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Marx and the Earth

an anti-critique

Over a decade ago Foster and Burkett introduced a revolutionary understanding of the ecological foundations of Marx's thought, demonstrating that Marx's concepts of the universal metabolism of nature, social metabolism, and metabolic rift prefigured much of modern systems ecology. In this volume, Foster ...

Udire e provare

il testimone de auditu alieno nel processo di Diritto comune

Matching with transfers

the economics of love and marriage

Over the past few decades, matching models, which use mathematical frameworks to analyze allocation mechanisms for heterogeneous products and individuals, have attracted renewed attention in both theoretical and applied economics. These models have been used in many contexts, from labor markets to organ donations, but ...

Between debt and the devil

money, credit, and fixing global finance

Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In this eye-opening book, he sets the record straight about what really caused the crisis ...

La Real y Distinguida Orden Española de Carlos III

Esta edición sobre la Real y Distinguida Orden Española de Carlos III, coincide con la serie de actos que han tenido lugar en nuestro país con motivo del tercer centenario del nacimiento del "rey ilustrado". La citada Orden fue establecida por Carlos III mediante Real ...

Les hommes révoltés

les origines intellectuelles du réformisme en France (1871-1917)

Qu'est-ce que le réformisme ? Omniprésent dans le débat politique, le mot clive les gauches françaises en signifiant la trahison de l'idéal. L'opposition binaire entre réforme et révolution est cependant le fruit de controverses oubliées, qui pèsent lourdement sur les débats contemporains. Pour ...

Le basi del Diritto dei contratti pubblici

Il titolo "Le basi del diritto dei contratti pubblici", evocando un genere che ha precedenti importanti nella manualistica, richiama l'attenzione del lettore sull'obiettivo che questo testo si prefigge: delineare le "nozioni fondamentali" di tale importante ed affascinante settore del diritto amministrativo. Gli autori ...

Energy security

Many of the richest energy-producing regions of the world are wrought with conflict and billions of the world?s poorest suffer the daily insecurity of energy poverty. All the while our planet is increasingly under pressure because of our continued dependence on fossil fuels. It ...

Les crises d'Orient

1768-1914

En ce début de XXIe siècle, le cycle d'instabilités au Moyen-Orient commencé en 2003 et qui s'est accéléré depuis 2011 a pris une dimension particulièrement dangereuse. Et l'on se donne l'impression d'être dans une situation nouvelle. En réalité, le Moyen-Orient ...

The new frontiers of sovereign investment

The New Frontiers of Sovereign Investment combines the insights and experience of academic economists and practitioners from several funds to survey a diverse financial landscape and establish the challenging topical questions facing a broad range of SWFs today.

Oceans

a very short introduction

The importance of the oceans to life on Earth cannot be overstated. Liquid water covers more than 70% of our planet's surface and, in past geological time, has spread over 85%. Life on Earth began in the oceans over 3.5 billion years ago ...

Per i sessanta anni della Corte Costituzionale

Il contenuto del volume e' costituito dalle relazioni svolte in Roma il19 e 20 maggio del 2016. In quei due giorni, per iniziativa del collegio dei giudici costituzionali, si volle ricordare solennemente il sessantennale di attivita' della Corte, avviata il 23 aprile 1956.

Energy and civilization

a history

Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of enery on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic condersion of solar energy into plant ...

Trans. Diversidad de identidades y roles de género

Catálogo de la exposición organizada en el Museo de América de Madrid, del 22 de junio al 24 de septiembre de 2017, en la que a través de pinturas, esculturas, cerámicas, fotografías, indumentaria y otros materiales, se propone un recorrido sobre la identidad de género ...

Monetary theory and policy

This textbook presents a comprehensive treatment of the most important topics in monetary economics, focusing on the primary models monetary economists have employed to address topics in theory and policy. Striking a balance of insight, accessibility, and rigor, the book covers the basic theoretical approaches ...

Corporate fraud handbook

prevention and detection

The Utility Belt for Occupational Crime Fighters Corporate Fraud Handbook, Fifth Edition is the authoritative resource for identifying and preventing all the various types of fraud eating away at too many of today´s organizations. Written by the founder and chairman of the Association of ...

Exotica in militaria

La exposición temporal Exotica in militaria es, ante todo, una evocación. Inspirada en los antiguos gabinetes de curiosidades, aquellos lugares donde grandes coleccionistas mostraban sus más preciados tesoros procedentes de las cuatro esquinas del mundo, la exposición presenta una selección de objetos presentes en las ...

I modi di acquisto della propietà

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The first serious optimist

A.C. Pigou and the birth of welfare economics

A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography of the British economist A. C. Pigou (1877–1959), a founder of welfare economics and one of the twentieth century's most important ...

Modernidad de España

apertura europea e integración atlántica

El crecimiento y modernización económica española de fines del siglo XV hasta mediados del siglo XVI y sus limitaciones son, sin duda, uno de los capítulos de la historia europea más detenidamente analizado, como lo será el de la cuestionada decadencia en la siguiente centuria ...