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The president on Capitol Hill

a theory of institutional influence

Can presidents influence whether Congress enacts their agenda? Most research on presidential-congressional relations suggests that presidents have little if any influence on Congress. Instead, structural factors like party control largely determine the fate of the president’s legislative agenda. In The President on Capitol Hill ...

Family offices

the STEP handbook for advisers

Prepared in association with STEP, the world’s leading organisation for private wealth professionals, this new edition of Family Offices features updated chapters from key players in the field including JPMorgan, Sandaire, Pitcairn, Penningtons Manches, Withers and Farrer & Co. This practical guide steers readers through ...

El control penal de las armas

análisis del Capítulo V del Título XXII del Código penal

Al lector que conozca, al menos superficialmente, la regulación de los delitos de tenencia, tráfico y depósito de armas, municiones y explosivos, probablemente le resultará paradójico el título de este libro. Porque paradójico es denominar "control penal de las armas" a una regulación que, debiendo ...

The shock of the old

technology and global history since 1900

Standard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual inventions, inventors, and dates, framing technology as the inevitable march of progress. They split history into ages - electrification, motorisation, and computerisation - and rarely ask whether anyone bothered to use these inventions at the time. Shock ...

Reinventing capitalism in the age of big data

A provocative look at how data is reinventing the market: where big firms will no longer be dominant. Markets have long been acknowledged to be a superior mechanism for managing resources but until the advent of big data, they largely functioned better in theory than ...

Firefighting

the financial crisis and its lessons

2008 saw one of the worst financial crises in generations, the global implications of which are still being felt today. Ten years later Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner and Hank Paulson reflect on the causes of the crisis, why it was so damaging, and what it ...

Perspectivas actuales del proceso de integración europea

Los enigmas de Valençay

Fernando VII y la corte española en el exilio (1808-1814)

Entre 1808 y 1814 los "príncipes españoles" (Fernando VII y los infantes don Carlos y don Antonio) vivieron como huéspedes forzados en el castillo de Valençay, situado en el corazón de Francia. Lo sucedido durante estos seis años es casi un misterio que los libros ...

The inner level

how more equal societies reduce stress, restore sanity and improve eveyone´s well-being

Why is the incidence of mental illness in the UK twice that in Germany? Why are Americans three times more likely than the Dutch to develop gambling problems? Why is child well-being so much worse in New Zealand than Japan? As this groundbreaking study demonstrates ...

Redefining success in America

a new theory of happiness and human developement

Work hard in school, graduate from a top college, establish a high-paying professional career, enjoy the long-lasting reward of happiness. This is the American Dream—and yet basic questions at the heart of this competitive journey remain unanswered. Does competitive success, even rarified entry into ...

Human/Machine

the future of our partnership with machiines

Will the workplace of the future be overrun by machines and robots? Are the new frontiers of artificial intelligence (AI) on the cusp of dethroning us in efficiency, intelligence and innovative potential? Automation and AI will augment our human world and potential. The winners of ...

Society after money

a dialogue

Project Society After Money is an interdisciplinary project between commons theory, evolutionary political economy, media studies and sociology, that enter into a dialogue with one another in order to look at their specific theories and criticisms of money. Conceived as the beginning of a necessary ...

Gresham's Law

the life and world of Queen Elisabeth I´s banker

Thomas Gresham was arguably the first true wizard of global finance. He rose through the mercantile worlds of London and Antwerp to become the hidden power behind three out of the five Tudor monarchs. Today his name is remembered in economic doctrines, in the institutions ...

Law in theory and history

new essays on a neglected dialogue

This collection of original essays brings together leading legal historians and theorists to explore the oft-neglected but important relationship between these two disciplines. Legal historians have often been sceptical of theory. The methodology which informs their own work is often said to be an empirical ...

Damages and compensation culture

comparative perspectives

The focus of the essays in this book is on the relationship between compensation culture, social values and tort damages for personal injuries. A central concern of the public and political perception of personal injuries claims is the high cost of tort claims to society ...

Data Protection Law in the EU

roles, responsabilities and liability

EU data protection law imposes a series of requirements designed to protect individuals against the risks that result from the processing of their data. It also distinguishes among different types of actors involved in the processing, setting out different obligations for each actor. The most ...

La liberalización del transporte ferroviario de pasajeros

(Revista Economistas, Nº 164, año 2019)

Lenguaje y dogmática penal

Actas del II Congreso Ibero-Americano de Derecho Penal y Filosofía del Lenguaje

El presente volumen contiene una serie de estudios cuyo denominador común es la filosofía del lenguaje y singularmente parten de un enfoque desde la denominada teoría de la acción significativa. Se trata por tanto de trabajos que confrontan, desarrollan o exploran su rendimiento en la ...

Una visión teórico-práctica de la proporcionalidad en la interpretación jurídica

El principio de proporcionalidad es uno de los más versátiles de la historia jurídica. Proveniente de las otras ciencias, su utilización moderna es interesante como instrumento de resolución de los conflictos jurídicos. La Filosofía del Derecho lo contempla en su contenido, pero es necesario realizar ...

Mujer sujeto u objeto de derechos reproductivos

derechos de los menores y maternidad por sustitución

Esta obra colectiva integra diversas perspectivas de estudio que giran en torno a la realidad de la gestación por sustitución, tratando con ello de ofrecer una visión jurídica adecuada a su forma poliédrica y de aristas tan afiladamente cortantes. El análisis histórico, la argumentación filosófica ...