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El mundo atlántico español durante el siglo XVIII

guerra y reformas borbónicas, 1713-1796

Esta obra destaca el juego entre España y América mientras el imperio español luchaba por sobrevivir en la feroz competencia internacional que dominó el siglo dieciocho. Los autores usan una amplia y profunda investigación en los repositorios de España y América, así como la innovadora ...

El gran salto demográfico

(Revista Política Exterior, Nº 182, año 2018)

Historia de la locura en la época clásica II

Foucault analiza, en este segundo volumen, desde El sobrino de Rameau al perfil trágico de Antonin Artaud, pasando por Nietzsche y Nerval. Toda una historia de la locura se dibuja y socava los presupuestos mismos del poder y la sabiduría occidentales.

Incentives

motivation and the economics of information

When incentives work well, individuals prosper. When incentives are poor, the pursuit of self-interest is self-defeating. This book is wholly devoted to the topical subject of incentives from individual, collective, and institutional standpoints. This third edition is fully updated and expanded, including a new section ...

A Nation like all others

a brief history of american foreign relations

Belief in the United States as a force for good in the world runs deep. Yet an honest consideration reveals a history marred by great crimes and ordinary errors, alongside many achievements and triumphs. In this comprehensive account of American foreign relations from the nation ...

Marx's Inferno

the political theory of Capital

Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and ...

Regimen consolidation and transitional justice

a comparative study of Germany, Spain and Turkey

Regime Consolidation and Transitional Justice explores the effect of transitional justice measures on 'regime consolidation', or the means by which a new political system is established in a post-transition context. Focusing on the long-term impact of transitional justice mechanisms in three countries over several decades ...

The wealth elite

a groundbreaking study of the psychology of the super rich

What makes the super rich tick? Is there a specific mindset that sets ultra-high net worth individuals apart from the rest of us? Are they meticulous planners - or is their wealth an unintended by-product of their entrepreneurial activities? Is it nature or nurture that sets ...

La inspección de trabajo y Seguridad Social

la actuación inspectora y el procedimiento sancionador

Esta obra, elaborada por el Inspector de Trabajo D. Fernando Sicre Gilabert, es una herramienta imprescindible para los operadores jurídico-laborales, dado que les permite afrontar la actuación adecuada ante la Inspección de Trabajo y abordar con seguridad y garantías el procedimiento sancionador en materia laboral ...

Jóvenes, trabajo y futuro

perspectivas sobre la garantía juvenil en España y Europa

¿Cómo ha cambiado la relación de los jóvenes con el trabajo? ¿Cómo ven su futuro laboral y también personal? ¿En qué ha afectado la precarización, temporalización y desregulación del empleo juvenil? ¿Cuáles son las perspectivas de reactivación ante la salida de la crisis? ¿Qué es ...

American fair trade

proprietary capitalism, corporatism, and the 'New Competition', 1890-1940

Rather than viewing the history of American capitalism as the unassailable ascent of large-scale corporations and free competition, American Fair Trade argues that trade associations of independent proprietors lobbied and litigated to reshape competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the twentieth century ...

Radical sacrifice

A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in ...

Burn out

the endgame for fossil fuels

An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and longtime industry observer Dieter Helm explains how this and other shifts are the harbingers of ...

The end of Europe

dictators, demagogues, and the coming dark age

Once the world's bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to confront demons it thought it had laid to rest. The old pathologies of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression are threatening to tear the European postwar consensus apart. In riveting dispatches ...

America's information wars

the untold story of information systems in America's conflicts and politics from World War II to the Internet Age

This book narrates the development of science, sci/tech, and intelligence information systems and technologies in the United States from the beginning of World War II to the second decade of our century. The story ranges from a description of the information systems and machines ...

Essential Supreme Court decisions

summaries of leading cases in U.S. Constitutional Law

The only reference guide to Supreme Court cases organized both topically and chronologically within chapters so that readers understand how cases fit into a historical context, the 17th edition has been updated with 20 new cases, including landmark decisions on such topics as campaign finance ...

Digital darwinism

survival of the fittest in the Age of Business disruption

Digital Darwinism takes an exhilarating look at disruptive thinking to inspire those who want to be the best at digital transformation. Change across business is accelerating, but the lifespan of companies is decreasing. Life is more unpredictable than ever and leaders are facing a growing ...

It's basic income

the global debate

Is a Universal Basic Income the answer to an increasingly precarious job landscape? Could it bring greater financial freedom for women, tackle the issue of unpaid but essential work, cut poverty and promote greater choice? Or is it a dead-end utopian ideal that distracts from ...

Global security cultures

Why do politicians think that war is the answer to terror when military intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Mali, Somalia and elsewhere has made things worse? Why do some conflicts never end? And how is it that practices like beheadings, extra-judicial killings, the bombing ...

How the other half bank

exclusion, exploitation, and the threat to democracy

The United States has two separate banking systems today—one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks contributes to the growing conversation on American inequality by highlighting one of its prime causes: unequal credit. Mehrsa Baradaran examines how a ...