We need to establish a shared vision over the historical making, current transformation and future development of the “South”, a conceptual creation of the West in colonial and post-colonial times which needs to be fully redefined. Such redefinition starts from the acknowledgment that...

Part I: The global crisis caused by deflation -- Chapter 1: Transformation of global capitalism, deflation with unemployment and rhetoric around intergenerational conflict -- Chapter 2: Public spending and social reproduction: overturning the rhetoric -- Chapter 3: Transformation of public...

1. Introduction: Ethics and Justice -- 2. Ethics -- 3. On "Corporate Responsibility" -- 4. Environmental Responsibility and Corporate Culture: the Prerequisites for Self-Regulation -- 5. Responsibility “Beyond the Law” -- 6. Firm Integrity and Spheres of Justice -- 7. A Final Thought on...

Acknowledgements -- The terrible August 2013 -- The start of the Mediterranean crisis -- The world’s economic crisis -- The chickens have come home to roost -- The old and new convergence -- Responding to strategic divergence -- Fossil hydrocarbons and the fragmentation of growth -- The future...

Over the last decade multinational corporations have made large-scale acquisitions of forests and agricultural areas in Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Australia and Oceania, often to the detriment of indigenous inhabitants. On May 11 2012, for the first time in history, 124 states have...