Explains the functions and powers of the main institutions that govern globalization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization, along with the ramifications, both good and bad, of their policies. Argues that globalization can be a positiv…
Describes how the economic growth today is benefiting only a small proportion of the global population. Distinguishes between the symptom as and the causes of the economic malaise, and analyses the flawed bases for many deeply-held orthodoxies.
Essays on cultural change, economic reform, political development and foreign policy initiated by the 1959 revolution in Cuba - analyses educational policy, health services, food security, social status of women, and evolution of the Catholic Church; examines the emergence of po…
Covers the period from 1989 to 1996.
Covers the period from 1989 to 1996.
This volume examines the history of modern India and its contemporary transformation, providing an account of the changes which are shaking India today at the beginning of the 21st century. When India was invented as a "modern" country in the years after Independence in 1947, it…
This text represents the findings of the Socialist Philosophy Group, a body set up by the Fabian Society to assess the direction that the Labour movement should take following the failure of the Labour Party's policies in the British general election of 1983.
Explains the functions and powers of the main institutions that govern globalization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization, along with the ramifications, both good and bad, of their policies. Argues that globalization can be a positiv…
