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Codifying contract Law

Exploring the advantages and disadvantages of codifying contract law, this book considers the question from the perspectives of both civil and common law systems, referring in detail to issues of international and consumer law.With contributions from leading international scholars, the chapters present a range ...

Who needs jobs

spreading poverty or increasing welfare

In Who Needs Jobs?, Lemieux explains how jobs are not the goal of economic life and how creating jobs should not be the goal of public policy. He delves into how income and prosperity are created (businesses producing what consumers demand), proposes solutions to the ...

Trading thalesians

what the ancient world can teach us about trading today

What can the ancient world teach us about modern money markets? How can we use examples from the ancient world, philosophers and writers to better understand the markets? Just as historians such as Herodotus living in ancient Greece examined the past, can traders look to ...

Private island

why Britain now belongs to someone else

"In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy - rail, energy, water, postal services, municipal housing - have been sold to remote, unaccountable private owners. In a series of brilliant portraits James Meek shows how Britain's common wealth became private ...

A Straightforward guide to contract Law

the comprehensive guide to contract Law

Contract law is a very complex area, one that affects us all, in one way or another. Quite often we find ourselves in need of clear advice, which isn't available. However, this latest edition of A Straightforward Guide to Contract Law provides clear and ...

Gamechangers

creating innovative strategies for business and brands

Shake up and redefine the market by changing your game! Gamechangers are brands that have turned the world of business upside down. They win through ambition and innovation rather than legacy and scale, out-thinking the competition, focusing on the growth markets, and embracing technology in ...

Cohesion policy in the European Union

This textbook by two leading experts looks at the realities and controversies of the European Union's cohesion policy: how effective it is, who it impacts, and what it says about the EU's governance at a wider level. At a time when more EU ...

Financial engineering with copulas explained

The modeling of dependence structures (or copulas) is undoubtedly one of the key challenges for modern financial engineering. First applied to credit-risk modeling, copulas are now widely used across a range of derivatives transactions, asset pricing techniques, and risk models, and are a core part ...

Econometrics by example

The second edition of this bestselling textbook retains its unique learning-by-doing approach to the study of econometrics. Rather than relying on complex theoretical discussions and complicated mathematics, this book explains econometrics from a practical point of view by walking the student through real-life examples, step ...

Understanding public leadership

This major new text by one of the leading figures in the field worldwide, provides a systematic, and up-to-date introduction to political, public service and civic leadership drawing on a wide range of examples from across the western world. Rather than uncritically importing concepts and ...

Bringing down the banking system

lessons from Iceland

The combined collapse of Iceland's three largest banks in 2008 is the third largest bankruptcy in history and the largest banking system collapse suffered by any country in modern economic history, relative to GDP. How could tiny Iceland build a banking system in less ...

Fusion economics

how pragmatism is changing the world

Everyone knows something is wrong. Over forty percent of the world's population lives in poverty. Our planet's resources are diminishing at frightening rates. The international financial system is broken and only serves to exacerbate the gap between the wealthy and the rest. We ...

La descomposición del marxismo

En La descomposición del marxismo, Georges Sorel adopta una crítica muy severa del fundamento mismo del marxismo, o en todo caso del Capital, a saber: la teoría de la plusvalía. Los pensamientos desarrolados por Georges Sorel en La descomposición del marxismo se refieren a un ...

The art collecting legal handbook

jurisdictional comparisons

Collecting, preserving and promoting cultural goods, whether fine art, archaeological objects or decorative arts, is now global. Oddly, rules and practices have remained very local, save for ICOM’s efforts at the institutional level and UNESCO’s endeavours to help preserve national cultural heritage and ...

Poder y organización territorial en España

INDICE: Libro de derecho constitucional Capitulo I: la jefatura del estado. -Capítulo II: el parlamento I. Composición y designación. El sistema electoral. –Capitulo III el parlamento II. Estatuto de los parlamentos y designación. -Capitulo IV el parlamento III. Funciones y parlamento. -Capitulo V el gobierno ...

Bancocracia

Los gobiernos de los países más industrializados son los responsables de la explosión de la deuda pública en aras del rescate de los bancos privados, que, por otro lado, están en el origen de la mayor debacle económica y financiera del capitalismo desde los años ...

Dinámicas territoriales en España

problemas y tendencias en la estructura y ordenación del territorio

El libro se estructura en 10 capítulos, cada uno de los cuales tiene una autoría diferente. No obstante, está concebido como un conjunto que recoge las principales piezas a tener en cuenta para analizar el territorio. De esa manera funciona como un manual de referencia ...

Cómo entender los tipos de interés

guía básica de valoración financiera

Esta guía de valoración financiera pretende ser una puerta por la que entren todas aquellas personas que sientan curiosidad por el aparentemente espinoso mundo de las finanzas. Quien entre por esta puerta verá, gracias a una exposición amena y sencilla ilustrada con pertinentes casos prácticos ...

Democracia al borde del caos

ensayo contra la autoflagelación

Este libro fue escrito para responder al desafío de entender la crisis financiera coyuntural y de corta duración que Portugal vive, y de analizarla a la luz de otras crisis estructurales y de más larga duración, algunas específicas del país, otras que engloban a Europa ...

La Junta Electoral Central

la libertad de expresión y el derecho a la información en período electoral

La presente obra se centra en el estudio de la Junta Electoral Central, máximo órgano de la Administración electoral y, por tanto, el ente no judicial de mayor importancia encargado de velar por el correcto funcionamiento del proceso electoral. Consta de dos partes bien diferenciadas ...