La globalización desenmascarada

el imperialismo en el siglo XXI

La globalización es un concepto que, pese a ser utilizado de forma exhaustiva, sigue siendo ambiguo y muy arbitrario, ya que está en medio de planteamientos científicos y teóricos, tendencias e intereses políticos y la orientación hacia algunas materias específicas. Aquí los autores prefieren entenderlo ...

Los espectros de la globalización

Los análisis de la globalización económica suelen apelar a una dualidad entre lo global y lo nacional según la cual el primero de los términos acrecienta su poder a expensas del segundo. La introducción de un tercer elemento -las ciudades- le permite a Saskia Sassen ...

Un manifiesto anticapitalista

Las manifestaciones antiglobalización de Seattle, Washington, Millau, Melbourne, Praga, Seúl, Niza, Quebec City, Gotemburgo, Génova o Barcelona, ocurridas en los últimos tres años, no obedecen a brotes de protesta esporádicos. Tienen que ver con un sentimiento generalizado de rechazo a los valores del mercado y ...

Cosecha robada

el secuestro del suministro mundial de alimentos

"Este libro cuenta la historia de la destrucción de los sistemas alimentarios y agrícolas por parte de las grandes empresas globales, así como la resistencia mostrada ante dicha destrucción por parte de los movimientos populares." VANDANA SHIVA En Cosecha robada, Vandana Shiva muestra los efectos ...

Motivation, agency and public policy

of knights and Knave, pawns and queens

Can we rely on the altruism of professionals or the public service ethos to deliver good quality health and education services? How should patients, parents and pupils behave - as grateful recipients or active consumers? The book provides new answers to these questions, and evaluates recent ...

Community water, community management

from system to service in rural areas

This book is based on the experience gained over twenty years of working to strengthen the capacities of rural communities to manage their own water supply systems. The day-to-day experiences of 22 communities in six different countries # with differing geographical, socio-economic and cultural settings # are ...

Renegotiating the welfare state

flexible adjustment through corporatist concentration

Why have some countries have been more successful in welfare state reform than others? This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state and peak associations of employers and employees. This corporatist concertation has been blamed ...

An evolutionary approach to social welfare

In social life, the adoption of norms and values typically help in settling potential conflicts of interest to the mutual benefit of all. While not evident immediately, social norms and values play a crucial role in the theory of social choice INDICE Part One: Evolution ...

Distant proximities. Dynamics beyond globalization

Has globalization the phenomenon outgrown "globalization" the concept? In Distant Proximities, one of America's senior scholars presents a work of sweeping vision that addresses the dizzying anxieties of the post- Cold War, post-September 11 world. Culminating the influential reassessment of international relations he began ...

The moral economy of welfare states

Britain and Germany compared

This text investigates why people are willing to support an institutional arrangement that realizes large-scale redistribution of wealth between social groups of society. Steffen Mau introduces the concept of "the moral economy" to show that acceptance of welfare exchanges rests on moral assumptions and ideas ...

Fair division and collective welfare

The concept of fair division is as old as civil society itself. Aristotle's "equal treatment of equals" was the first step toward a formal definition of distributive fairness. The concept of collective welfare, more than two centuries old, is a pillar of modern economic ...

The economics of social policy

This unique book demonstrates how instruments of economics can be usefully employed to analyse social policy. The merits and limits of social policy programmes are discussed as answers to problems of market societies. Taking this enlightened approach the author addresses such key issues as access ...

The Big Mac index

applications of purchasing power parity

PPP is one of the most widely researched areas in international finance and one of the most controversial in the theory of exchange rate determination. This book demonstrates the applications of Purchasing Power Parity in exchange rate determination as well as more practical applications of ...

Financial structure

an investigation of sectoral balance sheets in the G-7

Cross-country comparisons of sectoral balance sheets offer crucial indications of differences in overall financial structure, which in turn underlie contrasts in financing and economic behaviour. In this context, this book aims to confront theory and extant empirical work with aggregate financial data across the G-7 ...

Local partnerships for rural development

the european experience

This volume of papers has been developed from a report of the cross- national Partnerships for Rural Integrated Development in Europe research project. The research focused on the public and private sector rural development experience in Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Agricultural product prices

In an excellent synthesis of theory and measurement as they relate to agricultural prices, William G. Tomek and Kenneth L. Robinson set out principles for understanding the operation of markets for agricultural products. This heavily revised and updated edition of a classic in the field ...

Stolen fruit

the tropical commodities disaster

Fifty or more developing countries still depend mainly on the tropical commodities or minerals that they produce. But encouraging so many countries to grow coffee, sugar, cotton and other crops has been a disaster. Small farmers get only a tiny share of the final tag ...

The economics of European agriculture

The Economics of European Agriculture explains the demand and supply characteristics of agricultural markets, as well as government intervention in agriculture, with an emphasis on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan also analyses the fifth enlargement and its implications for agriculture in Europe ...

Retrench and regeneration in rural newfoundland

Set against the background of momentous economic changes over the last decade, this collection of essays looks at the economic, political, and social circumstances thet have led to the current crisis in rural newfoundland. In this timely work, twelve social scientits explore outporters ways of ...

Del Mercado Común a la Unión Europea

45 años de historia

El Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación ha querido recoger en la páginas que siguen una antología de los artículos de Eudardo de Rojas, Conde de Montarco, sobre temas agrarios publicados con asiduidad en ABC u la Gaceta Rural así como en otros medios para ...