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Bayesian non- and semi- parametric methods and applications

This book reviews and develops Bayesian non-parametric and semi-parametric methods for applications in microeconometrics and quantitative marketing. Most econometric models used in microeconomics and marketing applications involve arbitrary distributional assumptions. As more data becomes available, a natural desire to provide methods that relax these assumptions ...

Human cloning

four fallacies and their legal consequences

Since Dolly the sheep was born, controversy has swirled around the technology of cloning. We recoil at the prospect of human copies, manufactured men and women, nefarious impersonators and resurrections of the dead. Such reactions have serious legal consequences: lawmakers have banned stem cell research ...

Comparative constitutional design

This volume brings together essays by many of the leading scholars of comparative constitutional design from many perspectives to collectively assess what we know - and do not know - about the design process as well as particular institutional choices concerning executive power, constitutional amendment processes and ...

The development of american finance

Since the 1960s, scholars and other commentators have frequently announced the imminent decline of American financial power: excessive speculation and debt are believed to have undermined the long-term basis of a stable US-led financial order. But the American financial system has repeatedly shown itself to ...

Democracy and authenticity

toward a theory of public justification

In Democracy and Authenticity Professor Howard Schweber examines a basic problem for liberal democracies. When a political entity is characterized by a multitude of identities and values, certain constraints apply to reasons for citizens and public officials to justify coercive political actions. The author argues ...

Politics

In the first title of an exciting new series one of the world's leading political scientists asks the big questions about politics: what is it, why we do we need it and where, in these turbulent times, is it heading? From the gap between ...

The European Commission and bureaucratic autonomy

Europe's custodians

This book examines the struggle of the European Union bureaucracy to maintain its autonomy in an increasingly complex institutional setting and adverse political environment. Using an original survey of nearly two hundred top European Commission officials, it shows that the Commission is a coherent organization ...

The power of inaction

bank bailouts in comparison

Bank bailouts in the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the onset of the Great Recession brought into sharp relief the power that the global financial sector holds over national politics, and provoked widespread public outrage. In The Power of Inaction, Cornelia Woll ...

Forgotten foundations of Bretton Woods

international development and the making of the postwar order

Eric Helleiner's new book provides a powerful corrective to conventional accounts of the negotiations at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944. These negotiations resulted in the creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank—the key international financial institutions of the postwar ...

History and popular memory

the power of story in moments of crisis

When people experience a traumatic event, such as war or the threat of annihilation, they often turn to history for stories that promise a positive outcome to their suffering. During World War II, the French took comfort in the story of Joan of Arc and ...

Inventing the job of President

leadership style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson

From George Washington's decision to buy time for the new nation by signing the less-than-ideal Jay Treaty with Great Britain in 1795 to George W. Bush's order of a military intervention in Iraq in 2003, the matter of who is president of the ...

The reckoning

financial accountability and the rise and fall of nations

Whether building a road or fighting a war, leaders from ancient Mesopotamia to the present have relied on financial accounting to track their state’s assets and guide its policies. Basic accounting tools such as auditing and double-entry bookkeeping form the basis of modern capitalism ...

The intellectual life of Edmund Burke

from the sublime and beautiful to american independence

David Bromwich s portrait of statesman Edmund Burke (1730 1797) is the first biography to attend to the complexity of Burke s thought as it emerges in both the major writings and private correspondence. The public and private writings cannot be easily dissociated, nor should ...

American big business in Britain and Germany

a comparative history of two 'special relationships' in the 20th Century

While America's relationship with Britain has often been deemed unique, especially during the two world wars when Germany was a common enemy, the American business sector actually had a greater affinity with Germany for most of the twentieth century. American Big Business in Britain ...

The Fourth Revolution

the global race to reinvent the State

Dysfunctional government: It’s become a cliché, and most of us are resigned to the fact that nothing is ever going to change. As John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge show us, that is a seriously limited view of things. In fact, there have been three ...

Evaluación de la peligrosidad en la población penitenciaria

valoración del riesgo de violencia y su reincidencia

Los grupos de empresas tras las últimas reformas laborales

El fenómeno de los grupos de empresas en el Derecho laboral evidencia la atomización de la figura del empresario en la relación laboral. Su tratamiento jurídico, con un fuerte componente jurisprudencial, ha tenido una revitalización derivada de las recientes reformas laborales: RDL 7/2011, RDL ...

Tu salud, nuestro negocio

La privatización sanitaria en España ha venido desarrollándose progresivamente desde finales de los años ochenta. Encontrando cobertura en la supuesta racionalización del gasto, el capital privado comenzó entonces a abrirse camino, de manera lenta y silenciosa, en el sistema público de Salud. Sin embargo, es ...

Qué hacemos por una fiscalidad justa y suficiente que acabe con el fraude y la elusión en el pago de los impuestos

¿Qué hacemos por una fiscalidad justa y suficiente, que acabe con el fraude y la elusión en el pago de los impuestos? El discurso oficial de la crisis insiste en que España tiene un problema de gasto público, que necesita ser recortado. ¿Por qué no ...

Juan Larrea

(el hombre al que perseguían las palomas)

Juan Larrea (Bilbao, 1895-Córdoba. Argentina, 1980). Larrea es uno de los autores más incatalogables y enigmáticos que ha dado el siglo XX. Es el gran raro de la generación del 27 y un poeta que, escribiendo en francés, influye de manera más o menos oculta ...