Libros de

L'État-providence en Europe

performance et dumping social

Depuis des années, il est partout question de la crise de l'État-providence, des raisons de cette crise et des remèdes à y apporter. Malheureusement, dans ces discussions, on ne s'appuie que rarement sur de bonnes mesures de performance. Cet opuscule vise à présenter ...

Financial asset pricing theory

Financial Asset Pricing Theory offers a comprehensive overview of the classic and the current research in theoretical asset pricing. Asset pricing is developed around the concept of a state-price deflator which relates the price of any asset to its future (risky) dividends and thus incorporates ...

Just business

multinational corporations and Human Rights

With human rights groups and businesses locked in a stalemate, the challenges of regulating harmful corporate practices in some of the world's most difficult regions have long seemed insurmountable. In 2005 the United Nations appointed John Ruggie to examine the problem and identify a ...

Diversity in coaching

working with gender, culture, race and age

"Diversity in Coaching" explores the impact and implication of difference in coaching. The book looks at how coaches can respond to issues of gender, generational, cultural, national and racial difference. Understanding how diversity impacts upon coaching is a crucial element to coaching effectively in today ...

The performance mapping and measurement handbook

To better understand and improve your systems, you must measure and map their essential characteristics. Yet, because your systems and their associated processes occur over varying spatial and temporal scales, you will need various types of maps and metrics-depending on the level of detail and ...

Who owns the future?

Jaron Lanier is the bestselling author of You Are Not a Gadget, the father of virtual reality, and one of the most influential thinkers of our time. For decades, Lanier has drawn on his expertise and experience as a computer scientist, musician, and digital media ...

Europe

the struggle for supremacy, from 1453 to the present

If there is a fundamental truth of geopolitics, it is this: whoever controls the core of Europe controls the entire continent, and whoever controls all of Europe can dominate the world. Over the past five centuries, a rotating cast of kings and conquerors, presidents and ...

Economics of strategy

Economics of Strategy offers a comprehensive text that provides a link between economic theory and business applications that is at once technical in its approach and accessible due to its numerous examples and clear writing style. Thesixth edition of Besanko's Economics of Strategy useseconomic ...

Big data analytics

turning big data into big money

Unique insights to implement big data analytics and reap big returns to your bottom line Focusing on the business and financial value of big data analytics, respected technology journalist Frank J. Ohlhorst shares his insights on the newly emerging field of big data analytics in ...

The offshore Renminbi

the rise of the chinese currency and its global future

The rise of the renminbi and what it means for forex markets Chinese authorities have ambitious plans to "internationalize" the renminbi, transforming it from a tightly controlled domestic legal tender into a global currency for international trade, held by both private and public sector asset ...

Common commercial policy after Lisbon

In depth analysis of legal foundations for the EU´s international economic appearance Special focus on the developing EU International Investment Law Covers all currently practically relevant topics of EU external economic law Since the beginning of the process of European integration the EU Common ...

Private empire

ExxonMobil and american power

From twice-Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Steve Coll comes "Private Empire", winner of the Ft/Goldman Sachs business book of the year award 2012. The oil giant ExxonMobil makes more money annually than the GDP of most countries; has greater sway than US embassies abroad; and spends more ...

The righteous mind

why good people are divided by politics and religion

In "The Righteous Mind", psychologist Jonathan Haidt answers some of the most compelling questions about human relationships: Why can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe? Why do ideas such as 'fairness' and 'freedom' mean such different ...

Empire of Humanity

a history of humanitarianism

Empire of Humanity explores humanitarianism's remarkable growth from its humble origins in the early nineteenth century to its current prominence in global life. In contrast to most contemporary accounts of humanitarianism that concentrate on the last two decades, Michael Barnett ties the past to ...

Merit

the history of a founding ideal from the American Revolution to the 21st Century

The idea that citizens' advancement should depend exclusively on merit, on qualities that deserve reward rather than on bloodlines or wire-pulling, was among the Founding ideals of the American republic, Joseph F. Kett argues in this provocative and engaging book. Merit's history, he contends ...

Enseñando economía en medio de la tormenta

(Revista Asturiana de Economía, Nº 46, Año 2012)

INDICE: La macroeconomía después de la crisis financiera de 2008 Una asignación equivocada. ¿Por qué la crisis está siendo tan profunda? ¿Una recesión asimétrica de nuevo tipo? La estadística oficial como bien público: retos del presente La gestión de la crisis financiera global: el papel ...

Historia de la Filosofía Medieval

Historia de la filosofía medieval constituye una exposición sucinta de los momentos más importantes dentro de la filosofía medieval, ya sea a través de la revisión general del pensamiento de algunos teólogos o escuelas, ya en la confrontación de varios pensadores a partir de un ...

Estética

Adorno planificó durante largo tiempo un libro sobre Estética; guardaba apuntes y anotaciones, con ese propósito, por lo menos desde 1956. En el proceso de gestación de ese libro -que suponía que iba a ser su obra capital- juegan un rol decisivo las clases teóricas ...

Formularios laborales

formularios procesales

Thoreau

la vida sublime

Por primera vez en cómic se publica la vida de un filósofo fundamental en la historia del pensamiento moderno, un indignado considerado el padre de la «desobediencia civil», un escritor e intelectual complejo, cambiante, paradójico y provocador. Marzo de 1845. Henry David Thoreau vuelve a ...