European integration, 1950-2003

superstate or new market economy?

This title explains integration, the most significant European historical development in the past 50 years, eclipsing in importance even the collapse of the USSR. This movement toward economic and political union has not only helped revive, transform, and rejuvenate a battered civilization, it is opening ...

Sobre la naturaleza y el lenguaje

Noam Chomsky desarrolla sus ideas sobre la relación entre lenguaje, mente y cerebro, e integra la actual investigación lingüística en el floreciente campo de la neurociencia. El volumen comienza con una lúcida introducción de los editores, Adriana Belleti y Luigi Rizzi, para a continuación incluir ...

Violent crime

assessing race and ethnic differences

Construyamos un futuro sostenible

diálogos de supervivencia

Understanding early civilizations

a comparative study

An artist against the Third Reich

Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938

The conflict between Ernst Barlach, the most important German sculptor of the time, and the Third Reich is a remarkable episode in Hitler´s war against modern art. Rather than accept repression passively, Barlach denounced the confiscation and destruction of this work as ideologically inspired ...

Nation, State and the Economy in History

A history of Japan, 1582-1941

internal and external worlds

This book offers a distinctive overwiew of the internal and external forces responsible for the making of modern Japan. L. M. Cullen argues both that western writing has viewed the expansion of the west in an unduly positive light, and that Japanese policies and fears ...

Barbarism and religion

Volume 3: The first decline and fall

'Barbarism and Religion' - Edward Gibbon's own phrase - is the title of a sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of eighteenth-century Europe. This is ...

Restitutionary rights to share in damages

carers' claims

A new economic history of Argentina

Not since the publication of Carlos Díaz Alejandro's Essays on the Economic History of the Argentine Republic in 1970 has there been a new standard reference for those seeking a more quantitative understanding of Argentina's development. Research in the "new economic history" in ...

International financial history in the twentieth century

system and anarchy

International Financial History in the Twentieth Century examines the history of the international financial system in terms of the current debate about globalization and its limits. In the nineteenth century, international markets existed without international institutions. A response to the problems of capital flows came ...

Business history around the world

This book offers the first in-depth international survey of current research and debates in business history. Over the last two decades enormous advances have been made on the history of business enterprise and business systems. Historians are documenting and analyzing the evolution of a wide ...

Decision making using game theory

an introduction for managers

Game theory is a key element in most decision making processes involving two or more people or organisations. This book explains how game theory can predict the outcome of complex decision making processes, and how it can help you to improve your own negotiation and ...

Asymmetric information in financial markets

introduction and applications

Asymmetric information (the fact that borrowers have better information than their lenders) and its theoretical and practical evidence now forms part of the basic tool kit of every financial economist. It is a phenomenon that has major implications for a number of economic and financial ...

Appointing central bankers

the politics of monetary policy in the United States and the European Union

Focusing on how the President and the Senate influence monetary policy by appointing Federal Reserve Board members, this book answers three questions about the appointment process and its effects. First, do politicians influence monetary policy via Federal Reserve appointments? Second, who influences the process--only the ...

Semiparametric regression

Semiparametric regression is concerned with the flexible incorporation of non-linear functional relationships in regression analyses. Any application area that benefits from regression analysis can also benefit from semiparametric regression. Assuming only a basic familiarity with ordinary parametric regression, this user-friendly book explains the techniques and ...

Data analysis and graphics using R

an example-based approach

Modern statistical software systems provide sophisticated tools for researchers who need to manipulate and display their data. Using such systems requires training both in the software itself and in the statistical methods that it relies on. Concentrating on the freely available R system, this book ...

Semiparametric regression for the applied econometrician

This book provides an accessible collection of techniques for analyzing nonparametric and semiparametric regression models. Worked examples include estimation of Engel curves and equivalence scales, scale economies, semiparametric Cobb-Douglas, translog and CES cost functions, household gasoline consumption, hedonic housing prices, option prices and state price ...

The monetary theory of production

In mainstream economic theory money functions as an instrument for the circulation of commodities or for keeping a stock of liquid wealth. In neither case is it considered fundamental to the production of goods or the distribution of income. Augusto Graziani challenges traditional theories of ...

Economics and the theory of games

The experience of crusading