Porto Alegre se mueve

veinte opiniones sobre el futuro del Foro Social Mundial

El III Foro Social Mundial, que tuvo lugar en Porto Alegre, fue un éxito, según la opinión general. Este acontecimiento ha significado el final de una etapa, abriéndose así un período de reflexión y cambios necesarios para el desarrollo de un proceso que se ha ...

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.

Las PYME españolas con forma societaria

estructura económico-financiera y resultados (ejercicios 1997-2000 y avanced 2001)

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 ...

Las cifras de la educación en España

estadíticas e indicadores : edición 2003

La financiación de la pequeña y mediana empresa en España, 1975-2000

problemas, mercados y financiación institucional

Eurostat yearbook 2003

The statistical guide to Europe : data 1991-2001

Comptabilite nationale

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 ...