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Finance and industrial policy

beyond financial regulation in Europe

The 2008 global financial crisis, together with the experience of de-industrialization across Western Europe over the last three decades, has focussed attention on financial regulation and industrial policy. Industry and finance policies have largely been discussed separately, and this book argues that the two should ...

Oxford dictionary of marketing

A Dictionary of Marketing is an accessible and wide-ranging A-Z, providing over 2,500 entries on topics spanning terms for traditional marketing techniques (from strategy, positioning, segmentation, and branding, to all aspects of marketing planning, research, and analysis), as well as leading marketing theories and ...

The pursuit of development

economic growth, social change, and ideas

What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments and the international community foster development? The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years. The notion of development itself ...

Superintelligence

paths, dangers, strategies

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come ...

Inequality

what everyone needs to know

Over the past thirty years, the issue of economic inequality has emerged from the backwaters of economics to claim center stage in the political discourse of America and beyond---a change prompted by a troubling fact: numerous measures of income inequality, especially in the United States ...

Isotopes

a very short introduction

An isotope is a variant form of a chemical element, containing a different number of neutrons in its nucleus. Most elements exist as several isotopes. Many are stable while others are radioactive, and some may only exist fleetingly before decaying into other elements. In this ...

Status interaction during the reign of Louis XIV

Who preceded whom? Who wore what? Which form of address should one use? One of the most striking aspects of the early modern period is the crucial significance that contemporaries ascribed to such questions. In this hierarchical world, status symbols did not simply mirror a ...

Estudios sobre el desarrollo económico español

Este libro de Estudios sobre el desarrollo económico español está dedicado al profesor Eloy Fernández Clemente por sus compañeros de Historia e Instituciones Económicas. Las aportaciones que incluye presentan una considerable variedad de enfoques, aunque dentro de una preocupación compartida por el crecimiento económico y ...

Card and James' business Law

Card and James' Business Law is the most detailed account of business law, providing commanding analysis of the English legal system, contract law, the law of tort, employment law, and partnership and company law. Discussion of the core elements is supplemented with learning features which ...

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El amparo judicial de los Derechos Fundamentales ante los Tribunales de lo Contencioso-Administrativo

¿En qué casos se puede usar el recurso de amparo judicial frente a una actuación administrativa que considero vulneradora de derechos fundamentales? ¿Qué ventajas prácticas puede significar frente a un proceso contencioso-administrativo común? El plazo para interponerlo: ¿Se computa según días naturales o hábiles? En ...

Crisis and constitutionalism

roman political thought from the fall of the Republic to the age of revolution

Crisis and Constitutionalism argues that the late Roman Republic saw, for the first time in the history of political thought, the development of a normative concept of constitutionthe concept of a set of constitutional norms designed to guarantee and achieve certain interests of the individual ...

Prosecuting corporations for genocide

Modern corporations are key participants in the new globalized economy. As such, they have been accorded tremendous latitude and granted extensive rights. However, accompanying obligations have not been similarly forthcoming. Chief among them is the obligation not to commit atrocities or human rights abuses in ...

In search of criminal responsability

ideas, interests, and institutions

What makes someone responsible for a crime and therefore liable to punishment under the criminal law? Modern lawyers will quickly and easily point to the criminal law's requirement of concurrent actus reus and mens rea, doctrines of the criminal law which ensure that someone ...

Human Rights

politics and practice

Human Rights: Politics and Practice is the most comprehensive, most topical, and most student-friendly introduction to human rights. Bringing together a range of international experts including political scientists, philosophers, lawyers, and policy-makers, the book provides students with a broad range of perspectives on the theoretical ...

Poor justice

how the poor fare in the courts

Poor Justice: How the Poor Fare in the Courts provides a vivid and informative account of what happens when the legal system decides cases in areas crucial to the poor's economic and social well-being, including government benefits, child welfare, homelessness, the mental health system ...

La primavera de los árabes

¿CUÁL ES EL ORIGEN DEL MOVIMIENTO REVOLUCIONARIO CONOCIDO COMO LA PRIMAVERA DE LOS ÁRABES? El 17 de diciembre de 2010, en Sidi Bouzid, al sur de Túnez, la policía local confisca la carreta a un joven vendedor ambulante. En un gesto de protesta contra las ...

El "deudor de buena fe" en la Ley de Segunda Oportunidad

origen, fundamento y significado

El 30 de julio de 2015 entró en vigor la Ley 25/2015, de 28 de julio, de mecanismo de segunda oportunidad, reducción de la carga financiera y otras medidas de orden social. Dicha norma ha reformado sustancialmente la Ley Concursal (LC), especialmente el "criticado ...

Derecho social y trabajo informal

implicaciones laborales, económicas y de Seguridad Social del fenómeno del trabajo informal y de la economía sumergida en España y Latinoamérica

La existencia de prestaciones laborales ajenas a la tutela pública mínima se manifiesta como la expresión más severa del fracaso jurídico y político de un aparato institucional incapaz de adaptarse a los tiempos presentes y como un espacio privilegiado para las mayores violaciones de los ...

La jurisprudencia del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos en torno al Derecho de libertad religiosa en el ámbito laboral

En los orígenes de la institución en donde se incardina el órgano judicial cuyas decisiones y resoluciones serán objeto de estudio y comentario en el libro que el lector tiene entre sus manos, el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos, se encuentra la idea de crear ...