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The Market

We have become accustomed to economists and politicians talking about "market forces" as if they are immutable laws of the universe. But what exactly is "the market"? Originally an abstract idea from economic theory - the locus of supply and demand - it has come to inform ...

Intelligence in an insecure world

Security intelligence continues to be of central importance to the contemporary world: individuals, groups, organizations and states all seek timely and actionable information in order to increase their sense of security.

Soft Law and public authorities

remedies and reform

This book considers the phenomenon of soft law employed by domestic public authorities. Lawyers have long understood that public authorities are able to issue certain communications in a way that causes them to be treated like law, even though these are neither legislation nor subordinate ...

El valor normativo de la Constitución Española de 1978

sistema de fuentes

Can democracy survive global capitalism?

In the years surrounding the Second World War, a serendipitous confluence of events created a healthy balance between the market and the polity-between the engine of capitalism and the egalitarian ideals of democracy. Yet, from the 1970s on, a power shift occurred in which financial ...

Everyday economics

a user's guide to the modern economy

Much of economics is a top-down analysis that simplifies and reduces the huge varieties between individuals to a predictable range of characteristics that lend themselves to systematic analysis. This book eschews this conventional perspective, which sees national economies as simply agglomerations of the activities of ...

Europe and Northern Ireland's future

negotiating Brexit's unique case

The implications of Brexit for Northern Ireland are profound, given its history and geographical position as a land border with the European Union. Four decades of sectarian violence have been replaced by a period of sustained peace, economic growth and development, yet the trenchant political ...

Air passenger rights

ten years on

Regulation 261/2004 on Air Passengers' Rights has been amongst the most high-profile pieces of EU secondary legislation of the past years, generating controversial judgments of the Court of Justice, from C-344/04 ex parte IATA to C-402/07 Sturgeon. The Regulation has led to ...

Lawyers and mediators

the brave new world of services for separating families

Do lawyers make matters worse, or do they provide information, advice and support which can help to prevent disputes arising or manage them when they do? Do mediators enable parties to communicate and reach agreements tailor-made to their needs? Or working outside the legal framework ...

Patents and artificial intelligence

thinking computers

The best hope for peace and prosperity in our world is the expansion of information, and, as such, Artificial Intelligence (AI) was created to process an infinite amount of information. As men and women continue to perfect AI, monitoring its evolution can be both enlightening ...

Mathematics of Big Data

spreadsheets, databases, matrices, and graphs

The first book to present the common mathematical foundations of big data analysis across a range of applications and technologies. Today, the volume, velocity, and variety of data are increasing rapidly across a range of fields, including Internet search, healthcare, finance, social media, wireless devices ...

The essential Tversky

Some of the best and most influential papers by Amos Tversky, one of the most brilliant social science thinkers of the twentieth century. Amos Tversky (1937-1996) was a towering figure in the cognitive and decision sciences. His work was ingenious, exciting, and influential, spanning topics ...

Advice and dissent

why America suffers when economics and politics collide

A bestselling economist tells us what both politicians and economists must learn to fix America's failing economic policies American economic policy ranks as something between bad and disgraceful. As leading economist Alan S. Blinder argues, a crucial cultural divide separates economic and political civilizations ...

Derecho constitucional español

Una gestión pública orientada al ciudadano

justificación, logros y retos

Esta obra analiza las cuestiones esenciales que caracterizan la Gestión Pública de nuestros días y que mayor interés o preocupación social suscitan entre la población: la eficiencia y la calidad de los servicios públicos; la situación de su personal; la elaboración de los presupuestos; la ...

The money laundering market

regulating the criminal economy

Global money laundering transactions are estimated to be $3.5 trillion annually. Although global spending on anti-money laundering compliance was more than $8 billion in 2017, with most countries having adopted anti-money laundering measures, less than 1 per cent of illicit financial flows are seized ...

Wölfe!

la Batalla del Atlántico

Esta obra va dirigida a diferentes tipos de aficionados. Modelistas, coleccionistas de militaria y amantes de la historia disfrutarán de un gran libro de consulta y referencia. En este libro encontramos una gran recopilación de fotografías de época, ilustraciones, procesos paso a paso de pintura ...

Droit constitutionnel britannique

Considérée comme l'une des oeuvres juridiques qui a le plus apporté au droit constitutionnel et au libéralisme politique, la Constitution britannique n'a plus fait l'objet d'une analyse générale depuis de nombreuses années dans la littérature scientifique française. Malgré une postérité symbolisée ...

Access to Justice

beyond the policies and politics austerity

Building on a series of ESRC funded seminars, this edited collection of expert papers by academics and practitioners is concerned with access to civil and administrative justice in constitutional democracies, where, for the past decade governments have reassessed their priorities for funding legal services: embracing ...

How to be good

'How to be Good?' is the pre-eminent question for ethics, although one that philosophers and ethicists seldom address head on. Knowing how to be good, or perhaps (more modestly and more accurately) knowing how to go about trying to be good, and the ways in ...