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Globalization 2nd Edition – Textbook
A Globalizing World? Culture, Economics, Politics
Edited by David Held Series: Understanding Social Change 2004: 246 x 174: 192pp Hb: 978-0-415-32973-6: £85.00 Pb: 978-0-415-32974-3: £18.99 eBook: 978-0-203-39219-5
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Cartelization, Antitrust and Globalization in the US and Europe Mark S. LeClair, Fairfield University, USA This book provides a comprehensive examination of the history of cartels in the U.S. and Europe and the development of significant new antitrust tools, evaluating how economic forces and globalization have altered the structure of collusion. Selected Contents: 1. The Development of Antitrust Policy in the U.S. and the E.U. 2. Models of Cartel Behavior 3. The Historical Background – Early Cartels and the Phasing in of Antitrust Law 4. Globalization, Collusion and the Need for Antitrust Reform 5. The Modern Face of Collusion – Recent Cases in the U.S. and E.U. 6. Potential Reforms of Antitrust Law as it is applied to Cartels
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July 2010: 234 x 156: 196pp Hb: 978-0-415-57343-6: £85.00 eBook: 978-0-2038-4736-7
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Development and Globalization A Marxian Class Analysis David F. Ruccio, University of Notre Dame, USA Series: Economics as Social Theory
Since the mid-1980s, David F. Ruccio has been developing a new framework of Marxian class analysis and applying it to various issues in socialist planning, Third World development, and capitalist globalization. The aim of this collection is to show, through a series of concrete examples, how Marxian class analysis can be used to challenge existing modes of thought and to produce new insights about the problems of capitalist development and the possibilities of imagining and creating noncapitalist economies. Selected Contents: Foreword Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff Introduction 1. Rethinking Planning, Globalization, and Development from a Marxian Perspective Planning 2. Essentialism and Socialist Economic Planning: A Methodological Critique of Optimal Planning Theory 3. Planning and Class in Transitional Societies 4. The State and Planning in Nicaragua 5. Nicaragua: The State, Class, and Transition Development 6. Radical Theories of Development: Frank, the Modes of Production School, and Amin 7. The Costs of Austerity in Nicaragua: The Worker-Peasant Alliance, 1979-1987 8. When Failure Becomes Success: Class and the Debate over Stabilization and Adjustment 9. Power and Class: The Contribution of Radical Approaches to Debt and Development 10. Capitalism and Industrialization in the Third World: Recognizing the Costs and Imagining Alternatives 11. ‘After’ Development: Reimagining Economy and Class 12. Reading Harold: Class Analysis, Capital Accumulation, and the Role of the Intellectual Globalization 13. Fordism on a World Scale: International Dimensions of Regulation 14. Class Beyond the Nation-State 15. Global Fragments: Subjectivity and Class Politics in Discourses of Globalization 16. Globalization and Imperialism
Challenges of Globalization Immigration, Social Welfare, Global Governance Edited by Andrew Sobel, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Featuring contributions by experts from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds including economics, political science and law, this edited volume offers a timely examination of the complexities surrounding modern globalization. Through discussion and evaluation of the problems associated with immigration, social welfare and income inequality, and global governance the book offers a significant contribution to the continuing globalization debate.
Selected Contents: 1. Opportunities and Challenges Andrew Sobel 2. Sustainable Labor Migration Policies in a Globalizing World Philip Martin 3. The Last Bastions of State Sovereignty: Immigration and Nationality Go Global Stephen Legomsky 4. The Era of Free Migration: Lessons for Today Kevin O’Rourke 5. Cultural Communities in a Global Labor Market: Immigration Restrictions as Residential Segregation Howard Chang 6. Economics Versus Identity: Mass and Elite Attitudes Toward Trade, Migration and Outsourcing Mariana Medina and Andrew Sobel 7. Globalization and Inequality in Latin America and the Carribean Evelyene Huber and John Stephens 8. Capital Mobility and State Social Welfare Provisions in the Late 1800s Zahra Egal and Andrew Sobel 9. Global Governance Redefined Miles Kahler 2009: 234 x 156: 216pp Hb: 978-0-415-77806-0: £75.00 Pb: 978-0-415-77807-7: £24.99 eBook: 978-0-203-87346-5 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415778077
September 2010: 234 x 156: 424pp Hb: 978-0-415-77225-9: £100.00 Pb: 978-0-415-77226-6: £29.99 eBook: 978-0-203-84318-5 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415772266
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Rethinking Globalizations Series Edited by Barry Gills, University of Newcastle, UK This series is designed to break new ground in the literature on globalisation and its academic and popular understanding. Rather than perpetuating or simply reacting to the economic understanding of globalisation, this series seeks to capture the term and broaden its meaning to encompass a wide range of issues and disciplines and convey a sense of alternative possibilities for the future. Forthcoming in 2011
Global Civil Society in Action? Teivo Teivainen, University of Helsinki, Finland Focusing on the World Social Forum (WSF), the author analyzes the various dilemmas of democratization in a dynamic process that is explicitly global but has many local variations. Selected Contents: 1. Introduction: Democracy in Global Times 2. Politicizing Spirit of the Globalization Protest Movements 3. Emergence of the World Social Forum 4. Movement of Movements or Depoliticized Space 5. Who Governs the Forum: Politics of Transnational Representation 6. Global Expansion of the World Social Forum. Conclusions June 2011: 234 x 156: 192pp Hb: 978-0-415-35727-2: £75.00 eBook: 978-0-203-00316-9 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415357272
Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights The Role of Multilateral Organisations Desmond McNeill, University of Oslo, Norway and Asunción Lera StClair, University of Bergen, Norway
Examines the activities of the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme, in relation to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Inter-American Development Bank.
Selected Contents: 1. Introduction 2. International Organisations and the Challenge of Global Poverty 3. Ethics, Human Rights and Global Justice 4. UNDP: The Human Development Paradigm 5. The World Bank: The Internal Dynamics of a Complex Organisation 6. UNESCO: ’Poverty as a Violation of Human Rights’ 7. The Inter-American Development Bank: ’Social Capital, Ethics and Development’ 8. Conclusion 2009: 234 x 156: 192pp Hb: 978-0-415-44704-1: £75.00 Pb: 978-0-415-44594-8: £22.99 eBook: 978-0-203-88130-9 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415445948
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