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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 ...

Christianity and constitutionalism

Christianity and Constitutionalism offers innovative and thoughtful analyses of the relationship between religious thought and constitutional law. Part I features contributions from historians, recounting how the relationship between the Christian faith and fundamental ideas about law, justice, and government has evolved from era to era ...

The frontlines of peace

an insider's guide to changing the world

At turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communities The word "peacebuilding" evokes a story we've all heard over and over: violence breaks out ...

Social media, freedom of speech, and the future of our democracy

A broad explanation of the various dimensions of the problem of "bad" speech on the internet within the American context. One of the most fiercely debated issues of this era is what to do about "bad" speech-hate speech, disinformation and propaganda campaigns, and incitement of ...

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Cómo hacer ofertas tan buenas que la gente se sienta estúpida si las rechaza

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El pensamiento narrativo

principios de storytelling

Este libro expone los fundamentos del modo narrativo de comprender la realidad, y proporciona las claves principales de esta dimensión de nuestra mente que nos distingue como especie. La narratividad parte de unos elementos formales permanentes: la identificación de un conflicto y sus posibles soluciones ...

Negociación estratégica

"Negociación Estratégica" es un libro dirigido a estudiantes y profesionales interesados en el tema de la negociación avanzada. Su objetivo es proporcionar a estos negociadores análisis más profundos, enfoques mejor estructurados, ideas y conocimientos adicionales y estrategias más avanzadas para negociar hábilmente, mediante la compilación ...

Semillas al viento

José Mujica

Libro entrevista. En un tono ameno de charla entre amigos, en la chacra de Montevideo, Mujica desgrana sus pensamientos sobre la vida, la izquierda, el socialismo, el capitalismo, el cambio cultural, la utopía, la vanidad humana.

La biografía en comunicación política

claves para analizar y diseñar una estrategia biográfica

Cada vez es más común que los políticos y las políticas cuenten dónde nacieron y crecieron, qué situaciones traumáticas debieron superar en sus vidas, con quiénes viven o qué hacen en su tiempo libre, entre muchos otros detalles y episodios de sus historias personales. Pero ...

Educación y comunicación en una sociedad postdigital

investigación documental y análisis de perspectivas

El desarrollo vertiginoso de las tecnologías digitales de las últimas décadas ha contribuido a conformar las grandes características de la sociedad postdigital. Es ineludible reflexionar sobre el hecho de que vivimos en una sociedad en la cual los límites entre las actuaciones analógicas y las ...