Libros de: Zed Books Ltd
Mostrando 121 libros encontrados. (7 páginas).
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The Economics Anti-Textbook "A Guide To Critical Thinking"
A Guide To Critical ThinkingHill, Rod
Zed Books Ltd (2010)
- EAN: 9781842779392
- Páginas: 198
- Fecha de edición: 2010
pvp.26,20 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science free from value judgements; that settles disputes relatively easily by testing hypotheses; that applies a settled body of principles; and contains policy prescriptions supported by a consensus ...
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Beyond The Profits System "Possibilities For a Post-Capitalist Era"
Possibilities For a Post-Capitalist EraShutt, Harry
Zed Books Ltd (2010)
- EAN: 9781848134171
- Páginas: 144
- Fecha de edición: 2010
pvp.18,90 €
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While many have claimed that no one could have foreseen the financial crisis, Harry Shutt was predicting just such a collapse as far back as 1998 in his book, "The Trouble With Capitalism". In "A ...
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The Trouble With Capitalism N/E "An Enquiry Into The Causes Of Global Economic"
An Enquiry Into The Causes Of Global EconomicShutt, Harry
Zed Books Ltd (2009)
- EAN: 9781848134225
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2009
pvp.24,75 €
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The recent collapse of the banking system and instability in the financial markets has dramatically shaken confidence in the global economic order. Is the current variant of 'free market' capitalism really sustainable? "The Trouble With ...
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The Social Economy "International Perspectives On Economic Solidarity"
International Perspectives On Economic SolidarityAmin, Ash
Zed Books Ltd (2009)
- EAN: 9781848132825
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha de edición: 2009
pvp.29,15 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
This book gathers together material on the social economy from around the world. The Social Economy is a topic of considerable contemporary research and policy interest. From creches to environmental services, from consumer cooperatives to ...
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Thinking About Development
Hettne, Bjorn
Zed Books Ltd (2009)
- EAN: 9781848132474
- Páginas: 160
- Fecha de edición: 2009
pvp.21,85 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
This book is a concise and accessible introduction to development thinking, contemporary development theory and practice and - a critical analysis of the values that lie behind them. Hettne argues that schools of development thinking ...
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Soil Not Oil. Climate Change, Peak Oil And Food Insecurity.
Shiva, Vandada
Zed Books Ltd (2009)
- EAN: 9781848133150
- Páginas: 145
- Fecha de edición: 2009
pvp.18,90 €
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Climate change will dramatically alter how we live and is already affecting the lives of the world's most vulnerable people. In "Soil Not Oil", bestselling author Vandana Shiva connects the food crisis, peak oil, and ...
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Liberation From Liberalization "Gender And Globalization In Southeast Asia"
Gender And Globalization In Southeast AsiaBahramitash, Roksana
Zed Books Ltd (2005)
- EAN: 9781842774397
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha de edición: 2005
pvp.18,90 €
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In Southeast Asia, the expansion of free markets has led to high GNP per capita growth over the past few decades. But has this really brought prosperity, particularly for women? This book examines three countries ...
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Arts Under Pressure
Smiers, Joost
Zed Books Ltd (2003)
- EAN: 9781842772638
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha de edición: 2003
pvp.27,65 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
This work reveals how economic globalization affects decision-making in cultural matters worldwide, specifically in the field of arts. It looks at the theoretical and practical implications of economic globalization on the creation, production, distribution, promotion ...
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Uneven Economic Development
Ocampo, Jose Antonio
Zed Books Ltd (2008)
- EAN: 9781848131958
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha de edición: 2008
pvp.32,74 €
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Inequality in the world is high and rising. The problem of global uneven development is central to, and inseparable from, the international development agenda. In "Uneven Economic Development", leading economists and development experts examine the ...
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Pluralist Economics
Fullbrook, Edward
Zed Books Ltd (2008)
- EAN: 9781848130449
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2008
pvp.36,40 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
This book is an authoritative and accessible guide to the pluralist movement threatening to revolutionise mainstream economics. Leading figures in the field explain why pluralism is a required virtue in economics, how it came to ...
