The new Emperors

power and the princelings in China

China has become the powerhouse of the world economy and home to 1 in 5 of the world's population, yet we know almost nothing of the people who lead it. How does one become the leader of the world's newest superpower? And who ...

Alternative development strategies for the post-2015 Era

The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 exposed systemic failings at the core of economic policy making worldwide. The crisis came on top of several other crises, including skyrocketing and highly volatile world food and energy prices and climate change. This book argues that new policy ...

El comercio justo

hacia nuevas formas de gobierno en el intercambio

Este libro investiga y analiza experiencias de comercio justo puestas en práctica en diversos puntos del planeta. El comercio justo propone un mercado alternativo, regulado por principios de democracia, transparencia y participación diferentes de aquellos que regulan el comercio convencional. El cooperativismo, la solidaridad y ...

Mixed fortunes

an economic history of China, Russia, and the West

The rise of the West is often attributed the presence of certain features in Western countries from the 16th century that were absent in more traditional societies: the abolition of serfdom and Protestant ethics, the protection of property rights, and free universities. The problem with ...

Divided

the perils of our growing inequality

The issue of inequality has irrefutably returned to the fore, riding on the anger against Wall Street following the 2008 financial crisis and the concentration of economic and political power in the hands of the super–rich. The Occupy movement made the plight of the ...

The development of american finance

Since the 1960s, scholars and other commentators have frequently announced the imminent decline of American financial power: excessive speculation and debt are believed to have undermined the long-term basis of a stable US-led financial order. But the American financial system has repeatedly shown itself to ...

Proyecto Decrecimiento

Manifiesto por una Dotación Incondicional de Autonomía (DIA)

Renta básica + Decrecimiento = Dotación Incondicional de Autonomía «Sin un mínimo de recursos, el nuevo ciudadano no puede experimentar plenamente los principios republicanos de libertad, igualdad yfraternidad», expresó Thomas Paine en 1792. Han pasado más de dos siglos y parece que esta idea sigue siendo papel ...

Brazil

Experts believe that Brazil, the world's fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the other rising behemoths Russia, India and China. Often ...

Productivity convergence

theory and evidence

A vast new literature on the sources of economic growth has now accumulated. This book critically reviews the most significant works in this field and summarizes what is known today about the sources of economic growth. The first part discusses the most important theoretical models ...

Can China lead?

reaching the limits of power and growth

It's time to rethink the way we think about China. In this thought-provoking book, noted China experts from Harvard Business School and the Wharton School assert that while China has experienced remarkable economic growth in recent decades (nearly 10 percent for more than thirty ...

The contest of the century

the new era of competition with China

By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it begins to translate its considerable economic heft into a bigger role on the ...

The road to global prosperity

N That Used to Be Us, the bestseller Michael Mandelbaum wrote with Thomas L. Friedman, the authors analyzed the challenges America faces, including globalization, and described a path to recovering America’s greatness. In The Road to Global Prosperity, Mandelbaum, one of America’s leading ...

By all means necessary

how China's resource quest is changing the world

In the past thirty years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants comprised the largest portion of the populace to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more megacities than anywhere else on earth. This remarkable transformation has required, and will ...

¿Adiós a la crisis?

hemos superado la recesión, pero ¿cuándo llegará la recuperación a la economía real?

Es evidente que la economía española da muchas señales de estar en mejores condiciones que hace un año. Pero ¿hacia dónde vamos? ¿Qué tipo de crecimiento económico nos espera realmente? ¿Es cierto que hemos superado la crisis y que ha pasado lo peor, o simplemente ...

Andalucía

una cultura y economía para la vida

En esta obra, Manuel Delgado Cabeza e Isidoro Moreno Navarro tratan de dar respuesta a cuestiones como cuál es la identidad de Andalucía, las causas de que Andalucía tenga la mayor tasa de desempleo de la Europa del euro, o si nuestra cultura es una ...

Rwanda, Inc.

how a devastated nation became an economic model for the developing world

Nearly two decades after Rwanda's horrific genocide, the country has been transformed. High rises are going up in the capital city of Kigali; a newly established stock exchange is attracting investors; and the economy is transitioning from subsistence agriculture to information and communication technology ...

In 100 years

leading economists predict the future

This pithy and engaging volume shows that economists may be better equipped to predict the future than science fiction writers. Economists' ideas, based on both theory and practice, reflect their knowledge of the laws of human interactions as well as years of experimentation and reflection ...

Desafíos metropolitanos

un diálogo entre Europa y América Latina

Durante la última década, las metrópolis de América Latina se han convertido en motores de crecimiento, innovación y modernidad, afirmando su papel como centros de comando regional. No obstante, persisten en ellas contradicciones inherentes a su modelo de urbanización. La pobreza y las desigualdades, con ...

El sur pide la palabra

el futuro de una Europa en crisis

Europa ha dado a la humanidad cosas tan maravillosas como las ideas del igualitarismo, la democracia radical, el feminismo... Y todo eso corre ahora peligro porque la Unión Europea está en manos de la oligarquía financiera y el calvinismo del Norte, que acusa de vagos ...

Power to the people

energy in Europe over the last five centuries

Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries. It describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy ...