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Networks

a very short introduction

From ecosystems to Facebook, from the Internet to the global financial market, some of the most important and familiar natural systems and social phenomena are based on a networked structure. It is impossible to understand the spread of an epidemic, a computer virus, large-scale blackouts ...

The Ponzi Scheme puzzle

a history and analysis of con artists and victims

In a Ponzi scheme, new investments are used to pay existing investors, to cover the cost of salespersons, and to finance the Ponzi schemer's satisfying lifestyle. Although Charles Ponzi recruited investors in Boston in 1919 and died in 1949, his design and mode of ...

Introducción al Derecho penal

Instituciones, fundamentos y tendencias del Derecho Penal

La materia que aborda esta obra, esto es, el examen de los instrumentos del Derecho Penal moderno (penas, medidas de seguridad, consecuencias accesorias, etc.); el emplazamiento del mismo en el Derecho Público, y sus consecuencias ante el fenómeno de las actuales tendencias privatizadoras del sistema ...

Asset-liability management for financial institutions

balancing financial stability with strategic objectives

Effective asset-liability management (ALM) of a financial institution requires making informed strategic and operational decisions. Ever more important in the wake of the corporate bailouts and collapses of the financial crisis, ALM encompasses the formulation, implementation, monitoring, and revision of strategies, often on a daily ...

Essential Microeconomics

Essential Microeconomics is designed to help students deepen their understanding of the core theory of microeconomics. Unlike other texts, this book focuses on the most important ideas and does not attempt to be encyclopedic. Two-thirds of the textbook focuses on price theory. As well as ...

Constitutionalism and the enlargement of Europe

After the fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the newly democratized countries of this region joined two main pan-European political and legal structures: the Council of Europe and the European Union. This book shows how the Eastward enlargement of these two structures ...

The justification of Europe

a political theory of supranational integration

The debate on the EU's legitimacy has long suffered from a number of serious misunderstandings. Supranational politics, Jurgen Neyer argues, is not about the making of public order in Europe but about internalizing external effects and fostering the individual right to justification. The concepts ...

Handbook of european financial markets and institutions

The development and integration of financial markets is at the forefront of academic and policy debates around the world. Nowhere is this more in evidence than in Europe where the integration of financial markets is a primary objective of the European Commission and fully supported ...

How interpretation makes International Law

on semantic change and normative twists

Challenging the classic narrative that sovereign states make the law that constrains them, this book argues that treaties and other sources of international law form only the starting point of legal authority. Interpretation can shift the meaning of texts and, in its own way, make ...

Legalism

Anthropology and History

Law and law-like institutions are visible in human societies very distant from each other in time and space. When it comes to observing and analysing such social constructs historians, anthropologists, and lawyers run into notorious difficulties in how to conceptualize them. Do they conform to ...

Rethinking the Keynesian Revolution

Keynes, Hayek, and the Wicksell Connection

While standard accounts of the 1930s debates surrounding economic thought pit John Maynard Keynes against Friedrich von Hayek in a clash of ideology, this reflexive dichotomy is in many respects superficial. It is the argument of this book that both Keynes and Hayek developed their ...

The constitutionalization of the global corporate sphere?

With the advent of globalization - where corporate organizations and the commercial relations that accompany them are argued to be becoming increasingly transnational - the locus of powers, authorities, and responsibilities has shifted to the global level. The nation-state arena is losing its capacity to regulate and ...

Seduction by contract

Law, economics, and psychology in consumer markets

Consumers routinely enter into long-term contracts with providers of goods and services - from credit cards, mortgages, cell phones, insurance, TV, and internet services to household appliances, theatre and sports events, health clubs, magazine subscriptions, transportation, and more. Across these consumer markets certain design features of ...

La sabiduría práctica en la ética de Paul Ricoeur

Esta obra examina la propuesta ética de Paul Ricoeur condensada en su concepto de sabiduría práctica. El modelo ricoeuriano es una ética de la acción que intenta conjugar la aspiración a la vida buena como deseo humano de vivir con otros con el contexto normativo ...

El Derecho en la sociedad telemática

estudios en homenaje al profesor Valentín Carrascosa López

ÍNDICE Prefacio Currículum del homenajeado Semblanza Capítulo I. Derechos y libertades en la sociedad telemática Capítulo II. Derecho y protección de datos personales. Capítulo III. Administración de justicia y nuevas tecnologías. Capítulo IV.La prueba electrónica. Capítulo V. Informática, derecho penal y derecho procesal. Capítulo ...

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 ...

Law's evolution and human understanding

When should we follow the law? How can we know what law's words mean? What iisr law? biLaw's Evolution and Human Understandingrr presents fresh and surprising answers to these questions. In an account alive with the stories of our shared human history, Laurence ...

EU Mediation

Law and practice

A practical reference on the EU rules and international initiatives that impact directly on EU cross-border disputes, this handbook is a must-have for any practitioner of cross-border mediation. The EU Mediation Directive 2008/52/EC laid down obligations on EU Member States to encourage quality ...

Makers

the new industrial revolution

Wired magazine editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation ...

Security Features of Banknotes and other Documents

Methods of Authentication (Print version)

Illustrated description of security features used in the production of banknotes of different countries, security certificates, traveler’s cheques, and other documents; All stages of the production of security printing products with the explanation of how groups of security features are formed at each stage ...