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El régimen jurídico-tributario de los criptoactivos

El objeto de este trabajo son los criptoactivos, entendidos como activos digitales de tercera generación: la primera generación estaría constituida por las divisas digitales «clásicas», en la segunda, estas divisas evolucionan a «programables» con la inserción de smartscontracts en ellas y, en la tercera, estos ...

La tributación de los datos: ¿la última distopía tributaria?

En febrero de 2013, David Brooks publicó de manera profética cuál es la filosofía que prevalece en la sociedad digital: el "dataismo". Si en la era moderna la violencia fue el máximo exponente del poder y el petróleo fue su fuente principal de energía, hoy ...

Teletrabajo y Derecho internacional privado

problemas y soluciones

El objetivo principal que persigue este trabajo es arrojar luz sobre algunas de las cuestiones jurídicas que se observan por las circunstancias excepcionales actuales (en particular, el teletrabajo y mecanismos adecuados para legitimar transferencias internacionales de datos entre miembros de un mismo grupo empresarial, la ...

Perspectives on the history of ancient Near Eastern studies

The present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches-synthetic and analytic, diachronic and transnational-this collection offers critical reflections on the who, why, and how of this cluster of fields. How have political contexts determined the conduct of ...

We need to talk about inflation

14 urgent lessons from the last 2,000 years

From investors and monetary authorities to governments and policy makers, almost everyone had assumed inflation was dead and buried. But now people the world over are confronting a poisonous new economic reality and, with it, the prospect of vast and increasing wealth inequality. How have ...

Tribunal Constitucional Federal Alemão: decisões anotadas sobre direitos fundamentais

Volume V: Liberdade profissional, direito fundamental de propriedade, garantia de não expatriação e não extradição

Este livro é o quinto e último volume da obra. Como um todo a obra cobre as principais decisões do Tribunal Constitucional Federal alemão (TCF) que tenham interpretado e aplicado os direitos fundamentais da Constituição da Alemanha (Grundgesetz, a seguir: GG). Neste quinto volume foram ...

Of fear and strangers

a history of xenophobia

Over the last few years, it has been impossible to ignore the steady resurgence of xenophobia. The European migrant crisis and immigration from Central America to the United States have placed Western advocates of globalization on the defensive, and a “New Xenophobia” seems to have ...

Voice, choice, and action

the potential of young citizens to heal democracy

Voice, Choice, and Action is the fruit of the extraordinary personal and professional partnership between a psychiatrist and neurobiologist whose research and social activism have informed each other for the last thirty years. Inspired by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Felton ...

Shields of the Republic

the triumph and peril of america's alliances

For the first century and a half of its existence, the United States had just one alliance—a valuable but highly controversial military arrangement with France. Largely out of deference to George Washington’s warnings against the dangers of “entangling alliances,” subsequent American presidents did ...

The power of creative destruction

economic upheaval and the wealth of nations

Crisis seems to follow crisis. Inequality is rising, growth is stagnant, the environment is suffering, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed every crack in the system. We hear more and more calls for radical change, even the overthrow of capitalism. But the answer to our ...

The rise and decline of nations

economic growth, stagflation, and social rigidities

The years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions. Leading political economist Mancur Olson offers a new and compelling theory to explain these shifts in fortune and then tests his theory against evidence from many ...

A blue new deal

why we need a new politics for the ocean

The ocean sustains life on our planet, from absorbing carbon to regulating temperatures, and, as we exhaust the resources to be found on land, it is becoming central to the global market. But today we are facing two urgent challenges at sea: massive environmental destruction ...

The weaponisation of everything

a field guide to the new way of war

Hybrid War, Grey Zone Warfare, Unrestricted War: today, traditional conflict-fought with guns, bombs, and drones-has become too expensive to wage, too unpopular at home, and too difficult to manage. In an age when America threatens Europe with sanctions, and when China spends billions buying influence ...

The return of the Taliban

Afghanistan after the Americans left

Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, the Taliban have effective control of Afghanistan-a scenario few Western commentators anticipated. But after a twenty-year-long bitter war against the Republic of Afghanistan, reestablishing control is a complex procedure. What is the Taliban’s strategy now that they ...

The lost future

and how to reclaim it

The future seems increasingly uncertain. Our democracies are failing to prevent financial crises, energy shortages, climate change, and war—so how can we look to the future with confidence? Jan Zielonka argues that it is democracy’s shortsightedness that makes politics stumble in our increasingly ...

Mixed signals

how incentives really work

Incentives send powerful signals that aim to influence behavior. But often there is a conflict between what we say and what we do in response to these incentives. The result: mixed signals. Consider the CEO who urges teamwork but designs incentives for individual success, who ...

The origins of victory

how disruptive military innovation determines the fates of great powers

How the character of war is changing and how militaries can successfully adapt to meet the challenge This book by military strategist Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., is the definitive take on the race for military dominance in the twenty-first century. It shows how militaries that ...

The economic weapon

the rise of sanctions as a tool of modern wa

Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early twentieth century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war. This view, however, ignores the ...

Modern statutory interpretation

framework, principles and practice

Statutory interpretation is both a distinct body of law governing the determination of the meaning of legislation and a task that requires a set of skills. It is thus an essential area of legal practice, education and research. Modern Statutory Interpretation: Framework, Principles and Practice ...

European private international family law

the Brussels IIb Regulation

European Private International Family Law provides a comprehensive examination of the new Brussels IIb Regulation (Regulation 2019/1111). This regulation replaces the Brussels IIa Regulation, which has been the cornerstone of European private international family law since August 2004, and is applicable from 1 August ...