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Industrial Development For The 21st Century
Kjollerstrom, Monica O'Connor, David
Zed Books Ltd (2008)
- EAN: 9781848130272
- Páginas: 432
- Fecha de edición: 2008
pvp.33,00 €
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The first part focuses on key sectors with potential for developing countries, focussing on two key themes. First, traditional points of entry for late industrializers - like textiles and clothing - have become even more ...
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Can Ngos Make a Difference? The Challenge Of Development Alternatives
Bebbington, Antony Hickey, Samuel
Zed Books Ltd (2008)
- EAN: 9781842778937
- Páginas: 358
- Fecha de edición: 2008
pvp.36,40 €
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Can non-governmental organisations contribute to more socially just, alternative forms of development or are they destined to work at the margins of dominant development models determined by others? This book provides a comprehensive update to ...
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International Finance And Development.
Ocampo, Jose Antonio
Zed Books Ltd (2007)
- EAN: 9781842778623
- Páginas: 207
- Fecha de edición: 2007
pvp.29,10 €
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This is a comprehensive and unique survey of how the relationship between finance and economic development has changed since the historic Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development in 2002. It has ...
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Growth Divergences: Explaining Differences In Economic Performance.
Jomo, Kwame Ocampo, Jose Antonio Vos, Rob
Zed Books Ltd (2007)
- EAN: 9781842778814
- Páginas: 369
- Fecha de edición: 2007
pvp.33,00 €
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The last three decades have been characterized by a paradox of greater international economic integration but divergent economic performance. In contrast to the 1950s and 1960s, most developing countries have lagged far behind developed economies, ...
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The East Asian Development Experience. The Miracle, The Crisis And The Future.
Chang, Ha-Joon
Zed Books Ltd (2006)
- EAN: 9781842771419
- Páginas: 310
- Fecha de edición: 2006
pvp.34,60 €
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East Asia's development experience, at least until its crisis in 1997, has been a source of hope for other countries in the South. And in modern economic theory, it has been at the centre of ...
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Geography Of Power: The Making Of Global Economic Policy
Peet, Richard
Zed Books Ltd (2007)
- EAN: 9781842777114
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha de edición: 2007
pvp.34,60 €
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This work looks at how contemporary global economic policies are made: by which institutions, under what ideologies, and how they are enforced. The author reveals the central roles played by organizations such as the IMF ...
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Flat World, Big Gaps. Economic Liberalization, Globalization, Poverty And Inequality.
Baudot, Jacques Jomo, Kwame
Zed Books Ltd (2007)
- EAN: 9781842778340
- Páginas: 416
- Fecha de edición: 2007
pvp.45,50 €
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Neo-liberal economists have claimed that globalization creates worldwide economic growth, and that laissez faire liberalization leads to development, but has history proved them right? Now that the dust has settled, it is clear that since ...
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Policy Matters. Economic And Social Policies To Sustain Equitable Development.
Khan, Sarbuland Ocampo, Jose Antonio
Zed Books Ltd (2007)
- EAN: 9781842778364
- Páginas: 347
- Fecha de edición: 2007
pvp.36,50 €
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In 2000, the UN pledged to halve world poverty by 2015 as part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but progress has been elusive, and consensus difficult to achieve. These papers reveal disparate problems faced ...
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The Gobal Food Economy. The Battle For The Future Of Farming
Weis, Tony
Zed Books Ltd (2007)
- EAN: 9781842777954
- Páginas: 217
- Fecha de edición: 2007
pvp.28,00 €
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The modern food economy is a paradox. Surplus 'food mountains' sit alongside global malnutrition and the developed world subsidizes its own agriculture while pressurizing the developing world to liberalize at all costs. Export competition is ...
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Resistible Rise Of Market Fundamentalism. Rethinking Development Policy In An Unbalanced World.
Kozul-Wright, Richard Rayment, Paul
Zed Books Ltd (2007)
- EAN: 9781842776377
- Páginas: 374
- Fecha de edición: 2007
pvp.36,50 €
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'Stablise, liberalise and privatise' has, since the debt crisis of the early 1980s, been the mantra chanted at developing countries with quasi-religious conviction by international financial institutions, donor countries and newspaper columnists. Policy debate has ...