International finance

The markets and financial management of multinational business

In this fourth edition, Maurice Levi successfully integrates both the micro and macro aspects of international finance. The author explores managerial issues and focuses on problems that arise from financial trading relations between nations, whilst covering key topics such as: · organisation of foreign exchange markets ...

The price index and its extensions

a chapter in economic measurement

A theft amounting to £1 was a capital offence in 1260 and a judge in 1610 affirmed the law could not then be applied since £1 was no longer what it was. Such association of money with a date is well recognized for its importance ...

La vía italiana al totalitarismo

partido y estado en el régimen fascista

El prestigioso historiador italiano presenta en esta obra de carácter general una profunda investigación sobre el régimen fascista y ofrece, además, un interesantísimo estudio introductorio -preparado especialmente para la edición en Argentina-, en donde recapitula y analiza los debates suscitados tras la aparición, diez años ...

Seductions of place

geographical pespectives on globalization and touristed landscapes

Las reformas educativas en los países del Cono Sur

un balance crítico

El presente estudio constituye una pormenorizada y rigurosa aproximación a las tendencias que han marcado el rumbo de las recientes reformas educativas en los países del Cono Sur (Argentina, Brasil, Chile y Uruguay). Producto de un proyecto de investigación intersindical, este trabajo evidencia algunas de ...

Internationalizing the Internet

the co-evolution of influence and technology

This compelling book focuses on the global formation of the Internet system. It contests the common belief that the Internet's adoption was inevitable and instead examines the social and economic processes that allowed to it to prevail over competing standards and methods for achieving ...

Public goods, redistribution and rent seeking

New paradigm in macroeconomics

solving the riddle of japanese macroeconomic performance

Modern mainstream economics is attracting an increasing number of critics of its high degree of abstraction and lack of relevance to economic reality. Economists are calling for a better reflection of the reality of imperfect information, the role of banks and credit markets, the mechanisms ...

Monetary Union

the European Union as a neo-liberal construction

This volume presents a radical reinterpretation of the European Community or Union as a neo-liberal construction. It was neo- liberal rather than classically liberal because it was designed and used as an external instrument to weaken the interventionist welfare state that protected working people and ...

Le militaire et la politique en Turquie

Le présent ouvrage constitue la version remaniée d'une thèse do doctorat en sociologie, sostenue en juin 2004 à l'Université de Paris I et couronnée ensuite par le deuxième prix dans la catégorie doctorat du concours 2004 des prix scientifiques de l'IHEDN. En ...

Wirtschaftsprivatrecht

Wirtschaftsprivatrecht bezeichnet die Summe aller privatrechtlichen Rechtsgrundlagen, welche das wirtschaftliche Geschehen und vor allem die Beziehungen der an ihm Beteiligten zueinander regeln. Dieses Komplexe Ganze des Wirtschaftslebens berührt eine Fülle von Rechtsgebieten. Die Konzeption des Werkes zielt darauf ab, dem Leser diese Einheit auch in ...

Strategy in transition

The bursting of the 'dotcom bubble' and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have brought into question received wisdom about strategy. This volume reviews the lessons to be learnt from these events, and proposes that, as a result, strategy in the twenty-first century will ...

Organization

contemporary principles and practice

The handbook of international trade

.Vol.II: Economic and legal analyses of trade policy and institutions

A course in monetary economics

sequential trade, money, and uncertainty

ÍNDICE Introduction Money in the Utility Function More Explicit Models of MoneyMonetary Economics and Public FinanceThe Regulation of Banks and Near MoneysMoney and the Business Cycle: Does Money Matter? Sticky Prices in a Cash-in-Advance ModelFlexible PricesUncertain and Sequential Trade (UST) ModelsA Monetary UST ModelLimited Participation ...

International trade and agriculture

Regulation of functinal foods and nutraceuticals

a global perspective

Regulation of Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals: A Global Perspective offers a comprehensive resource for information on regulatory aspects of the growing and economically important functional food industry. Regulatory systems and definitions of key terms-food, supplement, drug, etc-vary from country to country. A thorough understanding of ...

Macrojustice

the political economy of fairness

The main features of the just society, as they would be chosen by the unanimous, impartial and fully informed judgment of its members, present a remarkable and simple meaningful structure. In this society, individuals' freedom is fully respected, and overall redistribution amounts to an equal ...

La bolsa contada con sencillez

¿Qué es la Bolsa, qué es una acción, qué pasa cuando la Bolsa sube?... Prologado por Fernando González Urbaneja, LA BOLSA CONTADA CON SENCILLEZ, es una obra amena y sencilla que nos introduce y nos permite entender mejor el desconocido para muchos y apasionante mundo ...

Linear factor models in finance

The determination of the values of stocks, bonds, options, futures, and derivatives is done by the scientific process of asset pricing, which has developed dramatically in the last few years due to advances in financial theory and econometrics. This book covers the science of asset ...