The end of diversity?

prospects for German and Japanese capitalism

After the devastation of World War II, Germany and Japan built national capitalist institutions that were remarkably successful in terms of national reconstruction and international competitiveness. Yet both "miracles" have since faltered, allowing US capital and its institutional forms to establish global dominance. National varieties ...

The diversity of modern capitalism

This book proposes a comparative analysis of modern capitalism. It identifies five different types of modern economies: the market-based economies, Asian capitalism, the Continental European model, the social democratic economies, and the Mediterranean model. It presents their main institutional characteristics and relates the different models ...

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 ...

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 ...

Los oligarcas

poder y dinero en la nueva Rusia

Los oligarcas es una apasinante crónica periodística que analiza en detalle el auge de 4 hombres de negocios rusos: Anatoly Chubais, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Boris Berozovsky y Vladimir Gusinsky, que acabaron siendo los 'oligarcas' que modelaron el paisaje económico y político de la nueva Rusia. Todos ...

El valor del socialismo

El valor del socialismo es una recopilación de textos publicados a lo largo de más de tres décadas, cuyos hilos cnductores son la constante y lúcida crítica de lo que no es socialismo, aunque se autodesigne como tal, y la defensa de la indisolubilidad de ...

Lessons from the failure of the communist economic system

Why have the neoliberal economic programmes aimed at transforming Eastern Europe to a market economy and democracy since 1989, not only experienced unanticipated difficulties but more importantly failed to achieve their expected progress? Dr Ladislav Rusmich and Dr Stephen M. Sachs offer a comprehensive and ...

Farm to factory

a reinterpretation of the soviet industrial revolution

To say that history's greatest economic experiment - Soviet communism - was also its greatest economic failure is to say what many consider obvious. Here, in a reinterpretation, Robert Allen argues that the USSR was one of the most successful developing economies of the 20th century ...

Resistencias mundiales

(de Seattle a Porto Alegre)

Abastecimiento y alimentación en Toledo en el siglo XV

La deuda externa del mundo en desarrollo

teoría, realidad y alternativas

La deuda externa es una de las cuestiones centrales en la explicación de la realidad que vive en el presente el mundo en desarrollo. En los ultimos años ha sido, afortunadamente, objeto de un amplio debate social, que le ha despojado de la mirada exclusivamente ...

La ecología del desarrollo humano

Para comprender como se desarrollan los niños, Bronfenbrenner cree que es necesario observar su conducta en entornos naturales, mientras interactúan con adultos que les son familiares, durante un tiempo prolongado. Su libro ofrece un esquema importante para construir una psicología del desarrollo no sólo renovadora ...

A history of metallurgy

In this book Professor Tylecote presents a unique introduction to the history of metallurgy from the earliest times to the present. The development of metallurgy skills and techniques of different civilisations, and the connection between them, are carefully chartered. This volume is concerned with such ...

Environmental impacts of globalization and trade

a systems study

The relationship between trade and the environment has become an increasingly contentious issue between economists and environmentalists. Economists maintain that trade helps the natural environment because rich countries can better afford to protect their unspoiled areas. Environmentalists counter that the pursuit of national wealth drives ...

El consumo de servicios culturales

Economía de Bienestar y dos Aproximaciones a los Derechos

Sen plantea una discusión entre teorías del derecho que convergen en su aplicación a la acción social, “para evitar la opresión económica”. Con ello, el Nobel de economía ofrece una propuesta interdisciplinaria que demuestra los alcances de una concesión en aras de lograr mejorar la ...

Natural gas in Asia

The challenges of growth in China, India, Japan, and Korea

The Political Economy of the Environment

Economic activities that degrade the environment do not simply pit humans against nature. They also pit some humans against others. Some benefit from these activities; others bear net costs from pollution and resource depletion. In this analysis, James K. Boyce examines the dynamics of environmental ...

El sector público empresarial de la Comunidad Autónoma de Euskadi 2000

Administracion institucional autonómica

Consideración especial de la Comunidad de Madrid