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Beyond the two State solution

a jewish political essay

For over two decades, many liberals in Israel have attempted, with wide international support, to implement the two-state solution: Israel and Palestine, partitioned on the basis of the Green Line - that is, the line drawn by the 1949 Armistice Agreements that defined Israel's borders ...

How markets work

disequilibrium, entrepreneurship and discovery

Mainstream neo-classical economics focuses on already attained states of equilibrium. It is silent about the processes of adjustment to equilibrium; Human action consists of 'grappling with an essentially unknown future', not being confronted with clearly specified objectives, known resources and defined courses of action as ...

Code Constitutionnel et des Droits Fondamentaux

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The social organization of work

"The Social Organization of Work, International Edition", takes an analytical approach to the study of work that not only identifies and discusses substantive issues but also allows students the opportunity to better develop their analysis, reasoning, and argumentative skills. The authors achieve this by combining ...

History of political theory: an introduction

Vol.I: Ancient and Medieval

History of Political Theory: An Introduction is an engaging introduction to the main figures in the history of Western Political Theory and their most important works. Volume I traces the development of political theory "from the beginning" in ancient Greece through the Reformation. Main subjects ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rights

concepts and contexts

"Rights: Concepts and Contexts" contains the central works of recent scholarship on the nature of rights, with contributions by some of the most prominent contemporary theorists in moral, legal, and political philosophy, including Joseph Raz, Robert Alexy, Jeremy Waldron, Morton Horwitz, Stephen Darwall, Margaret Gilbert ...

Friedrich Hayek

the ideas and influence of the libertarian economist

This book is an accessible exploration of the life and work of Friedrich Hayek: Nobel economist, social theorist, influential critic of socialism and the man who arguably changed the course of Western history thanks to his effect on both Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. Friedrich ...

Understanding liberal democracy

essays in political philosophy

Understanding Liberal Democracy presents notable work by Nicholas Wolterstorff at the intersection between political philosophy and religion. Alongside his influential earlier essays, it includes nine new essays in which Wolterstorff develops original lines of argument and stakes out novel positions regarding the nature of liberal ...

Inside job

la crisis financiera se llevó por delante los ahorros, los empleos y los sueños de millones de personas. Esto es lo que ocurrió. Y éstos son los culpables

Charles Ferguson, que sorprendió al mundo entero con su oscarizado documental Inside Job, explica ahora en su libro del mismo título cómo una élite depredadora ha ido tomando progresivamente el control de Estados Unidos y muestra las redes de influencias académicas, financieras y políticas que ...

Buyouts

success for owners, management, PEGs, families, ESOPs, and mergers and acquisitions

This is the definitive guide to best practices for mastering techniques of the insider-led transition planning. A must have book for business owners, key employees, and their advisors who need to be aware of the full spectrum of succession options, "Buyouts" provides objectives, advice, steps ...

La paix

histoire politique et militaire, 1435-1878

En 1435, se réunit à Arras une sorte de congrès des trois forces belligérantes – Anglais, Français et Bourguignons –, pour examiner comment sortir de l'enlisement de la guerre de Cent Ans. Cette démarche concertée est une première en Europe. En 1878, Bismarck organise à Berlin ...

Plátanos y bananas

Los plátanos de postre, llamados bananas en Latinoamérica y plátanos en Canarias, y los plátanos de cocinar son uno de los principales cultivos de los trópicos y subtrópicos que contribuyen de manera vital a la economía de numerosos países. En los últimos 20 años han ...