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Formation of the economic thought of Karl Marx

1843 to Capital

In this republication of the 1971 original, Ernest Mandel traces the development of Marx's economic ideas from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts to the completion of the Grundrisse. In a series of focused chapters he provides an overview of debates and discussions of subjects ...

The global minotaur

America, Europe and the future of the global economy

In this remarkable and provocative book, Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis explodes the myth that financialisation, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globalisation were the root causes of both the Eurozone crisis and the global economic crisis. Rather, they are symptoms of a much deeper ...

Neoliberalising old age

Governments are encouraging later-life working and state pension ages are being raised. There is also a growing debate on intergenerational equity and on ageism/age discrimination. John Macnicol, one of Europe's leading academic analysts of old age and ageing, examines the effect of neoliberalism ...

Charlie Munger

the complete investor

Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway's visionary vice chairman and Warren Buffett's indispensable financial partner, has outperformed market indexes again and again, and he believes any investor can do the same. His notion of "elementary, worldly wisdom"--a set of interdisciplinary mental models involving economics ...

No freedom without regulation

the hidden lesson of the subprime crisis

Almost everyone who follows politics or economics agrees on one thing: more regulation means less freedom. Joseph William Singer, one of the world's most respected experts on property law, explains why this understanding of regulation is simply wrong. While analysts as ideologically divided as ...

The power brokers

the struggle to shape and control the electric power industry

For more than a century, the interplay between private, investor-owned electric utilities and government regulators has shaped the electric power industry in the United States. Provision of an essential service to largely dependent consumers invited government oversight and ever more sophisticated market intervention. The industry ...

Beyund religious freedom

the new global politics of religion

In recent years, North American and European nations have sought to legally remake religion in other countries through an unprecedented array of international initiatives. Policymakers have rallied around the notion that the fostering of religious freedom, interfaith dialogue, religious tolerance, and protections for religious minorities ...

How the other half

exclusion, exploitation, and the threat to democracy

The United States has two separate banking systems-one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. Deserted by banks and lacking credit, many people are forced to wander through a Wild West of payday lenders and check-cashing services thanks to the effects of deregulation in ...

Madison's Hand

revising the Constitutional Convention

No document depicts the Constitutional Convention's charismatic figures, crushing disappointments, and miraculous triumphs with the force of Madison's Notes. But how reliable is this account? Drawing on digital technologies and textual analysis, Mary Sarah Bilder reveals that Madison revised to a far greater ...

Currency power

understanding monetary rivalry

Monetary rivalry is a fact of life in the world economy. Intense competition between international currencies like the US dollar, Europe's euro, and the Chinese yuan is profoundly political, going to the heart of the global balance of power. But what exactly is the ...

Time series and panel data econometrics

This book is concerned with recent developments in time series and panel data techniques for the analysis of macroeconomic and financial data. It provides a rigorous, nevertheless user-friendly, account of the time series techniques dealing with univariate and multivariate time series models, as well as ...

En cuerpo y alma

ser mujer en tiempos de Franco

Francisco Franco consideró la Guerra Civil como una lucha "entre los hijos del mismo pueblo, de la misma madre Patria" y a él mismo, como "jefe y salvador de la Patria" encontrando en España una mujer, madre e indefensa. "En cuerpo y alma" aborda la ...

Regulatory transformations

rethinking economy-society interactions

The issue of whether transnational risk can be regulated through a social sphere goes to the heart of what John Ruggie has described as 'embedded liberalism': how capitalist countries have reconciled markets with the social community that markets require to survive and thrive. This collection ...

Voces de Chernóbil

crónica del futuro

Chernóbil, 1986. «Cierra las ventanillas y acuéstate. Hay un incendio en la central. Vendré pronto.» Esto fue lo último que un joven bombero dijo a su esposa antes de acudir al lugar de la explosión. No regresó. Y en cierto modo, ya no volvió a ...

The regulating (from) the inside

the legal framework for internal control in banks and financial institutions

This book examines a key aspect of the post-financial crisis reform package in the EU and UK-the ratcheting up of internal control in banks and financial institutions. The legal framework for internal controls is an important part of prudential regulation, and internal control also constitutes ...

Fin de campo

En el Logos College, al oeste de Texas, jóvenes enormes, enfundados en trajes con hombreras gigantes y cascos brillantes, juegan al fútbol americano con pasión intensa. En una temporada sorprendentemente victoriosa, el perplejo y distraído jugador Gary Harkness está obsesionado con la guerra nuclear. Asustado ...

The continuity of legal sustems in theory and practice

The Continuity of Legal Systems in Theory and Practice examines a persistent and fascinating question about the continuity of legal systems: when is a legal system existing at one time the same legal system that exists at another time? The book's distinctive approach to ...

Corporate finance Law

principles and policy

The second edition of this acclaimed book continues to provide a discussion of key theoretical and policy issues in corporate finance law. Fully updated, it reflects developments in the law and the markets in the continuing aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis. One of its ...

Democratic constitution

Constitutional law is clearly shaped by judicial actors. But who else contributes? Scholars in the past have recognized that the legislative branch plays a significant role in determining structural issues, such as separation of powers and federalism, but stopped there-claiming that only courts had the ...

Britain's future in Europe

reform, renegotiation, repatriation or secession?

If the Conservative Party wins the 2015 general election, Prime Minister David Cameron has promised the British people that a referendum on the country's future in the European Union will take place in 2017. A decision of this gravity needs to be made with ...