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How will capitalism end?

In How Will Capitalism End? the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth is giving way to secular stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the capitalist money economy has all ...

Cartel criminality

the mythology and pathology of business collusion

Anti-competitive business cartels, engaging in practices such as price fixing, market sharing, bid rigging and restrictions on output, are now subject to strong official censure and rigorous legal control in a large number of jurisdictions across the world. The longstanding condemnation under the US Sherman ...

La vida lenta

notas para tres diarios (1956,1957 y 1964)

La obra de Josep Pla se acerca en muchas ocasiones al diario, como El cuaderno gris o Notas para Silvia. Las investigaciones en los archivos de Josep Pla han permitido localizar muy recientemente pequeñas libretas en las que se conservan diarios de este tipo, los ...

Reformations

the early modern world, 1450-1650

This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as ...

A little history of the United States

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James ...

Il nuovo diritto di famiglia

profili sostanziali, processuali e notarili. Vol. I: Filiazione, adozione, tutela degli incapaci e dei minori, profili psicologici

Collaboratori: Flavio Astiggiano , Gianni Ballarani , Simonetta Bellaviti , Giuseppe Buffone , Alessandra Cagnazzo , Rita Ceccucci , Francesca Ceroni , Cristiano Cicero , Emilia De Bellis , Valeria De Vellis , Damiano Forti , Alessandro Gentiloni Silveri , Roberto Ianniello , Maria Letizia Jabes Moretti , Marco Lagazzi , Daniela Lucarelli , Geo Magri , Giampaolo Marcoz , Antonio Masi , Maria ...

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Lezioni - Successioni a causa di morte

Il volume fornisce ai candidati del concorso notarile nove lezioni che sintetizzano il tema delle successioni a causa di morte. Il taglio originale dell'opera permette di apprendere principi fondanti e linee di sviluppo essenziali di ogni istituto, grazie allo stile della trasposizione scritta del ...

Exclusión diversidad en las personas sin hogar

análisis sociológico de procesos e itinerarios

Estas líneas presentan, uno de los más completos tratados de sociología de las personas sin hogar en España. Además de la investigación de conjunto, encontramos en su interior diversas posibilidades de utilidad científica. Bien podría ser un excelente estudio de caso de análisis sociológico de ...

Russia

what everyone needs to know

Today's Russia, also known as the Russian Federation, is often viewed as less powerful than the Soviet Union of the past. When stacked against other major nations in the present, however, the new Russia is a formidable if flawed player. Russia: What Everyone Needs ...

Disruption denial

why companies are ignoring the disruptive threats that are staring them in the face

We live in a world of constant change and disruption caused mainly by new technology. Yet, in business, there is widespread apathy, paralysis and confusion in many established companies in face of the obvious scope, scale, reach and pace of disruptive change. Why? Because Denial ...

The Routledge companion to banking regulation and reform

The Routledge Companion to Banking Regulation and Reform provides a prestigious cutting edge international reference work offering students, researchers and policy makers a comprehensive guide to the paradigm shift in banking studies since the historic financial crisis in 2007. The transformation in banking over the ...

Britain and the European Union

This engaging and concise text offers the student and the general reader a compact, readable treatment of British membership of the European Union from 1973 to the present day. It provides a highly distilled and accessible analysis and overview of some of the parameters and ...

The liability of public authorities in comparative perspective

In recent decades, the liability of public authorities has been one of the main areas of development in and at the edges of tort law in Europe, with major reforms implemented or considered at a national level, and a steady stream of major court decisions ...

Banking

a very short introduction

Banks are of central importance for economic growth, the allocation of capital, competitiveness, and financial stability. Propelled by technological advances in financial analysis and financial deregulation, the banking industry's investment played a key role in enhancing national economic growth in the early 21st century ...

Calvinism

a very short introduction

In this Very Short Introduction, Jon Balserak explores major ideas associated with the Calvinist system of thought. Beginning during the Protestant Reformation in cities like Zurich, Geneva, and Basel, Calvinismaalso known as Reformed Theologyaspread rapidly throughout Europe and the New World, eventually making its way ...

Critical theories of crisis in Europe

from Weimar to the Euro

What is to be learned from the chaotic downfall of the Weimar Republic and the erosion of European liberal statehood in the interwar period vis-a-vis the ongoing Europeancrisis? This book analyses and explains the recurrent emergence of crises in European societies. It asks how previous ...

Government contracting

promises and perils

The second edition of Government Contracting: Promises and Perils picks up where the first edition's mission left off: exposing fraud, incompetence, waste, and abuse (FIWA) and analyzing corruption, mismanagement, and ineptitude that defile government contracting. The first edition thoroughly outlined procurement throughout the contracting ...

The right to forget

privacy and the media in the digital age

The human race now creates, distributes and stores more information than at any other time in history. Frictionless and cheap digital networks circulate information in ways which either authors or subjects are unable to trace or control. Servers store data which can be found on ...

Nuevas perspectivas del poder de dirección y control del empleador

El presente trabajo tiene por objeto analizar la actual situación legal del poder de dirección y control del empleador y sus límites, especialmente los derivados de la consideración, respeto y no afectación a los derechos fundamentales del trabajador.