Un solo mundo

la ética de la globalización

Conocido por sus originales y valientes ideas sobre materias que van desde la condición animal hasta la investigación genética, Peter Singer dirige ahora su atención a las cuestiones éticas en torno a la globalización. En este provocativo libro, nos desafía a pensar más allá de ...

Comunicadores para un futuro globalizado

actas de las XVII Jornadas Internacionales de la Comunicación

Globalization and health

an introduction

There is widespread recognition that globalization is changing the world around us, but so far there has been no systematic analysis of how it is impacting on human health. Such impacts are diverse, encompassing global economic, political, sociocultural, technological and environmental changes. Globalization and Health ...

Globalization and corporate governance in developing countries

a micro analysis of global corporate. Interconnection between developing. African countries and developed countries

The limits of convergence

globalization and organizational change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain

This work challenges the notion that globalization encourages economic convergence and cultural homogenization across national borders. A systematic comparison of organizational change in Argentina, South Korea and Spain since 1950 finds that global competition forces countries to exploit their distinctive strengths, resulting in unique development ...

Governance in a global economy

political authority in transition

This volume presents 17 papers, each of which explores how global economic integration produces changes in governance. The book concludes that a new and intricate fabric of governance has been created, but one that fails to serve the purpose of beleaguered govenments.

Gangs of America

the rise of corporate power and the disabling of democracy

Through a series of fascinating stories populated by colorful personalities, Gangs of America details the rise of corporate power in America. Driven to answer the central question of how corporations got more rights than people, Ted Nace delves deep into the origins of this institution ...

Urban world/global city

This study identifies and accounts for the characteristics of the contemporary city and of urban society. It analyses the distribution and growth of settlements and explores the social and behavioural characteristics of urban living INDICE Preface 1. Global Patterns and Perspectives 1.1 Introduction 1 ...

El sutil poder de las transnacionales

lógica, funcionamiento e impacto de las grandes empresas en un mundo globalizado

Las empresas transnacionales son un actor clave en el actual proceso de globalización económica y su poder económico y político es cada vez mayor. Pero el poder de las transnacionales destaca a menudo por su sutileza, de manera que no siempre es perceptible y se ...

What the market does to people

privatization, globalization and poverty

An engaged, thoughtful and illuminating contribution to the debate on poverty based on an enormously rich body of empirical information." Piotr Salustowicz, Professor of Sociology and Social Work, University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld, Germany "Broad in coverage, rich in insights..# This is a book that ...

Development in theory and practice

Latin American perspectives

This definitive reader brings together seminal articles on development in Latin America. Tracing the concepts and major debates surrounding the issue, the text focuses on development theory through three contrasting historical perspectives: imperialism, underdevelopment and dependency, and globalization. By offering a rich array of essays ...

Globalization under construction

governmentality,law,and identity

kaleidoscopic look at the intersections of globalization and governance. The future outlines of the new global order are the constant object of speculation#economic, political, and metaphysical. From the sunny new world proclaimed by global free marketers to the rebellion against globalization unleashed in the ...

System in crisis

the dynamics of free market capitalism

In the late 1960s the operating world capitalist system hit a snag, exposing cracks that went to its very foundations. At first, this crisis was viewed as part of a normal business cycle of capital accumulation in which markets become saturated. The reaction created a ...

The Lugano report

on preserving capitalism in the twenty-first century

This is a new edition of Susan Geroge's acclaimed satire on capitalism.Fictional experts recruited by world leaders to discuss the future of global capitalism provide their assessment of the dire state of the current economy and put forward new ideas for ensuring the ...

Europe Inc.

regional and global restructuring and the rise of corporate power

Over the past two decades, the major international corporations have become industrial lobbyists within the European Union to such an extent that they pose a threat to democracy. / This new and fully revised edition of Europe Inc. provides a much-needed insight into the systematic ways ...

¿Es sostenible la globalización en América Latina?

debates con Manuel Castells.Vol.1: La globalización y América Latina: asignaturas pendientes

En el primer volumen se contrastan con singular rigor y profundidad las dos caras que presenta la globalización en la región: de un lado las transformaciones productivas y las innovaciones tecnológicas y, por el otro, el lado oscuro conformado por el déficit de equidad, por ...

¿Es sostenible la globalización en América Latina?

debates con Manuel Castells.Vol.2: Nación y cultura. América Latina en la Era de la Información

En el segundo volumen culmina esta visión integral de la globalización con el análisis del poder de la identidad en la Era de la Información a partir del movimiento indígena, de mujeres y del fenómeno religioso. La crisis del Estado-nación que vive la región y ...

Handbook of international banking

The Handbook of International Banking provides a clearly accessible source of reference material, covering the main developments that reveal how the internationalization and globalization of banking have developed over recent decades to the present, and analyses the creation of a new global financial architecture. The ...

The Kimchi matters

global business and local politics in a crisis-driven world

Globalization hype has obscured a few basic truths-that political stability and economic growth are usually determined on the local level,and that they're most affected by local institutions, local ledarship,and other such factors.Tha Kimchi Matters shows that globalization (and events like the ...

Las expresiones locales de la globalización

México y España

El estudio de la globalización se ha convertido en un desafío multidisciplinario fundamental al que este libro responde de la siguiente manera: por un lado, ofrece una mirada antropológica y con esto incita al diálogo con otras disciplinas. Por el otro lado, ofrece una mirada ...