The great inequality

A growing inequality in income and wealth marks modern capitalism, and it negatively affects nearly every aspect of our lives, especially those of the working class. It is and will continue to be the central issue of politics in almost every nation on earth. In ...

Cómo hacer que funcione la globalización

Un libro provocador y perspicaz que promete dar un nuevo impulso al debate sobre cómo reparar la economía global, por el Premio Nobel de Economía Joseph E. Stiglitz, una de las mentes más incisivas de nuestro tiempo. ConCómo hacer que funcione la globalización, el premio ...

Discurso

sobre la codicia de las grandes empresas y el declive de la clase media

Un apasionado alegato en defensa de la clase media como motor de la economía y la democracia Discurso es la transcripción íntegra de la memorable intervención de Bernie Sanders en el pleno del Senado de los Estados Unidos, el 10 de diciembre de 2010. Durante ...

Renta y dinero

cuestiones resueltas

Se pretende introducir al lector, de una forma progresiva y didáctica, al conocimiento riguroso de la contabilidad nacional y el modelo IS-LM. Se describen y resuelven más de 200 cuestiones sobre macroeconomía.

The metamosphosis of the world

how climate change is transforming our concept of the world

We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism changes, but some aspects of capitalism remain as they always were. Metamorphosis implies ...

Can the Welfare State survive?

After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austerity rules. Spending on the welfare state did not cause the crisis, but deep cuts in welfare budgets has become the default policy response. The welfare state is seen as ...

Economic and social rights after the global financial crisis

The global financial and economic crises have had a devastating impact on economic and social rights. These rights were ignored by economic policy makers prior to the crises and continue to be disregarded in the current 'age of austerity'. This is the first book to ...

Narconomics

how to run a drug cartel

What drug lords learned from big business How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive ...

Los estados de bienestar en la encrucijada

políticas sociales en perspectiva comparada

El Estado de Bienestar es uno de los logros más significativos de los Estados modernos por su capacidad de proteger a los ciudadanos contra la pobreza cuando se encuentran en situaciones de riesgo tales como la enfermedad, el desempleo, la vejez, la niñez o la ...

Pangea

siete jóvenes que están transformando el mundo

¿Alguien escucha las voces de la generación más preparada de la historia? Definitivamente no, o al menos no lo suficiente. Nuestro mundo escucha cada día en los medios de comunicación las voces y las ideas de aquellos que dirigen nuestra sociedad, voces que llevan sonando ...

La gobernanza y sus enfoques

Can microfinance work?

how to improve its ethical balance and effectiveness

Microfinance began with the noble aim of alleviating poverty through the extension of small loans to poor borrowers, and has grown to now serve approximately 200,000,000 peoplethe majority of whom are female. Yet despite claims to the contrary, the practice has not been ...

The Walfare State

a very short introduction

Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies have welfare states of one kind or another - they are a fundamental dimension of modern government ...

City of crisis

the multiple contestation of southern european cities

The on-going crisis in Europe has dramatic impact on the life in many Southern European cities: Unemployment, social deprivation, poverty, political instability, severe cuts in the welfare state budgets and a wide spread feeling of despair have eroded much of the social foundation of the ...

La inflación

(al alcance de los ministros)

En este libro, José Luis Sampedro y Carlos Berzosa procuran mostrar al ciudadano lo que la economía oficial prefiere ignorar o enmascarar. La inflación vuelve a ser la protagonista de nuestro día a día y se ha convertido una vez más en la excusa en ...

What is global history

Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the ...

Análisis del entorno económico internacional

instrumentos y políticas

La segunda edición de este manual recopila, desde las perspectivas teórica y práctica, el estudio del entorno económico y de las políticas que se aplican en el escenario internacional. Asimismo tiene en cuenta el marco institucional de las relaciones económicas. Introduce los cambios metodológicos que ...

The New Deal

a global history

The New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in US history. The first comprehensive study of the New Deal in a global context, the book compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the ...

The second machine age

work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies

In recent years, computers have learned to diagnose diseases, drive cars, write clean prose and win game shows. Advances like these have created unprecedented economic bounty but in their wake median income has stagnated and employment levels have fallen. Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee reveal ...

Zapatistas sin fronteras

las redes de solidaridad con Chiapas y el altermundismo

El levantamiento del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional en Chiapas encontró resonancia más allá de las fronteras de México y generó una red espontánea de solidaridad internacional que inauguró el uso de Internet como medio para la acción concertada y la protesta. Con sus distintas ...