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El auditor de cuentas

El auditor de cuentas se ha convertido en una figura de trascendencia práctica para el sistema empresarial español. El libro aborda el régimen jurídico del auditor de cuentas, desde el nombramiento hasta la responsabilidad civil contractual y extracontractual.

Other people's money

the real business of finance

The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention to ...

Constitutional personae

heroes, soldiers, minimalists, and mutes

Since America's founding, the U.S. Supreme Court had issued a vast number of decisions on a staggeringly wide variety of subjects. And hundreds of judges have occupied the bench. Yet as Cass R. Sunstein, the eminent legal scholar and bestselling co-author of Nudge ...

Political order and political decay

from the industrial revolution to the globalization of democracy

The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in "The Wall Street Journal," David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's" Origins of Political Order" "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In "The New York ...

Unstoppable

the emerging left-right Alliance to dismantle the corporate State

Ralph Nader has fought for over fifty years on behalf of American citizens against the reckless influence of corporations and their government patrons on our society. In Unstoppable, he ramps up the fight and shows how Left-Right coalitions can prevail over the corporate state and ...

Timos, cuentistas, espabilaos y pardillos

«… Cuando el honesto jugador decidió hacer el envite, y mientras sacaba la guita con la que apostar de su bolsillo, le dieron el cambiazo y no advirtió que habían movido un cubilete de lugar. Confiaba plenamente en lo que había visto unos segundos inmediatamente antes ...

World order

Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era—advising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events ...

Seven schools of macroeconomic thought

This book offers an excellent survey of various macroeconomic topics that feature prominently in the research agenda and have inspired both theoretical and policy debate. The book presents an authoritative and comprehensive summary and original critique of macroeconomic approaches by a scholar whose own contribution ...

Inside the american legal mind

an international practitioner guide to american legal reasoning

Inside the American Legal Mind:An International Practitioner Guide to American Legal Reasoning clearly explains how to navigate within U.S. legal practice. A combination of common law legal history with the straight-shooting American style has resulted in an approach to issue analysis that is ...

The pristine culture of capitalism

a historical essay on old regimes and modern states

Capitalism was born in England, yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have come from elsewhere, notably from France, the historical model of "bourgeois" society. In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially ...

Empire of cotton

a global history

The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing ...

Business strategy

a guide to effective decision-making

The effectiveness of a good strategy well implemented determines a business' future success or failure. Yet history is full of strategic decisions, big and small, that were ill-conceived, poorly organized and consequently disastrous. This updated guide looks at the whole process of strategic decision-making, from ...

Guide to organisation design

creating high-performing and adaptable enterprises

There are many designs and theories for how to best structure companies, but not all prove successful. In America alone between 1990 and 2000, there were over 6.3 million business start-ups and 5.7 million business shutdowns. This new guide in The Economist series ...

Financial risk management

for dummies

Written by bestselling author and past winner of the GARP Award's Risk Manager of the Year, Aaron Brown, Financial Risk Management For Dummies offers thorough and accessible guidance on successfully managing and controlling financial risk within your company. Through easy-to-follow instruction, you'll find ...

La guerra continúa

voluntarios españoles al servicio de la Francia libre (1940-1945)

Niños al declararse el primer conflicto mundial, adolescentes durante la dictadura de Primo de Rivera, jóvenes al proclamarse la Segunda República, mayores de edad al llegar el 18 de julio de 1936, combatientes en la Guerra Civil española y conocedores de la disciplina francesa antes ...

The investigation phase in international criminal procedure

in search of common rules

The number of academic writings on international criminal procedure is growing rapidly. Nevertheless, the investigation phase has so far received less attention than the trial phase itself. The importance of investigative actions for the further proceedings is not yet reflected to the full extent in ...

Ley del Procedimiento Administrativo Común de las Administraciones Públicas y Ley de Régimen Jurídico del Sector Público

Contribución a la historia de la Guerra de la Independencia de la Península Ibérica contra Napoleón I

Tomo IV

El tomo IV de la obra “Contribución a la historia de la Guerra de la Independencia en la Península Ibérica contra Napoleón I” del historiador francés Jean Sarramon trata el período de junio de 1811 a enero de 1812 en la región del centro de ...

Tratado de Derecho administrativo y Derecho público general

Esta obra se compone de catorce tomos, que se relacionan a continuación: Tomo I.- Historia de la instituciones jurídico administrativas-1 Tomo II.- Historia de la instituciones jurídico administrativas-2 Tomo III.- Los principios de constitucionalidad y legalidad Tomo IV.- El ordenamiento jurídico Tomo V.- La Constitución ...

Carlos, Rey Emperador

la vida cotidiana en la época de Carlos V

Una corte sorprendente, reyes escondidos, virreinas escandalosas, torneos medievales, mujeres emparedadas, banquetes maravillosos, supersticiones, amuletos o milagrosas reliquias forman parte de la otra historia de Carlos, Rey Emperador, la historia de la vida cotidiana. La España del siglo xvi es mucho más que guerras, tratados ...