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Monetary Union

the European Union as a neo-liberal construction

This volume presents a radical reinterpretation of the European Community or Union as a neo-liberal construction. It was neo- liberal rather than classically liberal because it was designed and used as an external instrument to weaken the interventionist welfare state that protected working people and ...

New paradigm in macroeconomics

solving the riddle of japanese macroeconomic performance

Modern mainstream economics is attracting an increasing number of critics of its high degree of abstraction and lack of relevance to economic reality. Economists are calling for a better reflection of the reality of imperfect information, the role of banks and credit markets, the mechanisms ...

Public goods, redistribution and rent seeking

Internationalizing the Internet

the co-evolution of influence and technology

This compelling book focuses on the global formation of the Internet system. It contests the common belief that the Internet's adoption was inevitable and instead examines the social and economic processes that allowed to it to prevail over competing standards and methods for achieving ...

Las reformas educativas en los países del Cono Sur

un balance crítico

El presente estudio constituye una pormenorizada y rigurosa aproximación a las tendencias que han marcado el rumbo de las recientes reformas educativas en los países del Cono Sur (Argentina, Brasil, Chile y Uruguay). Producto de un proyecto de investigación intersindical, este trabajo evidencia algunas de ...

Seductions of place

geographical pespectives on globalization and touristed landscapes

La vía italiana al totalitarismo

partido y estado en el régimen fascista

El prestigioso historiador italiano presenta en esta obra de carácter general una profunda investigación sobre el régimen fascista y ofrece, además, un interesantísimo estudio introductorio -preparado especialmente para la edición en Argentina-, en donde recapitula y analiza los debates suscitados tras la aparición, diez años ...

The price index and its extensions

a chapter in economic measurement

A theft amounting to £1 was a capital offence in 1260 and a judge in 1610 affirmed the law could not then be applied since £1 was no longer what it was. Such association of money with a date is well recognized for its importance ...

International finance

The markets and financial management of multinational business

In this fourth edition, Maurice Levi successfully integrates both the micro and macro aspects of international finance. The author explores managerial issues and focuses on problems that arise from financial trading relations between nations, whilst covering key topics such as: · organisation of foreign exchange markets ...

Health operations management

patient flow logistics in health care

Focusing on the mannagement of patient flows and resources in and between healthcare organizations, this book will include both a theoretical framework and case studies for practical use by students. Addressing one of the key challenges associated with the healthcare industry, this textbook leads readers ...

Nonprofit Organizations

theory, management, policy

This textbook on nonprofit organizations, voluntary and community associations, and the third sector answers the increasing need for a high quality, accessible textbook for the increasing number of courses available on these subjects. Each chapter deals with theory and practice and includes a high level ...

Managing investments

Key management ratios

master the management metricd that drive and control your business

Business ratios are the figures that provide management with targets and standards for their organisation. They direct businesses towards the most beneficial long-term strategies, as well as towards effective decision making. This book enables managers of different functions to work together towards achieving business goals ...

La regulación normativa de los procedimientos autónomos para la solución de la conflictividad social

un marco legal insatisfactorio

La obra analiza la regulación interna de los procedimientos autónomos de solución de los conflictos de trabajo. Begoña Sesma considera que es un marco legal insatisfactorio que plantea no pocos problemas interpretativos y aplicativos en el marco del sistema procesal laboral.

Roma

Roma, la capital del Imperio romano, se presenta en teste volumen como el centro neurálgico de una civilización avanzada y compleja a través de 350 fotografías de sus principales monumentos, esculturas, relieves, pinturas, mosaicos, monedas y objetos cotidianos. El volumen so organiza en grandes secciones ...

Mesopotamia

asirios, sumerios y babilonios

El presente volumen constituye una mirada única al arte y la cultura de las civilizaciones que florecieron en la antigua "tierra entre los ríos", la región que delimitan los cursos del Tigris y el Éufrates: los sumerios, los babilonios y los asirios. Dicha zona, que ...

La estampa en Málaga en el siglo XX

La estampa en Málaga en el siglo XX es un minucioso recorrrido histórico por la obra gráfica en la provincia y la evolución de sus diferentes autores, desde los apenas reconocidos hasta los más apreciados, surgidos en su mayoría en la década de los setenta ...

Modern industrial organization

I. INTRODUCTION AND THEORY. ÍNDICE:1. Overview.2. The Firm and Costs. II. MARKET STRUCTURES. 3. Competition.4. Monopolies, Monopsonies, and Dominant Firms.5. Cartels: Oligopoly Joint Decision Making.6. Noncooperative Oligopoly.7. Product Differentiation and Monopolistic Competition.8. Industry Structure and Performance.III. BUSINESS ...

Hyperboreans

myth and history in Celtic-Hellenic contacts

The philosophy of Habermas

This comprehensive introduction to the thought of Jurgen Habermas covers the full range of his ideas from his early work on student politics to his recent work on communicative action, ethics and law. Andrew Edgar examines Habermas' key texts in chronological order, revealing the developments ...