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The little book of venture capital investing

empowering economic growth and investment protfolios

A little book full of enormous value for novices and seasoned venture capitalists alike After having been thrown for a loop by the bursting of the tech bubble more than a decade ago, the venture capital industry suddenly has come roaring back to life over ...

Ciencia Política con perspectiva de género

En los últimos años se ha producido un importante avance en las ciencias sociales, al incorporarse los denominados estudios de la mujer como un nuevo paradigma. El género, como categoría social, es una de las contribuciones teóricas más significativas del feminismo contemporáneo. En este contexto ...

Técnicas de marketing viral

La comunicación es algo innato a todo ser humano. No es posible evitarla, ya sea de modo formal o informal, siempre estamos enviando mensajes a nuestros iguales con algún tipo de propósito. El marketing viral está concebido para que las ideas se propaguen entre las ...

Introducción a las finanzas

Las finanzas son una disciplina fundamental en el mundo de la empresa. Como consecuencia de ello, ocupan un lugar primordial en los planes de estudios de las facultades de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, y de ahí la necesidad de contar con manuales como el presente ...

Prácticas y conceptos básicos de microeconomía

El presente libro pretende cumplir la función de apoyo a los manuales de introducción a la microeconomía elemental, utilizados por aquellos que por primera vez se enfrentan con el estudio de esta materia, siendo en la mayor parte de los casos algo complementario para una ...

Claves para el diseño de la política económica en la actualidad

Este libro pretende ser un manual útil para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje en política económica. Trata de reflejar un nuevo tiempo en el que las personas se adaptan a la sociedad de la información y el conocimiento con lo que se originan nuevos modelos ...

Industrial relations in conditions of full employment

Originally published in 1945, this book presents the content of Harold Stewart Kirkaldy's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Montague Burton Chair of Industrial Relations at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history ...

Applied welfare economic

cost-benefit analysis of projects and policies

What is the effect of a new infrastructure on the well-being of a local community? Is a tax reform desirable? Does the privatization of a telecommunication provider increase social welfare? To answer these questions governments and their policy advisors should have in mind an operative ...

Markets and men

a study of artificial control schemes in some primary industries

First published in 1936, this book provides a study of artificial control schemes in a variety of primary industries, including coffee, rubber and cotton. Each chapter was originally delivered as a radio lecture, and Rowe maintains the conversational tone in his language so that the ...

A citizen's guide to deficits and debt

the politics of taxing, spending and borrowing

America is currently involved in one of the worst economic crises of modern times. As alarm increases over how the government will balance the budget, handle the debt, and maintain prosperity for the future, the minutia of debts and deficits remains incomprehensible to many. Why ...

Naked statistics

stripping the dread from the data

The field of statistics is rapidly transforming into a discipline that Hal Varian at Google has called "sexy". And with good reason - from batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research - the real-world application of statistics is growing by leaps and bounds ...

What unions no longer do

From workers' wages to presidential elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. In the immediate post-World War II era, one in three workers belonged to a union. The fraction now is close to one in ten, and just one in twenty in ...

Rethinking sovereign debt

politics, reputation, and legitimacy in modern finance

Conventional wisdom holds that all nations must repay debt. Regardless of the legitimacy of the regime that signs the contract, a country that fails to honor its loan obligations damages its reputation, inviting still greater problems down the road. Yet difficult dilemmas arise from this ...

Justice among nations

a history of international Law

"Justice among Nations" tells the story of the rise of international law and how it has been formulated, debated, contested, and put into practice from ancient times to the present. Stephen Neff avoids technical jargon as he surveys doctrines from natural law to feminism, and ...

Stakeholders matter

a new paradigm for strategy in society

The dominant shareholder-value model has led to mismanagement, market failure and a boost to regulation, as spectacularly demonstrated by the events surrounding the recent financial crisis. Stakeholders Matter challenges the basic assumptions of this model, in particular traditional economic views on the theory of the ...

Friedrich Engels and marxian political economy

This book rejects the commonly encountered perception of Friedrich Engels as perpetuator of a 'tragic deception' of Marx, and the equally persistent body of opinion treating him as 'his master's voice'. Engels' claim to recognition is reinforced by an exceptional contribution in the 1840s ...

Sanctions, accountability and governance in a globalised world

This book is the first in a series examining how public law and international law intersect in five thematic areas of global significance: sanctions, global health, environment, movement of people and security. Until recently, international and public law have mainly overlapped in discussions on how ...

Introducción al álgebra lineal

En este libro, que aborda a un nivel intermedio los temas clásicos del Álgebra lineal, se ha cuidado fundamentalmente dos aspectos. Primero, conseguir una exposición clara de los conceptos con la precisión matemática y el rigor propios de la materia. El segundo aspecto es convencer ...

El delito de ser pobre

una gestión neoliberal de la marginalidad

La pobreza crece y afecta intensamente a sectores de la población que en décadas anteriores se creían a salvo de las penurias económicas. Mientras la precariedad se extiende, las capas más vulnerables de la sociedad ven sus condiciones de vida intensamente deterioradas por la desaparición ...

La igualdad ante el fin del Estado Social

propuestas constitucionales para construir una nueva igualdad

En plena crisis económica y en una coyuntura histórica de naufragio de los dos principales proyectos políticos igualitaristas del siglo XX (el socialismo real y el Estado social), la revisión del concepto de igualdad en sus diferentes vertientes se plantea como punto de partida necesario ...