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Los nuevos dirigentes de China

Marte contra Minerva

el precio del Imperio Español, c. 1450-1600

Esta es una gran obra de revisión y reinterpretación de la historia de España bajo los Austrias <>. Frente a la visión tradicional, B. Yun hace hincapié en el juego de poderes derivado de las tensiones entre la Corona, la aristocracia, los señoríos urbanos y la ...

Un ejército al amanecer

la guerra en el Norte de África, 1942-1943

Este libro, galardonado con el Premio Pulitzer de Historia 2003, ha sido considerado por el Wall Street Journal como el mejor relato que se ha escrito sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial desde las obras clásicas de Cornelius Ryan "El dia más largo" y "Un puente ...

Seis generaciones de Borbones y un cronista

Esta obra reúne artículos de época escritos entre 1945 y 1997 y textos actuales que complementan y enriquecen estas históricas crónicas, y permiten al lector obtener un retrato completo. A través de episodios como el exilio de Alfonso XIII, la estancia de Don Juan en ...

Napoleón

El simple arte de escribir

cartas y ensayos escogidos

Pinochet

los archivos secretos

Peter Kornbluh, director del National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project, ha conseguido que se desclasificaran más de 24.000 documentos secretos procedentes de la Secretaría de Estado y de la CIA, sobre la cobertura prestada por Nixon y Kissinger al general Pinochet y a ...

Manuel Aznar

periodista y diplomático

El gran engaño

ineficacia y deshonestidad: Estados Unidos ante el siglo XXI

Las joyas de las reinas de España

la desconocida historia de las alhajas reales

Gambling in America

costs and benefits

Gambling in America carefully breaks new ground by developing analytical tools to assess the benefits and costs of the economic and social changes introduced by casino gambling in monetary terms, linking them to individual households' utility and well-being. Since casinos are associated with unintended and ...

The political economy of Stalinism

evidence from the Soviet secret archives

This book uses the formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the creation and operations of the Soviet administrative command system. It concludes that the system failed not because of the 'jockey'(i.e. Stalin and later leaders) but because of the ...

Data envelopment analysis

theory and techniques for economics and operation research

Using the neo-classical theory of production economics as the analytical framework, this book provides a unified and easily comprehensible, yet fairly rigorous, exposition of the core literature on data envelopment analysis (DEA) for readers based.in different disciplines INDICE 1. Introduction and overview; 2. Productivity ...

Wassily Leontief and input-output economics

Wassily Leontief (1905-1999) was the founding father of input-output economics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1973. This book offers a collection of papers in memory of Leontief by his students and close colleagues. ÍNDICE : 1. A portrait of the master as a ...

Prices,reproduction,scarcity

In this definitive and exhaustive study, Christian Bidard develops a theory of prices of production. This theory, of classical inspiration, breaks down the symmetry between producers and consumers and gives more importance to reproduction rather than scarcity. In his analysis of multiple-product systems, Bidard focuses ...

Building high-tech clusters

Silicon Valley and beyond

National economic growth is fueled by the development of high technology clusters such as Silicon Valley. The contributors examine the founding of ten clusters that have been successful at an early stage of growth in information technology. Their key finding is that the economics of ...

Sectoral systems of innovation

concepts, issues and analyses of six major sectors in Europe

Innovation and technological change show different rates, types and trajectories depending on the sector in which they take place. Agents and institutions of a sector all exert a major influence on innovation. With contributions from nineteen experts in their field, this book proposes the framework ...

Global capital markets

integration, crisis, and growth

This book presents an economic survey of international capital mobility from the late nineteenth century to the present. ÍNDICE: Part I. Preamble: 1. Global capital markets: overview and origins: 1.1 Theoretical benefits.1.2 Problems of supernational capital markets in practice.1.3 The ...

Macroeconomía

State space and unobserved component models

theory and applications

This volume offers a broad overview of the state-of-the-art developments in the theory and applications of state space modeling. With fourteen chapters from twenty-three contributors, it offers a unique synthesis of state space methods and unobserved component models that are important in a wide range ...