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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78360-213-1
EAN 9781783602131
Europe is suffering from a bipolar economic disorder; one symptom of which is a sovereign debt crisis. The media have divided the continent into two groups of nations: center and periphery, not by geography but by credit ratings on national debt. Europe On the Brink is a critical investigation of the root causes of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78360-160-8
EAN 9781783601608
Girls behave badly. If they're not obscenity-shouting, pint-swigging laddettes they're narcissistic, living dolls floating around in a cloud of self-obsession, far too busy twerking to care. And this is news.In this witty and wonderful book, eminent historian Carol Dyhouse shows that for over a century now, where there's a horrific headline, a scandal or a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-947-5
EAN 9781780329475
North Korea is a country that continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world's most secretive nuclear power, it is a nation that still has Gulag-style prison camps, allows no access to the internet, and bans its people from talking to foreigners without official approval. In this remarkable and eye-opening ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78360-022-9
EAN 9781783600229
In this classic text, now in its fourth edition, Gilbert Rist provides a complete and powerful overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history. He traces it from its origins in the Western view of history, through the early stages of the world system, the rise of US hegemony, and the supposed ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-943-7
EAN 9781780329437
As Africa and its diaspora commemorate fifty years of post-independence Pan-Africanism, this unique and sometimes provocative collection of biographical essays provides profound insight into the thirteen prominent individuals of African descent who have won the Nobel Peace Prize since 1950. From the first American president of African descent, Barack Obama, whose father was Kenyan and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-561-3
EAN 9781780325613
Samir Amin is, and remains, one of the world's most influential thinkers about the changing nature of capitalism, North-South relations and issues of development. In this highly prescient book, originally published in 1997, he provides a powerful analysis of the new and very different era which capitalism entered following the collapse of the Soviet model, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-957-4
EAN 9781780329574
Economic liberalization has failed in the Arab world. Instead of ushering in economic dynamism and precipitating democratic reform, it has over the last three decades resulted in greater poverty, rising income inequality and sky-rocketing rates of youth unemployment. In How Capitalism Failed the Arab World, Richard Javad Heydarian shows how years of economic mismanagement, political ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-562-0
EAN 9781780325620
Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. Michael Albert would disagree. 'Realizing Hope' offers a speculative vision of a future beyond capitalism - an alternative to the exploitation of human labour, the unchecked destruction of the earth, and the oppression of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 20,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-267-4
EAN 9781780322674
Numbers dominate global politics and as a result our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies.Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate change, poverty and sustainability. But what is behind these ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-345-9
EAN 9781780323459
Over the past two decades, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been at the centre of the deadliest series of conflicts since the Second World War, and now hosts the largest United Nations peacekeeping mission in the world. In this compelling book, acclaimed journalist Michael Deibert paints a picture of a nation in flux, inching ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 25,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-604-7
EAN 9781780326047
A little over a decade ago Africa was being spoken of as the 'lost' or 'hopeless' continent in the media. Now it has some of the fastest growing economies in the world, in large part because of the impacts of a group of large developing countries - the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-045-8
EAN 9781780320458
'Walden Bello is the world's leading no-nonsense revolutionary.' - Naomi Klein, author, No LogoIn this eye-opening and often scathing book, Walden Bello provides a forensic dissection of contemporary capitalism's multiple crises. Trenchant but constructive, Bello's analysis of the collapse of the global real economy - covering such issues as the Wall Street meltdown, the disintegration ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-478-4
EAN 9781780324784
The last couple of years have seen the eurozone lurch from crisis to calamity. With Greece, Portugal and Ireland already driven to the brink of economic catastrophe, and the threat that a number of other countries in the EU are soon to follow, the consequences for the global economy are potentially dire. In Disaster in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 33,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-483-8
EAN 9781780324838
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-445-6
EAN 9781780324456
For over 65 years, the United States war machine has been on automatic pilot. Since the World War II we have been conditioned to believe that US foreign policy means well, that America's motives in 'exporting' democracy are honourable, even noble. In this startling and provocative book, William Blum - one of the United States' ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-272-8
EAN 9781780322728
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is arguably the most well-known statistic in the contemporary world, and certainly amongst the most powerful. It drives government policy and sets priorities in a variety of vital social fields - from schooling to healthcare. Yet for perhaps the first time since it was invented in the 1930s, this popular icon ...
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Mexico is a country in crisis. Capitalizing on weakened public institutions, widespread unemployment, a state of lawlessness, and the strengthening of links between Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, narcotrafficking in the country has flourished during the post-1982 neoliberal era. In fact, it has become Mexico's biggest source of revenue, as well as its most violent, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-1-84813-938-1
EAN 9781848139381
Banks of all sorts are troubled institutions. The cost of public bail-outs associated with the subprime crisis in the United States alone may be as high as US 5 trillion. What is the problem with banks? Why do they seem to be at the centre of economic and financial turmoil down through the ages? In ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84813-922-0
EAN 9781848139220
In The Delusions of Economics, Gilbert Rist presents a radical critique of neoclassical economics from a social and historical perspective. Rather than enter into existing debates between different orthodoxies, Rist instead explores the circumstances that prevailed when economics was 'invented', and the resultant biases that helped forge the construction of economics as a 'science'. In ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84813-836-0
EAN 9781848138360
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