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El sector agroalimentario español en cifras

El informe económico titulado El sector agroalimentario español en cifras es un estudio técnico orientado a analizar con profundidad la situación del sector agroalimentario español desde un punto de vista estático y dinámico, en especial, lo relativo a las políticas de financiación e inversión que ...

Evolucionar o sucumbir

diplomacia y políticas públicas en tiempos de COVID-19

Esta segunda edición integra 15 nuevas secciones y resultados cuantitativos que documentan la resiliencia económica dominicana frente al choque sanitario provocado por el COVID-19. Combina la diplomacia con la evaluación de las políticas públicas asumidas. Sugiere medidas relevantes para acelerar la recuperación. Propone resiliencia frente ...

El sexo en disputa

de la necesaria recuperación jurídica de un concepto

Hemos querido con el título de este libro dar una réplica irónica al de Judith Butler "El género en disputa", pues si el suyo trataba de poner en cuestión el género, la teoría "queer", que en ella reconoce una de sus autoras paradigmáticas, ha conseguido ...

La lógica de la colección

y otros ensayos

Escritos en las últimas tres décadas, los ensayos de Boris Groys sobre la lógica entrópica de la cultura, el arte y el museo, sobre la colección, la política de la vanguardia y el carácter medial del hombre y lo real –la teoría de los medios ...

Trading with the enemy

Britain, France, and the 18th-century quest for a peaceful world order

Britain and France waged war eight times in the century following the Glorious Revolution, a mutual antagonism long regarded as a “Second Hundred Years’ War.” Yet officials on both sides also initiated ententes, free trade schemes, and colonial bargains intended to avert future conflict. What ...

Nero

Emperor and court

This book portrays Nero, not as the murderous tyrant of tradition, but as a young man ever-more reluctant to fulfil his responsibilities as emperor and ever-more anxious to demonstrate his genuine skills as a sportsman and artist. This reluctance caused him to allow others to ...

The voice catchers

how marketers listen in to exploit your feelings, your privacy, and your wallet

Only three decades ago, it was inconceivable that virtually entire populations would be carrying around wireless phones wherever they went, or that peoples’ exact locations could be tracked by those devices. We now take both for granted. Even just a decade ago the idea that ...

The Byzantine Sinbad

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 67)

The Byzantine Sinbad collects The Book of Syntipas the Philosopher and The Fables of Syntipas, both translated from Syriac in the late eleventh century by the scholar Michael Andreopoulos. Originally written in Persian and part of a multilingual and multicultural medieval storytelling tradition, The Book ...

The old English and Anglo-Latin riddle tradition

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 69)

What offers over seven hundred witty enigmas in several languages? Answer: The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition. Riddles, wordplay, and inscrutable utterances have been at the heart of Western literature for many centuries. Often brief and always delightful, medieval riddles provide insights into the ...

Raising Keynes

a twenty-first-century general theory

Back to the future: a heterodox economist rewrites Keynes’s General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money to serve as the basis for a macroeconomics for the twenty-first century. John Maynard Keynes’s General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money was the most influential economic ...

Fortune and misfortune at Saint Gall

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 68)

The eleventh-century monk Ekkehard IV’s Fortune and Misfortune at Saint Gall, part of the chronicles of the famous Swiss abbey, is a treasure trove of medieval monastic life. Saint Gall’s records span its humble beginnings in the early seventh century to the late ...

Responsabilidad, economía e innovación social corporativa

"Responsabilidad, Economía e Innovación Social Corporativa" fue el título del XIX Congreso de la Asociación "Sainz de Andino" de Profesores de Derecho Mercantil, que se celebró en octubre de 2019 en la sede del Centro de Investigación en Derecho de la Economía Social y en ...

By executive order

bureaucratic management and the limits of presidential power

The president of the United States is commonly thought to wield extraordinary personal power through the issuance of executive orders. In fact, the vast majority of such orders are proposed by federal agencies and shaped by negotiations that span the executive branch. By Executive Order ...

The princeton guide to historical research

The Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian's craft in the digital age, while never losing sight of the fundamental values and techniques that have defined historical scholarship for centuries. Zachary Schrag ...

Machine learning in asset pricing

Investors in financial markets are faced with an abundance of potentially value-relevant information from a wide variety of different sources. In such data-rich, high-dimensional environments, techniques from the rapidly advancing field of machine learning (ML) are well-suited for solving prediction problems. Accordingly, ML methods are ...

Encarna Sánchez

una vida para la radio

Encarna Sánchez, "Encarna", la mítica estrella de COPE fue la mujer de mayor relevancia de la radio en España en el siglo XX, tanto por el éxito alcanzado y su proyección más allá de las ondas, como por sus vitales contribuciones al medio. Encarna fue ...

La regularidad como derecho individual

fundamentos para una teoría normativa del proceso penal

Este trabajo constituye una aproximación filosófica novedosa al problema de la ponderación judicial en el proceso penal. El autor encadena argumentos conceptuales y normativos para desarrollar una teoría original, que reivindica la decisión conforme a reglas y la convierte en uno de los componentes esenciales ...

Not working

where have all the good jobs gone?

Relying on unemployment numbers is a dangerous way to gauge how the labor market is doing. Because of a false sense of optimism prior to the COVID-19 shock, the working world was more vulnerable than it should have been. Not Working is about how people ...

Power to the public

the promise of public interest technology

As the speed and complexity of the world increases, governments and nonprofit organizations need new ways to effectively tackle the critical challenges of our time—from pandemics and global warming to social media warfare. In Power to the Public, Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank ...

Darkness by design

the hidden power in global capital markets

Capital markets have undergone a dramatic transformation in the past two decades. Algorithmic high-speed supercomputing has replaced traditional floor trading and human market makers, while centralized exchanges that once ensured fairness and transparency have fragmented into a dizzying array of competing exchanges and trading platforms ...