Sistema Bibliotecario Area Metropolitana

Abstract: This book examines the current state of agricoltural and food regulations as they affects trade. The authors discuss the efficacy and teh compatibility of countries' food regulations and analyze the tensions that have emerged from increased regulation based on production processes.

Abstract: This highly esteemed book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the subject, explaining the evolution of consumer law and policy in the EC in terms of both legislative and judicial activity. the book also situates EC consumer law and policy within its broader social, political and economic context, providing a window to a range of wider issue relating to Community regulatory strategies and their effect on the member states.

Abstract: Gresser shows how his fellow liberals who look to put the brakes on globalization have unwittingly turned their backs on the poor, and have abandoned a tradition heralded by Roosvelt, Kennedy, and Clinton. American liberals have forgotten where they come from, and they have little idea how to move forward in finding solutions for global aconomic problems.

Abstract: Donohue describes how, between the 1880s and the 1940s, American intellectuals transformed classical liberalism into is moderncounterpart by emphasizing consumers over producers and consumption over production.

Abstract: In this second volume of Robert Corfe's major work on Social Capitalism, he turns to examining the financial-industrial system and identifies issues, which are untouched by contemporary politicians across the political spectrum.

Abstract: In this book, a unique hybrid of Fair Trade business study, adventure travel, and cultural anthropology, author and coffee enterpreneur Dean Cycon introduces readers to the real people who make our morning coffee ritual possible-people that few, if any, outsiders have ever seen.

Abstract: It is an important book that comes at a time when a rivival is at hand for donor-driver rural finance following a hiatus of more than ten years.Successful microfinance can to some degree invigorate the fothcoming revival, but little has been done to design better rural financial systems, which remains the most challenging task.

Abstract: As one of the most noteworthy and popular sociology books of all the time, "The McDonaldization of Society 5" demonstrates the power of the sociological imagination to today's readers in a way that few other books have. This engaging book, sure to spark debate both in and out of the classroom, connects the everyday world of the "twenty-something" consumer with sociological analysis.

Abstract: The second edition of McDonaldization: The Reader includes a wide array of sources from journal entries, to essays, to newspaper and magazine articles. Best-selling author George Ritzer has updated this popular anthology to build upon and go beyond the thesis of McDonaldization. Classic articles from the first edition remain in this volume and are supplemented with a significant number of new pieces, which bring the discussion about McDonaldization up to date.

Abstract: "Enchanting a Disenchanted World" is a unique analysis of the world of consumption, examining how we are different consumers now than we were in the past, both in the U.S. and around the world. In the process of undertanding this social development, a wide range of theoretical perspective are applied. The book also looks at concepts such as hyperconsumption, implosion, time and space, and simulation.

Abstract: What do we know about consumer motives , goals and disires? This provocative and important book provides insights for students, scholarsand practitioners who seek to understand the vital relationship between motivation and consumption

Abstract: Economic factors and processes are at the heart of contemporary social and cultural life and this book is disigned to refocus social theorizing to reflect that fact. The author re-interprets the work of classical theorists and he discusses more recent transformations in capitalist economic life that have led to greater flexibility, forms of disorganization, and a neo-liberal regeneration of the market economy.

Abstract: MANAGING DIVERSITY demonstrates the benefits of implementing inclusive practice in the workplace. The author incorporates vignettes and case studies from different countries around the world to effectively illustrate practical solutions to managing today's diverse workforce.

Abstract: This book offers a selection of Jagdish Bhagwati's recent policy writings, in which he forcefully opposes the demonization of Japan, challenges the bipartisan bashing of illegal immigrant, refutes the conventional view that democracy hinder development, and much more.

Abstract: This collection brings together essays that suggest that the developing history of consumption is not so much a separate field as a prism through which many aspects of social and political life may be viewed. The essays represent a variety of approches to consumption in Europe and America.