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Trust

Can we trust our elected representatives or is public life so corrupted that we can no longer rely on governments to protect our interests or even our civil liberties? Is the current mood of public distrust justified or do we need to re-evaluate our understanding ...

Global justice

Global justice has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. Whilst half of the world's population continue to live on less than $2 per day, there are growing demands for a world where democracy, development and security are permanent features in ...

Rawls's Law of peoples

a realistic utopia?

John Rawls is considered the most important theorist of justice in much of western Europe and the English- speaking world more generally. This volume examines Rawls's theory of international justice as worked out in his last and perhaps most controversial book, "The Law of ...

Beyond individual choice

teams and frames in Game Theory

Game theory is central to modern understandings of how people deal with problems of coordination and cooperation. Yet, ironically, it cannot give a straightforward explanation of some of the simplest forms of human coordination and cooperation - most famously, that people can use the apparently arbitrary ...

The evolution of the trade regime

politics, Law, and economics of the GATT and the WTO

The "Evolution of the Trade Regime" offers a comprehensive political-economic history of the development of the world's multilateral trade institutions, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO). While other books confine themselves to describing contemporary ...

Microfoundations of financial economics

an introduction to general equilibrium asset pricing

This textbook takes the reader from the level of microeconomics principles through to modern asset pricing theory. Yvan Lengwiler elegantly links together issues that have in the past been the territory of general economic theorists on the one hand, and financial economists on the other ...

Measuring efficiency in health care

analytic techniques and health policy

With the healthcare sector accounting for a sizeable proportion of national expenditures, the pursuit of efficiency has become a central objective of policymakers within most health systems. However, the analysis and measurement of efficiency is a complex undertaking, not least due to the multiple objectives ...

Approaching late antiquity

the transformation from early to late empire

What factors already present in the society of the High Roman Empire developed and expanded into the world of Late Antiquity? What was distinct in this period from what went before? The answers to these complex and fascinating questions embrace the fields of cultural history ...

Venturing beyond

law and morality in kabbalistic mysticism

Are mysticism and morality compatible or at odds with one another? If mystical experience embraces a form of non-dual consciousness, then in such a state of mind, the regulative dichotomy so basic to ethical discretion would seemingly be transcended and the very foundation for ethical ...

Principles of European Law

The Study Group on a European Civil Code has taken upon itself the task of drafting common European principles for the most important aspects of the law of obligations and for certain parts of the law of property in movables which are especially relevant for ...

Employment Law

an introduction

This is a textbook on UK employment law which is both introductory and comprehensive. It is aimed primarily at people who have not studied law previously, but who are studying for qualifications at either undergraduate or postgraduate level that include employment law modules. The book ...

The new public contracting

regulation, responsiveness, relationality

This book charts the significant increase in Britain over the last 25 years in the deployment of contract as a regulatory mechanism across a broad spectrum of social relationships. Since Labour came to power in 1997, the trend has accelerated, the use of contract spreading ...

Judging under uncertainty

an institutional theory of legal interpretation

How should judges, in America and elsewhere, interpret statutes and the Constitution? Previous work on these fundamental questions has typically started from abstract views about the nature of democracy or constitutionalism, or the nature of legal language, or the essence of the rule of law ...

Les États-Unis d'Europe

" Ce manifeste d'un authentique militant pour les États-Unis d'Europe constitue une importante contribution au débat sur notre avenir. Elle émane d'une personnalité politique qui, en tant que Premier ministre de la Belgique, s'illustre constamment par sa volonté de faire avancer la ...

Climate change, justice and future generations

Table of Contents: 1 Intergenerational justice in a warming world 2 Space, time and the science of climate change 3 Climate change, future generations and the currency of justice 4 Climate change, future generations and the profile of justice 5 The non-reciprocity problem 6 The ...

Shah of shahs

Shah of Shahs" depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the Iranian people, sees himself ...

Las armas de la Guerra Civil española

Sobre la guerra civil que tuvo lugar en España entre el verano de 1936 y la primavera de 1939 se han escrito en los últimos setenta años miles de volúmenes relatando las batallas más importantes, las biografías de los protagonistas principales o las relaciones políticas ...

La deuxième mort de Staline

14 février 1956 : devant le XXe Congrès du PC d'Union Soviétique réuni à huis clos, Khrouchtchev dénonce les " erreurs " et les " crimes " de Staline. La déstalinisation est engagée. Ainsi, à peine trois ans après la mort du " guide génial ", les délégués apprennent avec stupeur ...

La Alhambra

el lugar y el visitante

La Alhambra es hoy una realidad cultural compleja que requiere de un proceso continuo de adpatación, reflexión y adopción de medidas técnicas para su puesta en valor como "lugar". Posee una honda significación cultural, estética y funcional como conjunto arquitectónico, y a la vez como ...

Complex arbitrations

multiparty, multicontract, multi-issue and class actions

Arbitrations involving more than two parties and complex multicontractual issues represent more than one third of international arbitration cases, and this proportion increases every year. The difficult and specific issues raised by such arbitrations have been the object of abundant case law, derived from both ...