1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00399149

Autore

REY, Charles F.

Titolo

Unconquered Abyssinia as it is To-Day : an account of a little known country, its peoples and their customs, considered from the social, economic and geographic points of view, its resources and possibilities, and its extra-ordinary history as a hitherto unconquered nation / Charles F. Rey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Seeley, Service & Co., 1923

Descrizione fisica

306 p. ; 24 cm.

Soggetti

ETIOPIA - Storia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961320003321

Autore

Brassett James

Titolo

Cosmopolitanism and global financial reform : a pragmatic approach to the Tobin Tax / / James Brassett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-136-97072-X

1-136-97073-8

1-282-62956-5

9786612629563

0-203-85162-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (151 p.)

Collana

RIPE series in global political economy

Disciplina

336.2/7833245

Soggetti

International finance - Moral and ethical aspects

Globalization - Moral and ethical aspects

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The ethical turn in IPE: The case for a pragmatic approach; 2 Vocabularies of the Tobin tax: From economics to politics and ethics; 3 Cosmopolitan justice and the Tobin tax; 4 Cosmopolitan democracy and the Tobin tax; 5 Pragmatic cosmopolitanism: The Tobin tax campaign as sentimental education; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Acknowledgement of the ethical dimension of global finance is commonplace in the wake of financial crises. The sub-prime crisis and ensuing credit crunch are only the latest in a long run of global financial crises that wreak social havoc and force us to consider alternative possibilities for global finance.By defining cosmopolitanism and analysing how cosmopolitan ideas can increasingly provide an account of the governance of global finance, Brassett examines whether global finance can be regulated so as to provide cosmopolitan values like social security, equality and democratic ac