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Financial mathematics

a comprehensive treatment

Versatile for Several Interrelated Courses at the Undergraduate and Graduate Levels Financial Mathematics: A Comprehensive Treatment provides a unified, self-contained account of the main theory and application of methods behind modern-day financial mathematics. Tested and refined through years of the authors' teaching experiences, the book ...

A social strategy

how we profit from social media

Almost no one had heard of social media a decade ago, but today websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have more than 1 billion users and account for almost 25 percent of Internet use. Practically overnight, social media seems indispensable to our lives--from friendship ...

Complexity and the art of public policy

solving society's problems from the bottom up

Complexity science--made possible by modern analytical and computational advances--is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative. While these standard narratives are ...

Social capital and economics

social values, power, and social identity

This volume provides a collection of critical new perspectives on social capital theory by examining how social values, power relationships, and social identity interact with social capital. This book seeks to extend this theory into what have been largely under-investigated domains, and, at the same ...

Sentir la muerte hoy

el género al final de la vida

Sentir la muerte hoy es un libro que habla, desde la sociología de la muerte, de la feminización del proceso de morir y de la muerte, algo que se descubre a través de la investigación cualitativa llevada a cabo en la tesis doctoral de María ...

Keynes and his contemporaries

tradition and enterprise in the Cambridge School of Economics

This book examines how the Cambridge School economists, such as J. M. Keynes, constructed revolutionary theories and advocated drastic policies based on their ideals for social organizations and their personal characteristics. Although vast numbers of studies on Marshall, Keynes, and Marshallians have been published, there ...

Competitiveness in the european economy

This book deals with the relationship between the competitiveness of countries in Europe and the analysis of macroeconomic imbalances. It focuses mainly on a European analysis, along with special studies of the German economy, which is rarely considered to be a cause for the current ...

Re-thinking economics

exploring the work of Pierre Bourdieu

Once again, unfettered capitalism has failed. Promises for global prosperity and peace have given way to a world of deep recession, social upheaval and political instability. Once again, mainstream economics has proved its inadequacy. Despite its technical rigour and mathematical virtuosity, it failed dramatically to ...

Reality and accounting

ontological explorations in the economic and social sciences

This book discusses and summarizes the revived interest in reality issues (ontology) within accounting, economics, and the information sciences, with a view to informing scholars from these different disciplines about each other's endeavours in ontological research. Even more importantly, the book aims at familiarizing ...

The paretian tradition during the interwar period

from dynamics to growth

The years in-between the two World Wars were a crucial period for the building of economic dynamics as an autonomous field. Different competing research programs arose at international level. Great progress was achieved by studies on the business cycle, with the first statistical applications. Outside ...

Behavioral economics

Over the last few decades behavioral economics has revolutionized the discipline. It has done so by putting the human back into economics, by recognizing that people sometimes make mistakes, care about others, and are generally not as cold and calculating as economists have traditionally assumed ...

Global capitalism, culture, and ethics

This book aims to deepen the student's understanding of the complex ethical challenges that businesses face in an increasingly globalized world. As the world moves towards greater interdependence, it has been demonstrated that globalization is linked to economic growth. This raises a critical question ...

Power in a changing world economy

lessons from East Asia

This book is about power in a changing world economy. Though power is ubiquitous in the study of International Political Economy, the concept is underdeveloped in formal theoretical terms. This collection of essays analyses recent experience in East Asia to advance our theoretic understanding of ...

The process of economic development

The fourth edition of The Process of Economic Development offers a thorough and up-to-date treatment of development economics. This landmark text will continue to be an invaluable resource for students, teachers and researchers in the fields of development economics and development studies. The new edition ...

Apuntes de Derecho penal económico

Los Apuntes de Derecho Penal Económico fue creado para recopilar algunos de los trabajos que se socializaron en el Centro de Estudios en Derecho Penal Económico "Lisandro Martínez Zuñiga" y que fueron parte de la I Jornada Derecho Penal Económico: Prevención y Represión del Delito ...

Pasado y presente de la filosofía política

ensayos sobre democracia y justicia

El libro Pasado y presente de la filosofía política. Ensayos sobre democracia y justicia es una selección de textos acerca de estas dos temáticas claves de la reflexión política de todos los tiempos. La primera parte, enmarcada en el pasado de la filosofía política, se ...

Derechos fiduciarios y mercado de valores

reflexiones frente a la normativa colombiana

La obra Derechos fiduciarios y mercado de valores. Reflexiones frente a la normativa colombiana explora la naturaleza y el régimen de los derechos fiduciarios originados en negocios fiduciarios y su relación con el mercado de valores, desde la perspectiva de la normatividad colombiana y de ...

Lecciones de Derecho mercantil

Esta segunda edición del libro Lecciones de derecho mercantil contiene una serie de estudios sobre diversos aspectos en esta materia, relacionados con los sujetos que ostentan el carácter de comerciantes o empresarios y su posición o régimen jurídico frente al ordenamiento positivo; los instrumentos por ...

Normativa y doctrina del Plan General de Contabilidad

El objeto de este libro es la presentación de la normativa y la doctrina contable, de ámbito general, en materia de cuentas anuales individuales, integrada en el propio texto del PGC. A traves del estudio y análisis del PGC y de las Resoluciones y Consultas ...

Con pleno conocimiento

En Con pleno conocimiento, Ernest Sosa desarrolla su versión más madura de epistemología de virtudes, una versión que, distanciándose de las teorías de la mera aptitud, propone una concepción de la normatividad epistémica y de la naturaleza del conocimiento humano en la que se priorizan ...