Economic spionage and industrial spying

Democracy from above

regional organizations and democratization

Since the momentous events of the late 1980s, democratic transition has been a widely studied phenomenon. Most scholars who have investigated the causes and implications of the global trend to democracy have argued that domestic politics is the leading determinant in the success or failure ...

Federalism and the welfare state

new world and european experiences

The politics of constitutional review in Germany

Constitutional courts have emerged as central institutions in many advanced democracies. This book investigates the sources and the limits of judicial authority, focusing on the central role of public support for judicial independence. The empirical sections of the book illustrate the theoretical argument in an ...

Administración de la Responsabilidad Social Corporativa

El tema de la Responsabilidad Social Corporativa (RSC) ha adquirido una especial importancia en el mundo de los negocios. Las empresas son cada vez más conscientes de la necesidad de asumir plenamente el papel que les corresponde dentro de su entorno social, pero definir este ...

El buen juicio en el Quijote

un estudio desde la idea de la prudencia en los Siglos de Oro

L'homme sans concessions

Arthur Koestler et son siècle

Minas de oro romanas

las Médulas: Patrimonio de la Humanidad

L´empire de la honte

La batalla de Roma

los nazis, los aliados, los partisianos y el Papa (Septiembre 1943-Junio 1944)

The wealth of ideas

a history of economic thought

The Wealth of Ideas traces the history of economic thought from its prehistory (the Bible, Classical antiquity) to the present day. In this eloquently written, scientifically rigorous and well documented book, chapters on William Petty, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, William Stanley Jevons, Carl ...

Economic systems of foraging, agricultural, and industrial societies

Frontiers in applied general equilibrium modeling

in honor of Herbert Scarf

La Constitución Europea

entre lo intergubernamental y lo supranacional

ÍNDICE: 1. Introducción 2. La revisión permanente de los Tratados en los que se funda la Unión Europea 1. La revisión de los Tratados hasta Niza 2. El proceso de revisión del Tratado de Niza 3. La "constitucionalización" del Tratado por el que se establece ...

Group formation in economics

networks, clubs, and coalitions

Broad and diverse ranges of activities are conducted within and by organized groups of individuals, including political, economic and social activities. These activities have recently become a subject of intense interest in economics and game theory. Some of the topics investigated in this collection are ...

Foundations of dynamic economic analysis

optimal control theory and applications

Foundations of Dynamic Economic Analysis presents a modern and thorough exposition of the fundamental mathematical formalism used to study optimal control theory, i.e., continuous time dynamic economic processes, and to interpret dynamic economic behavior. The style of presentation, with its continual emphasis on the ...

The economic implications of aging societies

the costs of living happily ever after

The world is getting older and no one knows exactly what life will be like in tomorrow#s older societies. But we do know that age dependency ratios - the ratio of retirees to workers - will be much higher than we see today. The implications of ...

Globalization and the international financial system

what's wrong and what can be done

The economics of financial markets

The Economics of Financial Markets presents a concise overview of capital markets, suitable for advanced undergraduates and for beginning graduate students in financial economics. Following a brief overview of financial markets - their microstructure and the randomness of stock market prices - this textbook explores how the ...

Weather derivative valuation

the meteorological, statistical, financial and mathematical foundations

Weather Derivative Valuation is the first book to cover all the meteorological, statistical, financial and mathematical issues that arise in the pricing and risk management of weather derivatives. There are chapters on meteorological data and data cleaning, the modelling and pricing of single weather derivatives ...