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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 ...

The implosion of capitalism

In The Implosion of Capitalism world-renowned political economist Samir Amin connects the key events of our times - financial crisis, Eurozone implosion, the emerging BRIC nations and the rise of political Islam - identifying them as symptoms of a profound systemic crisis. In light of these major ...

Landgrabbing

journeys in the new colonialism

To the governments and corporations that are currently buying up vast tracts of the Third World, it is called "land leasing." To its critics this new era of colonization is nothing more than "land grabbing." In this arresting account of how millions of hectares of ...

The Complete works of Rosa Luxemburg

Vol.1: Economic writings, 1

This first volume of Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings I, will contain some of Luxemburg's most important writings on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism and pre-capitalist economic formations, most of which have never before appeared in English. In addition ...

The Oxford handbook of crime and criminal justice

Although criminal justice systems in developed Western countries are much alike in form, structure, and function, the American system is unique. While it is structurally similar to those of other Western countries, the punishments it imposes are often vastly harsher. No other Western country retains ...

Las más bellas reflexiones sobre la vida

André Comte-Sponville, uno de los grandes nombres de la filosofía popular, ha captado para los lectores la quintaesencia del pensamiento de los grandes autores y filósofos, de la Antigüedad hasta nuestros días: Aristóteles, Descartes, Spinoza, Alain, Schopenhauer, Camus… En esta obra se habla de temas ...

Latin American Constitutionalism,1810-2010

the engine room of the Constitution

Latin America possesses an enormously rich constitutional history, but this legal history has only recently begun to be subjected to scholarly inquiry. As Roberto Gargarella contends, contemporary constitutional and political theory has a great deal to learn from this history, as Latin American constitutionalism has ...

The Law of the Constitution

The Law of the Constitution has been the main doctrinal influence upon English constitutional thought since the late-nineteenth century. It acquired and long retained extraordinary legal authority, despite fierce criticism and many changes in law and government. By many, it was treated as a canonical ...

Comparative constitutionalism

The Oxford Edition of Dicey provides sources with which to reassess the extraordinary authority and lasting influence of Dicey's canonical text. Volume Two, Comparative Constitutionalism, provides a complement to Dicey's The Law of the Constitution. These largely unpublished comparative constitutional lectures were written ...

Trade in goods

This new edition of Trade in Goods is an authoritative work on international trade by one of the most influential scholars in the field. It provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of every WTO agreement dealing with trade in goods. The focus of the book ...

Economics of good and evil

the quest for economic meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street

Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the "Young Guns" and one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing ...

Naturaleza incompleta

cómo la mente emergió de la materia

A medida que la física elabora una teoría cada vez más completa del universo y que la química molecular desentraña los secretos de la vida, más patente resulta, en esta «teoría de todo», una gran ausencia: nosotros y nuestra mente. En efecto, la relación entre ...

Detectives y vigilantes privados en el ámbito laboral

Los límites de los poderes empresariales no impiden que se pueda controlar a los trabajadores mediante detectives y vigilantes de seguridad, conforme a lo previsto en la Ley 23/1992, de 30 de julio, de Seguridad Privada. Se trata de una posibilidad legal que subyace ...

La monoparentalidad por elección

el proceso de construcción de un modelo de familia

La monoparentalidad por elección permite apreciar la gran variedad de lógicas y de maneras de tener hijos/as (adop­ción, acogimiento, donación de gametos, relaciones sexuales con fines reproductivos, etc.) que están implicadas en este modelo familiar. Este tipo específico de monoparentalidad pone en cuestión ...

El Derecho Fundamental al recurso en el proceso penal

En el proceso penal de nuestros días, el derecho al recurso es un derecho fundamental de los justiciables. Así se ha encargado de reconocerlo un conjunto de acuerdos internacionales sobre derechos humanos que, en mayor o menor medida, han logrado una aplicación directa en los ...

Pilar Soler

rebelde con causas

La vida de la luchadora incansable, Pilar Soler (1914-2006), se recoge en este libro. Pilar vivió una época social y políticamente convulsa: II República, Guerra Civil y posguerra franquista. Todo ello en el seno de una familia anticonvencional. Hija de madre soltera y de padre ...

Imperial ideology and the provincial loyalty in the Roman Empire

The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this ...

La herencia viva de los clásicos

tradiciones, aventuras e innovaciones

“Este libro –nos dice Mary Beard, la más grande figura actual de los estudios clásicos- es un viaje guiado por el mundo clásico, desde el palacio prehistórico de Knossos, en Creta, hasta el imaginario poblado de Astérix, en las Galias”. En él nos habla de ...

Karl Marx

Karl Marx es una biografía magistral que explora no sólo la figura humana del personaje, sino también los tiempos revolucionarios que le tocó vivir. Entre su nacimiento en 1818 y su muerte sesenta y cinco años más tarde, Karl Marx se convirtió en uno de ...

Dicionário de História da I República e do Republicanismo

Volume I: A-E