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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 ...

A theory of legal obligation

The focus of this monograph lies in the construction of a theory of legal obligation, understanding it as a discrete notion with its own defining traits. In this work, Bertea specifically addresses the question: how should legal obligation be distinctively conceptualized? The conceptualization of legal ...

Free speech in the balance

DescriptionContentsResourcesCoursesAbout the Authors Free Speech in the Balance is the first comprehensive study of proportional analysis in free speech theory. This book challenges the US Supreme Court's categorical approach and explains the importance of understanding the breadth of concerns arising from regulations directly and ...

Driving performance through learning

develop employees through effective workplace learning

Learning and Development (L&D) professionals are uniquely placed in an organization to improve both individual employee performance as well as the overall performance of the business. To maximise the impact of learning, activities must be aligned with the goals of the organization and delivered ...

The English legal system

The English Legal System combines comprehensive and thorough coverage of the main topics covered on English legal system courses with a lively and engaging style to capture students' attention and provide them with a firm foundation for their study of law. This book enables students ...

Justice, justice thou shalt pursue

a life's work fighting for a more perfect union

In the fall of 2019, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited the University of California, Berkeley School of Law to deliver the first annual Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture in honor of her friend, the late Herma Hill Kay, with whom Ginsburg had coauthored the very ...

Intentions in great power politics

uncertainty and the roots of conflict

Can great powers be confident that their peers have benign intentions? States that trust each other can live at peace; those that mistrust each other are doomed to compete for arms and allies and may even go to war. Sebastian Rosato explains that states routinely ...

Adapting to climate change

markets and the management of an uncertain future

It is all but certain that the next century will be hotter than any we’ve experienced before. Even if we get serious about fighting climate change, it’s clear that we will need to adapt to the changes already underway in our environment. This ...

Albert O. Hirschman

an intellectual biography

One of the most original social scientists of the twentieth century, Albert O. Hirschman led an uncommonly dramatic life. After fleeing Nazi Germany as a youth, he fought in the Spanish Civil War, took part in antifascist activities in Italy, and organized an underground rescue ...

The way out

how to overcome toxic polarization

The partisan divide in the United States has widened to a chasm. Legislators vote along party lines and rarely cross the aisle. Political polarization is personal, too—and it is making us miserable. Surveys show that Americans have become more fearful and hateful of supporters ...