The literature of ancient Sumer

Sumerian is the oldest written language of ancient Iraq, first written down some 5000 years ago. Its literature, encompassing narrative myths, lyrical hymns, proverbs, and love poetry, provides a stimulating insight into the world's first urban civilization. Written in clear, accessible English, these translations ...

Pension design and structure

new lessons from behavioral finance

The Oxford handbook of innovation

This handbook looks to provide academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation. Innovation spans a number of fields within the social sciences and humanities: Management, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Policy Studies, Psychology, and History. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body ...

Regulating finance

balancing freedom and risk

At a time when regulation of financial markets has been subject to major upheavals this survey will be of particular value. The author is one of the most prominent officials involved in formulating and executing regulatory policy. His concern is to ensure that the new ...

An agenda for a growing Europe

the Sapir report

Over the past decade European economic integration has seen considerable institutional success, but the economic performance of the EU has been varied. While macroeconomic stability has improved and an emphasis on cohesion preserved, the EU economic system has not delivered satisfactory growth performance. This book ...

The psichology of economic decisions

.Vol.II: Reasons and choices

A collection of carefully selected contributions to behavioural economics from some of the leading international scholars in the field. Designed to fully complement Volume One, topics covered include preferences, behavioral game theory, motivated mental states, and emotions and decision-making. The book will provide a point ...

New state spaces

urban governance and the rescaling of statehood

Neil Brenner has in the past few years made a major impact on the ways in which we understand the changing political geographies of the modern state. Simultaneously analyzing the restructuring of urban governance and the transformation of national states under globalizing capitalism, 'New State ...

Power and property in Medieval Germany

economic and social change c.900-1300

In Power and Property in Medieval Germany Professor Arnold takes a fresh look at the problems posed by power and property in a medieval society, in this case the German kingdom. In a series of interrelated studies covering the period 700-1500, but concentrating on the ...

Effective knowledge management for Law firms

While there is significant interest in knowledge management as it applies to legal environments, there are very few books specifically focused on this topic. In Effective Knowledge Management for Law Firms, Matthew Parsons expertly fills this gap by drawing on his work with a leading ...

Excusing crime

When should someone who may have intentionally or knowingly committed criminal wrongdoing be excused? Excusing Crime examines what excusing conditions are, and why familiar excuses, such as duress, are thought to fulfil those conditions. The 'classical' view of excuses sees them as rational defects (such ...

Culture and European Union Law

This book explores the relationship between European Union law, culture, and identity. Community trade and competition rules have certainly affected many mundane, though highly formative, aspects of our day-to-day lives: when we shop, what we drink, even which football matches we watch on television. But ...

Diplomatic law

commentary on the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations

Denza provides a commentary on the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the universally-accepted framework for diplomacy between sovereign States. The author places each provision of the Convention in its historical context. The negotiating background to the provisions is supplemented with a comprehensive commentary on ...

Accountability in restorative justice

In reviving the idea of an informal approach to conflict resolution, the restorative justice movement attempts to break out of the freedom punitive thinking which shapes modern criminal justice. Its proponents claim that its guiding ideals - personalism, participation, and reintegration - deliver a fairer, more effective ...

International justice and the International Criminal Court

between sovereignty and the rule of Law

Since the Nuremberg Trials of top Nazi leaders following the Second World War, international law has affirmed that no-one, whatever their rank or office, is above accountability for their crimes. Yet the Cold War put geopolitical agendas ahead of effective action against war crimes and ...

Law, legitimacy, and european governance

functional participation in social regulation

This volume examines the role of law in increasing the legitimacy of European decision-making by structuring and facilitating diverse forms of participation, representation, and deliberation whilst ensuring transparency and accountability. The democratic deficit and the legitimacy of the European Union have attracted the attention of ...

Workers, establishment, and services in the European Union

The free movement of persons and services are key elements, alongside the free movement of goods and capital, in the fundamental freedoms which underpin the European internal market. In recent years two key themes have emerged from the case law of the European Court of ...

Regulating procurement

understanding the ends and means of public procurement regulation

Public procurement regulation is the body of law dealing with the way in which public bodies award contracts. Procurement by public bodies has implications for a number of areas of law, in particular trade and competition law, and administrative law. This book will provide an ...

Information technology policy

an international history

Information Technology has become a key factor in industry and society in the postwar world and continues to evolve, re- shaping the local and global economy and reorienting comparative and competitive advantages. The production of IT has itself changed and shifted through a number of ...

Kant's theory of knowledge

an analytical introduction

Kant's masterpiece, Critique of Pure Reason, is universally recognized to be among the most difficult of all philosophical writing, and yet it is required reading in almost every course that covers modern philosophy. Most students find Critique of Pure Reason impenetrable without the help ...

Inequality and the State

Strategic learning and its limits

In this concise book based on his Arne Ryde Lectures in 2002, Young suggests a conceptual framework for studying strategic learning and highlights theoretical developments in the area. He discusses the interactive learning problem; reinforcement and regret; equilibrium; conditional no-regret learning; prediction, postdiction, and calibration ...

Public Health, ethics, and equity

ÍNDICE: Amartya Sen: Preface Sudhir Anand and Fabienne Peter: Introduction I. Health Equity 1 Sudhir Anand: The Concern for Equity in Health 2 Amartya Sen: Why Health Equity? II. Health, Society, and Justice 3 Michael Marmot: Social Causes of Social Inequalities in Health 4 Norman ...