Libros de: Zed Books Ltd

Mostrando 121 libros encontrados. (7 páginas).


  • Just World: a Fabian Manifesto

    Fabian Society

    Zed Books Ltd (2005)

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    • 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 ...

  • Europe And The Arab World: Patterns And Prospects For The New Relationship

    Amin, Samir Kenz, A.

    Zed Books Ltd (2005)

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    • 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 ...

  • Property For People, Not For Profit: Alternatives To The Global Tyranny Of Capital

    Duchrow, Ulrich

    Zed Books Ltd (2004)

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    • 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. ...

  • Reclaiming Development: An Alternative Economic Policy Manual

    Chang, Ha-Joon

    Zed Books Ltd (2004)

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    • 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 ...

  • The Wto And The Multilateral Trading System: Past, Present And Future

    Lal Das, Bhagirath

    Zed Books Ltd (2004)

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    • 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 ...

  • In The Way Of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects And Globalization

    Blaser, Mario

    Zed Books Ltd (2004)

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    • 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 ...

  • Globalization: Tame It Or Scrap It?

    Buckman, Greg

    Zed Books Ltd (2004)

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    • 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 ...

  • Ploughing Up The Farm: Neoliberalism, Modern Technology And The State Of The World'S Farmers

    Buckland, Jerry

    Zed Books Ltd (2004)

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    • 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 ...

  • Deglobalization: Ideas For a New World Economy

    Bello, Walden

    Zed Books Ltd (2004)

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    • 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. ...

  • Banana Wars: The Price Of Free Trade - a Caribbean Perspective

    Myers, Gordon

    Zed Books Ltd (2004)

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    • 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 ...

  • Agribusiness And Society: Corporate Responses To Environmentalism, Market Opportunities And Public Regul

    Jansen, Kees

    Zed Books Ltd (2004)

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    • 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 ...

  • A Possible World: Democratic Transformation Of Global Institutions

    Patomaki, Heikki

    Zed Books Ltd (2004)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781842774076
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.29,48 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    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 ...

  • The Politics Of The New International Financial Architecture

    Soederberg, Susanne

    Zed Books Ltd (2004)

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    • EAN: 9781842773796
    • Páginas: 229
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.31,25 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    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 ...

  • Inclusive Citizenship: Meanings And Expressions

    Kabeer, Naila

    Zed Books Ltd (2004)

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    • EAN: 9781842775493
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.32,76 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    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 ...

  • Knowledge For Development?

    King, Kenneth

    Zed Books Ltd (2004)

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    • 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 ...

  • Globalisation, Economic Development And The Role Of The State

    Chang, Ha-Joon

    Zed Books Ltd (2003)

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    • 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 ...

  • The Economist'S Tale: a Consultant Encounters Hunger And The World Bank

    Griffiths, Peter

    Zed Books Ltd (2003)

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    • EAN: 9781842771853
    • Páginas: 249
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.33,90 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    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 ...

  • Protecting Foreign Investment: Implications Of a Wto Regime And Policy Options

    Correa, Carlos

    Zed Books Ltd (2003)

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    • 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 ...

  • A People'S World: Alternatives To Economic Globalization

    Madeley, John

    Zed Books Ltd (2003)

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    • 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 ...

  • Obsolescent Capitalism: Contemporary Politics And Global Disorder

    Amin, Samir

    Zed Books Ltd (2003)

    valoración

    • 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 ...