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The strategy pathfinder

core concepts and micro-cases

The Strategy Pathfinder" provides today's hard-pressed business students with a new, effective way to learn about business strategy. Built around micro-cases of real-life problems faced by companies and executives, this 'strategy i-pod' helps business students to engage with the kinds of situation they will ...

Regional economic development

analysis and planning strategy

The second edition of this book is completely reedited making the book even more valuable for graduate students, reflecting recent advances and adding insightful new material. The book is about the analysis of regional economic performance and change, and how analysis integrates with strategies for ...

How to write

"How to Write" is an introductory guide to writing, aimed at people who think they can't write, or for whom writing is an ordeal. Broken down into short topic-based chapters on everything from beginning to revising, it demystifies the writing process by taking the ...

La historia de los judíos

Desde el descubrimiento del monoteísmo por los israelitas hasta sus aportaciones en la creación y el desarrollo del capitalismo, el socialismo y el psicoanálisis, el genio judío se percibe en todas las manifestaciones artísticas, científicas y del pensamiento. El historiador Paul Johnson señala algunas de ...

The elusive fan

reinventing sports in a srowded marketplace

This title explores prominent athletes, events, and organizations in professional sports, including David Beckham, Kobe Bryant, NASCAR, and Yao Ming, as well as the impact of HDTV and video games. It details the marketing and brand strategies that encourage fan loyalty, and provides models to ...

The authentic Adam Smith

his life and ideas

In this book, James Buchan refutes much of what we think we know about Adam Smith and shows that, in fact, Smith transcends modern political categories. Along the way, we see Smith the man - his sometimes troubled friendship with David Hume, his urbanity, his hypochondria ...

Entrepreneurship and economic growth

By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link between investments in new knowledge and economic growth. The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship provides not just an explanation of why entrepreneurship has become more prevalent as the factor of knowledge has ...

Understanding poverty

This volume presents 28 essays on poverty by some of the leading experts in the field of economics. The book is divided into three sections, beginning with an essay about how poverty is measured. The first section is about the causes of poverty and its ...

The white man's burden

why the west's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little Good

We are all aware of the extreme hunger and poverty that afflict the world's poor. We hear the facts, see the images on television, buy the T-shirt and are moved as individuals and governments to dig deep into our pockets. Yet what happens to ...

Perspectives on punishment

the contours of control

Takes a multidisciplinary approach to the subject of penal policy and criminology. Includes a mixture of both empirical research and theoretical perspectives. Comparative analysis. International coverage.

The World Trade Organization

Law, practice, and policy

The WTO is one of the most important intergovernmental organizations in the world, yet the way in which it functions as an organization and the scope of its authority and power are still poorly understood. This comprehensively revised new edition of the acclaimed work by ...

The volatility surface

a practitioner's guide

This work presents a detailed look at the volatility surface. The volatility surface, formed from implied volatilities of all strikes and expirations, moves around. This randomness needs to be explicitly modeled for the effective pricing, trading, and risk management of equity derivatives. Focusing on equity ...

The theory of international trade and unemployment

In this book, Paul Oslington underlines the contradiction between the prominence of job losses in political conflict over trade liberalization, and trade economists usually working with full employment models.

Developing corporate social responsibilility

a european perspective

The rapidly increasing attention devoted to corporate social responsibility (CSR) has resulted in the term 'CSR' being applied to myriad dissimilar phenomena. The authors therefore aim to dispel this confusion by presenting a multi-faceted view of socially responsible corporate behaviour and related themes. They provide ...

Franco y Mussolini

la política española durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial

Franco y Mussolini es un estudio decisivo acerca de la historia española en el período de la segunda guerra mundial. Elaborado a partir de la utilización de una abundantísima documentación procedente de los archivos públicos españoles, italianos y británicos, del recurso a los archivos privados ...

Irán

entre la amenaza nuclear y el sueño occidental

Irán es un país de curiosos contrastes. El sesenta por ciento de su población la componen jóvenes menores de veinticinco años que aspiran a formar parte del mundo moderno y actúan y se visten según los modos de vida de la sociedad occidental. Las chicas ...

Economía y literatura

19 economistas reunidos en una obra para tratar por primera vez la relacion entre Literatura y Economia. Los textos que componen este volumen tienen una característica clara: tratan sobre literatura y sus autores son economistas profesionales. Su justificación está en que los economistas tenemos cosas ...

Las actividades de colaboración de los privados con la administración tributaria

en torno a un nuevo ordenamiento

El autor, catedrático de Derecho Financiero y Tributario, hace un nuevo planteamiento de las actividades de colaboración de lso privados con la Administración Tributaria: sustitución, retención, repercusión de cuotas, información sobre terceros y representación obligatoria de no residentes. Estas actividades de colaboración tienen una importancia ...

Desafíos actuales a los Derechos Humanos

reflexiones sobre el derecho a la paz

Las guerras continúan asolando nuestro mundo. Todos los días en los medios de comunicación leemos como muchos seres humanos inocentes perecen a causa de intereses estratégicos, económicos y políticos de líderes mundiales a los que sólo parece preocupar la consecución de sus propios fines y ...

Mitos y mentiras de la Transición

La historia oficial ha difundido una versión idílica de la Transición, un periodo en el que supuestamente se han reconciliado vencedores y vencidos a la par que se sentaban las bases para una verdadera democracia. Memoria oficial, memoria dominante, memoria construida por y para el ...