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Rudesindus

la cultura europea del siglo X

Full employment abandoned

shifting sands and policy failures

The authors' contention in this book is that much of the blame for labour under-utilisation across OECD countries lies with the policy failures of national governments. They argue that at a time when budget deficits should have been used to stimulate the demand needed to ...

Financialization and the US economy

Profound transformations have taken place both in the US and the global economy, most especially in the realm of finance. Financial markets and transactions have been growing continuously in size and in importance while finance in general has acquired an increasingly prominent position in the ...

Ageing labour forces

promises and prospects

This provocative book considers the changing status of older workers, the evolution of public policy on age and work and the behaviour of employers. It attempts to answer the critical question: In an ageing society, can older workers look forward to the prospect of longer ...

Knowledge policy

challenges for the 21st century

"Knowledge Policy" illustrates how the production of knowledge has become central to economic life, and that competitiveness in the 21st century market place is characterized by the ability to translate scientific and technological knowledge into innovation. Does this therefore render cultural and social knowledge unimportant ...

Innovation policy in Europe

measurement and strategy

This book aims to increase our knowledge of innovation policy by combining quantitative and qualitative assessments of innovation systems, and by adopting a progressive outlook on the conditions for an innovative Europe of tomorrow. Based on the latest developments in innovation research, the authors aim ...

Managing the transition to renewable energy

theory and practice form local, regional and macro perspectives

This book addresses the problem of how to make a large-scale socio-technical transition to renewable energy, so as to realize an environmentally sustainable economy in the long run. Transition thinking has in a short time managed to occupy a central position in the policy debate ...

Pricing in road transport

a multi-disciplinaru perspective

Transport pricing is high on the political agenda throughout the world, but as the authors illustrate, governments seeking to implement this often face challenging questions and significant barriers. The associated policy and research questions cannot always be addressed adequately from a mono-disciplinary perspective. This book ...

Delegation in the regulatory state

independent regulatoru agencies in Eestern Europe

During the past 25 years, independent regulatory agencies have become widespread institutions for regulatory governance. This book studies how they have diffused across Europe and compares their formal independence in seventeen countries and seven sectors. Through a series of quantitative analyses, it finds that governments ...

The governance of global competition

competence allocation in international competition policy

The globalization of market competition and business behaviour fosters globalization of cartels and monopolizing mergers that can lead to abusive and predatory strategies. The globalization of competition therefore also demands an internationalization of competition policy. However, Oliver Budzinski is realistic in his assertion that supranational ...

Mergers and merger remedies in the EU

assessing the cosequences for competition

Headlines are made when the European Commission prohibits a merger, but this is actually very rare. Clearances subject to conditions (i.e. remedies) happen ten times as frequently, but have received far less attention in academic literature. This book provides an empirical assessment of the ...

Get out the vote

how to increase voter turnout

The first edition of "Get Out the Vote!" broke ground by introducing a new scientific approach to the challenge of voter mobilization and profoundly influenced how campaigns operate. In this expanded and updated edition, the authors incorporate data from more than one hundred new studies ...

Las alcobas clandestinas

amantes y bastardos en la Corte española: desde los Reyes Católicos a Juan Carlos I

La vida matrimonial de Isabel y Fernando, los Reyes Católicos, estuvo marcada por las infidelidades permanentes del rey y sus varios hijos bastardos. Lo mismo sucedió con Carlos V y Felipe II, dos emperadores que vivieron amoríos constantes y dejaron el reino repleto de hijos ...

La mirada interior

escritoras místicas y visionarias en la Edad Media

En La mirada interior se reúnen las historias de ocho mujeres místicas y visionarias, del siglo XII al XIV, y se analizan y comentan los testimonios directos de sus experiencias. Hildegarda de Bingen fue el umbral que condujo al gran resplandor místico del siglo XIII ...

Luis Cernuda

años españoles (1902-1938)

Esta que aquí presentamos es la biografía más completa de Cernuda escrita hasta la fecha. Pese a tratar los primeros 36 años de su vida, Antonio Rivero Taravillo fija con exactitud la figura del gran poeta de la generación del 27 en sus años decisivos ...

Pensando la educación de las mujeres

Se muestran diferentes trabajos de investigación, teorización y análisis, sobre las mujeres. Realizados todos ellos por mujeres. Mujeres que piensan la educación recibida y la imparten en el ejercicio de su docencia en los diferentes niveles del Sistema Educativo e instituciones sociales y políticas. Desde ...

El Quijote y el pensamiento teórico-literario

Actas del Congreso Internacional celebrado en Madrid los días del 20 al 24 de junio de 2005

Esta publicación recoge una selección de las contribuciones que se presentaron en el congreso internacional sobre "el quijote y el pensamiento teórico-literario". Al enfrentarse con esta obra clásica por antonomasia, los teóricos de la literatura tienen unas sendas bien marcadas que son las que se ...

Memorias de otros

Ángel Casas ha querido dejar constancia escrita de algunas de sus mejores entrevistas y anécdotas y de la atmósfera que rodea esos encuentros entre el entrevistador y #el personaje#.

Money laundering

a new international Law enformcement model

This book gives a broad analysis of the legal issues raised by the international fight against money laundering. It offers an extensive comparative research of the criminal and preventive law aspects from an international perspective. Stessens portrays money laundering as a new criminal trend threatening ...

El arte de la lengua de Chile de Luis Valdivia