Boletín Bibliográfico
Biblioteca Ramón Ramírez Gómez, Facultad de Economía
VOL. 1 NUM. 02 / SEPTIEMBRE 2005
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HD75.6 L447 2002
LEFF, Enrique
Saber Ambiental: Sustentabilidad, Racionalidad, Complejidad, Poder

La degradación ambiental, el riesgo de colapso ecológico, la desigualdad social, la pobreza extrema, son signos elocuentes de la crisis del mundo globalizado. La sustentabilidad es el significante de una falla fundamental en la historia de la humanidad, el síntoma de una crisis de civilización que alcanza su momento culminante en la transición de la modernidad truncada hacia una posmodernidad incierta, marcada por la diferencia, la diversidad, la democracia y la autonomía.

El saber ambiental emerge de una reflexión sobre la construcción social del mundo actual, donde hoy convergen y se precipitan los tiempos históricos abriendo las perspectivas de una complejidad, donde se amalgaman lo natural, la tecnología y lo simbólico: donde se resignifican tradiciones filosóficas e identidades culturales ante la cibernética, la comunicación electrónica y la biotecnología.

El saber ambiental se configura en la hibridación del mundo marcado por la tecnologización de la vida y la economización de la naturaleza, por el mestizaje de las culturas, el diálogo de los saberes y la dispersión de subjetividades, donde se están resignificando los sentidos existenciales a contracorriente con el proyecto unitario y homogeneizante de la modernidad. Tiempos donde emergen nuevos valores y racionalidades que reconducen la construcción del mundo, tiempos en los que se descongelan, se decantan, se precipitan, se reciclan y se reenlazan historias diferenciadas y se relanza la historia hacia nuevos horizontes.

Este libro es una mirada hacia la emergencia y construcción de un saber que resignifica las concepciones del progreso, del desarrollo y del crecimiento sin limite, para configurar una nueva racionalidad social. Esta se refleja en el campo de la producción y del conocimiento de la política y de las prácticas educativas. El saber ambiental se sacude así el yugo de sometimiento y desconocimiento al que lo han sujetado los paradigmas dominantes del conocimiento.


HD9980.5 B79
BRYSON, John R. y otros
Service Worlds: People, Organisations, Technologies

As the twenty-first century begins, significant changes are occurring in the way that services and goods are produced and consumed. This book aims to aid understanding of the evolving economic geography of advanced capitalist economies.


G70.3 S593
GETIS, Arthur; MUR, Jesús y ZOLLER, Henry G. (editores)
Spatial Econometrics and Spatial Statistics

The field of spatial econometrics has come to include the methods and models that deal with estimation and testing problems encountered when attempting to implement regional economic models. Those problems are often characterized by the difficulties associated with assessing the importance of spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity. This book includes contributions on spatial proximity, spatial patterning and in particular the spatial association (dependence) contained in local map patterns.


QA371 L226
TAFT, Earl (editor)
Stochastic versus Deterministic Systems of Differential Equations

Text addresses questions relating to the need for a stochastic mathematical model and the between-model contrast that arises in the absence of random disturbances/fluctuations and deterministic and stochastic parameter uncertainties. A text for graduate students or a reference for experimental and applied scientists.


HJ2351.7 M6
LAI LAN MO, Phyllis
Tax Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance Measures in Major Developing Economies

Tax avoidance has created problems with far-reaching implications for the economic development of developing economies. This book focuses on the issues of tax avoidance, as well as on measures designed to combat it, in China, India, Brazil, and Mexico, with a focus on China.


HF1379 E36
BATABYAL, Amitrajeet A.
The Economics of International Trade and the Environment

Issues related to environmental protection and trade liberalization have moved to the forefront of international policy agendas. The Economics of International Trade and the Environment explores - from an economic standpoint - many of the questions that are germane in increasing our knowledge of environmental policy in the presence of international trade and trade policy in the presence of environmental externalities. Ultimately we must ask "What can economic theory tell us about the connections between environmental and trade policy?" This book uses the tools of game and microeconomic theory to analyze diverse issues such as: the effects of international trade in waste products on illegal disposal, the nature of environmental policy when market structure and plant locations are endogenous, and the issue of ecological dumping. The authors apply economic theory to practical settings to ascertain the extent to which this theory can inform policy decisions about problems at the interface of international trade and the environment. Edited by well-known researchers and authors, this is the only resource that can serve as an effective guide to the theoretical and empirical literature on international trade and the environment. The Economics of International Trade and the Environment provides comprehensive coverage on a wide variety of topics and contains the most recent contributions in this area and is suitable as a graduate course in Economics and International Trade

A text exploring issues related to environmental protection and trade liberalization, namely the questions pertinent to increasing our knowledge of environmental policy in the presence of international trade and trade policy. Takes an economic standpoint on the discussion, placing equal emphasis on theoretical and empirical issues. DLC: International trade.


