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 ...

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 ...