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Brownlie's principles of Public International Law

This is the eighth edition of Sir Ian Brownlie's classic distillation of public international law. Serving as a single volume introduction to the field as a whole, the book seeks to present international law as a system that is based on, and helps structure ...

Borders

a very short introduction

Compelling and accessible, this Very Short Introduction challenges the perception of borders as passive lines on a map, revealing them instead to be integral forces in the economic, social, political, and environmental processes that shape our lives. Highlighting the historical development and continued relevance of ...

Discounting, libor, CVA and funding

interest rate and credit pricing

The credit and sovereign debt crises have fundamentally changed the way participants in the global financial markets perceive credit risk. In market practice this is most directly visible from significant bases throughout the interest rate world, especially tenor bases, cross-currency bases, and bond-CDS bases. This ...

The creation and development of entrepreneurial universities in Spain

an institutional approach

Universities are a relevant instrument in the facilitation of the contemporary knowledge-based economy because they support the generation and the exploitation of knowledge through education, research and entrepreneurial activities. As a consequence, they generate added value, with their knowledge transformed into social and economic development ...

Principles of politics

a rational choice theory guide to politics and social justice

Modern rational choice and social justice theories allow scholars to develop new understandings of the foundations and general patterns of politics and political behavior. In this book, Joe Oppenheimer enumerates and justifies the empirical and moral generalizations commonly derived from these theories. In developing these ...

Thinking about leadership

Leadership is essential to collective human endeavor, from setting and accomplishing goals for a neighborhood block association, to running a Fortune 500 company, to mobilizing the energies of a nation. Political philosophers have focused largely on how to prevent leaders from abusing their power, yet ...

Europe's unfinished currency

the political economics of the Euro

The euro was originally seen as another stepping stone to a politically unified Europe. Yet with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the unification of Germany, the need for European political union as a means to ensure peace ...

Fear and greed

investment risks and opportunities in a turbulent world

The early 21st century has been a period of extreme fear and greed in the world's financial markets. Vast sums of wealth have been lost by some, but also made by others. Faith in the investment industry is now at its lowest-ever ebb, and ...

Essays on capital and interest

an austrian perspective

The third volume of The Collected Works of Israel M Kirzner presents a collection of writings on capital theory that serve both as a discourse in the history of economic thought and as conceptual clarification in one of the most complex subjects in economics. This ...

The economics of enough

how to run the economy as if the future matters

The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the ...

The Darwin economy

liberty, competition, and the common good

Who was the greater economist - Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank, "New York Times" economics columnist and best-selling author of "The Economic Naturalist", predicts that within the next century Darwin ...

Renewable energy

power for a sustainable future

The provision of sustainable energy supplies for an expanding and increasingly productive world is one of the major issues facing civilisation today. Renewable Energy examines both the practical and economic potential of the renewable energy sources to meet this challenge. The underlying physical and technological ...

Federalism in the European Union

This edited volume aims to reveal the Janus-faced character of federalism in the European Union. Federalism appears in two main forms in the EU. On the one hand, numerous formerly unitary Member States have embarked on a path towards a (quasi-)federal governance structure. On ...

The righteous mind

why good people are divided by politics and religion

Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points ...

Las Cortes de Cádiz y la Constitución de 1812

¿la primera revolución liberal española?

En un contexto donde las ideas ilustradas ocupaban la vanguardia política, donde se produjeron dos revoluciones pre-liberales (norteamericana y francesa), España vivió una situación compleja que le permitió desarrollar la primera de as revoluciones liberales que dio lugar a la aprobación de un marco constitucional ...

Exchange rate regimes inthe Modern Era

The exchange rate is sometimes called the most important price in a highly globalized world. A country's choice of its exchange rate regime, between government-managed fixed rates and market-determined floating rates has significant implications for monetary policy, trade, and macroeconomic outcomes, and is the ...

Common European Sales Law (CESL)

commentary

The emergence of European Contract Law as a field of enquiry has been matched by a burgeoning literature. This includes textbooks, casebooks, monographs and commentaries as well as at least one journal and huge number of journal articles. As the field has matured, so has ...

Fashion brands

branding style from Armani to Zara

Once a luxury that only the elite could afford, fashion is now accessible to all. High street brands such as Zara, Topshop and H&M have put fashion within the reach of anyone, whilst massive media attention has turned designers such as Tom Ford, Alexander ...

La economía en dos tardes

un manual para todos, incluidos presidentes de gobierno

¿Serviría de algo si, a estas alturas, el ex ministro Jordi Sevilla confesara que nunca dijo que enseñaría economía al ex presidente Zapatero en dos tardes? Aquella conversación entre ZP y Sevilla captada por unos micrófonos supuestamente apagados ha acompañado al ex ministro desde entonces ...

La gran búsqueda

una historia de la economía

Nasar construye una biografía coral del pensamiento económico contemporáneo, una historia épica de la creación de la economía moderna, y de cómo esta salvó parte de la humanidad de la miseria y el hambre al devolverle el control de su destino material en vez de ...