O tema deste livro é o mercado de capitais e as perspectivas e ideias para o seu desenvolvimento. Um tema extremamente oportuno, pois trata do financiamento da economia brasileira, questão crucial para a retomada do crescimento econômico em novas bases. Trata também de outro aspecto relevante para o nosso futuro, muito discutido no ambiente acadêmico mas carente de medidas práticas, que é o estímulo à poupança e o seu direcionamento para investimentos de longo prazo.

As bases para o funcionamento do mercado de capitais no Brasil estão construídas e são de boa qualidade. No entanto, o seu fortalecimento passa por um esforço concatenado entre governo e setor privado. A agenda de aperfeiçoamentos é exaustiva, o que não é diferente de qualquer segmento ligado à infraestrutura nacional.Os textos dos capítulos que integram este livro abordam vários itens relevantes da agenda necessária para melhorar a infraestrutura existente e representam uma oportunidade para se conhecer aspectos importantes da discussão sobre o financiamento de longo prazo via mercado de capitais, além de possíveis caminhos para tratar de seus problemas.

How can Western Modernity be analyzed and critiqued through the lens of enslavement and colonial history? The volume maps out answers to this question from the fields of Postcolonial, Decolonial, and Black Studies, delineating converging and diverging positions, approaches, and trajectories. It assembles contributions by renowned scholars of the respective fields, intervening in History, Sociology, Political Sciences, Gender Studies, Cultural and Literary Studies, and Philosophy."

Considering the recent impact of the capital market on corporate strategy, this text analyzes, through argument and supportive case studies, how pressures from the capital bull market of the 1990s and bear market of the early 2000s, have reshaped management action and calculation in large, publicly quoted US and UK corporations. Beginning with the dissatisfaction with classical strategy and its limited engagement with the processes of financialization, the book moves on to cover three detailed company case studies (General Electric, Ford and GlaxoSmithKline) which use long run financial data and analysis of company and industry narratives to illustrate and explore key themes. The book emphasizes the importance of company and industry narrative, while also analyzing long term financial results, and helps to explain the limits of management action and the burden of expectations placed on corporate governance. Presenting financial and market information on trajectory in an accessible way, this book provides a distinctive, critical social science account of management in large UK and US corporations, and it is a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers of business, management, political economy and non-mainstream economics. short listed for the 2007 IPEG Book Prize

Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a new and powerful way of understanding contemporary urban change, bringing together discussions about: *globalization and the city *technology and society *urban space and urban networks *infrastructure and the built environment *developed, developing and post-communist worlds. With a range of case studies, illustrations and boxed examples, from New York to Jakarta, Johannesberg to Manila and Sao Paolo to Melbourne, Splintering Urbanism demonstrates the latest social, urban and technological theories, which give us an understanding of our contemporary metropolis.

Urban Claims and the Right to the City explores how contested processes of urban development, and the rights of city dwellers, are understood and interpreted from the perspective of women and men working, in different ways, at the grassroots in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, and London, UK. In doing so, it represents the grounded voices of authors whose work and lives mean that they engage, on a daily basis, with issues related to housing and spatial rights, and identity struggles around race, gender, disability, sexuality, citizenship and class. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.