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Finanzas y presupuestos

(interpretación y elaboración)

El libro tiene como principal objetivo ayudar a todos aquellos profesionales no financieros y estudiantes que necesitan conocer los fundamentos básicos del análisis económico-financiero, desde un enfoque riguroso pero, al mismo tiempo, fácil de comprender. Para ello trata de familiarizar al lector con los aspectos ...

The American judicial system

a very short introduction

At some point, everyone living in the United States has some type of interaction with the American judicial system. For most, this contact is relatively minor: contesting a traffic ticket, suing or being sued in civil court, being a witness in a civil or criminal ...

Understanding decentralized finance

how DeFi is changing the future of money

Understanding Decentralized Finance demystifies DeFi, locating the integration points between decentralized and centralized finance to help finance professionals unlock valuable opportunities. DeFi - the next evolution of cryptocurrency - has brought a new wave of investors into the world of finance. As fintechs and financial institutions seek ...

The U.S. Congress

a very short introduction

Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for forty years , takes readers on a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tour of Capitol Hill, pointing out the key players, explaining their behavior, and translating parliamentary language into plain English. He also explores the essential necessity of compromise to accomplish anything ...

Villarejo

el poder de los secretos

El control y utilización de los secretos sobre los represores y colaboradores de la dictadura (los archivos de la policía política del franquismo y las actividades de sus informantes) han sido clave durante décadas para que las elites del régimen consolidasen y perpetuasen su enorme ...

Historia contemporánea de América Latina y El Caribe

Latinoamérica está unida -más allá de su situación geográfica- por un mismo frente de lucha: las manifestaciones en favor de la democracia, de los grupos vulnerables y la defensa del patrimonio natural lo demuestran. Es a través de estas manifestaciones que la región ha convocado ...

Big tech in finance

how to prevail in the age of blockchain, digital currencies and the metaverse

With Big Tech's breakthrough into finance with blockchain, it is imperative that finance players understand the ramifications and how they can defend their competitive advantage. Big Tech in Finance provides a cutting edge look at Big Tech's play for domination of the crypto ...

ETA contra Catalunya

crónica y memoria

El terror de ETA alcanzó también a Catalunya. Esta obra trata de recordar lo que representó este terrorismo. Sus orígenes, sus apoyos, sus acciones, sus víctimas... Y con este fin se analizan los 74 atentados cometidos por ETA en tierras catalanas. Su balance arroja un ...

The constitution of Italy

a contextual analysis

This book introduces the reader to the Italian Constitution, which entered into force on 1 January 1948, and examines whether it has successfully managed the political and legal challenges that have occurred since its inception, and fulfilled the three main functions of a Constitution: maintaining ...

Keynes and Marx

Keynes was an elitist and pro-capitalist economist, whom the left should embrace with caution. But his analysis provides a concreteness missing from Marx and engages with critical issues of the modern world that Marx could not have foreseen. This book argues that a critical Marxist ...

Proscribing peace

how listing armed groups as terrorists hurts negotiations

Proscribing peace offers a systematic examination of the impact of proscription on peace negotiations. By introducing the concept of 'linguistic ceasefire', Haspeslagh adds to our understanding of the timing and sequencing of peace processes in the context of proscription. With relevance for more than half ...

Imperialism and the development myth

how rich countries dominate in the twenty-first century

China has moved from being one of the poorest societies to a level now similar with other relatively developed Third World societies - like Mexico and Brazil. The dominant idea that it somehow threatens to 'catch up' economically, or overtake the rich countries paves the way ...

Latin America-European Union relations in the twenty-first century

Latin America-European Union relations in the twenty-first century provides a valuable overview of transatlantic trade agreement negotiations and developments in the first decades of the twenty-first century. This edited collection examines key motivations behind trade agreements, traces the evolution of negotiations and explores some of ...

How to write effective business English

your guide to excellent professional communication

Unlearn bad habits, sharpen your emails and improve your written communication throughout your business with How to Write Effective Business English. An easy-to-follow guide on how to write with confidence, whether or not English is your first language. With new chapters on writing well across ...

The jury

a very short introduction

From ancient Athens to modern Asia, cultures have wanted ordinary people involved in making legal decisions. This Very Short Introduction charts juries from antiquity through the English-speaking world and beyond to Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Today, juries have become a symbol of democracy ...

Secession and state creation

what everyone needs to know

What makes a state? This question has attracted more and more attention in recent years with Catalan's illegal vote for independence from Spain and Palestine's ongoing search for international recognition. And while Scotland chose to remain with the United Kingdom, discussions of independence ...

The cartel system of states

an economic theory of international politics

The people who live in border towns often have closer relations with people across their immediate borders than with people in the same country as them. Despite how intertwined these border communities often are, neither community can access the governmental institutions of the nation on ...

Strategy in politics

plotting victory in a democracy

Political managers-public office holders, legislative staff, campaign managers, policy advocates, and partisan communicators-are united by a common language, a set of shared skills, a strategic mindset, and, we can hope, an appreciation of their professional responsibilities to the institutions of democracy. While political managers are ...

Greenovation

urban leadership on climate change

Collectively, cities take up a relatively tiny amount of land on the earth, yet they emit 72 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. Clearly, cities need to be at the center of any broad effort to reduce climate change. In Greenovation, the eminent urban policy scholar ...

Foundations of institutional reality

In Foundations of Institutional Reality, Andrei Marmor provides a novel account of the ontological foundations of institutional facts, and argues that there are important epistemic and methodological implications that follow from this ontology. Marmor offers a grounding-reductive account of collective attitudes that comports with methodological ...