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Why should we obey the Law?

Whether we should obey the law is a question that affects everyone's day-to-day life, from traffic laws to taxes. Most people obey out of habit, but the question remains: why are we morally required to do so? If we fail to obey, the state ...

Bloomberg by Bloomberg

Mike Bloomberg's company is a major provider of financial information and news through on-line services, a wire service, national radio networks, a monthly financial magazine and Bloomberg Business News on PBS. This is his story.

Accounting for goodwill and other intangible assets

Concepts, methods, and issues in calculating the fair value of intangibles Accounting for Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets is a guide to one of the most challenging aspects of business valuation. Not only must executives and valuation professionals understand the complicated set of rules and ...

Broken business

seven steps to reform good companies gone bad

How to prevent corporate scandals and fix good companies that do wrong The news media is replete with stories of corporate scandal, corruption and misdeeds. The need for effective crisis management and corporate governance strategies has never been greater. Broken Business explains why corporate scandals ...

#MakeoverMonday

improving how we visualize and analyze data, one chart at a time

Explore different perspectives and approaches to create more effective visualizations #MakeoverMonday offers inspiration and a giant dose of perspective for those who communicate data. Originally a small project in the data visualization community, #MakeoverMonday features a weekly chart or graph and a dataset that community ...

Beyond debt

islamic experiments in global finance

Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. This realization has led to cries for change-yet there is little popular awareness of possible alternatives. Beyond Debt describes efforts to create a transnational economy free of debt. Based ...

Lying for money

how legendary frauds reveal the workings of the world

Financial crime seems horribly complicated but there are only so many ways you can con someone out of what's theirs. In fact, there are four. A veteran regulatory economist and market analyst, Dan Davies has years of experience picking the bones out of some ...

Naked economics

undressing the dismal science

This is a new edition of the best-selling economics book that won't put you to sleep. In our challenging economic climate, this perennial favourite of students and general readers includes commentary on hot topics such as automation, trade and income inequality. Ten years after ...

Confronting inequality

how societies can choose inclusive growth

Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the tradeoff we must accept to achieve economic growth. In this ...

Trusting nudges

toward a bill of rights for nudging

Many "nudges" aim to make life simpler, safer, or easier for people to navigate, but what do members of the public really think about these policies? Drawing on surveys from numerous nations around the world, Sunstein and Reisch explore whether citizens approve of nudge policies ...

The rise of precarious employment in Europe

theoretical perspectives, Reforms and Employment trends in the era of economic crisis

The deterioration of employment conditions for an increasing number of employees in late capitalism has prompted researchers to find ways to conceptualise, as well as measure, these observed new tendencies. This book examines precarious employment in Europe through the economic crisis, drawing on two main ...

Why nationalism

Why nationalism is a permanent political force-and how it can be harnessed once again for liberal ends Around the world today, nationalism is back-and it's often deeply troubling. Populist politicians exploit nationalism for authoritarian, chauvinistic, racist, and xenophobic purposes, reinforcing the view that it ...

Fighting financial crises

learning from the past

If you've got some money in the bank, chances are you've never seriously worried about not being able to withdraw it. But there was a time in the United States, an era that ended just over a hundred years ago, in which bank ...

Serotonina

Florent-Claude Labrouste tiene cuarenta y seis años, detesta su nombre y se medica con Captorix, un antidepresivo que libera serotonina y que tiene tres efectos adversos: náuseas, desaparición de la libido e impotencia. Su periplo arranca en Almería –con un encuentro en una gasolinera con ...

El debate Pound-Llewellyn

A principios de la década de los años treinta surgió en Estados Unidos la corriente antiformalista del realismo jurídico, movimiento que construyó sus aportes a partir de una serie de críticas al formalismo que había surgido a ambos lados del Atlántico a finales del siglo ...

Derechos, cambio constitucional y teoría jurídica

Escritos de Derecho Constitucional y Teoría del Derecho

Derechos, cambio constitucional y teoría jurídica es una compilación de escritos de derecho constitucional y teoría del derecho sobre la fundamentación de los derechos humanos y fundamentales, su aplicación en general y la de algunos derechos en particular -como los derechos sociales-. También comprende el ...

Guernica

España, 1937, la ciudad de Guernica es devastada por un ataque aéreo sin precedentes. Este crimen de guerra pasará a la historia como el primer bombardeo aéreo de civiles y como la fuente de inspiración para uno de los cuadros más famosos de Pablo Picasso ...

La liberación del sector turístico

¿Hacia un modelo de turismo sostenible?

Desde hace algunos años se viene asistiendo al desmantelamiento de las principales herramientas de control administrativo para el acceso a determinadas actividades económicas, esencialmente, aunque no exclusivamente, en el sector servicios. Los legisladores han entendido que la actividad de la Administración pública viene a entorpecer ...

El 'Pretérito Perfecto' español

variación gramatical y estructuras de sistema

El contenido expresado por la forma compuesta he cantado en el sistema verbal español es una de las cuestiones que más interés han despertado en los estudios gramaticales sobre esta lengua, principalmente por haberse establecido entre el ámbito nocional de dicha forma y el de ...

Mi Marruecos

Mi Marruecos es un retrato de infancia y la historia de cómo se fue haciendo escritor. Me encantan las referencias a la cultura popular: el cine de Bruce Lee y Bollywood, la radio en español de Tánger... a la búsqueda en la basura de los ...