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Tax systems

Despite its theoretical elegance, the standard optimal tax model has significant limitations. In this book, Joel Slemrod and Christian Gillitzer argue that tax analysis must move beyond the emphasis on optimal tax rates and bases to consider such aspects of taxation as administration, compliance, and ...

Big ideas in macroeconomics

a nontechnical view

Macroeconomists have been caricatured either as credulous savants in love with the beauty of their mathematical models or as free-market fundamentalists who admit no doubt as to the market's wisdom. In this book, Kartik Athreya draws a truer picture, offering a nontechnical description of ...

The tyranny of experts

economists, dictators, and the forgotten rights of the poor

Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right "expert" solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them in the first place ...

Money

the unauthorized biography

From ancient currency to Adam Smith, from the gold standard to shadow banking and the Great Recession: a sweeping historical epic that traces the development and evolution of one of humankind’s greatest inventions. What is money, and how does it work? In this tour ...

Who owns the future?

Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality and one of the world’s most brilliant thinkers. Who Owns the Future? is his visionary reckoning with the most urgent economic and social trend of our age: the poisonous concentration of money and power in our ...

European competition Law annual

integrating public and private enforcement of competition Law. Implications cpourts and agencies

This volume contains papers presented at the 16th Annual EU Competition Law and Policy Workshop, held at the European University Institute on 17-18 June 2011. This edition of the Workshop examined the emerging and increasingly important use of private rights of action before national courts ...

In 100 years

leading economists predict the future

This pithy and engaging volume shows that economists may be better equipped to predict the future than science fiction writers. Economists' ideas, based on both theory and practice, reflect their knowledge of the laws of human interactions as well as years of experimentation and reflection ...

Competition policy and patent Law under uncertainty

regulating innovation

The regulation of innovation and the optimal design of legal institutions in an environment of uncertainty are two of the most important policy challenges of the twenty-first century. Innovation is critical to economic growth. Regulatory design decisions and, in particular, competition policy and intellectual property ...

The role of domestic courts in treaty enforcement

This book examines the application of treaties by domestic courts in twelve countries. The central question is whether domestic courts actually provide remedies to private parties who are harmed by a violation of their treaty-based rights. The analysis shows that domestic courts in eight of ...

The heart of Human Rights

This is the first attempt to provide an in-depth moral assessment of the heart of the modern human rights enterprise: the system of international legal human rights. It is international human rights law-not any philosophical theory of moral human rights or any "folk" conception of ...

Walled states, waning sovereignty

Why do walls marking national boundaries proliferate amid widespread proclamations of global connectedness and despite anticipation of a world without borders? Why are barricades built of concrete, steel, and barbed wire when threats to the nation today are so often miniaturized, vaporous, clandestine, dispersed, or ...

Rule of Law dynamics

in an era of international and transnational governance

This volume explores the various strategies, mechanisms and processes that influence rule of law dynamics across borders and the national/international divide, illuminating the diverse paths of influence. It shows to what extent, and how, rule of law dynamics have changed in recent years, especially ...

The Euro area and the financial crisis

The financial crisis of 2007-10 has presented a number of key policy challenges for those concerned with the long-term stability of the euro area. It has shown that price stability as provided by the European Central Bank is not enough to guarantee financial stability, and ...

La percepción social de las personas con discapacidad en el eurobarómetro

Este estudio contiene un minucioso seguimiento de la variable de discapacidad en los eurobarómetros de la Unión Europea, para determinar hasta qué punto ese parte de la realidad es relevante y bajo qué enfoque para la información sobre opinión pública europea. El objetivo principal del ...

La hondonada

Desde la publicación de su primera colección de relatos —ganadora del Premio Pulitzer el año 2000—, la trayectoria literaria de Jhumpa Lahiri ha ido en continuo ascenso, hasta el punto de que hoy ocupa un lugar incuestionable en el selecto grupo de los autores contemporáneos ...

Los sistemas alternativos de resolución de conflictos

la mediación. Sistemas complementarios al proceso. Nuevo enfoque constitucional del Derecho a la tutela judicial efectiva

INDICE: Sociedad y conflicto desde la mediación. Paradigma y sistemas. La comunicación, elemento estructural del conflicto. La mediación. Nuevas perspectivas al sistema jurídico continental. Experiencias en materia civil y mercantil. Aportes a la crisis del sistema de justicia y control estatal exclusivo de conflictos. Racionalidad ...

Menachem Begin

the battle for Israel's Soul

Reviled as a fascist by his great rival Ben-Gurion, venerated by Israel’s underclass, the first Israeli to win the Nobel Peace Prize, a proud Jew but not a conventionally religious one, Menachem Begin was both complex and controversial. Born in Poland in 1913, Begin ...

Qué hacemos con la universidad

¿Qué hacemos por una educación superior al servicio de la sociedad, con recursos suficientes y de calidad frente a quienes quieren acabar con la universidad? El actual ataque contra la educación pública merece un capítulo aparte en el caso de la universidad. La actual política ...

Spanish constitution and representation of the people institutional act

Un maestro en tiempos de Felipe II

Juan López de Hoyos y la enseñanza humanista en el siglo XVI

Este es el primer estudio sobre un maestro español del siglo XVI: Juan López de Hoyos. Nada se sabe de la infancia de este inquietante humanista, ni de su juventud. Por ello Alfredo Alvar ha recreado cómo era el ambiente general de la enseñanza en ...