El agente de desarrollo local en la creación y desarrollo de empresas

Balance económico regional

(autonomías y provincias): años 1995 a 2002

Politica comunitaria di coesione economica e sociale e programmazione economica regionale

El siglo XX en la historia económica del País Vasco

de la gran empresa a las PYMES

Moral capitalism

reconciling private interest with the public good

A guide to using the Caux Round Table Principles for Business

Dinámica poscomunista

democratización y competitividad: una perspectiva comparada

Limits to globalization

welfare states and the world economy

This text argues for the need to understand developments in welfare and social provision alongside the processes of globalization. In the two decades following World War II, the massive expansion of the welfare state system arguably allowed Western governments to expose their societies to uncontrollable ...

Doing business with Poland

Descripción An appraisal of the economic and investment climate of Poland. This fourth edition offers an update on market potential in the key sectors and best practice advice on all aspects of investing in or trading with Poland. Data from the book and the web ...

An economic analysis of the family

What do economists have to say about behavior within the context of the family? This book improves our understanding of how families and markets interact, why important aspects of families have been changing in recent decades, and how families respond to, and are affected by ...

Justicia global

las alternativas de los movimientos del Foro de Porto Alegre

Esta obra aborda uno de los grandes acontecimientos del inicio del siglo XXI: la creación de redes internacionales de movimientos por la justicia global.Se está gestando una nueva sociedad civil mundial. Desde las protestas ciudadanas en Seattle y Génova crecen en toda la tierra ...

Democracy's dilemma

environment, social equity, and the global economy

The realities of global economic integration are far more complex than many of its supporters or detractors acknowledge. One consequence of simplistic thinking about globalization, claims Robert Paehlke, is that we tend to focus on economic prosperity to the neglect of other important considerations such ...

The paradox of wealth and poverty

mapping the ethical dilemmas of global development

We live in a time of human paradoxes. Scientific knowledge has reached a level of sophistication that permits understanding of the most arcane phenomena and yet religious fundamentalism dominates in many parts of the world. We witness the emergence of a civil, liberal constitutionalism in ...

The global internet economy

By 2002, all but a handful of countries were connected to the Internet. The intertwining of the Internet and the globalization of finance, corporate governance, and trade raises questions about national models of technology development and property rights. The sudden ability of hundreds of millions ...

Civil society

the american model and third world development

Using case studies from sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, and including such critical countries as South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico and Egypt, this text focuses on the processes and politics of dismantling "corporate" (state directed) economies in ...

La creación del mundo o la mundialización

No dejamos de asistir con estupefacción a un mundo que ha perdido su capacidad de hacer mundo. A lo sumo, parece haber ganado solamente la capacidad de multiplicar a la medida de sus medios una proliferación de lo inmundo que nunca antes en la historia ...

Making globalization good

the moral challenges of global capitalism

How can we develop a global economic architecture that is efficient, morally acceptable, geographically inclusive and sustainable over time? If global capitalism - arguably the most efficient wealth-creating system known to man - is to be both economically viable and socially acceptable, each of its four constituent ...

Globalization in the twenty-first century

convergence or divergence?

"Globalization in the Twenty-First Century" explores the degrees of convergence and/or divergence attributed to the process of globalization. Theoretical contributions to the globalization debate within international political economy are empirically evaluated, covering different geographical parts of the world (Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America ...

Migration

the boundaries of equality and justice

The freedom to choose where to live and work is a fundamental right in liberal societies. The moral equality of persons is the basic principle of democratic politics. But liberal democracy has no coherent theory of boundaries, or how members should be selected for political ...

Pasiones razonadas

una crítica al liberalismo vernáculo

Los últimos años parecían inaugurar la modernidad, sin embargo, terminaron destruyendo lo poco que teníamos. Los economismtas liberales y sus epígonos nos deslumbraron con la teoría del derrame tan sólo para encubrir el proceso de la concentración, ofreciendo primer mundo para todos. Hoy queda claro ...

Globalization: theory and practice

This volume brings together many leading figures from different disciplines to present a range of contributions covering key dimensions of globalization. These contributions reflect on the limitations of existing theoretical approaches and indicate possible future directions for development. This second edition includes a new introduction ...