Bailout Nation

how greed and easy money corrupted Wall Street and shook the world economy

An engaging look at what led to the financial turmoil we now find ourselves in Bailout Nation offers one of the clearest looks at the financial lenders, regulators, and politicians responsible for the financial crisis of 2008. Written by Barry Ritholtz, one of today's ...

Senseless panic

how Washington failed America

The 1980s opened with the prime interest rate at an astonishing 21.5 percent, leading to a severe recession with unemployment reaching nearly 11 percent. Depression-like conditions befell the agricultural sector, a bubble burst in the energy sector, a rolling real estate recession swept the ...

The open innovation revolution

essentials, readblocks, and leadership skills

Life is not exactly a bed of roses for most innovation leaders and intrapreneurs-those assertive, innovative, corporate risk-takers who passionately turn ideas into profitable products. They take on corporate sacred cows and face down challenges that would cause less driven and less talented people to ...

Estado y mercado, en situación de crisis

Eds. José María Rodríguez de Santiago y Francisco Velasco Caballero. (Anuario de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 14 - 2010). ÍNDICE: Presentación.- ¿Tiene el Estado social moderno que salvar un mercado en crisis? FERNANDO VALLESPIN.- Crisis global y respuesta mundial, ANTONIO ...

The logic of discipline

global capitalism and the architecture of government

The era of economic liberalization, spanning 1978 to 2008, is often regarded as a period in which government was simply dismantled. In fact, government was reconstructed to meet the needs of a globalized economy. Central banking, fiscal control, tax collection, regulation, port and airport management ...

Due process in international commercial arbitration

This is the first publication to identify a universal procedural code for international commercial arbitration. This informative and well- argued discussion of a uniform code for due process is a useful aid for both practitioners and scholars. More than just a useful desk reference, this ...

Nationalism and social policy

the politics of territorial solidarity

Despite the recent proliferation of literature on nationalism and on social policy, relatively little has been written to analyse the possible interaction between the two. Scholars interested in social citizenship have indirectly dealt with the interaction between national identity and social programs such as the ...

The politics of Human Rights

The Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same time it offers an engaging argument about human rights and their relationship with politics. The author argues that human rights have only a slight ...

The art of public strategy

mobilizing power and knowledge for the common good

The strategies adopted by our governments and public officials can lead to significant change in citizens' lives - smoking bans, carbon markets, even the reunification of a country like Germany. Equally, strategic failure can result in highly visible disasters, such as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ...

The regimes of european integration

constructing governance of the single market

The regulation of financial markets and companies in Europe has undergone significant changes over the last decade. The Commission, Member States, and Parliament constructed regimes that facilitate new legislation, sanction delegation to the Commission for financial market law, and structure the cross-border regulation of companies ...

Diplomacy

a very short introduction

Like making war, diplomacy has been around a very long time, at least since the Bronze Age. It was primitive by today's standards, there were few rules, but it was a recognizable form of diplomacy. Since then, diplomacy has evolved greatly, coming to mean ...

Transformations of the Welfare State

small states, big lessons

Auts. Herbert Obinger...[et.al]. Transformations of the Welfare State gives a new twist to the longstanding debate on the impact of economic globalization on the welfare state. The authors focus on several small, advanced OECD economies in order to assess whether (and how) the ...

The Oxford handbook of the Welfare State

Eds. Francis G. Castels...[et.al]. The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world>'s leading scholars offer a comprehensive ...

A dictionary of ecology

This is the fourth edition of the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of ecology available. Written in a clear, accessible style, it contains over 6,000 entries on all aspects of ecology and related environmental scientific disciplines such as biogeography, genetics, soil science, geomorphology, atmospheric ...

Public land in the Roman Republic

a social and economic history of Ager Publicus in Italy, 396-89 BC

In the first volume in this new series on Roman society and law, Saskia T. Roselaar traces the social and economic history of the ager publicus, or public land. As the Romans conquered Italy during the fourth to first centuries BC, they usually took land ...

Valuation for M&A

building value in private companies

Discover the tools necessary to determine what your company's value is, what drives its value, and how to enhance that value during an M&A transaction. The only book to focus on valuation specifically for merger and acquisitions, Valuation For M&A: Building Value in Private Companies, Second Edition lays out the steps for measuring and managing value creation in privately held businesses. * Recognizes a company as an investment and explains how to manage that value to maximize shareholder returns, focusing on returns, risks, and capital invested * Explains investment or strategic value versus fair market value and provides a document request checklist; sample interview questions; and formats for adjusting financial statements, developing discount rates, the computation of net cash flow; and a ...

European Union Law

The Core Text Series takes the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing a reliable and invaluable guide for students of law at all levels. Written by leading academics and renowned for their clarity, these concise texts explain the intellectual challenges of each ...

An introduction to the legal system of the United States

Ed. Steve Sheppard. In the updated, fourth edition of this classic text which has been translated into over a dozen languages, constitutional scholar and Columbia Law School professor E. Allan Farnsworth provides a clear explanation of the structure and function of the U.S. legal ...

Del campo a la fábrica

vida y trabajo en una colonia industrial

El autor analiza en esta obra la transformación del campesino en obrero fabril y el papel que desempeñó el llamado paternalismo industrial en dicho proceso. Para ello, y tras una introducción contextual acerca de las precarias condiciones de vida y trabajo del campesinado alcarreño a ...

Decrecimientos

sobre lo que hay que cambiar en la vida cotidiana

Dir. Carlos Taibo. Hoy en día disponemos de una teoría general sobre el decrecimiento que ha ido adquiriendo cada vez más fuerza. Para completar este proyecto, sin embargo, urge trasladar los conceptos teóricos generales a ámbitos más concretos. Esto es precisamente lo que proponen los ...