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(jurisprudencia y doctrina. 1975 - 31-12-2011)

Against the odds

politicians, institutions and the struggle against poverty

Against the Odds is a Machiavellian study of the machinations of three senior politicians in quite different developing countries who adroitly played the tough political game in ways that reduced poverty. The three - former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda ...

Flexibility capitalism

fiundations, problems, and perspectives

An intense debate has played out in recent years regarding how to implement a so-called "flexicurity system"-a labor market reform that combines flexibility, particularly in the hiring and firing process of firms, with security in the employment and income of the workforce. In Flexicurity ...

Monetary economics

an integrated approach to credit, money, income, production and wealth

This book challenges the mainstream paradigm with the introduction of a new methodology. Economies are represented realistically in a fully articulated system of national income and flow of funds accounts. The authors study how flows of income, expenditure and production are intertwined with stocks of ...

The political construction of business interests

coordination, growth, and equality

Many societies use labor market coordination to maximize economic growth and equality, yet employers' willing cooperation with government and labor is something of a mystery. The Political Construction of Business Interests recounts employers' struggles to define their collective social identities at turning points in capitalist ...

Perfecting pregnancy

Law, disability, and the future of reproduction

Prenatal and preimplantation testing technologies have offered unprecedented access to information about the genetic and congenital makeup of our prospective progeny. Future developments such as preconception testing, noninvasive prenatal testing, and more extensive preimplantation testing promise to increase that access further still. The result may ...

Pipelines

flowing oil and crude politics

Oil and natural gas are now acknowledged to be the driving forces of international politics. What has not yet been fully explored is how their delivery affects the geopolitics of the world. Pipelines, once built, create new diplomatic realities - some states are newly connected, others ...

Trade secrets

Law and practice

The value of a business is more than ever a reflection of the value of the company's ideas, which makes trade secrets an increasingly important part of this equation. Trade Secrets: Law and Practice is the first legal treatise to cover the subject from ...

Fairness in practice

a social contract for a global economy

If the global economy seems unfair, how should we understand what a fair global economy would be? What ideas of fairness, if any, apply, and what significance do they have for policy and law? Working within the social contract tradition, this book argues that fairness ...

The foundations of modern time series analysis

This book is the first to develop the analysis of time series from its formal beginnings in the 1890s through to the publication of Box and Jenkins' watershed publication, Time Series Analysis; Forecasting and Control, in 1970, showing how these methods laid the foundations for ...

The decline and fall of Europe

Europe stands on the brink of a monumental fall, wrestling with colossal economic, social, political and strategic challenges. The Decline and Fall of Europe reveals the hidden cracks that threaten to tear Europe apart, many of which have been deliberately ignored by politicians for decades ...

Rethinking miscarriages of justice

beyond the tip of the iceberg

In this highly provocative and fascinating study, Michael Naughton radically re-assesses the notion of miscarriages of justice. Drawing on Foucauldian theory and 'social harm' paradigms, Naughton uncovers the limits of the criminal justice process and questions the dominant discourse that views miscarriages of justice as ...

Public sector reformation

values-driven solutions to fiscal constraint

An examination into the issues associated with the need for fundamental value shifts in public sector organizations if they are to sustain an adequate level of service provision whilst learning to operate with much smaller budgets. Huge reductions in public sector spending mean electorates will ...

Public management and administration

an introduction

he nature and management of the public sector has changed dramatically since the replacement of the rigid, bureaucratic form of public administration of the 20th century by a more flexible, market-based model. The fourth edition of this highly successful text provides a uniquely broad ranging ...

An introduction to behavioral economics

An Introduction to Behavioral Economics offers a comprehensive, rigorous, and up-to-date introduction to what is one of the most rapidly advancing areas in economics today. It considers the debates in this exciting field through a cross-disciplinary approach that incorporates insights from economics and other social ...

Textbook on Contract Law

Jill Poole's immensely popular Textbook on Contract Law has been guiding students through contract law for many years. The accessible writing style and focus on key principles and developments in contract law make this text a favourite with students and lecturers alike. The author ...

A comparative study of the corporate bankruptcy reorganization Law of the US and China

Corporate rescue law is an important component of corporate law. This dissertation contains a comparative study on the corporate bankruptcy reorganization law of the US and China, with the aim of establishing an efficient reorganization system in China. The reorganization proceeding is to produce an ...

Teoría pura del Derecho

introducción a la Ciencia del Derecho

El propósito de Kelsen, el mayor teórico del derecho del siglo XX, era establecer las condiciones previas a todo análisis jurídico concreto y no a la sistematización. La teoría pura es una teoría general en la que el derecho es un fenómeno autónomo cuyo conocimiento ...

Mengele's skull

the advent of a forensic aesthetics

In the aftermath of World War II, two notorious Nazi villains were exposed in different ways. Adolf Eichmann was tried in Jerusalem in 1960, beginning the ''era of the witness'' in the prosecution of human rights abuses. Josef Mengele escaped Germany and lived out his ...

Ayahuasca

Medicina del alma

En la última década, la Argentina no ha quedado ajena al fenómeno global de la expansión y difusión de una pócima de plantas amazónicas conocida por su nombre quechua ayahuasca. Aquel mágico brebaje que hasta hace unos cincuenta años sólo circulaba entre los pueblos originarios ...