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CLAVES PRÁCTICAS-Cálculo de la indemnización por accidente de trabajo según el nuevo baremo

Analiza en detalle el nuevo baremo cuya finalidad es lograr la total indemnidad de los daños y perjuicios padecidos por la víctima. También aborda el estudio de los nuevos perjudicados y nuevos conceptos resarcitorios, así como las indemnizaciones por daño patrimonial (daño emergente y lucro ...

Shock climático

consecuencias económicas del calentamiento global

En Shock climático, Gernot Wagner y Martin Weitzman analizan las probables repercusiones del calentamiento global, apoyándose en investigaciones que hasta hace poco no eran conocidas. Los autores nos ayudan a comprender que debemos pensar en el cambio climático tal y como pensamos en asegurar nuestra ...

Después del Reich

crimen y castigo en la posguerra alemana

El 7 de mayo de 1945, con la caída del Tercer Reich, se ponía fin a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Oficialmente, atrás quedaban casi seis años de devastación que asolaron Europa. Pero para la población civil alemana, el sufrimiento no terminaba ahí. En tanto que ...

El manifiesto de Ventotene

por una Europa libre y unida

El Manifiesto Ventotene es uno de los primeros documentos que abogan por una constitución europea, y declara que cualquier victoria sobre los fascistas resultaría inútil si tan solo conduce al establecimiento de otra versión del antiguo sistema europeo. El manifiesto propone la formación de una ...

El encarnizamiento médico con las mujeres

50 intervenciones sanitarias excesivas y cómo evitarlas

El encarnizamiento médico con las mujeres es un homenaje a la mujer que enferma y sobrevive a médicos, pruebas, cirugías y medicamentos excesivos; y a la mujer que, sin estar enferma, se ve sometida a procesos innecesarios, como les ocurre por ejemplo a la mayoría ...

Diario de Guantánamo

Un acontecimiento editorial sin precedentes: el primer y único diario escrito por un preso de Guantánamo. Mohamedou Ould Slahi se encuentra recluido en el campo de detenidos de Guantánamo (Cuba) desde 2002 hasta hoy. En todos estos años, nunca se le ha acusado de un ...

Family enterprises

the essentials

Family firms are to be found in every sector of commercial activity. Commitment, family values and pride in the business are typically their special strengths, yet they also face major challenges in reconciling the needs of the business with those of the family. Drawing on ...

The ways of the world

This book presents a sequence of landmark works in David Harvey's intellectual journey over five decades. It shows how experiencing the riots, despair and injustice of 1970s Baltimore led him to seek an explanation of capitalist inequalities via Marx and to a sustained intellectual ...

The rule of the Law in the real world

In The Rule of Law in the Real World, Paul Gowder defends a new conception of the rule of law as the coordinated control of power and demonstrates that the rule of law, thus understood, creates and preserves social equality in a state. In a ...

Custom's future

international Law in a changing world

Although customary international law has long been an important source of rights and obligations in international relations, there has been extensive debate in recent years about whether this body of law is equipped to address complex modern problems such as climate change, international terrorism, and ...

Revealed preference theory

Pioneered by American economist Paul Samuelson, revealed preference theory is based on the idea that the preferences of consumers are revealed in their purchasing behavior. Researchers in this field have developed complex and sophisticated mathematical models to capture the preferences that are 'revealed' through consumer ...

Prisioners of reason

game theory and neoliberal political economy

s capitalism inherently predatory? Must there be winners and losers? Is public interest outdated and free-riding rational? Is consumer choice the same as self-determination? Must bargainers abandon the no-harm principle? Prisoners of Reason recalls that classical liberal capitalism exalted the no-harm principle. Although imperfect and ...

Why leaders fight

The history of political events is made by people. From wars to elections to political protests, the choices we make, our actions, how we behave, dictate events. Not all individuals have the same impact on our world and our lives. Some peoples' choices alter the ...

Cost-benefit analysis for project appraisal

Written by two leading experts, this is a compact guide to the key tools and methods necessary to carry out cost-benefit analysis (CBA). The authors use modern economic tools to obtain general equilibrium cost-benefit rules that can be used to evaluate small projects, as well ...

European constitutional Law

Written with exceptional clarity and fully updated from the first edition, the second edition of European Constitutional Law constitutes a classic textbook for students and practitioners of European law. Using a clear structural framework, the text guides readers through all of the core constitutional topics ...

Governing the commons

the evolution of institutions for collective action

The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool ...

Fighting hurt

rule and exception in torture and war

Some of our most fundamental moral rules are violated by the practices of torture and war. If one examines the concrete forms these practices take, can the exceptions to the rules necessary to either torture or war be justified? Fighting Hurt brings together key essays ...

Auctions

Although it is among the oldest of market institutions, the auction is ubiquitous in today's economy, used for everything from government procurement to selling advertising on the Internet to course assignment at MIT's Sloan School. And yet beyond the small number of economists ...

The innovator's hypothesis

how cheap experiments are worth more than good ideas

What is the best way for a company to innovate? Advice recommending "innovation vacations" and the luxury of failure may be wonderful for organizations with time to spend and money to waste. The Innovator's Hypothesis addresses the innovation priorities of companies that live in ...

The future of financial regulation

who should pay for the failure of american and european banks?

A number of changes have been made to the supervision and regulation of banks as a result of the recent financial meltdown. Some are for the better, such as the Basel III rules for increasing the quality and quantity of capital in banks, but legal ...