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Classical economics today

essays in honor of Alessandro Roncaglia

Classical Economics Today: Essays in Honor of Alessandro Roncaglia is a collection of essays that pays tribute to Alessandro Roncaglia whose research is based on Schumpeter's dictum that good economics must encompass history, economic theory and statistics, and therefore does not generally take the ...

Governance and regulations

contemporary issues

Contemporary Issues in Economic and Financial Analysis 99 includes fourteen studies on contemporary issues within governance and regulations by authors invited from various universities and institutions. The chapters are a mix of discussion-based studies and empirical research studies aimed at understanding particular aspects of governance ...

The economic Gulag

patriarchy, capitalism, and inequality

The Economic Gulag: Patriarchy, Capitalism, and Inequality is a trenchant critical analysis of the devastating ravages of capitalist patriarchy in our modern society and its pervasive and increasingly destabilizing negative influence on our views and values regarding power, gender, wealth, and inequality. It extends the ...

The seller's right to cure under article 48 CISG

Allegedly, contracts are enforceable mutually beneficial agreements. In the event of a breach of contract, most national and international legal systems-including European harmonization projects on private law-resort to cure regimes for the furtherance of contractually generated welfare. A Nachfrist-mechanism, a hierarchy of remedies, and debtor ...

Does the Law of Succession reflect cultural differences?

This is the published version of the first Maastricht Private Law Lecture which was delivered by Reinhard Zimmermann January 27th, 2017. According to a widely held view, the law of succession is shaped by the cultural values of the society within which it prevails. Related ...

Direct democracy in comparative Law

Faced with the variety and complexity of the forms that direct democracy takes today, this book pays attention first to the main stages in which direct democracy has historically evolved, and then considers at greater length the systems currently in place in different countries. The ...

Analogy and exemplary reasoning in legal discourse

This book brings together contributions from leading figures in legal studies on analogy and related forms of reasoning in the law. Analogical reasoning-which relies on the concept of two different things being in some way like each other-is hugely important not just in the practice ...

How transformative innovations shaped the rise of nations

from Ancient Rome to Modern America

Over the last 2,000 years, critical innovations have transformed small regions into global powers. But these powers have faded when they did not embrace the next big innovation. Gerard J. Tellis and Stav Rosenzweig argue that openness to new ideas and people, empowerment of ...

The economics of cars

The automotive sector represents more than a simple industry. It embodies the economic and technological power of nations, the lifestyle and consumption patterns of societies, the dynamics of urban and territorial development, and acts as a national barometer of economic success and failure. This book ...

Protecting the rights of refugees beyond european borders

establishing extraterritorial legal responsabilities

The European migration and asylum policy has been shaped by efforts to establish an efficient migration management system in order to protect the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice from the new security threat of 'irregular migration'. Pre-border control mechanisms composed of administrative, legislative, and ...

Handbook on legal methodology

from objective to method

Legal scholarship is one of the oldest academic disciplines, and the study of law has been passed on from generation to generation as an implicit “savoir faire”. It was presumed that all legal scholars understood the methodology of legal research, making its explicit clarification and ...

El Celta no tiene la culpa

Como en tantas otras cosas (el astillero, la vela, la política…) hice todo lo contrario de lo que mi padre esperaba de mí para no parecerme a él en nada, para llevar una vida completamente distinta. Por si acaso. Porque durante mucho tiempo, y por ...

La tecnología Blockchain en los negocios

perspectivas, práctica y aplicación en Internet

Blockchain es una nueva capa tecnológica que reconfigura los protocolos sobre Internet y amenaza con sortear las antiguas estructuras heredadas y las empresas que funcionan de forma centralizada. En esencia, la cadena de bloques inyecta confianza en la red, dejando a un lado a algunos ...

Responsabilidad ética y sostenibilidad empresarial

Comercio y poder

(Revista Política Exterior, Nº 184, año 2018)

La ciencia del derecho penal como problema abierto

Sin caer en el error de las distorsiones inducidas de las contingencias de la coyuntura actual, la ciencia del derecho penal como problema abierto aborda lúcidamente el problema de la interpretación jurídica y judicial a partir de su historicidad. Uno de los mayores riesgos es ...

Ejecución civil. Cuestiones generales

480 preguntas y respuestas. Disposiciones generales, títulos ejecutivos, presupuestos, oposición y costas. Ejecución provisional

En el proceso de ejecución no se declara ni se condena, sino que directamente se actúa, lo que supone una injerencia en la esfera patrimonial del ejecutado a quien se debe dotar de garantías e instrumentos de defensa, sin desatender las dignas pretensiones del ejecutante ...

Ejecución civil: dineraria y no dineraria

654 preguntas y respuestas. Cantidades reclamables, intereses, embargos, tercerías y subastas, ejecuciones de dar, hacer y no hacer

La Ley de Enjuiciamiento Civil contempla, en su Título IV del Libro III, la ejecución dineraria, y en el Título V, la no dineraria. Dicha normativa se confiesa incapaz de solventar la riqueza de cuestiones que esta compleja materia plantea en la praxis, lo que ...

Heidegger and the jews

the black notebooks

Philosophers have long struggled to reconcile Martin Heidegger's involvement in Nazism with his status as one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. The recent publication of his Black Notebooks has served to reignite fierce debate on the subject.

Teresa de Jesús

citas, reflexiones e iconografía

El autor con esta publicación pretende hacer llegar a todo interesado en conocer, de una manera comprensiva, la figura de Santa Teresa de Jesús, su pensamiento, su ideario, su espíritu místico y su amor a Dios. Y, lo más importante, es que, a través de ...