Peregrinaciones de una paria

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

Trade has always been shaped by technological innovation. In recent times, a new technology, Blockchain, has been greeted by many as the next big game-changer. Can Blockchain revolutionize international trade? This publication seeks to demystify the Blockchain phenomenon by providing a basic explanation of the technology. It analyses the relevance of this technology for international trade by reviewing how it is currently used or can be used in the various areas covered by WTO rules. In doing so, it provides an insight into the extent to which this technology could affect cross-border trade...

En La economía del hidrógeno, Jeremy Rifkin nos acompaña, en un viaje revelador, a otra gran era comercial de la historia. Rifkin prevé el nacimiento de una nueva economía basada en el hidrógeno, que cambiará radicalmente la naturaleza de nuestras instituciones sociales, políticas y mercantiles, al igual que hicieron la energía del carbón y del vapor al comienzo de la era industrial. Rifkin observa que nos acercamos rápidamente a un punto crítico en la era de los combustibles fósiles, de consecuencias potencialmente desastrosas para la civilización industrial. Si hasta ahora los ...

Ben-Ami, Israel's ex minister of foreign affairs, contributes in this exceptional document an indispensable reflection to understand the reasons for the failure of the peace process. Having been one of the key persons in the negotiations with Palestinians, he clarifies where the relations between Palestinian and Israelis stand, and exposes the reasons for which the conflict has broken out again. This book poses basic principles for a solution, a solution that must be a political one, and one that shows a ray of hope towards peace.

Sin lugar a dudas el tema del mercado interno en Japón ha sido un elemento presente, no sólo dentro de la agenda de investigación académica en las últimas décadas, sino un tema político que ha marcado sus relaciones económicas internacionales con sus socios estratégicos. Los reclamos de mayor participación en el mismo, de Estados Unidos y Europa, definieron los rumbos de los vínculos diplomáticos desde la transformación de la economía japonesa como un paradigma de desarrollo en la posguerra.