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The roman retail revolution

the socio-economic world of the Taberna

Tabernae were ubiquitous in all Roman cities, lining the busiest streets and dominating their most crowded intersections in numbers far exceeding those of any other form of building. That they played a vital role in the operation of the city, and indeed in the very ...

Democracy and goodness

a historicist political theory

Citizens, political leaders, and scholars invoke the term 'democracy' to describe present-day states without grasping its roots or prospects in theory or practice. This book clarifies the political discourse about democracy by identifying that its primary focus is human activity, not consent. It points out ...

Cognitive capitalism

human capital and the Wellbeing of Nations

Nations can vary greatly in their wealth, democratic rights and the wellbeing of their citizens. These gaps are often obvious, and by studying the flow of immigration one can easily predict people's wants and needs. But why are there also large differences in the ...

Agent-based models in economics

a toolkit

In contrast to mainstream economics, complexity theory conceives the economy as a complex system of heterogeneous interacting agents characterised by limited information and bounded rationality. Agent Based Models (ABMs) are the analytical and computational tools developed by the proponents of this emerging methodology. Aimed at ...

Your next government?

from the Nation State to Stateless Nations

Governments across the globe have begun evolving from lumbering bureaucracies into smaller, more agile special jurisdictions - common-interest developments, special economic zones, and proprietary cites. Private providers increasingly deliver services that political authorities formerly monopolized, inspiring greater competition and efficiency, to the satisfaction of citizens-qua-consumers. These ...

Chinese Contract Law

civil and Common Law perspectives

This book is the product of a unique collaboration between Mainland Chinese scholars and scholars from the civil, common, and mixed jurisdiction legal traditions. It begins by placing the current Chinese contract law (CCL) in the context of an evolutionary process accelerated during China's ...

Termites of the State

why complexity leads to inequality

In Termites of the State, renowned public economist Vito Tanzi presents a sweeping account of the industrialized world's economic development during the twentieth century to today. In the tradition of grand economic histories, Tanzi connects the biggest issues of the modern world including extreme ...

Alexander Hamilton on finance, credit, and debt

While serving as the first Treasury Secretary from 1789 to 1795, Alexander Hamilton engineered a financial revolution. Hamilton established the Treasury debt market, the dollar, and a central bank, while strategically prompting private entrepreneurs to establish securities markets and stock exchanges and encouraging state governments ...

Ethical loneliness

the injustice of not being heard

Ethical loneliness is the experience of being abandoned by humanity, compounded by the cruelty of wrongs not being heard. It is the result of multiple lapses on the part of human beings and political institutions that, in failing to listen well to survivors, deny them ...

Contesting the Arctic

politics and imaginaries in the Circumpolar North

As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention. The promise of new sources of mineral wealth and energy, and of new transportation routes, has seen countries expand their sovereignty claims. Increasingly ...

Deep inequality

understanding the new normal and how to challenge it

Forbes reports that the richest 1 percent of the world's population owns nearly half the world's wealth, and the gap between the richest and poorest of the world only continues to increase. Deep Inequality looks behind these stark statistics to understand not only ...

Elementos del pensamiento crítico

El pensamiento crítico es la habilidad para elaborar, evaluar y refutar argumentos. Es el pensamiento razonado sobre qué hacer o en qué creer. Esta obra sintetiza cuáles son los elementos fundamentales para poder hacerlo. Explica los diferenres tipos de cuestiones sobre las que se argumenta ...

Advanced issues in International and European Tax Law

This book examines recent developments and high-profile debates that have arisen in the field of international tax law and European tax law. Topics such as international tax avoidance, corporate social responsibility, good governance in tax matters, harmful tax competition, state aid, tax treaty abuse and ...

The EU Charter of fundamental rights as a binding instrument

five years old and growing

The entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009 caused the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights to be granted binding effect. This raised a host of intriguing questions. Would this transform the EU's commitment to fundamental rights? Should it transform that ...

Hobbes entre líneas

Estamos aquí en presencia de las notas inéditas tomadas por Marcel Mauss durante el curso que da Émile Durkheim sobre Hobbes ante un público fiel y activo. Se ponen así de manifiesto las preocupaciones del sociólogo a mediados de los años 1890. Desgarramiento del tejido ...

Mayo del 68

fin de fiesta

En Mayo de 1968, un estallido revolucionario sin precedente hace saltar por los aires todos los tópicos progresistas, sobre los cuales se apuntalaba una tradición ya putrefacta: la de los partidos comunistas europeos. Si el PCF llama, desde el primer momento, a abortar la movilización ...

Historia del feminismo

La conquista de la igualdad por las mujeres ha sido un proceso difícil y lleno de obstáculos constantes. Hoy, en los inicios del siglo XXI, esa igualdad se acepta con normalidad en los países democráticos, en los que aún quedan aspectos por resolver como la ...

Descubriendo el Bitcoin

cómo funciona. cómo comprar, invertir, desinvertir...

La nueva revolución tecnológica que transformará el mundo se llama «blockchain». Se trata de una base de datos distribuida entre sus usuarios, de acceso público y con información totalmente segura que provocará grandes cambios en ámbitos como la economía, la medicina o la empresa, entre ...

Los flujos migratorios en el ordenamiento jurídico español

(estudios de la Real Academia Asturiana de Jurisprudencia)

Es un estudio bidireccional de los flujos migratorios. En una primera parte se desarrolla el régimen de derechos y prestaciones de los extranjeros que se encuentran en España. En la segunda parte, se hace lo propio en relación con la situación de los españoles en ...

Para una política de la liberación

Este libro ofrece a los que deben comprender que el noble oficio de la políticaes una tarea pratiótica, comunitaria, apasionante. Considerar a los de abajo, a la comunidad política nacional, al pueblo de los pobres, oprimidos y excluidos, es tarea que cuenta con poca prensa ...