Sociología del sistema global

el impacto socioeconómico y político de las corporaciones transnacionales

El poder que decide sobre el bienestar de los ciudadanos en el mundo actual está en medida creciente en manos de las corporaciones transnacionales que operan de manera casi incontrolable en todas las regiones de la Tierra. Como motor de la nueva clase capitalista transnacional ...

Stolen fruit

the tropical commodities disaster

Fifty or more developing countries still depend mainly on the tropical commodities or minerals that they produce. But encouraging so many countries to grow coffee, sugar, cotton and other crops has been a disaster. Small farmers get only a tiny share of the final tag ...

Hungry corporations

transnational biotech companies colonise the food chain

This work provides a detailed account of how huge agrochemical corporations have come to control the food chain, exposing their influence over governments, regulatory bodies and university research. It examines how a handful of companies have: accelerated the industrialization of agriculture and the integration of ...

The role of international institutions in globalisation

the challenges of reform

This book presents a critical analysis of the role of international institutions and their performance in terms of justification, effectiveness an efficiency. The authors begin by dicussing the controversies surrounding the Tobin Tax in the context of global governance. They move on to address important ...

The world economy

global trade policy 2002

This volume is the ninth in an annual series in which top economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy. Each annual volume examines key issues pertinent to the multinational trading system, as well as regional trade arrangements ...

Global governance and financial crises

Are global financial markets rational or are manias possible? Should crises be allowed to run their course and purge the system? Should a lender of last resort intervene to dampen their impact on the real economy? This text addresses these and other questions. The editors ...

The EU and the WTO

legal and constitutional issues

The essays in this volume attempt to explore and elucidate some of the legal and constitutional complexities of the relationship between the EU and the WTO, focusing particularly on the impact of the latter and its relevance for the former. The effect of WTO norms ...

Chinese capitalism in a global era

towards hybrid capitalism

Yeung's in-depth study demystifies the nature and dynamics of 'overseas' Chinese capitalism in East and Southeast Asia in a time of accelerated globalisation. He examines how Chinese capitalism has evolved in a two way process through the participation of its key actors. INDICE List ...

Japan and East Asia in transition

trade policy, crisis and evolution, and regionalism

This book examines how Japan has changed its economic relationship with East Asia since the mid 1990s by looking at its commitments to import relief, regional financial and industrial transformations, and regionalism. While the Japanese government has taken proactive initiatives to sustain the sound development ...

Value and the world economy today

production, finance and globalization

Value and the World Economy Today brings together a diverse group of globally renowned scholars of international political economy and critical economics to examine the relevance of value theory for understanding the world economy today. The book is unique in the way that it connects ...

The future of domestic capital markets in developing countries

Now in its fifth year, the "Emerging Markets Series" from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and Brookings Institution offers financial policymakers and practitioners a unique resource. Drawn from the proceedings of the 2003 Financial Markets and Development conference, this volume brings together financial sector ...

Ideology and the international economy

the decline and fall of Bretton Woods

For twenty-five years, the International Monetary Fund administered a worldwide system of fixed exchange rates until their system was destroyed by a combination of market forces and those who advocated market forces. The first destructive element has been extensively analyzed; the second has hitherto been ...

Trading in knowledge

developement perspectives on TRIPS, trade and sustainability

An unprecedented surge in the scope and level of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection has been engulfing the world. This globalizing trend has shifted the balance of interests between private innovators and society at large and tensions have flared around key public policy concerns. As ...

El reto del capitalismo global

la economía mundial en el siglo XXI

La obra describe los riesgos y oportunidades inherentes a la globalización con la claridad y profundidad analíticas del experto en relaciones internacionales Robert Gilpin. Su exposición proporciona una nueva y equilibrada mirada que pone el contrapunto al excesivo triunfalismo que ha caracterizado el pensamiento norteamericano ...

Turbulent waters

cross-border finance and international governance

The world economy at the end of the twentieth century was afflicted with financial turbulence. Millions of people in emerging-market nations endured severe recessions, and many residents of wealthy nations also experienced losses. Some scholars describe this instability as a consequence of a progressively integrated ...

Incoherent empire

In this book noted sociologist Michael Mann argues that the #new American imperialism# is actually a new militarism that will bring disaster to the US and the world. The US is a military giant, better at devastating than pacifying countries. It is politically schizophrenic, split ...

L'instabilité monétaire

Au regard de l'Histoire, l'instabilité des monnaies apparaît comme la solution la moins douloureuse aux conflits de société : les guerres et les dictatures générant l'hyperinflation. Pour l'avenir, faut-il apprendre à vivres avec l'instabilité des taux de change dont souffrent les ...

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 ...

Free trade under fire

The 1990s began with fears of a "great sucking sound" of jobs lost due to the North American Free Trade Agreement and ended with opponents of the World Trade Organization taking to the streets in the "Battle of Seattle". Why has global trade become so ...

Food fights over free trade

how international institutions promote agricultural trade liberalization

This detailed account of the politics of opening agricultural markets explains how the institutional context of international organizations alters the balance of interests at domestic level. It traces 30 years of US agricultural trade negotiations with Japan and Europe.