HJ2307 S3513
SALANIE, Bernard
The Economics of Taxation

This concise introduction to the economic theories of taxation is intuitive yet rigorous, relating the theories both to existing tax systems and to key empirical studies. The book offers a thorough discussion of the consequences of taxes economic decisions and equilibrium outcomes, as well as useful insights into how policy makers should design taxes. It covers issues of central policy importance, such as taxation of income from capital, environmental taxation, tax credits for low-income families, and the consumption tax.

A knowledge of microeconomics at the advanced undergraduate level is required, but the book contains an appendix with the main results from consumer and producer theory used in the text. Because the study of optimal taxation relies on the theory optimal control, which is not often taught in economics courses, a second appendix provides the necessary background.

 


HC59.15 R65
ROLAND, Gerard
Transition and Economics

The transition to capitalism in former socialist economies is one of the main economic events of the last decade. Besides affecting approximately 1.65 billion people, it is contributing to a shift in emphasis in economics from standard price and monetary theory to contracting and its institutional environment. Economic research in transition shows not only that institutions matter but also how their evolution toward higher efficiency depends on initial conditions and on sustained political support.

Unlike early policy literature on transition economics, which focused on the so-called Washington consensus, this book provides an overview of current research, analyzing issues raised by transition for which economic theorists and policy makers had no ready answers. It shows how research on transition contributes to our understanding of capitalism as an economic system and of the dynamics of large-scale institutional change. No other book presents a comprehensive theory to explain the difference between private and public enterprises.

The book is divided into three parts. The first part looks at how large-scale reforms are decided dynamically through the political process. The second part looks at the general equilibrium and macroeconomic effects of liberalization in economies without markets. The third part looks at the economic behavior of firms in the transition from state to private ownership and compares the effects of privatization, restructuring, and financial reform. Although focused on transition economics, the discussions are relevant to topics in political economics, development, public economics, corporate finance, and micro-and macroeconomics.


HC79.E5 G567
CHASEK, Pamela
The Global Environment in the Twenty-First Century: Prospects for International Cooperation

This volume examines the roles of different actors in the formulation of international and national environmental policy. It starts from the premise that while cooperation among nation states has proven to be necessary to address many transboundary environmental issues, virtually all policies must be implemented at the national or local level. The growing interaction between national and international actors and levels of governance is an increasingly important aspect of international environmental policy. The authors examine the roles of state and non-state actors in safeguarding the environment and advancing sustainable development into the twenty-first century. Each of five sections focuses on a different actor: states, civil society, market forces, regional arrangements and international organizations. By examining the functions and capabilities of each of these actors, the authors analyse their effectiveness and their relationship with other actors both within and outside of the UN system, providing a useful framework for understanding the multi-actor, multi-issue nature of international environmental policy. UNU Series on The United Nations System in the Twenty-first Century


HC60 I545
BOURGUIGNON, Francois y PEREIRA dA SILVA, Luiz A.
The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution: Evaluation Techniques and Tools

The tools reviewed in this book are organized according to a list of policy issues. Part I is exclusively micro oriented and is devoted to the incidence of public expenditures, taxation and redistribution policies and, more importantly, changes in these policies. Part II focuses o the links that may be established between macro modeling and the microeconomic distribution of economic welfare. The unifying link between the two parts is the systematic reliance on data sets that describe the distribution of economic welfare in the population, that is essentially household surveys of different types. Each chapter in the two parts refers to a specific evaluation technique of policies and generally to a particular policy instrument of a particular situation the technique is adapted to. As the techniques being reviewed have in common to be widely or increasingly used by academics or policy analysts. The present review is thus stopping short of the cutting edge of the field of distributional evaluation of micro and macro policies. This choice was deliberately made to avoid readers embarking in techniques with uncertain and ambiguous results. Likewise the authors of the various chapters carefully insist on the limitations of the tools presently in use and on the risk there would e in pushing them too far outside their limit of validity. A more precise description of the various chapters of the book is given as an introduction to its two constitutive parts.


 

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