The European Union

current problems and prospects

Eds. John McCombie, Carlos Rodríguez González. This book considers some important economic issues currently facing the EU and examines its prospects. The chapters examine the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines, econometric evidence of productivity convergence among the EU countries, the Growth and Stability Pact, problems of ...

The political economy of Israel's occupation

repression beyond exploitation

The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories since 1967 has many important economic aspects that are often overlooked. In this highly original book, Shir Hever shows that understanding the economic dimensions of the occupation is crucial to unravelling the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. Hever rejects the ...

Emerging giants

China and India in the world economy

Eds. Barry Eichengreen, Poonam Gupta, Rajiv Kumar. China and India are the two most populous countries in the world and now also two of the fastest growing. By sheer virtue of the fact that China and India are home to 2.4 billion people - two-fifths ...

When China rules the world

the end of the Western World and the birth of a New Global Order

China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. Jacques argues that we cannot understand China in western terms but only through its own history and ...

China-USA

¿dos potencias en conflicto?

Este libro nos presenta la descripción de las dos redes que tejen el mundo: los Estados Unidos y China. He aquí la confrontación planetaria.

Temas de economía mundial

Este libro introduce al lector en el conocimiento y análisis de la economía mundial en sus aspectos de mayor interés y actualidad. El enfoque adoptado, con un tratamiento aplicado y ejercicios recomendados en cada tema, convierte al manual en una herramienta útil para una enseñanza ...

Analyzing the global political economy

Ideally suited to upper-undergraduate and graduate students, Analyzing the Global Political Economy critically assesses the convergence between IPE, comparative political economy, and economics. Andrew Walter and Gautam Sen show that a careful engagement with economics is essential for understanding both contemporary IPE and for analyzing ...

International macroeconomics

"International Macroeconomics" provides students with an analytically rigorous introduction to the impact of globalization on macroeconomics. This book: presents an analytically rigorous introduction to the field and uniquely includes optional econometric studies; provides a unified macroeconomic model to examine rigorously international macroeconomics and then focuses ...

The Princeton encyclopedia of the world economy. .Volume I, A-H. Volume II, I-W

Increasing economic globalization has made understanding the world economy more important than ever. From trade agreements to offshore outsourcing to foreign aid, this two-volume encyclopedia explains the key elements of the world economy and provides a first step to further research for students and scholars ...

International economics

Thought-provoking and clearly explained, the new edition provides students of international economics and international business with a rigorous explanation of global economic theory and policy, both current trends and historic developments. It explores key models through case studies and review questions, enabling students to challenge ...

Los países menos adelantados

Informe del 2008

La crisis alimentaria

movilizaciones en el sur

INDICE: África Subsahariana. Magreb y Medio Oriente. Asia. América Latina.

Vivir con lo nuestro

Se trata de un texto clásico, editado por primera vez en 1983, el cual vuelve a aparecer con su planteamiento central: cómo los argentinos han de decidir su destino como nación y su inserción en la globalización, a la vez que sólo con sus propios ...

Russian renewable energy

the potential for international cooperation

What is Russia's potential as a partner in the global race towards a low-carbon economy? This book provides a balanced analysis of Russia's impressive, understudied and sometimes surprising strengths in the renewable energy sector. The work is a first of its kind, exploring ...

Oilopoly

Putin, power and the rise of the new Russia

Financially crippled and besieged by political crises following the fall of the Soviet Union, it looked as if Russia's days as a superpower had come and gone. That it should recover and go on to accumulate the world's third-largest holdings of foreign currency ...

Desgarrados, hechos trizas

Levi´s, América Latina y el sueño de los tejanos

Trad., Carme Geronés y Carlos Urritz Un relato convincente, escrito con maestría, sobre un viaje por América Latina que transformó la vida de la autora y la llevó del trabajo de empresa a la política del mundo globalizado. Levi's contrató a Amaranta Wright para ...

India's new economy

industry efficiency and growth

This book examines India's new economy - its strengths, weaknesses and potential in IT, export trade and the financial sector. It evaluates India's growth in light of modern growth theory, as developed by Solow, Lucas and Schumpeter. It compares India's experience with that ...

International trade and economic dynamics

essays in memory of Koji Shimomura

Eds. Takashi Kamihigashi, Laixun Zhao. Renowned trade theorist Koji Shimomura passed away in February 2007 at the age of 54. He published nearly 100 articles in international academic journals. The loss of this extremely productive economist has been an enormous shock to the economic profession ...

The China price

the true cost of chinese competitive advantage

"Financial Times" correspondent Harney uncovers the truth about how China is able to offer such amazingly low prices. What she has discovered is a brutal world in which intense pricing pressure from Western companies exacts an unconscionable toll in human misery.

La historia secreta del imperialismo americano

gánsteres económicos, asesinos a sueldo y toda la verdad sobre la corrupción global

John Perkins, autor de uno de los títulos más significativos de los últimos años, Confesiones de un gángster económico, vuelve con un nuevo libro imprescindible para conocer el origen y las repercusiones de la crisis que estamos viviendo. En esta nueva obra, tan seductora como ...