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El mundo del Derecho

El hombre está moralmente obligado a cumplir el fin esencial de su vida, la perfección del ser que le fue dado por Dios, la realización de sí mismo, en la común responsabilidad para con sus prójimos, y, por ende, en comunidad con ellos. Como estos ...

El latín jurídico

Historia, uso internacional, problemas de comunicación

La lengua latina no es solamente un fenómeno histórico en los contextos jurídicos. Todo jurista sabe que numerosas expresiones y máximas latinas son usadas casi universalmente en la ciencia del Derecho, a veces también en las decisiones judiciales, en los documentos jurídicos de carácter privado ...

El hecho notorio

Esta monografía, la primera de una serie que tengo en esbozo, es por su forma, no por sus pretensiones, un libro. Y por su forma, lo más distante de las preceptivas generales a que se ajusta —vaya un ejemplo— el alto y noble Tratado. Hasta ...

Intransigencia constitucional

Sobre los límites de la tolerancia en la democracia constitucional

Los siete Estudios que a continuación se incluyen tratan la contraposición entre tolerancia e intransigencia a propósito del ejercicio de derechos tan básicos como el de asociación política y la libertad de expresión; cubren un arco temporal que va desde los primeros años del siglo ...

One up

creativity, competition, and the global business of video games

What explains the massive worldwide success of video games such as Fortnite, Minecraft, and Pokémon Go? Game companies and their popularity are poorly understood and often ignored from the standpoint of traditional business strategy. Yet this industry generates billions in revenue by thinking creatively about ...

Valuation Workbook

Step-by-Step Exercises and Tests to Help You Master Valuation

A vital companion to the bestselling guide to corporate valuation Valuation Workbook, 7th Edition is the ideal companion to McKinsey's Valuation, helping you get a handle on difficult concepts and calculations before using them in the real world. This workbook reviews all things valuation ...

After the gig

how the sharing economy got hijacked and how to win it back

The dark side of the gig economy (Uber, Airbnb, etc.) and how to make it equitable for the users and workers most exploited. When the "sharing economy" launched a decade ago, proponents claimed that it would transform the experience of work-giving earners flexibility, autonomy, and ...

Law and authors

a legal handbook for writers

Everything a writer needs to know about the law. This accessible, reader-friendly handbook will be an invaluable resource for authors, agents, and editors in navigating the legal landscape of the contemporary publishing industry. Drawing on a wealth of experience in legal scholarship and publishing, Jacqueline ...

Democracy and prosperity

reinventing capitalism through a turbulent century

A groundbreaking historical analysis of how global capitalism and advanced democracies mutually support each other It is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism. Torben Iversen and David Soskice argue that this ...

Narrative eonomics

how stories go viral and drive major economic events

From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a new way to think about how popular stories help drive economic events In a world in which internet troll farms attempt to influence foreign elections, can we afford to ignore the power ...

The technology trap

capital, labor, and power in the age of automation

How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation The Technology Trap is a sweeping account of the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political ...

The code of capital

how the Law creates wealth and inequality

A compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealth What is it that transforms a simple object, an idea, or a promise to pay into an asset that creates wealth? Katharina Pistor explains how, behind closed doors in the offices of private ...

Economic statecraft

A new edition of the classic work on the economic tools of foreign policy Today's complex and dangerous world demands a complete understanding of all the techniques of statecraft, not just military ones. David Baldwin's Economic Statecraft presents an analytic framework for evaluating ...

Social science concepts and measurement

A fully revised edition of the classic reference on concepts and their role in social science research Social Science Concepts and Measurement offers an updated look at the theory and methodology of concepts for the social sciences. Emphasizing that most concepts are multilevel and multidimensional ...

Conservatism

the fight for a tradition

A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's hard Right For two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity. By doing so, the Right has won long ...

El mundo judeoconverso

Teresa de Jesús y su linaje

En este libro se descubren aspectos inéditos sobre la familia de santa Teresa de Jesús, que puede considerarse un paradigma de cómo los judeoconversos se integraron en la España veterocristiana. También se aclaran algunas oscuridades de su estirpe. Entre ellas, las relaciones entre el padre ...

Prototype nation

China and the contested promise of innovation

A vivid look at China's shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did China's mass manufacturing and "copycat" production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets? Prototype ...

Priced out

the economic and ethical costs of American Health Care

From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive-and why it doesn't have to be Uwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and ...

Trust in numbers

the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life

A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in ...

Outside the box

how globalization changed from moving stuff to spreading ideas

From the acclaimed author of The Box, a new history of globalization that shows us how to navigate its future Globalization has profoundly shaped the world we live in, yet its rise was neither inevitable nor planned. It is also one of the most contentious ...