Libros de: Zed Books Ltd

Mostrando 121 libros encontrados. (7 páginas).


  • The Money Changers: a Guided Tour Through Global Currency Markets.

    Williams, Robert

    Zed Books Ltd (2006)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842776957
    • Páginas: 286
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.31,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Currency markets, worth almost $2 trillion per day in trade, link the world together. Yet few people know how they work and why they are prone to instability and bouts of panic. This book, neither ...

  • The Political Economy Of Narcotics: Production, Consumption And Global Markets.

    Buxton, Julia

    Zed Books Ltd (2006)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842774472
    • Páginas: 246
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.31,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This scholarly examination of the worldwide web of narcotics today provides students, social workers, health providers, law enforcement officers and policy makers with an up-to-date, overall exploration of the world of drugs. For nearly a ...

  • The Current Negotiations In The Wto: Options, Opportunities And Risks For Developing Countries

    Lal Das, Bhagirath

    Zed Books Ltd (2005)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842777138
    • Páginas: 168
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.29,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    The ongoing negotiations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are a chance for developing countries to tackle the imbalances in existing WTO rules which have denied them a fair share of the benefits of international ...

  • Reinventing Development?

    Gready, Paul

    Zed Books Ltd (2005)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842776490
    • Páginas: 304
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.30,85 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    The recognition that the persistence of poverty is closely linked to the denial of human rights has propelled rights-based approaches into the policy and practice of many development NGOs, UN bodies and aid agencies. This ...

  • The Millennium Development Goals: Raising The Resources To Tackle World Poverty

    Cheru, Fantu

    Zed Books Ltd (2005)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842777350
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.34,90 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    How can the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) be made a reality by 2015? If the MDGs are to halve global poverty and significantly improve conditions for the world's poor on schedule, it is essential to ...

  • The Coffee Paradox: Global Markets, Commodity Trade And The Elusive Promise Of Development

    Daviron, Benoit

    Zed Books Ltd (2005)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842774571
    • Páginas: 304
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.30,85 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    The global coffee chain is currently characterized by a paradoxical coexistence of a 'coffee boom' in consuming countries and a 'coffee crisis' in producing countries. This book shows that the 'coffee paradox' exists because the ...

  • The Broken Mosaic: For An Economics Beyond Equations.

    Dowbor, Ladislau

    Zed Books Ltd (2005)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842776339
    • Páginas: 163
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.29,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Combines autobiographical reflection and summation of a lifetime's work in developing countries. Rejects both old fashioned statist economics and utopian post economics ideas of social organization.

  • Global Trade: Past Mistakes, Future Choices.

    Buckman, Greg

    Zed Books Ltd (2005)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842775790
    • Páginas: 294
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.18,25 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Trade, along with the free movement of capital, is at the heart of today's international economy. But international trade is an intensely political and contested subject. The book traces the history of global trade, the ...

  • Questioning Globalization.

    Singh, Kavaljit

    Zed Books Ltd (2005)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842772799
    • Páginas: 160
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.18,25 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Globalization has become the cliche of our times. The virus of neo-liberal globalization has struck almost everybody including within the ranks of the left. Its proponents claim that it produces 'accelerated, efficient' development along with ...

  • Origins Of Development Economics: How Schools Of Economic Thought Addressed Development.

    Jomo, Kwame

    Zed Books Ltd (2005)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842776476
    • Páginas: 165
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.30,85 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Historically much economic thought, especially until the 1960s, has been pre-occupied with development economics. This history of economic thought highlights the enduring developmental concerns of earlier economic discourses. It illustrates how various schools of economic ...

  • Pioneers Of Development Economics: Great Economists On Development.

    Jomo, Kwame

    Zed Books Ltd (2005)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842776452
    • Páginas: 234
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.32,70 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

  • Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism.

    Michael, Alex

    Zed Books Ltd (2006)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781552661819
    • Páginas: 198
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.27,40 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Something is profoundly wrong with capitalist globalization, as neo-liberal policies continue to vastly increase the disparity between rich and poor. 'What is the alternative?' is a question challenging activists around the world. Michael Albert has ...

  • Development Planning: Concepts And Tools For Planners, Managers And Facilitators.

    Dale, Reidar

    Zed Books Ltd (2004)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842774335
    • Páginas: 240
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.34,50 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This textbook aims to bridge the gap between much development planning theory and planning practice, while promoting a value-based, action-centred and organization-inclusive approach. It explores the concepts of development and development planning, introduces a simple ...

  • The New Development Economics. After The Washington Consensus.

    Fine, Ben

    Zed Books Ltd (2006)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842776438
    • Páginas: 304
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.33,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

  • Putting Development First: The Importance Of Policy Space In The Wto And Ifis.

    Gallagher, Kevin P.

    Zed Books Ltd (2005)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842776353
    • Páginas: 301
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.35,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This book examines how far the economic forces and rules that govern the global economy are shrinking the 'policy space' available to developing countries in constructing policies to raise living standards. The contributors analyse what ...

  • Human Rights: Social Justice In The Age Of The Market.

    Feyter, K. De

    Zed Books Ltd (2005)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842774878
    • Páginas: 238
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.19,80 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Rampant market economics in today's world has led to violations of human rights. Koen de Feyter questions how far the international human rights system - focused on legal conventions and enforcement by state machinery - ...

  • Global Revolt: a Guide To The Movements Against Globalization.

    Starr, Amory

    Zed Books Ltd (2005)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842774830
    • Páginas: 264
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.24,50 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Direct Action presents social activists with all they need to know about the key concepts and manifestos in the richly diverse popular mobilization that makes up the worldwide anti-globalization movement. It opens with a useful ...

  • Reimagining Growth: Towards a Renewal Of Development Theory.

    Dymski, Gary Paula, Silvana

    Zed Books Ltd (2005)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842775851
    • Páginas: 308
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.37,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Neoclassical economic theory and development economics have failed to deliver the much higher rates of growth and overall development that they promised would result from the freeing up of markets. This book takes issue with ...

  • The Decline Of Capitalism: Can The Self-Regulated Profits System Survive?

    Shutt, Harry

    Zed Books Ltd (2004)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842774014
    • Páginas: 176
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.20,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    The collapsing share values, corporate failures and fraud that have marked the opening of the 21st century reveal a global financial crisis and raise fundamental questions about the sustainability of the present economic order. Harry ...

  • A Commodified World?: Mapping The Limits Of Capitalism

    Williams, Colin C.

    Zed Books Ltd (2004)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842773550
    • Páginas: 288
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.30,85 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Late capitalism is widely assumed to involve an inevitable shift towards more and more commodified economic relations, while 'non-capitalist' activities are disappearing. This book critiques this notion. It seeks to show that a combination of ...