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Costituzione, globalizzazione e tradizione giuridica europea

Il volume raccoglie contributi di studiosi di diversa formazione in merito alle questioni che caratterizzano una fase assai travagliata del processo di integrazione europea. Di fronte al crescente disorientamento delle opinioni pubbliche nazionali che vedono messe in discussione storiche conquiste dello stato sociale europeo, e ...

An economic theory of greed, love, groups, and networks

Why are people loyal? How do groups form and how do they create incentives for their members to abide by group norms? Until now, economics has only been able to partially answer these questions. In this groundbreaking work, Paul Frijters presents a new unified theory ...

Money and Banks in the american political system

In Money and Banks in the American Political System, debates over financial politics are woven into the political fabric of the state and contemporary conceptions of the American dream. The author argues that the political sources of instability in finance derive from the nexus between ...

Comentarios a la Ley Hipotecaria

La Ley Hipotecaria es, sin duda, la piedra angular sobre la que descansa la seguridad jurídica en el tráfico inmobiliario y, a la vez, eje sobre el que se vertebra nuestro sistema crediticio. La obra que el lector tiene en sus manos está concebida, esencialmente ...

Visual guide to ETFs

This title is a visual guide to one of the fastest growing areas in trading and speculation. An Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) - a security that tracks an index, a commodity, or a basket of assets like an index fund, but trades like a stock on an ...

2000 soluciones de Seguridad Social

Como si tuviera a un inspector de trabajo resolviendo todas sus dudas. Mediante un novedoso sistema de “pregunta-respuesta” le ofrecemos una guía de trabajo con problemas reales a los que debe enfrentarse el profesional diariamente. Todas las respuestas incluyen su fundamento legal, jurisprudencial o de ...

Tras los pasos de Bolívar

viaje a través de un continente inquieto

¿Es justo decir que una tierra ha sido «liberada» cuando la pobreza aún esclaviza a millones de sus habitantes, cuando la violencia acecha en las sombras y cuando la ilegalidad corroe toda posibilidad de progreso? ¿Fracasaron los libertadores? ¿O los nuevos líderes, como Hugo Chávez ...

Portfolio theory and management

Portfolio management is an ongoing process of constructing portfolios that balances an investor's objectives with the portfolio manager's expectations about the future. This dynamic process provides the payoff for investors. Portfolio management evaluates individual assets or investments by their contribution to the risk ...

Vida y dialéctica del sujeto

la controversia de la modernidad

Este libro muestra la controversia sobre el sujeto en cuanto principio central de la cultura filosófica en la modernidad, visto en su génesis, en la diversidad y amplitud de sus perspectivas y a través de la crítica de sus detractores. Su ambición declarada es mostrar ...

Introduction to international human resource management

This text is an ideal introduction to international human resource management. Accessible language and real-life examples are employed, and no prior understanding of HRM or labour economics is assumed. This makes the text perfectly suited for the large number of students who do not hold ...

Macroeconomics at the service of public policy

This volume uses state of the art models from the frontier of macroeconomics to answer key questions about how the economy functions and how policy should be conducted. The contributions cover a wide range of issues in macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy. They combine high level ...

Playing to win

how strategy really works

The only strategy book you'll ever need If strategy is about creating a competitive advantage that allows a firm to win, then pinpointing your strategy to a few critically important choices will dramatically increase your chances of success. This is especially true in the ...

International commercial arbitration

different forms and their features

Arbitration clauses in international commercial contracts are often reused from existing contracts. By so doing, the parties choose to apply, for example, either ad hoc or institutional arbitration and the UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, SCC, Swiss or other arbitration rules without necessarily being aware of the ...

International business strategy

Verbeke provides a new perspective on international business strategy by combining analytical rigour and true managerial insight on the functioning of large multinational enterprises (MNEs). With unique commentary on 48 seminal articles published in the Harvard Business Review, the Sloan Management Review and the California ...

Ciudades medias

formas de expansión urbana

En este libro se analizan los cambios en la estructura de las ciudades medias en contextos socioculturales diferenciados (Estados Unidos y Europa). En ellas se está produciendo una ruptura de la ciudad tradicional en favor de una organización territorial de límites imprecisos. Se ha prestado ...

Congress and the politics of problem solving

How do issues end up on the agenda? Why do lawmakers routinely invest in program oversight and broad policy development? What considerations drive legislative policy change? For many, Congress is an institution consumed by partisan bickering and gridlock. Yet the institution's long history of ...

Justice for hedgehogs

The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In his most comprehensive work, Ronald Dworkin argues that value in all its forms is one big thing: that what truth is, life means, morality requires, and justice demands are ...

Arquitecturas singulares

ingeniería y arqueología industrial

La obra reúne una selección de artículos sobre diversos temas de arquitectura, ingeniería y urbanismo, en especial en España, desde mediados del siglo XVIII hasta finales del siglo XX. Los edificios, las obras públicas, la ordenación del territorio, el equipamiento material y el desarrollo de ...

¿Qué significa hoy ser abrahamita?

1. La historia de los hebreos no es idéntica a la historia de Israel. 2. Hasta la aparición de Jesús, Israel omite el autosacrificio de Abraham. 3. Yahvé no es El Shaddai. 4. La alianza de Dios es tan válida para Ismael como para Israel ...

The making of competition policy

legal and economic sources

This book provides edited selections of primary source material in the intellectual history of competition policy from Adam Smith to the present day. Chapters include classical theories of competition, the U.S. founding era, classicism and neoclassicism, progressivism, the New Deal, structuralism, the Chicago School ...