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Technology and human capital in historical perspective

One theme of this volume is whether the complementarity between technology and human capital is a recent phenomenon, or whether it can be traced through history. Different approaches to human capital as well as technology are applied, and besides historical surveys are total factor productivity ...

Advances in understanding strategic behaviour

Game Theory, experiments and bounded rationality: essays in honour of Werner Güth

This volume contains sixteen original articles documenting recent progress in understanding strategic behaviour. In their variety they reflect an entire spectrum of coexisting approaches: from orthodox game theory via behavioral game theory, bounded rationality and economic psychology to experimental economics. There are plenty of new ...

The interaction of monetary policy and wage bargaining in the European Monetary Union

lessons from the endogenous money approach

Sebastian Dullien gives a novel explanation for unemployment and inflation in the Euro-Zone. He argues that unemployment stems from a lack of cooperation between unions and monetary authorities: In an economy with endogenous money as EMU, wage setters are responsible for price stability while the ...

Economics and its enemies

two centuries of anti-economics

Anti-economics is described as the opposition to the main stream of economic thought that has existed from the Eighteenth-century to the present day. This book tells the story of anti-economics in relations to Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Walras, Keynes and Hicks as well as current economic ...

Current economic issues in EU integration

This book examines selected pertinent topics on issues relating to current and future EU developments. In its initial sections, the book focuses on an array of wide ranging micro (agriculture, industry and competition) and macro (EMU, regional convergence and enlargement) issues. A final section is ...

Debt relief for poor countries

After a massive international campaign calling attention to the development impact of foreign debt, the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative is now underway. But will the HIPC Initiative meet its high expectations? Will debt relief substantially raise growth? How do we make sure that ...

Sociología, capitalismo y democracia

Han transcurrido más de doscientos años desde que se produjo en Occidente la revolución industrial y la revolución política democrática, dos fuertes conmociones sociales que transformaron el mundo, pero la riqueza de las naciones sigue estando desigualmente repartida y la pervivencia de amos del universo ...

Unión monetaria europea y disparidades regionales en España

¿Cuánta globalización podemos soportar?

Este ensayo aborda de forma provocativa un fenómeno al que, nos guste o no, debemos hacer frente: ¿hasta qué punto puede el individuo dejarse absorber por la globalización? La globalización nos obliga a asistir a una vertiginosa transformación de nuestra forma de pensar y vivir ...

Guerrilla y comunicación

la propaganda política del EZLN

El Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional se levantó en armas contra el ejército mexicano el 1 de enero de 1994. El enfrentamiento armado abierto en el estado mexicano de Chiapas no llegó ni a dos semanas. Desde ese momento, el EZLN se convirtió en una ...

Moral social samaritana

.Tomo I: fundamentos y nociones de ética económica cristiana

María Zambrano

al encuentro del alba

Outsourcing of R&D in the pharmaceutical industry

from conceptualisation to implementation of the strategic sourcing process

This book examines the strategic aspects of outsourcing in relation to the firm. It provides a holistic view of the outsourcing process, starting with conceptualisation, through to implementation and management of the process. Although the book is based on a case study of the pharmaceutical ...

Mexican Law

El "colaborador con la justicia"

aspectos sutantivos, procesales y penitenciarios derivados de la conducta del "arrepentido"

The english Constitution

myths and realities

A Dios rogando, y con el mazo dando

fe, poder y jerarquía en la Iglesia canaria: (El Cabildo Catedral de Canarias entre 1483-1820)

Las relaciones laborales en las administraciones locales

Objects of desire

consumer behaviour in shopping centre choices

What determines where people shop? Why would shoppers visit one shopping centre rather than another? Developers, backers, planners and Government will wish to estimate the viability of proposed new centres. Developers wish to plan, build and/or improve shopping centres to maximize profitable retail sales ...

Excellence in banking-revisited!

The sequel to two in-depth studies of the management of excellent banks written in the 1980s, this new volume addresses the key issues that preoccupy the leadership of today's most admired banking institutions. After reviewing the lessons learned from the previous studies, the author ...