Libros de

Cultura profética

para la imaginación que viene

A lo largo de la historia, diferentes civilizaciones han dado lugar a muchos mundos alternativos. Cada uno de ellos era la representación de una historia única sobre la estructura de la realidad, el ritmo del tiempo y el alcance de lo que es posible pensar ...

La alegría del capitán Ribot

ARMANDO PALACIO VALDÉS (1853-1938), escritor asturiano, uno de los más destacados novelistas del siglo XIX, consigue una obra portentosa, con descripciones maravillosas que nos retrotraen a la España de otra época. En "La alegría del capitán Ribot" un protagonista con arraigados valores individuales se ve ...

Los primeros modernos

arte y sociedad en Buenos Aires a fines del siglo XIX

La fundación de la Sociedad Estímulo de Bellas Artes en 1876 generó en Buenos Aires un clima de confrontación y polémica en torno a la posibilidad de un arte plástico nacional y moderno. Las bellas artes se discutieron en relación con su importancia estratégica como ...

Análisis y valoración de la transparencia en los municipios españoles en la gestión de los residuos sólidos urbanos

La obra pretende analizar la transparencia de los ayuntamientos españoles en la gestión de los residuos sólidos urbanos a partir de la información publicada en sus páginas webs y portales de transparencia.

Valorización jurídica y económica de las obras de arte

¿Cuánto cuesta al Estado poner en valor el arte, la cultura y patrimonio cultural en todas y cada una de sus manifestaciones, haciéndola accesible y visible al ciudadano y promoviendo el desarrollo de la cultura?, ¿cuál es el valor del patrimonio cultural?, ¿cómo conciben los ...

Diligencia debida y trabajo decente en las cadenas globales de valor

Primer estudio sistemático de los instrumentos –privados y públicos, nacionales e internacionales, de soft y de hard law- que vienen poniéndose en marcha desde diversas instancias con el fin de asegurar el respeto de los derechos humanos laborales y la sostenibilidad social al interior de ...

Thinking Like an Economist

How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy

The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s-and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions today For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious change. What ...

Just Hierarchy

Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the political All complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world. Just Hierarchy contends that this ...

International Law and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Drawing upon Robbie Sabel's first-hand involvement with many legal negotiations in the Arab-Israeli conflict, International Law and the Arab-Israeli Conflict examines international law in relation to the conflict by analysing its major events and agreements, both historical and contemporary. Outlining the role of international ...

Fragile futures

the uncertain economics of disasters, pandemics, and climate change

This book revisits a distinction introduced in 1921 by economists Frank Knight and John Maynard Keynes: that between statistically predictable future events ('risks') and statistically unpredictable, uncertain events ('uncertainties'). Governments have generally ignored the latter, perceiving phenomena such as pandemics, natural disasters and climate change ...

Turning Point

Policymaking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is here, today. How can society make the best use of it? Until recently, artificial intelligence sounded like something out of science fiction. But the technology of artificial intelligence, AI, is becoming increasingly common, from self-driving cars to e-commerce algorithms that seem to ...

Guía de estudio de neurofisiología

Transnational Civil Litigation

Principles and Prospects

This text on transnational civil litigation presents the basic legal doctrine within a larger, illuminating conceptual framework. The book organizes the subject around three basic concepts: national sovereignty, individual rights, and political accountability. After highlighting the unique problems of litigation across national boundaries, the book ...

Oil Leaders

An Insider's Account of Four Decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's Global Energy Policy

Oil is an unusual commodity in that individual decisions can have an outsized effect on the market. OPEC+'s choice to increase production, for instance, might send prices falling, affecting both oil producers and consumers worldwide. What do the leading oil market players consider before ...

Credit Rating Agencies

Credit rating agencies (CRAs) assess the creditworthiness of debt issuers on financial markets. They are private companies and the ratings they issue are judgements about the prospect of repayment of debt by an issuer in time and in full. A rating is not an investment ...

Regulating Big Tech

Policy Responses to Digital Dominance

Selected chapters from this book are published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Scholarship Online, https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/. Since Digital Dominance was published in 2018, a global consensus has emerged that technology platforms should be regulated. Governments from the United ...

The Diplomatic Presidency

American Foreign Policy from FDR to George H.W. Bush

President Woodrow Wilson riding down the Champs-ElysÉes in December 1918 to meet with the leaders of the victorious Allies at the Paris peace conference marked a break from a long tradition where US presidents directed foreign policy, and direct engagement with foreign counterparts was not ...

Judicial Protection of Fundamental Rights on the Internet

A Road Towards Digital Constitutionalism?

This book explores how the Internet impacts on the protection of fundamental rights, particularly with regard to freedom of speech and privacy. In doing so, it seeks to bridge the gap between Internet Law and European and Constitutional Law. The book aims to emancipate the ...

Tributación de la producción, suministro y autoconsumo de energía eléctrica

En la presente monografía, el Profesor Fernández de Buján y Arranz, analiza en profundidad y con un encomiable rigor científico la tributación de la producción, suministro y autoconsumo de energía eléctrica, centrando el estudio y análisis de la cuestión en tres grandes pilares, a saber ...

Democracia, Sociedad y Derecho en pandemia

el confinamiento como oportunidad para una escritura pestilente

Se trata de un trabajo recopilatorio, compuesto de diversos artículos, ensayos y piezas breves, todos ellos con el común denominador de haber sido redactados durante el confinamiento o la pandemia, tratando precisamente esos dos temas, con lo jurídico como eje semiótico.