Balance Económico Regional

(Autonomías y provincias): años 2000 a 2004

Economic systems of foraging, agricultural, and industrial societies

El genio de Occidente

(raíces clásicas y cristianas de la civilización occidental)

Understanding capitalism

competition, command, and change

Flexibles y precarios

la opresión del trabajo en el nuevo capitalismo europeo

Globalization and finance

The globalization of finance is widely recognised as one of the most significant features of the contemporary world. In this timely new book, Tony Porter guides students through current debates about global finance and discusses the extent to which the development of a global marketplace ...

Globalization and urban development

Most research on globalization has focused on macroeconomic and economy-wide consequences. This book explores an under-researched area, the impacts of globalization on cities and national urban hierarchies, especially but not solely in developing countries. Most of the globalization-urban research has concentrated on the "global cities ...

The Rebel sell

why the culture can't be jammed

An explosive rejection of the myth of the counterculture in the most provocative book since No Logo. In this wide-ranging and perceptive work of cultural criticism, Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter shatter the central myth of radical political, economic and cultural thinking. The idea of ...

Globalization and growth

case studies in national economic strategies

This text contains cases developed for use in teaching international political economy at the Harvard Business School. They represent the major developmental trajectories that have defined the recent history of economic growth. These cases empirically describe the strategies of China, India, Japan, Mexico, South Africa ...

Multinationals and global capitalism

from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century

This book provides an essential historical framework for understanding global business. The author shows how entrepreneurs built a global economy in the nineteenth century by creating firms that pursued resources and markets across borders. It demonstrates how firms shifted strategies as the first global economy ...

Why globalization works

A bestseller in hardback, this book offers a powerful defence of the global market economy. Martin Wolf explains how globalization works, critiques the charges against it, argues that the biggest obstacle to global economic progress has been the failure not of the market but of ...

The travels of a T-shirt in the global economy

an economist examines the markets, power, and politics of world trade

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy takes the reader on a fascinating, around-the-world journey to reveal the economic and political lessons from the life story of a simple t-shirt. Over five years, business professor Pietra Rivoli traveled from a Texas cotton field ...

Globalization, governmentality and global politics

regulation for the rest of us?

Globalization is moving fast, impacting on the life of nations with accelerating force. This book delivers a keen assessment of how it is being handled by specific groups seeking positive outcomes for the people and causes they represent. Transnational social regulation is increasingly becoming the ...

En defensa de la globalización

el rostro humano de un mundo global

Este es un libro valiente, polémico y atrevido, tanto para quienes detestan la palabra «globalización» como para aquellos que creenen el progreso que suponen las diversas formas de integración internacional en terrenos como el comercio, la inversión y la difusión de las tecnologías. Un libro ...

The next global stage

challenges and opportunities in our borderless world

Globalization is a fact. You can't stop it; it has already happened; it is here to stay. And we are moving into a new global stage. A radically new world is taking shape from the ashes of yesterday's nation-based economic world. To succeed ...

Las nuevas fuerzas del desarrollo

¿Es posible el desarrollo económico sostenible en un contexto de creciente competencia y globalización de la economía y la sociedad? ¿Cuáles son los mecanismos que lo hacen posible? ¿Qué acciones y relaciones favorecen un proceso continuo y duradero de desarrollo? El autor da respuesta a ...

The end of poverty

how we can make it happen in our lifetime

Marrying vivid, passionate storytelling with profound, rigorous analysis, Jeffrey Sachs explains why, over the past two hundred years, wealth has diverged across the planet and why the poorest nations have so far been unable to improve their lot. He explains how to arrive at an ...

Debating globalization

"Debating Globalization" is a short, accessible introduction to the debate about globalization written by many of the most prominent figures in the field. Published by Polity in association with open Democracy, the book is notable not just for focusing on the pressing difficulties facing our ...

Globalization

a short history

"Globalization" has become a popular buzzword for explaining today's world. The expression achieved terminological stardom in the 1990s and was soon embraced by the general public and integrated into numerous languages. But is this much-discussed phenomenon really an invention of modern times? In this ...

Globalization and international economic instability

This book is an authoritative collection of important previusly published articles addressing the changing nature of the linkages between domestic financial system caused by the globalization of economic activity and capital flows. How these linkeges affect developed emerging and eveloping economies are investigated as well ...