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Fiscalidad de las criptomonedas

Las criptomonedas, en sus diversas variantes, es un fenómeno financiero que, gracias a los últimos avances tecnológicos y de la criptografía, pretende ofrecer una respuesta a la crisis económica y bancaria de los años 2007 y siguientes. En apenas una década, las criptomonedas se han ...

Dirigir con inteligencia emocional

En el pasado se creía que un buen directivo debía mandar, dar órdenes siguiendo procesos de producción claros y vigilar que se cumplieran, manteniendo la distancia emocional con sus empleados. Sin embargo, este libro nos presenta un enfoque revolucionario sobre el liderazgo empresarial. Propone que ...

El asesoramiento financiero en Europa tras la MiFID II (I)

Instrumentos y mercados financieros

Los dos volúmenes que forman la obra El asesoramiento financiero en Europa tras la MiFID II proporcionan los conocimientos y las herramientas de análisis para el desarrollo de la actividad de información y asesoramiento financiero. En ellos se recogen los conocimientos exigidos, a nivel europeo ...

Evoluzione e prospettive nel sistema delle garanzie reali

Houses, homes and the Law

This book is the result of the successful collaboration between two research networks: the Housing Law Working Group of the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) and the TENLAW research network. It deals with evictions, their social background and regulation under procedural and human rights ...

Sustainability and Private Law

Sustainability and sustainable development are amongst the largest and most complex challenges for the 21st century. This is not just a matter for states and governments, but rather a common goal to which we should all contribute. Are the rules of private law suitable to ...

Los "años del hambre"

Historia y memoria de la posguerra franquista

«Tened presente el hambre: recordad su pasado», vaticinaba el poeta Miguel Hernández poco antes de terminar la guerra civil. Era una premonición de su propia muerte en 1942, hambriento y enfermo, en una cárcel franquista. Pero también se adelantaba a lo que sucedería tras el ...

Respeto o barbarie: el islam ante la Antigüedad

de al-Andalus a DAESH

El pasado nos permite explicar el presente y desde el presente imaginamos el pasado para dar un sentido a quiénes somos, pero ¿qué ocurre cuando no nos reconocemos en ese pasado? ¿Podemos cambiar la historia, salvarla o destruirla, para que así tenga sentido? Este libro ...

Twenty-First Century socialism

What causes climate change, social breakdown, rampant inequality and the creeping spread of ubiquitous surveillance? Capitalism. What is the only alternative to capitalism? Socialism. Socialism cannot, however, remain static if it is going to save civilisation from these catastrophes. In this urgent manifesto for a ...

EU Pension Law

How does the EU affect national pensions and what is the legal EU framework for cross-border pensions?

The size of government

measurement, methodology and official statistics

The growing economic power of government has prompted many studies to seek to establish the optimum size of government and how it might relate to economic growth, productivity and inflation. Václav Rybácek examines how these studies have used national accounts and officially published statistics to ...

Intellectual Property in electronics and software

a global guide to rights and their applications

The software, communications and electronics markets are among the world's most innovative and competitive. Robust competition means that developers and manufacturers of software, mobile phones, gaming devices, computers, digital cameras and other consumer appliances must leverage their intellectual property (IP) rights to sustain competitive ...

The triumph of injustice

how the rich dodge taxes and haw to make them pay

Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice is a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation. Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel ...

Arctic governance

Law and politics. Volume 1

The Polar North is known to be home to large gas and oil reserves and its positionholds signifi cant trading and military advantages, yet the maritime boundaries of the region remain ill-defined. In the twenty-first century the Arctic is undergoing profound change. As the sea ...

The Constitution of Brazil

a contextual analysis

This book offers an original and comprehensive analysis of Brazilian constitutional law and shows how the 1988 Constitution has been a cornerstone in Brazil's struggle to achieve institutional stability and promote the enforcement of fundamental rights. In the realm of rights, although much has ...

A bank's duty of care

In recent years, an increasing number of clients and third parties have filed claims against banks such as for mis-selling financial products, poor financial advice, insufficient disclosure of and warning about financial risks. The scope of a bank's duty of care seems to expand ...

Republican Europe

Constitutional orders constitute political communities - and international orders deriving from them - by managing conflicts that threaten peace. This book explores how a European political community can be advanced through EU constitutional law. The constitutional role of the Union is to ensure peace by addressing two ...

The limits of asset confiscation

On the legitimacy of extended appropriation of criminal proceeds

This book provides a normative analysis of the justifications and limits of asset confiscation as a crime control measure in a comparative perspective. More specifically, it deals with what in this context is referred to as extended appropriation, that is, confiscation in cases where the ...

Family reunification in the EU

the movement and residence rights of third country national family members of EU citizens

This monograph examines the intricate legislative and jurisprudential scenario of family reunification between EU citizens and third country nationals that has developed in the European Union over the last 50 years. Focusing on family residence rights granted to third country national family members of EU ...

General principles of Law

european and comparative perspectives

Examining general principles of law provides one of the most instructive examples of the intersection between EU law and comparative law. This collection draws on the expertise of high-profile and distinguished scholars to provide a critical examination of this interaction. It shows how general principles ...