Libros de: Zed Books Ltd
Mostrando 121 libros encontrados. (7 páginas).
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Just World: a Fabian Manifesto
Fabian Society
Zed Books Ltd (2005)
- EAN: 9781842774557
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha de edición: 2005
pvp.20,00 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
The Fabian Society, an organisation with over a century of experience in making strategic, policy relevant interventions, puts the case in Just World for a middle way between unsustainable unfettered free market capitalism and the ...
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Europe And The Arab World: Patterns And Prospects For The New Relationship
Amin, Samir Kenz, A.
Zed Books Ltd (2005)
- EAN: 9781842774373
- Páginas: 166
- Fecha de edición: 2005
pvp.36,31 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
Europe has been seeking in recent years to put its relations with the Arab countries of the Mediterranean region onto a new footing. In 1995, the Euro-Mediterranean initiative was launched by the European Union at ...
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Property For People, Not For Profit: Alternatives To The Global Tyranny Of Capital
Duchrow, Ulrich
Zed Books Ltd (2004)
- EAN: 9781842774793
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2004
pvp.32,76 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
The issue of private property and the rights it confers remain almost undiscussed in critiques of globalization and free market economics. Yet property lies at the heart of an economic system geared to profit maximization. ...
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Reclaiming Development: An Alternative Economic Policy Manual
Chang, Ha-Joon
Zed Books Ltd (2004)
- EAN: 9781842772010
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha de edición: 2004
pvp.22,93 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
After half a century of disappointed hopes, where do developing countries go from here? Two economists refute some of the main myths of free market globalization in trenchant fashion. History does not show that the ...
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The Wto And The Multilateral Trading System: Past, Present And Future
Lal Das, Bhagirath
Zed Books Ltd (2004)
- EAN: 9781842774816
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2004
pvp.32,76 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
This book examines the evolution of the multilateral trading system and the outlook for the body that constitutes its institutional base and which governs global commerce, the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Dr Das identifies the ...
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In The Way Of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects And Globalization
Blaser, Mario
Zed Books Ltd (2004)
- EAN: 9781842771938
- Páginas: 384
- Fecha de edición: 2004
pvp.32,76 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
Indigenous peoples today are enmeshed in the expanding modern economy, subject to the pressures of both market and government. This book takes indigenous peoples as actors, not victims, as its starting point in analysing this ...
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Globalization: Tame It Or Scrap It?
Buckman, Greg
Zed Books Ltd (2004)
- EAN: 9781842773819
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2004
pvp.22,93 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
'Globalization is irreversible and irresistible.' - Tony Blair This book gives the lie to that claim. Economic globalization has never been an inevitable part of human history. It is eminently reversible and hugely resistible. Greg ...
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Ploughing Up The Farm: Neoliberalism, Modern Technology And The State Of The World'S Farmers
Buckland, Jerry
Zed Books Ltd (2004)
- EAN: 9781842773673
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2004
pvp.29,48 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
Around the world, farmers' livelihoods and food security have eroded in the past 20 years. Increasing reliance on markets and modern technology has not generated universal farm affluence. Neoliberalism has brought about rural depopulation in ...
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Deglobalization: Ideas For a New World Economy
Bello, Walden
Zed Books Ltd (2004)
- EAN: 9781842775455
- Páginas: 132
- Fecha de edición: 2004
pvp.22,93 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
This is a short and trenchant history of the organizations -- the World Bank, IMF, WTO, and Group of Seven -- which have promoted economic globalization and which are now trying to manage the unmanageable. ...
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Banana Wars: The Price Of Free Trade - a Caribbean Perspective
Myers, Gordon
Zed Books Ltd (2004)
- EAN: 9781842774533
- Páginas: 191
- Fecha de edición: 2004
pvp.29,48 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
In the Caribbean Windward Islands, one in three jobs and half of export earnings depend on bananas. But from the end of 2005, the European Union will give up the last non-tariff measures designed to ...
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Agribusiness And Society: Corporate Responses To Environmentalism, Market Opportunities And Public Regul
Jansen, Kees
Zed Books Ltd (2004)
- EAN: 9781842774137
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha de edición: 2004
pvp.22,21 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
How far are agribusiness corporations responding to emerging environmental awareness to play their part in the 'greening' of agriculture and food? Are they developing new environmentally-friendly products, services and production methods? How much change is ...
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A Possible World: Democratic Transformation Of Global Institutions
Patomaki, Heikki
Zed Books Ltd (2004)
- EAN: 9781842774076
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2004
pvp.29,48 €
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The scope and powers of international institutions - the United Nations, the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organization - continue to grow with globalization. If democratic values are still sought after, then their deficit ...
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The Politics Of The New International Financial Architecture
Soederberg, Susanne
Zed Books Ltd (2004)
- EAN: 9781842773796
- Páginas: 229
- Fecha de edición: 2004
pvp.31,25 €
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Stock exchange implosions, flights of capital, currency collapses, investment scams, tax evasion, and now terrorists hiding their funds in offshore havens. The epidemic of financial crises of which these form part - in Mexico, South ...
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Inclusive Citizenship: Meanings And Expressions
Kabeer, Naila
Zed Books Ltd (2004)
- EAN: 9781842775493
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2004
pvp.32,76 €
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People's understandings of what it means to be a citizen go to the heart of the various meanings of personal and national identity, political and electoral participation, and rights. The contributors to this seek to ...
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Knowledge For Development?
King, Kenneth
Zed Books Ltd (2004)
- EAN: 9781842773253
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2004
pvp.25,60 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be 'the knowledge bank'. A new discourse of knowledge-based aid has since spread rapidly across the development field. This book is ...
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Globalisation, Economic Development And The Role Of The State
Chang, Ha-Joon
Zed Books Ltd (2003)
- EAN: 9781842771433
- Páginas: 335
- Fecha de edición: 2003
pvp.32,90 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
The role of the state continues to be a key debate in economics and development studies. Dr ha-Joon Chang has been one of the leading voices questioning the axiomatic wisdom of what is called the ...
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The Economist'S Tale: a Consultant Encounters Hunger And The World Bank
Griffiths, Peter
Zed Books Ltd (2003)
- EAN: 9781842771853
- Páginas: 249
- Fecha de edición: 2003
pvp.33,90 €
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What really happens when the World Bank imposes its policies on a country? This is an insider's view of one aid-made crisis. Peter Griffiths was at the interface between government and the Bank. In this ...
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Protecting Foreign Investment: Implications Of a Wto Regime And Policy Options
Correa, Carlos
Zed Books Ltd (2003)
- EAN: 9781842771839
- Páginas: 177
- Fecha de edición: 2003
pvp.27,90 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
The rich industrialized countries are insisting that the World Trade Organization (WTO) not only launches a new round of world trade negotiations, but that rules restricted to trade issues now be extended to protect foreign ...
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A People'S World: Alternatives To Economic Globalization
Madeley, John
Zed Books Ltd (2003)
- EAN: 9781842772232
- Páginas: 236
- Fecha de edición: 2003
pvp.23,90 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
Providing practical alternatives to economic globalization, this book is based on original interviews with prominent thinkers and campaigners from across the world. The author interviews some of the world's most corageous and innovative campaigners and ...
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Obsolescent Capitalism: Contemporary Politics And Global Disorder
Amin, Samir
Zed Books Ltd (2003)
- EAN: 9781842773215
- Páginas: 190
- Fecha de edición: 2003
pvp.32,90 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
Capitalism is going senile. Its ambition is now restricted to maintaining the wealth of the wealthy in the world, while the poor are demonised as the enemy. In this volume, Samir Amin presents a synoptic ...