Crimes against humanity

a normative account

This book is the first booklength treatment of the philosophical foundations of international criminal law. The focus is on the moral, legal, and political questions that arise when individuals who commit collective crimes, such as crimes against humanity, are held accountable by international criminal tribunals ...

Minorities within minorities

equality, rights and diversity

Groups around the world are increasingly successful in maintaining or winning autonomy. However, what happens to individuals within the groups who find that their group discriminates against them? This volume brings together sixteen distinguished scholars who examine the balance between group autonomy and individual rights ...

Mistake, fraud and duties to inform in european contract Law

This book investigates how thirteen European legal systems solve twelve case studies about mistake, fraud or duties to inform in contract law. After considering the historical origins of these legal concepts, national reports explain each system's solution. Comparative observations synthesize and evaluate the national ...

Terence and the language of Roman comedy

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the language of Roman comedy in general and that of Terence in particular. The study explores Terence's use of language to differentiate his characters and his language in relation to the language of the comic fragments of ...

Te evolution and extinction of the Dinosaurs

Viking empires

Statius and epic games

sport, politics and poetics in the Thebaid

Punishment

a comparative historical perspective

Punishment is the common response to crime and deviance in all societies. However, its particular form and purpose are also linked to specific features of the structure of these societies at a particular time and place. Through a comparative historical analysis of punishment, this book ...

Economic spionage and industrial spying

Democracy from above

regional organizations and democratization

Since the momentous events of the late 1980s, democratic transition has been a widely studied phenomenon. Most scholars who have investigated the causes and implications of the global trend to democracy have argued that domestic politics is the leading determinant in the success or failure ...

Federalism and the welfare state

new world and european experiences

The politics of constitutional review in Germany

Constitutional courts have emerged as central institutions in many advanced democracies. This book investigates the sources and the limits of judicial authority, focusing on the central role of public support for judicial independence. The empirical sections of the book illustrate the theoretical argument in an ...

The wealth of ideas

a history of economic thought

The Wealth of Ideas traces the history of economic thought from its prehistory (the Bible, Classical antiquity) to the present day. In this eloquently written, scientifically rigorous and well documented book, chapters on William Petty, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, William Stanley Jevons, Carl ...

Economic systems of foraging, agricultural, and industrial societies

Frontiers in applied general equilibrium modeling

in honor of Herbert Scarf

Group formation in economics

networks, clubs, and coalitions

Broad and diverse ranges of activities are conducted within and by organized groups of individuals, including political, economic and social activities. These activities have recently become a subject of intense interest in economics and game theory. Some of the topics investigated in this collection are ...

Foundations of dynamic economic analysis

optimal control theory and applications

Foundations of Dynamic Economic Analysis presents a modern and thorough exposition of the fundamental mathematical formalism used to study optimal control theory, i.e., continuous time dynamic economic processes, and to interpret dynamic economic behavior. The style of presentation, with its continual emphasis on the ...

The economic implications of aging societies

the costs of living happily ever after

The world is getting older and no one knows exactly what life will be like in tomorrow#s older societies. But we do know that age dependency ratios - the ratio of retirees to workers - will be much higher than we see today. The implications of ...

Globalization and the international financial system

what's wrong and what can be done

The economics of financial markets

The Economics of Financial Markets presents a concise overview of capital markets, suitable for advanced undergraduates and for beginning graduate students in financial economics. Following a brief overview of financial markets - their microstructure and the randomness of stock market prices - this textbook explores how the ...

Weather derivative valuation

the meteorological, statistical, financial and mathematical foundations

Weather Derivative Valuation is the first book to cover all the meteorological, statistical, financial and mathematical issues that arise in the pricing and risk management of weather derivatives. There are chapters on meteorological data and data cleaning, the modelling and pricing of single weather derivatives ...

Economic policy in the Age og Globalisation