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A Macat analysis of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman's Judgment under uncertainty: heuristics and biases

Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman's 1974 paper 'Judgement Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases' is a landmark in the history of psychology. Though a mere seven pages long, it has helped reshape the study of human rationality, and had a particular impact on economics - where ...

A Macat analysis of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty

In his wonderfully clear and cogent essay On Liberty, Mill contends that individuals should be as free as possible from interference by government. Proposing that individual fulfilment is the surest route to collective happiness, he argues passionately against the "tyranny of the majority," and sets ...

A Macat analysis of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle, a student of Plato, wrote Nicomachean Ethics in 350 BCE, in a time of extraordinary intellectual development. Over two millennia later, his thorough exploration of virtue, reason, and the ultimate human good still forms the basis of the values at the heart of Western ...

A Macat analysis of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice

John Rawls's A Theory of Justice is one of the most influential works of legal and political theory published since the Second World War. It provides a memorably well-constructed and sustained argument in favour of a new (social contract) version of the meaning of ...

A Macat analysis of Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy: creating and sustaining superior performance

Michael E. Porter's 1980 book Competitive Strategy is a fine example of critical thinking skills in action. Porter used his strong evaluative skills to overturn much of the accepted wisdom in the world of business. By exploring the strengths and weaknesses of the accepted ...

A Macat analyisis of Thomas Kuhn's The structure of scientific revolutions

Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions can be seen, without exaggeration, as a landmark text in intellectual history. In his analysis of shifts in scientific thinking, Kuhn questioned the prevailing view that science was an unbroken progression towards the truth. Progress was actually ...

Comentarios a la Ley de Contratos del Sector Público

Adpatados a la Orden HFP/1298/2017, de 26 de diciembre

La presente monografía aborda el nuevo marco regulatorio en materia de contratación pública. La Ley 9/2017, de 8 de noviembre, de Contratos del Sector Público, por la que se transponen al ordenamiento jurídico español las Directivas del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo 2014/23 ...

Test de la especialidad penal para la prueba de acceso a la Abogacía

Te ofrece una recopilación de ejercicios de test de la especialidad penal para la preparación de la prueba de acceso a la Abogacía, así como unas indicaciones generales para estudiar y superar con éxito un examen de test de estas características. Desde la entrada en ...

Manual para projects managers

cómo gestionar proyectos con éxito

El perfil profesional de Project Manager es uno de los pocos que logran sortear con éxito el desempleo. De hecho, muchas empresas tienen serias dificultades para poder reclutar profesionales con la preparación específica y las adecuadas habilidades y competencias. Conscientes de esta demanda, buena parte ...

Los medios de impugnación en el proceso contencioso-administrativo

La presente obra aborda el estudio de los procesos jurisdiccionales dirigidos a revisar las resoluciones judiciales del orden contencioso-administrativo. Se examinan tanto los aspectos generales de los recursos como los particulares de los ordinarios, es decir, de reposición, revisión, apelación y queja, el de casación ...

A Macta analysis of Thomas Paine's Common sense

Thomas Paine's 1776 Common Sense has secured an unshakeable place as one of history's most explosive and revolutionary books. A slim pamphlet published at the beginning of the American Revolution, it was so widely read that it remains the all-time best selling book ...

A Macat analysis of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he not only provides detailed and sustained explanations of why he sees existing arguments relating to income and wealth distribution as flawed, but also gives us very detailed evaluations ...

A Macat analysis of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

Many still consider Ludwig Wittgenstein's 1953 Philosophical Investigations to be one of the breakthrough works of twentieth-century philosophy. The book sets out a radically new conception of philosophy itself, and demonstrates all the attributes of a fine analytical mind. Taking an argument from Plato ...

A Macat analyisis of Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom

Milton Friedman was arguably the single most influential economist of the 20th-century. His influence, particularly on conservative politics in America and Great Britain, substantially helped - as both supporters and critics agree - to shape the global economy as it is today. Capitalism and Freedom (1962) is ...

A Macat analysis of W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne's Blue Ocean Strategy: how to create uncontested market space and make competition irrelevant

In Blue Ocean Strategy, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne tackle the central problem facing all businesses: how to perform better than your competitors? Their solution involves taking a creative approach to the normal view of competition. In the normal framework, competition is a zero-sum ...

A Macat analysis of Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

Friedrich Hayek's 1944 Road to Serfdom is a classic of conservative economic argument. While undeniably a product of a specific time in global politics - which saw the threat of fascism from Nazi Germany and its allies beguilingly answered by the promises of socialism - Hayek ...

A Macat analyisis of Milton Friedman's The Role of Monetary Policy

Milton Friedman was one of the most influential economists of all time - and his ideas had a huge impact on the economic policies of governments across the world. A key theorist of capitalism and its relationship to democratic freedoms, Friedman remains one of the most ...

A Macat analysis of Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority: an experimental view

Stanley Milgram is one of the most influential and widely-cited social psychologists of the twentieth century. Recognized as perhaps the most creative figure in his field, he is famous for crafting social-psychological experiments with an almost artistic sense of creative imagination - casting new light on ...

A Macat analysis of Alasdair Macintyre's After Virtue

Alasdair MacIntyre's 1981 After Virtue was a ground-breaking contribution to modern moral philosophy. Dissatisfied with the major trends in the moral philosophy of his time, MacIntyre argued that modern moral discourse had no real rational basis. Instead, he suggested, if one wanted to build ...

A Macat analysis of Joan Wallach Scott's Gender and the Politics of History

Joan Scott's work has influenced several generations of historians and helped make the topic of gender central to the way in which the discipline is taught and studied today. At root a new way of conceptualizing capitalist societies, Scott's theories suggest that gender ...