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European integration and political conflict

Democracy and the rule of Law

Monopoly capitalism in crisis

The world economy is on the brink of a profound crisis. The threat of global deflation and the emergence of chronic excess global capacity characterizes the contemporary phase of crisis and stagnation. Lucarelli argues that these pathological features of globalization acquire a remorseless logic during ...

Recent developments on exchange rates

This collection examines recent developments in exchange rate analysis. In the first part, two exchange rate models are proposed: a model which combines heterogeneous agents and transaction costs, and a dynamic general-equilibrium two-country sticky-price model. The second part of the book deals with econometric aspects ...

Global markets and financial crises in Asia

towards a theory for the 21st century

Khan presents a new theory of financial crises in the age of globalization from an evolutionary perspective and suggests policies that may be necessary for averting or managing new financial crises. Starting with the Asian financial crises, he identifies new types of financial crises that ...

The national element in development of fiscal theory

Price theory has provided solutions to myriad problems affecting society without invoking any precepts beyond those encapsulated in the standard economic postulate. Fiscal theory, meanwhile, has been closely attentive to the political, sociological and historical circumstances that bear upon the fiscal act. This methodological duality ...

Europeanization,european integration and financial services

developing theoretical frameworks and synthesising methodological approaches

This book deals with the political philosophy that underpins theories of European integration and develops an understanding of Europeanization based on downloading and up-loading. Downloading is the means by which EU policy is amalgamated with domestic legislation and institutions. Up- loading indicates the use of ...

Frenzy

bubbles, busts and how to come out ahead

Despite all the hype, the technology bubble of the 1990s was not driven by the Internet. It was driven by innate human forces that transcend the Internet, the 1990s, the twentieth century, and the United States. Extraordinary, incalculable opportunity frequently creates bubbles. In this situation ...

Exhaustion of the dollar

its implications for global prosperity

The U.S. dollar has served as the key currency of the international economic/financial system for over fifty years. This study assesses the proposition that the series of U.S. current-account deficits over the last twenty years will shortly exhaust the capability of the ...

World democratic federalism

peace and justice indivisible

Myron J. Frankman provides an interrelated set of initiatives whose components are consistent with the logic of both the process of globalization and the emerging properties of our time: Sustainability, democratization, equal opportunity, diversity and peace. He brings together the case for global public finance ...

What global economic crisis?

Economics has become an excessively esoteric discipline. Opportunities to bridge the gap between theorizing and policymaking are becoming increasingly limited. One issue of great importance to modern policymakers is the relationship between globalization and economic crisis. With unprecedented trends towards globalization (in part propelled by ...

Succesful telephone selling

how to make sales and hit targets using the telephone

Me llamo Kohfam

identidad hacker: una aproximación antropológica

¿Qué tienen en común las sociedades llamadas “primitivas” y las comunidades hacker de principios del siglo XXI? De acuerdo con las conclusiones de este ensayo, ambas comparten, pese a estar separadas por cientos de años, un gran número de rasgos organizativos. Los “maestros hacker” de ...

Business solutions on demand

transform the business to deliver real customer value

Based partly on IBM#s own transformation, and partly on the transformations that IBM has helped its clients to achieve, this ground- breaking book shows how companies can increase sales and improve margins by introducing a range of solutions INDICE 1.Business strategy and transformation ...

Foreign Law in civil litigation

a comparative and functional analysis

El mejor swing

los secretos del golf para mejorar tu vida y tu carrera profesional

¿Qué tiene que ver el golf con el éxito en su vida o en su carrera? El autor de El mejor swing descubrió, tras una larga trayectoria profesional como consultor de empresas, que las claves del auténtico éxito en el golf y en la vida ...

Law and history

Technology, television and competition

The Politics of Digital TV.

In the late 19805s and 1990s, the advanced industrial countries considered replacing the existing analog television infrastructure with a new digital one. A key common feature to the debates ayer digital TV (DTV) in the United States, Western Europe and japan was the eventual victory ...

La coordinación estratégica de los sistemas electorales del mundo

hacer que los votos cuenten

Las elecciones generales constituyen el núcleo de la democracia representativa. De ahí que la comprensión de las leyes y prácticas que rigen estas elecciones resulte esencial para entender la democracia moderna. En este libro, Gary W. Cox muestra que las leyes electorales plantean una serie ...

Dioses y diablos mediáticos

cómo manipula el Poder a través de los medios de comunicación

La evolución histórica de los seres humanos demuestra cómo, poco a poco, una minoría se ha apropiado de los resortes económicos para utilizarlos en su propio beneficio. Dentro de tales resortes está el mundo de los medios de comunicación, cuya finalidad más esencial es intentar ...