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Condiciones generales de la contratación, cláusulas abusivas y protección del consumidor a la luz de la jurisprudencia comunitaria y nacional

Interesará saber a quién comience la lectura de la presente monografía, si no es consciente de ello, que el derecho está presente en prácticamente cada acto que realizamos en nuestra vida diaria, por cotidiano y sencillo que resulte (ir al supermercado, montarnos en el autobús ...

The Geneva Consensus

making trade work for all

As Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Pascal Lamy chaired the Doha Round of negotiations and witnessed a rapidly changing international trade environment. In his first book since leaving the WTO, Lamy reflects on his time there and outlines his views on the significance of ...

The europeanization of workplace pensions

economic interests, social protection, and credible signaling

Alexandra Hennessy examines an area of Europeanization that has been largely ignored by political analysts: the development of an internal market for workplace pensions. This book offers an analysis of what is at stake in workplace pension reforms, tracing how different states approached them and ...

New constitutionalism and world order

This path-breaking collection analyses the dialectic between legal and constitutional innovations intended to inscribe corporate power and market disciplines in world order, and the potential for challenges and alternative frameworks of governance to emerge. It provides a comprehensive approach to neo-liberal constitutionalism and regulation and ...

La empresa española ante la crisis del modelo productivo

productividad, competitividad e innovación

Lograr que España vuelva a una senda estable de crecimiento requiere caminar hacia un modelo de crecimiento basado principalmente en las ganancias de productividad. Para ello las transformaciones en el ámbito de la empresa son esenciales. Este libro estudia la empresa española y su entorno ...

Comparative welfare state politics

development, opportunities and reform

Welfare state reform occurs in all advanced capitalist democracies, but it does not occur in identical ways, to the same degree or with similar consequences. In Comparative Welfare State Politics, Kees van Kersbergen and Barbara Vis explain the political opportunities and constraints of welfare state ...

Creating new markets in the digital economy

value and worth

Creating New Markets in the Digital Economy looks at how digitisation is radically changing the way we buy and experience products and services. Sharing her unique perspective of both business and academia, Irene Ng examines the implications of digital connectivity, including the need to design ...

Bills of rights

a comparative perspective

Bills of rights are currently a much debated topic in various jurisdictions throughout the world. Almost all democratic nations, with the exception of Australia, now have a bill of rights. These take a variety of forms, ranging from constitutionally entrenched bills of rights, such as ...

Campaigns and elections

rules, reality, strategy, choice

The leading book in the market--now updated through the 2012 elections--makes a contemporary approach to campaigns and elections accessible and engaging. Based on the authors' own courses, Campaigns & Elections uses a clear, consistent framework to help students understand the strategies and choices involved in American ...

El individuo ante el conflicto entre poder y Derecho

problemas contemporáneos

El mundo contemporáneo no ha resuelto pacíficamente el problema de la relación entre la Persona, el Derecho y el Poder; se puede decir que cada sistema político es una solución o enfoque diferente a tan complejo equilibrio. En el presente volumen se recogen un conjunto ...

Las cajas de ahorros y la prevención y tratamiento de la crisis de las entidades de crédito

En el año 2010, la rigurosa crisis económica y financiera había ido exigiendo, progresivamente, intervenciones normativas en el régimen jurídico de las cajas de ahorros, así como en los procedimientos y medidas para tratar la crisis de las entidades de crédito. Era una materia muy ...

Persona, Derecho y poder en perspectiva histórica

El presente volumen recoge un conjunto de aportaciones científicas sobre el controvertido tema de la Persona, el Derecho y el Poder, visto con la distancia que proporciona el estudio histórico. La amplitud del tópico, por inasible e intemporal, podría llevar a desistir del empeño de ...

París - México

capital del exilio

El propósito de este volumen es adentrarnos en diferentes historias que tocan el tema del exilio de diferentes autores, en la ciudad en México o en París. Se trata de una edición bilingüe que reúne a 20 autores mexicanos y 20 franceses de lo más ...

Animalium

Bienvenido a Animalium. Un museo que está siempre abierto y que alberga una asombrosa colección de más de 160 animales para visitantes de todas las edades. Aprende cómo han evolucionado las especies. Echa un vistazo al laboratorio de disección y descubre la gran variedad de ...

Selling professional and financial services handbook

a strategic sales process

An effective strategic framework for successful face-to-face selling for financial services industry professionals Times are very tough for people who sell professional services and Selling Professional and Financial Services Handbook offers a new solution proven in practice. The book describes methods the authors have used ...

Divided nations

why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it

With rapid globalization, the world is more deeply interconnected than ever before. While this has its advantages, it also brings with it systemic risks that are only just being identified and understood. Rapid urbanization, together with technological leaps, such as the Internet, mean that we ...

The last vote

the threats to western democracy

The Last Vote is a wake-up call showing why we cannot afford to take democracy for granted, from Philip Coggan, award-winning author of Paper Promises and The Money Machine. Can we afford to take democracy for granted? It's now so much a part of ...

The contest of the century

the new era of competition with China

By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it begins to translate its considerable economic heft into a bigger role on the ...

The democracy projet

a history. A crisis. A movement

The Democracy Project is an exploration of anti-capitalist dissent and new political ideas from David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and a leading member of the Occupy movement. From the earliest meetings for Occupy Wall Street, David Graeber - activist, anarchist, and ...

Understanding and managing public organizations

This revised edition of the best-selling text in the field includes a guiding framework of organizational analysis emphasizing the integration and coordination of the domains of the organization with the motivations, work attitudes, and behaviors of the people who lead them. Includes new research and ...