L'efficacité des garanties personnelles

La crise des garanties personnelles - cautionnement et garanties innomées de substitution - est unanimement dénoncée. Dès lors qu'un consensus existe sur la nécessité de leur recodification, il importe de déterminer quelle structure et quel contenu devrait présenter la réforme du droit des garanties personnelles pour ...

L'intervention du juge canadien avant et un arbitrage commercial international

Cette thèse précise les conditions dans lesquelles les tribunaux judiciaires canadiens peuvent intervenir avant ou durant un arbitrage commercial international, soit afin d'y prêter assistance, soit afin d'en contrôler la légalité. Elle soumet également ces conditions à l'analyse critique, dans le but ...

La dation en paiement

La dation en paiement est un mode autonome d'extinction d'une obligation, par l'exécution d'une prestation différente de celle originairement due. L'originalité de la dation une fois avérée, sa vitalité en droit positif a pu être vérifiée. Au fil de cette ...

Global corruption report 2006

transparency international

In the health sector, corruption is a matter of life or death. It can take many forms: from medical professionals who sell medicines or services that should be freely available, to high-level government officials who embezzle money from health budgets, to pharmaceutical companies that buy ...

Israel and settler society

The struggle between Israel and the Palestinians is not unique - whatever the news media may suggest. Lorenzo Veracini argues that the conflict is best understood in terms of colonialism. Like many other societies, Israel is a settler society. Looking in detail at the evolution of ...

Punishment

the supposed justifications revisited

Ted Honderich's Punishment is the best-known book on the justifications put forward for state punishment. This enlarged and developed edition brings his writing to a new audience. With new chapters on determinism and responsibility, plus a new conclusion, the book also remains true to ...

Comentario del Codigo Civil

Es una obra colectiva en la que han participado Magistrados de la Sala Primera del Tribunal Supremo y Catedráticos de Derecho Civil y Procesal, con ella se pretende, como en la primera edición, hacer un estudio pormenorizado del Código Civil - artículo por artículo-, a través ...

Cervantes y América

Este libro ofrece un recorrido por las imágenes de América en la escritura de Miguel de Cervantes. Se trata de volver a visitar una geografía que en cierto modo desde la Península en el Siglo de Oro era mucho más intuida que vista, má imaginaria ...

Modern linear and nonlinear econometrics

The basic characteristic of Modern Linear and Nonlinear Econometrics is that it presents a unified approach of modern linear and nonlinear econometrics in a concise and intuitive way. It covers four major parts of modern econometrics: linear and nonlinear estimation and testing, time series analysis ...

Marketing genius

The little black book of marketing is here. Marketing guru Peter Fisk's inspirational manual of marketing shows you how to inject marketing genius into your business to stand out from the crowd and deliver exceptional results. "Marketing Genius" is about achieving genius in your ...

Cuentos de mujeres europeas

Se ofrece una selección de cuentos de escritoras europeas que ofrecen una visión distinta de la narrativa de nuestro entorno. Miradas que recorren el continente desde finales del siglo XIX hasta el siglo XX.

Palgrave handbook of econometrics.Vol.1: Econometric theory

"Palgrave Handbook of Econometrics" comprises 'landmark' essays by the world's leading scholars and provides authoritative and definitive guidance in key areas of econometrics. With definitive contributions on the subject, the Handbook is an essential source of reference for professional econometricians, economists, researchers and students ...

Contract in a Nutshell

This book presents the key principles of contract law in a clear, and straightforward language. It explains basic principles and highlights key cases and statutes. It focuses on those topics favored by examiners, and provides an essential revision aid for all students of contract law.

La France du XVIe siècle

1483-1598

Ce manuel est une excellente synthèse de ce XVIe siècle durant lequel la royauté se consolide, malgré la violence des guerres civiles qui agitent la deuxième partie de ce siècle. L'ouvrage est divisé en deux parties, Le temps de la Renaissance puis Le temps ...

Depósito, contratos aleatorios, transacciones y compromisos

Con esta nueva colección que ahora iniciamos pretendemos dar una visión completa y analítica de las principales instituciones jurídicas centrándonos en su realidad jurisprudencial. En esta obra se analizan de forma pormenorizada, sucinta y completa las distintas modalidades de «contratación civil» reguladas en el Código ...

Global capitalism

its fall and rise in the Twentieth Century

International trade at unprecedented levels, millions of people migrating yearly in search of jobs, the world's economies more open to one another than ever before...Such was the global economy in 1900. Then as now, many people considered globalisation to be inevitable and irreversible ...

Computational economics

The ability to conceptualize an economic problem verbally, to formulate it as a mathematical model, and then represent the mathematics in software so that the model can be solved on a computer is a crucial skill for economists. "Computational Economics" contains well-known model - and some ...

Globalization and egalitarian redistribution

Can the welfare state survive in an economically integrated world? Many have argued that globalization has undermined national policies to raise the living standards and enhance the economic opportunities of the poor. This book, by sixteen of the world's leading authorities in international economics ...

Nonlinear optimization

Optimization is one of the most important areas of modern applied mathematics, with applications in fields from engineering and economics to finance, statistics, management science, and medicine. While many books have addressed its various aspects, "Nonlinear Optimization" is the first comprehensive treatment that will allow ...

Microeconomics

behavior, institutions, and evolution

In this introduction to modern microeconomic theory, Samuel Bowles returns to the classical economists' interest in the wealth and poverty of nations and people, the workings of the institutions of capitalist economies, and the co-evolution of individual preferences and the structures of markets, firms and ...