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Out of the cold

the Cold War and its legacy

Featuring first hand accounts by international politicians and diplomats along with analyses by leading scholars, this unique collection of essays provides insights from multiple perspectives to foster better understanding of international relations during and after the Cold War. Experts from both sides of the "iron ...

Lessons from the economics of crime

what reduces offending?

Economists who bring the tools of economic analysis to bear on the study of crime and crime prevention contribute to current debates a normative framework and sophisticated quantitative methods for evaluating policy, the idea of criminal behavior as rational choice, and the connection of individual ...

Pricing and hedging financial derivatives

a guide for practitioners

The only guide focusing entirely on practical approaches to pricing and hedging derivatives One valuable lesson of the financial crisis was that derivatives and risk practitioners don't really understand the products they're dealing with. Written by a practitioner for practitioners, this book delivers ...

Vulnerability

reflections on a new ethical foundation for Law and politics

Martha Albertson Fineman's earlier work developed a theory of inevitable and derivative dependencies as a way of problematizing the core assumptions underlying the 'autonomous' subject of liberal law and politics in the context of US equality discourse. Her 'vulnerability thesis' represents the evolution of ...

Testing monetarism

Testing Monetarism pursues the complex question of the nature of the controversy surrounding monetarist theory and evidence, and the reasons for the persistence of this controversy. The theory of monetarism is examined in its old guise as the Quantity Theory of Money, and subsequent chapters ...

The money trap

escaping the grip of global finance

Why have the efforts of governments and central banks to revive economic growth and solve the problems left by the global financial crisis met with such limited success? Why have markets been periodically paralysed by fear and uncertainty? This book argues that governments have been ...

Justice as welfare

equity and solidarity

Justice as Welfare provides an egalitarian account of distributive justice by rethinking notions of welfare. It first considers possible forms of decentered welfare to promote communal and individual autonomy rather than the bureaucratic, centralized market-oriented control. Next, it uses theoretical resources to rethink the conventional ...

Economic reform now

a global manifesto to rescue our sinking economies

Right now the global economy is on the brink of (another) depression. In Economic Reform Now, some of the world's leading economists issue a strong warning on the grave errors that are threatening to take the global economy over the brink. Richard Koo warns ...

Money, income and time

a quantum-theoretical approach

In Money, Income and Time, Alvaro Cencini examines how money has been alternatively defined as a commodity and as the general equivalent of all commodities to be, subsequently, identified with the concept of numeraire, and, finally, reduced to the actual notion of credit. To better ...

Tax Havens and offshore finance

a study of transnational economic development

Tax Havens and Offshore Finance examines the subject of offshore finance centres.

Revista Investigaciones regionales, Nº 27, año 2013

ÍNDICE (Resumen): Seijas, A., y Iglesias, G. Evolución de la productividad y asociación con la satisfacción en la atención hospitalaria y especializada de los sistemas sanitarios de las Comunidades Autónomas. Capello, M.; Figueras, A.; Freille, S., y Moncarz, P. The role of federal transfers in ...

El Hobbit

o historia de una ida y una vuelta

El Hobbit ilustrado por Jemima Catlin, de J. R. R. Tolkien, autor de otras grandes obras de la narrativa fantástica como Los hijos de Hurin o El Silmarillion, es una edición encuadernada en tela que es perfecta para convertirse en el primer hobbit de los ...

Metrópolis

Mediador entre la “mente que crea y las manos que construyen”, Freder, único y amado hijo del Señor de Metrópolis, es el “corazón” que siente y sufre por los habitantes de la tecnológica Babel del futuro que viven al servicio de las máquinas. Rechazando la ...

El consejero

Un exitoso pero ingenuo abogado de los Estados Unidos decide hacer una incursión en el tráfico de drogas sin saber muy bien a lo que se expone. En las polvorientas tierras de la frontera entre Texas y México, un prestigioso abogado decide meterse en una ...

Concepto y uso del monumento en la Hispania romana durante el Principado

¿Por qué se realiza una inscripción? ¿Cómo empleó la sociedad hispanorromana el medio epigráfico? Al igual que es importante la catalogación de inscripciones, cada vez se hace más necesario el análisis de la idea primigenia que motivó su disposición, ahondando en el sentido y uso ...

Rebeldía, subversión y prisión política

crimen y castigo en la transición chilena, 1990-2004

El retorno a la democracia siguió un curso que pocos imaginaban en los años ochenta, sobre todo en el campo de los que luchaban en contra de la dictadura de Pinochet. No todos los opositores compartían los mismos métodos de lucha, y tenían, por cierto ...

Fernando el Católico

Fernando ejerció como rey de Castilla no en condición de monarca consorte, sino en virtud de poderes directamente ejercidos. Su influencia en la guerra de Portugal o en la de Granada, le otorgan un protagonismo completo. Además, su influencia es decisiva en la reordenación institucional ...

The coherence of EU free movement Law

constitutional responsibility and the Court of Justice

At the heart of the European Union is the establishment of a European market grounded in the free movement of people, goods, services, and capital. The implementation of the free market has preoccupied European lawyers since the inception of the Union's predecessors. Throughout the ...

Adam Smith

The Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) was as a pioneer of political economy. In fact, his economic thought became the foundation of classical economics and his key work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, is considered to be the ...

Remote

office not required

The “work from home” phenomenon is thoroughly explored in this illuminating new book from bestselling 37signals founders Fried and Hansson, who point to the surging trend of employees working from home (and anywhere else) and explain the challenges and unexpected benefits. Most important, they show ...