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Inside the mind of a voter

a new approach to electoral psychology

Could understanding whether elections make people happy and bring them closure matter more than who they vote for? What if people did not vote for what they want but for what they believe is right based on roles they implicitly assume? Do elections make people ...

Outsourcing empire

how company-states made the modern world

From Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empire shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states—not sovereign states—drove European expansion, building the world’s first ...

Responsabilidad del sistema sanitario y farmacéutico

organización y régimen jurídico

En situaciones extraordinarias como en los casos de inundaciones, terremotos o pandemias, como el caso del Covid-19, que asola al mundo y en particular a España, se hace más necesario aún contar con un sistema sanitario fuerte y preparado, con todos los medios humanos y ...

Constitucionalistas

sin complejos

Hubo un tiempo en el cual la sociedad catalana aceptaba el Programa 2.000 de Jordi Pujol; CiU estaba en el poder; las familias, los amigos y los vecinos de escalera se saludaban, hablaban, hacían barbacoas e iban juntos de vacaciones En el Parlament se ...

La era del plástico

una nueva amenaza para la conservacion de la naturaleza

¿Sabes quién es el erizo McFlurry? ¿O que el mal uso del plástico no solo es un problema de basura aunque a cada ser humano le correspondan unos 40 kilos? ¿Conoces los «tecnofósiles»? ¿Sabías que cada año fabricamos 500 millones de botellas de plástico? ¿Y ...

Free trade under fire

Free trade is always under attack, more than ever in recent years. The imposition of numerous U.S. tariffs in 2018, and the retaliation those tariffs have drawn, has thrust trade issues to the top of the policy agenda. Critics contend that free trade brings ...

What is political philosophy?

What is political philosophy? What are its fundamental problems? And how should it be distinguished from moral philosophy? In this book, Charles Larmore redefines the distinctive aims of political philosophy, reformulating in this light the basis of a liberal understanding of politics. Because political life ...

A crisis of beliefs

investor psychology and financial fragility

The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer walk readers through the unraveling of Lehman and the ensuing meltdown of the US financial system, and present new evidence to illustrate the destabilizing role played ...

The International Human Rights Movement

a history

During the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in struggles against totalitarian regimes and crimes against humanity. Today, it grapples with the war against terror and subsequent abuses of government power. In The International Human Rights Movement, Aryeh ...

Gavieras

AURORA LUQUE (Almería, 1962) entiende "gaviera" como femenino de "gaviero", marinero que está en la gavia del barco, pero también en sentido más amplio como "la que atiende el horizonte". Así, la gaviera mira más allá, es una nómada que aspira a cuestionar moldes, esquemas ...

La reina del exilio

La abolición de la ley sálica in articulo mortis y la llegada al trono de Isabel II desatan el conflictivo siglo XIX en España, lleno de guerras fratricidas, conspiraciones y misterios. En 1882, Isabel II vive su exilio parisino en el palacio de Castilla, entre ...

The industrialists

how the National Association of Manufacturers shaped American capitalism

Founded in 1895, the National Association of Manufacturers—NAM—helped make manufacturing the basis of the US economy and a major source of jobs in the twentieth century. The Industrialists traces the history of the advocacy group from its origins to today, examining its role ...

The end of the Habsburgs

the decline and fall of the Austrian monarchy

In 1806, the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist as Francis II proclaimed himself Emperor of Austria. The Habsburg empire came to an end 112 years later after defeat in the First World War. The Austrian monarchy, later the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, had survived several tribulations ...

Cartas desde el Gulag

Julián Fuster Ribó, un español en la Unión Soviética de Stalin

Entre 1940 y 1956 pasaron por los campos de concentración soviéticos 345 republicanos españoles, entre los que había «niños de la guerra», militantes comunistas, maestros, pilotos, marinos y otros republicanos detenidos en el Berlín "liberado" por el Ejército Rojo... Uno de ellos fue el cirujano ...

The Cabinet

George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution

On November 26, 1791, George Washington convened his department secretaries—Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph—for the first cabinet meeting. Why did he wait two and a half years into his presidency to call his cabinet? Because the U.S. Constitution ...

A game of birds and wolves

The secret game that won the war

1941. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Thousands of supply ships ferrying vital food and fuel from North America to Britain are being torpedoed by German U-boats. Britain is weeks away from starvation – and with that, crushing defeat. In the first week of ...

The price of democracy

how money shapes politics and what to do about it

Why and how systems of political financing and representation in Europe and North America give outsized influence to the wealthy and undermine democracy, and what we can do about it. One person, one vote. In theory, everyone in a democracy has equal power to decide ...

Napoleon and de Gaulle

Heroes and History

Historians have taught us that the past is not just a tale of heroes and wars. The anonymous millions matter and are active agents of change. But in democratizing history, we have lost track of the outsized role that individual will and charisma can play ...

Dynamism

the values that drive innovation, job satisfaction, and economic growth

Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps and an international group of economists argue that economic health depends on the widespread presence of certain values, in particular individualism and self-expression. Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps has long argued that the high level of innovation in the lead nations of ...

De Lucy a Medina Azahara

10 grandes descubrimientos arqueológicos

En este libro que contiene y transmite toda la emoción y el encanto de la investigación arqueológica, Andrea Augenti narra diez grandes descubrimientos que trazan un viaje por el tiempo y el espacio que va desde la Prehistoria hasta la Edad Media y que abarca ...