Principles of european Tort Law

text and commentary

Table of Contents: From the Principles of European Tort Law * Commentaries: General Introduction Basic Norm General Conditions of Liability: Damage, Causation Basis of Liability: Liability based on fault, Strict liability, Liability for others Defences: Defences in general, Contributory conduct or activity Multiple Tortfeasors Remedies: Damages ...

The rise of spanish multinationals

european business in the global economy

Since 1992, Spanish companies in a variety of industries have acquired a prominent presence in the global economy, especially in Latin America and Europe. Companies such as Telefónica, Banco Santander, Repsol-YPF and Inditex (the owner of the Zara brand) have catapulted themselves to become major ...

Microeconometrics

methods and applications

This book provides the most comprehensive treatment to date of microeconometrics, the analysis of individual-level data on the economic behavior of individuals or firms using regression methods for cross section and panel data. The book is oriented to the practitioner. A basic understanding of the ...

Private and public enterprise in Europe

energy, telecommunications and transport, 1830-1990

This is the first comparative history of the economic organisation of energy, telecommunications and transport in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It examines the role that private and public enterprise have played in the construction and operation of the railways, electricity, gas and ...

Healthy, wealthy, and fair

health care and the good society

America may be one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet its citizens have lower life expectancy, more infant mortalities, and higher adolescent death rates than those in most other advanced industrial nations--and even some developing countries. In Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair a distinguished ...

Economy and morality

the philosophy of the welfare state

What is the purpose of the economy? To answer this intriguing and fundamental question, this book provides a systematic approach to economic ethics and constructs a relationship between the economy and morality; it expounds theoretical and practical issues of economic philosophy along two dimensions: values ...

Globalization and international economic instability

This book is an authoritative collection of important previusly published articles addressing the changing nature of the linkages between domestic financial system caused by the globalization of economic activity and capital flows. How these linkeges affect developed emerging and eveloping economies are investigated as well ...

Recent developments in international trade theory

The last decade has seen many important contributions to the field of International Trade Theory. This authoritative volume contains 27 seminal articles that represent the most significant of these recent developments. Topics include multinational firms, trade with heterogeneous firms, general equilibrium with oligopolistic firms, outsourcing ...

En el borde del mundo

memorias del juez que proceso a Pinochet

Juan Guzmán conoce en su juventud un Chile hospitalario, de costumbres ancestrales y provinciano. Luego de recibirse de abogado vive el París de 1968, hace sus primeros intentos literarios y decide encauzarse en el mundo del derecho. Regresa a un Chile en plena ebullición política ...

Diario de Hiroshima

de un médico japonés: (6 de Agosto-30 de Septiembre, 1945)

La neblina del ayer

Memorias de un presidiario

(en las cárceles franquistas)

El 29 de marzo de 1929, Manuel García Corachán, abogado y capitán del Cuerpo Jurídico del Ejército de la República, se vio obligado a emprender un viaje que le alejara del terror y le acercara a la libertad. El trayecto de Valencia hasta el puerto ...

Las armadas imperiales

la guerra en el mar en tiempos de Carlos y Felipe II

Fruto de la política matrimonial de los Reyes Católicos y de los Habsburgo así como del azar, Carlos V, el césar de la cristiandad, heredó un vasto territorio que se fue ampliando sucesivamente hasta 1573 y que llegó a abarcar regiones en todo el mundo ...

The economics of deflation

#Deflation may be one of the most daunting policy challenges facing policymakers today. What makes deflation particularly challenging is its multifaceted nature and its newness for the current generation of economists and policymakers. With his extensive knowledge of history and the current debate, Pierre Siklos ...

La vida al desnudo

voces de Ruanda

Ciencia y técnica en la enciclopedia

Diderot y D'Alembert

Poemas

San Paulino de Nola (Burdeos, 355 -Nola, 431) fue obispo de esta ciudad de la Campania. Descendiente de una ilustre familia francesa, fue alumno del poeta Ausonio, quien además de lírica le enseñó leyes y filosofía. Lances políticos y personales le llevaron al desengaño del ...

Cartas

Libros I-V

Libanio (314-h. 393 d.C.), retórico griego nacido en Antioquía (Siria), es un claro exponente de las posibilidades de ascensión social que abría el hecho de destacarse literariamente en el siglo IV. Estudió en Atenas y ejerció la enseñanza de la retórica en Constantinopla y ...

Estudios de Lingüística, Filología e Historia

Casa de América de Barcelona (1911-1947)

Comillas, Gambó, Gili, Torres y mil empresarios en una agenda de información e influencia internacional

Las experiencias corporativas y empresariales de la burguesía española en el seno de una asociación internacional iberoamericana fundada en Barcelona en 1911 con el nombre de Casa de América (CA) son el tema central de este libro.En la década de 1920 e impulsada por ...