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Quantitative financial risk management

Our modern economy depends on financial markets. Yet financial markets continue to grow in size and complexity. As a result, the management of financial risk has never been more important. This book introduces students and risk professionals to financial risk management with an emphasis on ...

The economy of the Gulf States

The six Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf - Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - have a disproportionate importance in the global economic system because of their enormous reserves of oil and gas. Matthew Gray provides a brief yet comprehensive profile ...

The economy's other half

how taking gender seriously transforms macroeconomics

Choices made in macroeconomic policies - such as government spending, taxation, monetary policy and financial regulation - have distinct distributive consequences for women and men. They also shape the constraints within which efforts to advance gender equality must operate. The implications of gender dynamics for macroeconomics extends ...

Max Ernst: Historia Natural. 1926

Bajo el título Max Ernst: Historial natural (1926), la Fundación Juan March presenta en el Museo de Arte Abstracto Español de Cuenca, y posteriormente en el Museo Fundación Juan March de Palma, los treinta y cuatro dibujos reproducidos en fototipia que el artista realizó para ...

The Dutch and English East India companies

diplomacy, trade and violence in Early Modern Asia

The Dutch and English East India Companies were formidable organizations that were gifted with expansive powers that allowed them to conduct diplomacy, wage war and seize territorial possessions. But they did not move into an empty arena in which they were free to deploy these ...

Commercial Law

article by article commentary

Trade and commerce are central to the wealth of nations. International and cross-border by nature, they require international rules. In response, a complex framework of rules have been developed to regulate the field, with some gaining global acceptance. Rules around the sales and carriage of ...

Zizek inthe clinic

a revolutionary propposal for a new endgame in psychotherapy

Psychotherapist Eliot Rosenstock proposes a philosophical foundation for mental health treatment based on the writings and ideas of Slavoj Zizek. Zizek in the Clinic examines the state of the psychotherapy profession, capital motivated reductionist treatment modalities and a philosophy of liberation for the therapeutic subject ...

Carolina of Orange-Nassau

ancestress of the royal houses of Europe

Carolina of Orange-Nassau (1743 - 1787) was born the daughter of William IV, Prince of Orange, and Anne, Princess Royal and was thus the granddaughter of King George II. It was upon the King's orders that she was named after his wife, Caroline of Ansbach ...

The legal concept of money

This new book analyses the challenge of how money (including coins, notes, credit, and virtual currency) should be defined from both a legal and an economic perspective. As new electronic payment mechanisms proliferate, this question of definition is likely to become an important issue in ...

The Silk Road trap

how China's trade ambitions challenge Europe

For almost two decades, China has claimed that its expanding economy benefits Europe, stimulating European growth, exports, and employment. But the reality is not so clear-cut. Whilst individual companies may have profited from China s economic rise,unbalanced trade with China has actually cost Europe ...

Damages under the convention on contracts for the international sale of goods

This third edition of the only work to focus on damages under the CISG maintains its purpose as the primary reference source for this topic. Addressing global judicial and arbitral decisions, the book demonstrates the differences between uniform international instruments and domestic laws, and comparatively ...

The form of the firm

a normative political theory of the corporation

Contemporary discussions of the corporation tend to divide into one of two camps: On one side are scholars who treat the firm as a purely economic and contractual entity, while another set of scholars look at corporations in purely political terms. Therefore, the corporation is ...

The supervisory jurisdiction over trust administration

Providing valuable insight into a relatively unexplored field, this book examines the day-to-day functioning of the supervisory jurisdiction over trust administration and distils the essential principles that guide the Court's supervision and intervention in trust administration in the absence of any wrongdoing and with ...

The hapiness fantasy

In this devastatingly witty new book, Carl Cederström traces our present-day conception of happiness from its roots in early-twentieth-century European psychiatry, to the Beat generation, to Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. He argues that happiness is now defined by a desire to be "authentic", to ...

Sketches in the Theory of Culture

Sketches in the Theory of Culture is a remarkable work by all measures. Written by Zygmunt Bauman when he was still a professor in Poland, and originally intended for publication in 1968, it was suppressed by the Polish government in the wave of repression following ...

Cuestiones generales de retroactividad penal

An imaginary racism

islamophobia and guilt

'Islamophobia' is a term that has existed since the nineteenth century. But in recent decades, argues Pascal Bruckner in his controversial new book, it has become a weapon used to silence criticism of Islam. The term allows those who brandish it in the name of ...

China's dream

the culture of chinese communism and the secret sources ot its power

The Communist Party of China (CPC) is one of the great political forces of modern times. In charge of the destiny of a fifth of humanity, it survives despite the collapse of similar systems elsewhere. Few, however, understand the sources of this resilience, or, for ...

El arrendamiento de cotos privados de caza

El Derecho de caza se halla integrado por aspectos muy variados y ricos en matices, tanto públicos como privados, entre los cuales se halla la dependencia de la actividad venatoria respecto de los terrenos en los que se desarrolla. El coto privado de caza es ...

Espectros de Octubre

(per)turbaciones y paradojas del independentismo catalán

La complejidad del Octubre catalán, y los límites de la propuesta independentista, obligan también a (re)pensarlo en un sentido más amplio y preguntarse de qué otra manera hubiera podido construirse la propia cita y la ruta hacia ella. Un interrogante que nos remite a ...