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Football and the Law

Football and the Law is the first comprehensive review of the law relating to all aspects of football, including the main regulatory and commercial aspects of the sport. With contributions from more than 50 of the leading experts in the field, Football and the Law ...

Data Science

A concise introduction to the emerging field of data science, explaining its evolution, relation to machine learning, current uses, data infrastructure issues, and ethical challenges. The goal of data science is to improve decision making through the analysis of data. Today data science determines the ...

Work inequality Basic Income

Technology and the loss of manufacturing jobs have many worried about future mass unemployment. It is in this context that basic income, a government cash grant given unconditionally to all, has gained support from a surprising range of advocates, from Silicon Valley to labor. Our ...

Precarious lives

job insecurity and well-being in rich democracies

Employment relations in advanced, post-industrial democracies have become increasingly insecure and uncertain as the risks associated with work are being shifted from employers and governments to workers. Arne L. Kalleberg examines the impact of the liberalization of labor markets and welfare systems on the growth ...

Austrian reconstruction and the collapse of global finance

1921-1931

In 1921 Austria became the first interwar European country to experience hyperinflation. The League of Nations, among other actors, stepped in to help reconstruct the economy, but a decade later Austria’s largest bank, Credit-Anstalt, collapsed. Historians have correlated these events with the banking and ...

Demos assembled

democracy and the international origins of the Modern State 1840-1880

Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century, but we know relatively little about the next great act: the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. And in an era where ...

Blockchain and the Law

the rule of code

Since Bitcoin appeared in 2009, the digital currency has been hailed as an Internet marvel and decried as the preferred transaction vehicle for all manner of criminals. It has left nearly everyone without a computer science degree confused: Just how do you "mine" money from ...

Handbook of direct democracy in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the political history of central and eastern Europe has mainly been the story of the rise, consolidation, transformation, and struggles of new democratic regimes and societies. The Handbook of Direct Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 ...

How growth really happens

the making of economic miracles through production, governance, and skills

A groundbreaking study that shows how countries can create innovative, production-based economies for the twenty-first century Achieving economic growth is one of today's key challenges. In this groundbreaking book, Michael Best argues that to understand how successful growth happens we need an economic framework ...

Game Theory and climate change

Parkash Chander argues that we can make further progress on the climate-change impasse by considering the insights of game theory. Chander offers economic and game-theoretic interpretations of both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement and discusses the policy recommendations his framework generates, including a ...

A local history of global capital

jute and peasant life in the Bengal Delta

Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, after cotton. While ...

Nation building

why some countries come together while others fall apart

A new and comprehensive look at the reasons behind successful or failed nation building Nation Building presents bold new answers to an age-old question. Why is national integration achieved in some diverse countries, while others are destabilized by political inequality between ethnic groups, contentious politics ...

Root-cause regulation

protecting work and workers in the Twenty-First Century

Work is now more deadly than war, killing approximately 2.3 million people a year worldwide. The United States, with its complex regulatory system, has one of the highest rates of occupational fatality in the developed world, and deteriorating working conditions more generally. Why, after ...

Citizenship, inequality and difference

historical perspectives

A succinct and comprehensive history of the development of citizenship from the Roman Empire to the present day Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference offers a concise and sweeping overview of citizenship's complex evolution, from ancient Rome to the present. Political leaders and thinkers still debate ...

The people's money

how China is building a global currency

The People's Money introduces readers to China's monetary system, mapping its evolution over the past century and, particularly, its transformation since Deng Xiaoping took power in 1978. Paola Subacchi shows that the key to understanding China's economic predicament lies in past and ...

Pricing lives

guideposts for a safer society

How society's undervaluing of life puts all of us at risk-and the groundbreaking economic measure that can fix it Like it or not, sometimes we need to put a monetary value on people's lives. In the past, government agencies used the financial "cost ...

A manual for writers

of research papers, theses, and dissertations

When Kate L. Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today's students would be conducting research. Yet while the ways in which we research and compose papers may have changed, the fundamentals remain the ...

Trabajo manual y trabajo intelectual

una crítica de la epistemología

¿Cuál es la teoría que Sohn-Rethel, compañero de viaje de Theodor W. Adorno y la “Teoría Crítica”, ha elaborado con notable perseverancia durante casi setenta años? Se trata esencialmente de una de las grandes cuestiones de la filosofía: ¿cuál es el origen de las formas ...

La perspectiva ética

Suele ser habitual insistir en la necesidad de la ética. No suele serlo, sin embargo, encontrar propuestas de análisis ético fundamentadas con la suficiente solidez. Entender en estos tiempos lo que supone incorporar con el debido rigor la perspectiva ética a la manera en que ...

Panorama de la traducción y la interpretación en los servicios públicos españoles

una década de cambios, retos y oportunidades

La traducción y la interpretación son herramientas esenciales para asegurar el acceso igualitario de los ciudadanos extranjeros que no hablan la lengua del país de acogida a la sanidad, la educación, los servicios sociales o la justicia. Se trata de una actividad indispensable, por tanto ...