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A new Land Law

The recurrent crisis in corporate governance

Since the mid-1980s two crises have overtaken governance of the American corporation - the loss of competitiveness in the 1980s and the loss of investor trust in financial management in the late 1990s. This book proposes specific changes in conduct to resolve these crises, principally by ...

Capitalism, not globalism

capital mobility, central bank independence, and the political control of the economy

While much has been made of recent changes in the international economy, the mechanisms by which politicians control the economy have not fundamentally changed in the postwar period. In Capitalism, Not Globalism, William Roberts Clark challenges both traditional and revisionist globalization theorists in his assertion ...

Coaching for meaning

the culture and practice of coaching and team building

This book is a translation of a bestselling management book originally published in French. Its focus is on the concept of the leader as a bearer of meaning and purpose within the organization, and the significance of this for coaching and team-building. The author presents ...

Why the markets went crazy

and what it means for investors

Tim Lee has a unique insight into the workings of the stock market bubble of 1995-2000 and the implications for the future. He argues that the bubble of the dot.com era reveals far more than has been realised. Deep-seated flaws in the whole investment ...

Electoral democracy

New activism and the corporate response

This book looks at the new militant and radical forms of lobbying and activism and the ways in which companies and organizations can devise strategies to respond or create new communication strategies that will avoid conflict and confrontation. The book draws upon the work of ...

Keynes y el nacimiento de la macroeconomía

Este libro analiza la vida y obra de John Maynard Keynes, mostrando todos aquellos elementos que configuran el análisis macroeconómico actual. A su vez, se exponen las corrientes más significativas en este ámbito, tanto las que profundizan y desarrollan las ideas de este autor, como ...

La moderna economía del crecimiento

Este libro es una introducción a la economía del crecimiento a largo plazo. En él se hace un repaso de las diferentes aportaciones desde los autores clásicos, con especial énfasis en los modelos que han significado importantes avances en la literatura del crecimiento económico desde ...

Corporate treasury and cash management

The book is an analysis of corporate treasury and cash management with the principal financial instruments used by the corporate treasurer. The objectives of the book are to describe how corporate treasury departments should establish a framework for the identity, measurement and management of risk ...

Strategic public finance

Strategic Public Finance takes a multidisciplinary approach to public finance. It considers the nature of public finance and its symbiotic relationship with economy and society. It considers its philosophical underpinnings, the nature of the services it finances, its relative scale, how it is raised and ...

The global negotiator

making, managing and mending deals around the world in the Twenty- First century

Human Resource Development in a Knowlege Economy provides a critical approach to the study of human resource development and emphasises the need for its effective integration with human resource management, as well as with the strategic management of the organisation. With special reference to workers ...

La peine capitale et le Droit international des Droits de l'Homme

The practice of business statistics

using data for decisions

This text and CD-ROM immerses students in the course immediately, involving them in practical, statistics-supported business decision making from the outset. Using real data to provide a context for tackling modern business problems, the book introduces a range of core ideas early including data production ...

Creative business

achieving your goals through creative thinking and actions

While many people in business have strong analytic skills, creativity has been undervalued in many organisations. The authors draw attention to creative thinking and action and how this can be used to solve business problems and improve performance. They show how some companies have achieved ...

Étude critique de la notion de patrimoine en Droit privé actuel

The credit risk of complex derivatives

Since the publication of the 2nd edition of The Credit Risk of Complex Derivatives in 1997, the world of derivatives has gone through a period of dramatic change - in the external operating environment, product and market characteristic and risk management techniques. In the light of ...

Niklas Luhmann's theory of politics and law

Juana de Arco

nacida el 6 de enero de 1412 : quemada por hereje el 30 de mayo de 1431 : canonizada el 16 de mayo de 1920

«Una de las buenas costumbres de la literatura inglesa es la composición de biografías de Juana de Arco. De Quincey, que inició tantas costumbres, inició también ésta, con fervor, a principios de 1847. Mark Twain, hacia 1896, publicó sus Recuerdos personales de Juana de Arco ...

¿Otro siglo de guerras?