Material world

arena, sal, acero, cobre, petróleo y litio. Construyeron el mundo. Transformarán el futuro

ARENA, SAL, ACERO, COBRE, PETRÓLEO Y LITIO. La historia de la civilización desde una nueva perspectiva: literalmente desde sus cimientos. Para muchos, el mundo se presenta hoy como algo cada vez más etéreo: trabajamos en el sector de los servicios y la administración, compramos y ...

Underground empire

how America weaponized the world economy

An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientists Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known. At first glance, it might not look like much - it is made up of fibre ...

Sold out

how broken supply chains, surging inflation and political instability will sink the global economy

Empty shelves, petrol station queues and energy shortages: crises more familiar to those who lived through the 1960s and 1970s have now become a reality for many as global shipping times are squeezed, containers lie unopened at docks and supply shortages push up inflation, increasing ...

Las guerras comerciales son guerras de clase

Las disputas comerciales suelen entenderse como conflictos entre países con intereses nacionales contrapuestos, pero como demuestran Matthew C. Klein y Michael Pettis, a menudo son el resultado inesperado de decisiones políticas internas para servir a los intereses de los ricos a costa de los trabajadores ...

Eurasian challenges to international economic law

new developments after Brexit and in the context of the COVID-19

This book compares the evolution of the legal systems of Central Asia, Europe, and East Asia, under the impact of economic factors, both structural and crisis-inspired. The COVID-19, one of the severest challenges faced by humanity, alters the social order and the way people think ...

Financial cold war

a view of Sino-US relations from the financial markets

Rising tensions between China and the United States have kept the financial markets on edge as a showdown between the world’s two largest economies seems inevitable. But what most people fail to recognise is the major impact that the financial markets themselves have had ...

The United states vs. China

the quest for global economic leadership

After leading the world economy for a century, the United States faces the first real challenge to its supremacy in the rise of China. Is economic (or broader) conflict, well beyond the trade and technology war that has already erupted, inevitable between the world’s ...

El Banco Mundial

una historia crítica

Sobre el papel, el Banco Mundial es una institución financiera creada para favorecer el desarrollo y mejorar las condiciones de vida de las poblaciones de los países que a él se acogen. Pero no es así: lejos de asumir esos objetivos, el Banco Mundial es ...

Principles for dealing with the changing world order

why nations succeed or fail

From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the international bestseller Principles, who has spent half a century studying global economies and markets, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead ...

The value of everything

making and taking in the global economy

Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight. In modern capitalism, value-extraction is rewarded more highly than value-creation ...

Partita a tre

dove va l'economia del mondo

Dopo l’epoca d’oro della globalizzazione durata fino alla crisi economico-finanziaria del 2008-2009, il futuro dell’economia del mondo è oggi incerto, segnato da disuguaglianze crescenti e soprattutto dal mutare degli equilibri globali, con l’ascesa dell’Asia del Pacifico e con le nuove ...

Winners and losers

the psychology of foreign trade

From acclaimed political scientist Diana Mutz, a revealing look at why people's attitudes on trade differ from their own self-interest Winners and Losers challenges conventional wisdom about how American citizens form opinions on international trade. While dominant explanations in economics emphasize personal self-interest-and whether ...

La globalización del capital

historia del sistema monetario internacional

Lúcido, accesible y provocativo, y ahora completamente actualizado para tratar los acontecimientos recientes que han sacudido la economía global, La globalización del capital es un recorrido indispensable por los últimos ciento cincuenta años de historia monetaria y financiera internacional. En las páginas de esta tercera ...

Trade wars are class wars

how rising inequality distorts the global economy and threatens international peace : with a new preface

Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ...

The cost of free money

how unfettered capital threatens our economic future

A penetrating account of how unchecked capital mobility is damaging international cooperation, polarizing the economic landscape, and ultimately reshaping the global order When it comes to the afflictions of the global economy, almost everyone-and especially Donald Trump-is quick to point the finger of blame at ...

Economic statecraft

A new edition of the classic work on the economic tools of foreign policy Today's complex and dangerous world demands a complete understanding of all the techniques of statecraft, not just military ones. David Baldwin's Economic Statecraft presents an analytic framework for evaluating ...

India

Continuity and Change in the 21st Century

India has been catapulted to the centre of world attention. Its rapidly growing economy, new geo-political confidence, and global cultural influence have ensured that people across the world recognise India as one of the main sites of social dynamism in the early twenty-first century. In ...

Obesos y famélicos

el impacto de la globalización en el sistema alimentario mundial

¿Cómo es posible que coincida con una epidemia de obesidad que afecta en especial a los pobres? Desde las semillas hasta el supermercado, desde los oligopolios hasta la Organización Mundial del Comercio, desde el Banco Mundial hasta el empobrecimiento de los agricultores: nada escapa al ...

The japanese economy

The second edition of a comprehensive account of all the major aspects of the Japanese economy, substantially updated and expanded. This textbook offers a comprehensive, rigorous but accessible account of all the major aspects of the Japanese economy, grounding its approach in mainstream economics. The ...

Estimating illicit financial flows

a critical guide to the data methodologies and findings

Illicit financial flows constitute a global phenomenon of massive but uncertain scale, which erodes government revenues and drives corruption in countries rich and poor. In 2015, the countries of the world committed to a target to reduce illicit flows, as part of the UN Sustainable ...