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On leadership

a short course

For over 50 years, James G. March has made a sustained and innovative contribution to the study of organizations. In his renowned course on leadership at Stanford University, he explores the problems of leadership using works of great literature, such as "War and Peace" and ...

Las órdenes militares

El verdadero Dios Pan

El orden de Melquisedec

Lope de Vega's Jerusalén conquistada and Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata

face to face

Cervantes

¿un gran sátiro?: los enigmas peligrosos del Quijote descifrados para el "carísimo lector"

Acceso al empleo público

Expresiones de fenomenología criminal y su etiología

(violencia de género, derecho penal internacional, genocidio, salud pública, urbanismo, desarrollo económico)

Economic Theory and cognitive science

microexplanation

In this study, Don Ross explores the relationship of economics to other branches of behavioral science, asking, in the course of his analysis, under what interpretation economics is a sound empirical science. The book explores the relationships between economic theory and the theoretical foundations of ...

The state and the global ecological crisis

Countering the current view of many environmental activists that sovereign nations cannot provide effective environmental governance, The State and the Global Ecological Crisis offers analyses and case studies that explore the prospects for "reinstating the state" as a facilitator of progressive environmental change rather than ...

La realidad económica y social de las personas mayores

los jubilados tradicionales y los nuevos jubilados

Industrial transformation

environmental policy innovation in the United States and Europe

The United States and European countries are experimenting with a new generation of policy approaches for combating environmental degradation. Industrial Transformation evaluates the effectiveness of twelve innovative voluntary, collaborative, and information-based programs, focusing particularly on the effectiveness of these programs in bringing about industrial transformation ...

What's the good of education?

the economics of education in the UK

This book explores that question in unprecedented detail, drawing on empirical evidence from an impressive array of sources. While much of the focus is on the educational system in the United Kingdom, the book offers lessons of international applicability. A state-of-the-art compendium on education policy ...

Advances in behavioral finance

Volume II

This book offers a definitive and wide-ranging overview of developments in behavioral finance over the past ten years. In 1993, the first volume provided the standard reference to this new approach in finance--an approach that, as editor Richard Thaler put it, 'entertains the possibility that ...

The economic sociology of capitalism

This book represents a major step forward in the use of economic sociology to illuminate the nature and workings of capitalism amid the far-reaching changes of the contemporary era of global capitalism. For the past twenty years economic sociologists have focused on mesa-level phenomena of ...

Economics for lawyers

Whether dealing with contracts, tort actions, or government regulations, laywers are more likely to be successful if they are conversant in economics. Economics for Lawyers provides the essential tools to understand the economic basis of law. Through rigorous analysis illustrated with simple graphs and a ...

Discurso sobre el origen y los fundamentos de la desigualdad entre hombres y otros escritos

«Hubiese querido nacer en un país donde el soberano y el pueblo no pudiesen tener más que el mismo interés, a fin de que todos los movimientos de la máquina tendiesen únicamente al bienestar común; lo cual no se podría hacer a menos que el ...

El discurso de Gettysburg y otros escritos de la Unión

La obra de Abraham Lincoln, pese a su innegable importancia para la comprensión del significado de la democracia representativa, no ha sido recibida ni interpretada en español. Una temprana traducción de sus escritos en Sudamérica pasó inadvertida y, en la actualidad, no había ninguna edición ...

La ley de la libertad

en una plataforma o la verdadera magistratura restaurada

La Ley de la Libertad en una plataforma o La verdadera Magistratura restaurada —tal es su título completo— aparecida en 1652, es la última y la más acabada de las obras que publicó Gerrard Winstanley y probablemente se trate de uno de los escritos más ...

Obras

«Que nadie, mientras sea joven, se muestre remiso en filosofar, ni, al llegar a viejo, de filosofar se canse. Porque, para alcanzar la salud del alma, nunca se es ni demasiado viejo ni demasiado joven [...].» Epicuro propone un remedio para contrarrestar las cuatro causas que ...