Libros de

OIC, the UN, and counter-terrorism Law-making

conflicting or cooperative legal orders?

The increasingly transnational nature of terrorist activities compels the international community to strengthen the legal framework in which counter-terrorism activities should occur at every level, including that of intergovernmental organizations. This unique, timely, and carefully researched monograph examines one such important yet generally under-researched and ...

Joint ventures and EC competition Law

This book examines the treatment of joint ventures (JVs) in EU Competition Law, and at the same time provides a comparison with US law. It starts with an analysis of the rather elusive concept of JV, encompassing both concentrative JVs (subject to merger control) and ...

An introduction to quantitative finance

The worlds of Wall Street and The City have always held a certain allure, but in recent years have left an indelible mark on the wider public consciousness and there has been a need to become more financially literate. The quantitative nature of complex financial ...

Restoring public debt sustainability

the role of independent fiscal institutions

Restoring Public Debt Sustainability: The Role of Independent Fiscal Institutions represents the first comprehensive survey of a new generation of independent fiscal institutions, established to promote transparency in public finances through real-time monitoring of the soundness of budgetary policymaking. The chapters, authored by heads of ...

Aid on the edge of chaos

rethinking international cooperation in a complex world

It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system - which today involves every country in the world - is in need of drastic change. But there are conflicting opinions as to what is needed. Some call for dramatic increases in resources, to meet long-overdue commitments, and ...

Orpheus in the marketplace

Jacopo Peri and the economy of late Renaissance Florence

The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, "Euridice "(1600), in which Peri sang the role of Orpheus. A large collection of recently discovered account books belonging to him and his family ...

Contractualism and the foundations of morality

Contractualism has a venerable history and considerable appeal. Yet as an account of the foundations or ultimate grounds of morality it has been thought by many philosophers to be subject to fatal objections. In this book Nicholas Southwood argues otherwise. Beginning by detailing and diagnosing ...

Derecho mercantil

Vol. 3: Las sociedades mercantiles

Derecho Mercantil es una obra colectiva fruto del trabajo en equipo de un grupo de profesionales universitarios de la disciplina. Unitaria por su inspiración en unos mismos principios, conceptos fundamentales, método y sistema, la pluralidad de su autoría le aporta una rica variedad doctrinal que ...

Financial and actuarial statistics

an introduction

Understand Up-to-Date Statistical Techniques for Financial and Actuarial Applications Since the first edition was published, statistical techniques, such as reliability measurement, simulation, regression, and Markov chain modeling, have become more prominent in the financial and actuarial industries. Consequently, practitioners and students must acquire strong mathematical ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...