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Análisis de los efectos de la huelga en los contratos

En esta recopilación analizamos el alcance que supone el ejercicio del derecho de huelga y los efectos que puede tener en la relación laboral, seleccionando aquellas sentencias del Tribunal Constitucional, del Tribunal Supremo y de los Tribunales Superiores de Justicia que hemos considerado de especial ...

Citizens' Wealth

why (and how) sovereign funds should be managed by the people for the people

A wide-ranging analysis of a powerful but controversial new economic tool that has rapidly eclipsed the size of the hedge fund market In 2006, Chile teemed with protesters after finance minister Andres Velasco invested budget surpluses from the nation's historic copper boom in two ...

The five life decisions

how economic principles and 18 million millennials can guide your thinking

Choices matter. And in your teens and twenties, some of the biggest life decisions come about when you feel the least prepared to tackle them. Economist Robert T. Michael won't tell you what to choose. Instead, he'll show you how to make smarter ...

Introducción a la economía de la empresa

En esta obra se recogen las bases de la introducción, estructura y funcionamiento de la empresa desde una perspectiva de organización. El entorno actual es muy dinámico y altamente cambiante, lo que exige que las organizaciones que quieran triunfar en él sean capaces de adaptarse ...

Crime control as industry

Crime Control As Industry, translated into many languages, is a modern classic of criminology and sociology. Nils Christie, one of the leading criminologists of his era, argues that crime control, rather than crime itself is the real danger for our future. Prison populations, especially in ...

Essential mathematics for economic analysis

ESSENTIAL MATHEMATICS FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS Fifth Edition An extensive introduction to all the mathematical tools an economist needs is provided in this worldwide bestseller. "The scope of the book is to be applauded" Dr Michael Reynolds, University of Bradford "Excellent book on calculus with several ...

Accountants' negligence and liability

Accounting firms can be held liable for the full amount of losses of a collapsed company even if they are only partly to blame. Accountants' Negligence and Liability is the only title on the market to provide all the information needed fully to analyse potential ...

Financial risk modelling and portfolio optimization with R

Financial Risk Modelling and Portfolio Optimization with R, 2nd Edition Bernhard Pfaff, Invesco Global Asset Allocation, Germany A must have text for risk modelling and portfolio optimization using R. This book introduces the latest techniques advocated for measuring financial market risk and portfolio optimization, and ...

An economic history of twentieth-century Europe

economic regimes from Laissez-Faire to globalization

This new edition of Ivan Berend's leading overview of economic regimes and economic performance from the start of the twentieth century to the present is fully updated to incorporate recent events, including the causes and impacts of the 2008 financial-economic crisis. Praised for its ...

The Shia revival

how conflicts within Islam will shape the future

One of America's leading commentators on current events in the Middle East, Iranian-born scholar Vali Nasr brilliantly dissects the political and theological antagonisms within Islam in this "smart, clear and timely" book (The Washington Post). Still essential and timely ten years after its original ...

Última asignatura

de la universidad al primer empleo

Salvo casos de contratación directa justo al concluir los estudios universitarios, la mayoría de los jóvenes titulados se ven abocados a realizar una etapa de transición que se inicia el día de la finalización de sus estudios y que concluirá el día que firmen su ...

Dictators and democrats

masses, elites, and regime change

From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political landscape. What drove these changes and what determined whether the emerging democracies would stabilize or revert to authoritarian rule? Dictators ...

Contested conventions

the struggle to establish the constitution and save The Union, 1787-1789

There is perhaps no more critical juncture in American history than the years in which Americans drafted the federal Constitution, fiercely debated its merits and failings, and adopted it, albeit with reservations. In Contested Conventions, senior historian Melvin Yazawa examines the political and ideological clashes ...

Anthropologists in the stock exchange

a financial history of victorian science

Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of global finance. Marc Flandreau tracks a group of ...

Fijación del justiprecio en la expropiación forzosa

En la presente Selección de Jurisprudencia analizamos uno de los aspectos fundamentales en los procedimientos de expropiación forzosa, el justiprecio. Se trata de un elemento no fácilmente determinable, pues entran en liza diversos factores como la hoja de aprecio o la valoración de la prueba ...

The world economy

structure and markets

This book covers the main features and problems of the contemporary world economy: the globalization process, the sources of economic growth, national policies to promote economic progress, and the role of the different international institutions. The first two units are dedicated to explain the main ...

Conciencia y libertad en la literatura europea

de la tragedia clásica al espiritualismo del siglo XIX

El presente volumen se hace eco del progresivo avance del mito a logos: No un avance en el conocimiento hallado en e Grecia o Roma, como si se tratase de un objeto arqueológico, sino una tentación constante en cada época, sociedad o individuo. Así, todo ...

Reconceptualización del desarrollo en la Era Global de la Información

Este libro es el producto final del ambicioso proyecto conjunto de un equipo de destacados investigadores que, bajo la dirección de Manuel Castells y Pekka Himanen, entregan al lector una trascendental redefinición del desarrollo en la era global de la información.

El Templo de Salomón y las leyendas masónicas

Históricamente, los edificios religiosos han servido como contenedores transmutables de reuniones sociales y de ceremonias radicalmente diferentes. La coronación del reinado de Salomón fue la construcción de ese magnífico templo en Jerusalén, también llamado Templo de Salomón o el primer templo. La masonería lo adoptó ...

Garantías del arrendamiento: fianza y aval

En esta Selección de Jurisprudencia, analizamos las dos figuras que garantizan el contrato de arrendamiento urbano. Por un lado, la fianza, que constituye una prestación de carácter obligatorio regulada en el art. 36 LAU 29/1994 y aplicable tanto a las viviendas como a los ...