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Managing risk and uncertainty

a strategic approach

This book offers a framework for making decisions under risk and uncertainty. Synthesizing research from economics, finance, decision theory, management, and other fields, the book provides a set of tools and a way of thinking that determines the relative merits of different strategies. It takes ...

Valencianos en revolución

1808-1821

El año 1808 fue el acontecimiento que precipitó el derrumbe del Antiguo Régimen español. El proceso incluyó el levantamiento de las clases populares urbanas y campesinas, en una explosión antifeudal y en contra el ejército de ocupación francés. Fue también una guerra que transformó el ...

Ley de Suelo y urbanística supletoria

Esquemas de Derecho administrativo

tomo XLIII

INDICE: EL objeto del Derecho administrativo: la unidad o diversidad de criterios. El método del derecho administrativo. Los sujetos: los ciudadanos y los interesados.Los sujetos: Las administraciones públicas. ¿Para qué administrar?: los fines de la actividad administrativa. ¿Cómo administra?: los medios para satisfacer el ...

Crisis, derechos sociales e igualdad

La crisis de los derechos sociales y los derechos sociales en el contexto de crisis centran los trabajos de este volumen. El libro realiza un análisis rico en matices y de plena actualidad sobre la solidez de los avances sociales y sus mecanismos de defensa ...

Hacienda pública y dimensión internacional de la riqueza

Todos tenemos que contribuir a/ sostenimiento de los gastos públicos. Este axioma elemental se complica en nuestros días, en un contexto de globalización, porque ya son habituales las situaciones en las que no está del todo claro cuál deba ser el país beneficiario de la ...

La pensión de jubilación

estudio analítico y crítico tras los últimos procesos de reforma

En el ámbito de la realidad y de «lo común», cabe realzar el problema social "la nueva cuestión social de las pensiones" derivado del factor estructural de la evolución demográfica (elevada esperanza de vida y bajas tasas de natalidad), el factor coyuntural de la crisis ...

El control de la incapacidad temporal tras la reforma legislativa de las mutuas colaboradoras de la Seguridad Social

La nueva Ley 35/2014, así como el RD 625/2014 han introducido cambios importantes en el ordenamiento jurídico que inciden, de manera relevante, en el funcionamiento de la prestación de incapacidad temporal. Con la finalidad de contribuir en la lucha contra el absentismo laboral ...

Second-best justice

the virtues of japanese private Law

It's long been known that fewer lawsuits are filed in Japan per capita than in the United States. Yet explanations for the difference have tended to be partial and unconvincing, ranging from circular arguments about Japanese culture to suggestions that the slow-moving Japanese court ...

Imperialism

past and present

After a long hiatus, when it was seemingly banished to the wilderness of esoteric academic debate, imperialism is back as one of the buzzwords of the day. In the past decade in particular, scholars, policy-makers and political pundits have been using the term with increasing ...

The city

a world history

The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the establishment of the first cities in the Near East in the fourth millennium BCE, and goes on to ...

Analytical methods for dynamic modeleres

Simulation modeling is increasingly integrated into research and policy analysis of complex sociotechnical systems in a variety of domains. Model-based analysis and policy design inform a range of applications in fields from economics to engineering to health care. This book offers a hands-on introduction to ...

Hattin

On 4 July 1187 the legendary Muslim leader Saladin destroyed the Crusader army of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem with a terrible slaughter at the battle of Hattin - and went on to restore the Holy City of Jerusalem to Islamic rule. The carnage at Hattin ...

Religions of the Constantinian Empire

Religions of the Constantinian Empire provides a synoptic review of Constantine's relation to all the cultic and theological traditions of the Empire during the period from his seizure of power in the west in 306 to the end of his reign as autocrat of ...

Is administrative Law unlawful?

Is administrative law unlawful? This provocative question has become all the more significant with the expansion of the modern administrative state. While the federal government traditionally could constrain liberty only through acts of Congress and the courts, the executive branch has increasingly come to control ...

Epistolario del conde de Tendilla

(1504-1506)

Los registros de la correspondencia de Íñigo López de Mendoza, II conde de Tendilla y I marqués de Mondéjar, capitán general del Reino de Granada y I alcaide de la Alhambra, constituyen una fuente excepcional para la historia de la naciente España Moderna. Estos libros ...

Judicial reputation

a comparative theory

Judges are society's elders and experts, our masters and mediators. We depend on them to dispense justice with integrity, deliberation, and efficiency. Yet judges, as Alexander Hamilton famously noted, lack the power of the purse or the sword. They must rely almost entirely on ...

Afghan history through afghan eyes

Recent international intervention in Afghanistan has reproduced familiar versions of the Afghan national story, from repeatedly doomed invasions to perpetual fault lines of ethnic division. Yet almost no attention has been paid to the ways in which Afghans themselves have made sense of their history ...

The storm of creativity

Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others all navigate the same stages of the process in order to discover something that does not yet exist. All of ...

Epicureanism

a very short introduction

Epicureanism is commonly associated with a carefree view of life and the pursuit of pleasures, particularly the pleasures of the table. However it was a complex and distinctive system of philosophy that emphasized simplicity and moderation, and considered nature to consist of atoms and the ...