicos globales, política económica y globalización

La política económica debe colaborar eficazmente a que la humanidad se sitúe y se mantenga en un ciclo continuado de crecimiento económico que no suponga sólo el bienestar de unos pocos. En este punto se pone de manifiesto el interés de contar con estudios claros ...

La mejor democracia que se puede comprar con dinero

El periodista de investigación Greg Palast es el muckraker más odiado por los grandes de este mundo. En sus artículos para el New York Times, el Washington Post o, más recientemente, para el Guardian o la BBC denuncia sin contemplaciones los mayores casos de corrupción ...

Alternative capitalisms

geographies of emerging regions

This book aims to examine the effects of globalization and economic and political transformations in the 'emerging regions' of Latin America and the Caribbean, East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union and East Asia by looking at development trajectories and the pathways of both ...

Poverty and exclusion in North and South

essays on social policy and global poverty reduction

Since 1990 there has been a worrying increase in poverty in the industrialized countries of the "North", while many of the developing countries of the "South" have experienced some improvement. This collection argues that there are a number of likenesses between the predicaments of North ...

Insurrection

citizen challenges to corporate power

From uncovering major retailers' links to sweatshop abuses and revealing the deception of American tobacco companies, to questioning corporations' ties to repressive dictators, shaming food processors into selling dolphin-safe tuna and demanding that businesses stop destroying old growth forests, citizens have become far more aggressive ...

New activism and the corporate response

This book looks at the new militant and radical forms of lobbying and activism and the ways in which companies and organizations can devise strategies to respond or create new communication strategies that will avoid conflict and confrontation. The book draws upon the work of ...

Global markets and the developing economy

E.V.K. FitzGerald takes a fresh approach to the macroeconomics of developing countries, based on the influence of global markets on domestic savings, private investment, firm behaviours, employment levels and income distribution. He suggests that a Keynesian approach is still relevant today when reformulated ...

Promises not kept

poverty and the betrayal of Third World development

The 6th edition of this very accessible introductory text - the first to be published by Palgrave Macmillan - has been revised throughout to take account of the 'new American hegemony' and 'war on terrorism' of the early 21st century. Presenting a wide range of up-to-date facts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...