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Justice interrupted

the struggle for constitutional government in the Middle East

The Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 were often portrayed in the media as a dawn of democracy in the region. But the revolutionaries were--and saw themselves as--heirs to a centuries-long struggle for just government and the rule of law, a struggle obstructed by local elites ...

Reconstructing contracts

Every legal system must decide how to distinguish between agreements that are enforceable and those that are not. Formal bargains in the marketplace and casual promises in a social setting mark the two extremes, but many hard cases lie between. When gaps are left in ...

Hay futuro

visiones para un mundo mejor

Hay futuro: visiones para un mundo mejor apunta las líneas previsibles de lo que será nuestra realidad en el transcurso de las próximas décadas. La edición presenta dieciocho artículos que recogen estudios del futuro desde muy distintas perspectivas, agrupadas en cinco grandes bloques: Fundamentos, Ciencia ...

Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans

Pythagoras (c. 570 - c. 495 BC), arguably the most influential thinker among the Presocratics, emerges in ancient tradition as a wise teacher, an outstanding mathematician, an influential politician, and as a religious and ethical reformer. He claimed to possess supernatural powers and was the kind ...

L'histoire économique globale

Ce livre déconstruit la vision européanocentrique du développement économique. Il met en évidence le rôle majeur de réseaux commerciaux asiatiques plurimillénaires, la technicité financière du monde musulman entre VIIIe et XIe siècle, l’avance d’une Chine qui a inventé presque toutes les techniques productives ...

Karl Marx

a nineteenth-century life

For nearly a century, Karl Marx has been imprisoned by "isms", misinterpreted through the writings of Engels and the totalitarian aspirations of Lenin and Stalin. Challenging this antiquated portrait, Jonathan Sperber demonstrates that Marx had more in common with Robespierre than with twentieth-century Communists. Using ...

Peasant and empire in Christian North Africa

This remarkable history foregrounds the most marginal sector of the Roman population, the provincial peasantry, to paint a fascinating new picture of peasant society. Making use of detailed archaeological and textual evidence, Leslie Dossey examines the peasantry in relation to the upper classes in Christian ...

L'Empire de la valeur

refonder l'économie

La crise financière a révélé au grand jour les limites de la théorie économique : celle-ci n’a su ni prévoir les désordres à venir, ni même mettre en garde contre de possibles instabilités. Cet aveuglement est le signe d’un profond dysfonctionnement qui exige, pour ...

L'Économie politique du néolibérlisme

le cas de la France et de l'Italie

La France et l'Italie connaissent des évolutions économiques et politiques comparables. Contrairement à l'opinion dominante, selon laquelle des obstacles d'ordre politique empêcheraient l'adoption de mesures économiques d'inspiration néolibérale qui seraient "indispensables", ce livre analyse la mise en oeuvre d'un ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...