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Medical Law and ethics

Medical law is one of the fastest moving areas of law; barely a week can go by without a change to the legal provisions, or a new key case passing through the courts. Medical Law and Ethics is the most regularly updated textbook on medical ...

Individuo y división de poderes

estudios filosóficos

Los ensayos aquí reunidos exponen, en palabras de su autor, «un escepticismo fundado en una filosofía de la finitud». La duda escéptica implica la sensibilidad hacia la «división de poderes», esto es, entiende que el individuo libre no puede surgir más que de una pluralidad ...

Prueba indiciaria y presunción de inocencia en el proceso penal

La tesis comprende tres capítulos, dentro de los cuales, el primero se dedica al estudio de la prueba indiciaria en el marco de la teoría general de la actividad probatoria; el segundo, por su parte, se dirige a identificar los elementos concretos que permiten afirmar ...

Why some things should not be for sale

the moral limits of markets

For many, markets are the most efficient way in general to organize production and distribution in a complex economy. But what about those markets we might label noxious--markets in addictive drugs, say, or in sex? In Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale, philosopher ...

A country merchant, 1495-1520

trading and farming at the end of the Middle Ages

Around 1500 England's society and economy had reached a turning point. After a long period of slow change and even stagnation, an age of innovation and initiative was in motion, with enclosure, voyages of discovery, and new technologies. It was an age of fierce ...

The coming prosperity

how wntrepreneurs are transforming the global economy

Over the course of the next 25 years, it is estimated that nearly eighty percent of global economic growth will originate in previously poor places. Large countries with burgeoning populations such as China, India, and Brazil have economies that have exponentionally grown over the last ...

Criminal Law directions

Criminal Law Directions is written in an engaging and lively manner with an emphasis on explaining the key topics of Criminal Law courses with clarity. The book incorporates a wide range of learning features to offer students a high level of support. Learning objectives, thinking ...

Is China buying the world?

China has become the world's second biggest economy and its largest exporter. It possesses the world's largest foreign exchange reserves and has 29 companies in the FT 500 list of the world's largest companies. 'China's Rise' preoccupies the global media, which ...

Private equity

history, governance, and operations

This is an authoritative guide to understanding the world of private equity (PE) investing, governance structures, and operational assessments of PE portfolio companies. An essential text for any business/finance professional's library, "Private Equity: History, Governance, and Operations, Second Edition" begins by presenting historical ...

Zombie economics

how dead ideas still walk among us

In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land. The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism - the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated mainstream economics, and ...

Indecentes

crónica de un atraco perfecto

Una crónica de la disolución ética y de la desfachatez moral que ha llevado a España y a Europa a una crisis sin precedentes y que señala a sus autores intelectuales, económicos y políticos. La burbuja del dinero fácil facilitó el frenesí especulativo de una ...

The activation of citizenship in Europe

This book is the first to illuminate the links between a transnational discourse on what constitutes 'modern' social policy and our concepts and practices of citizenship. Throughout Europe, we are witnessing a large-scale reshuffling of welfare economies critically informed by the guiding principles of 'activation ...

Land Law directions

With a modern, student-friendly writing style, Land Law Directions excels in providing engaging and straightforward explanations of even the most difficult concepts. Case summaries, photographs, and examples are used throughout to provide real-life context and clarify abstract ideas, while diagrams and definitions ensure the text ...

Paro e inflación

Se reúnen en este volumen cuatro conferencias del Profesor Milton Friedman. La primera, «Paro e inflación», es la conferencia pronun­ciada por el autor en Estocolmo con ocasión de la entrega de los premios Nobel 1976. La segunda, «¿Es la inflación una enfermedad in­curable ...

Law, person, and community

philosophical, theological, and comparative perspectives on Canon Law

Law, Person, and Community: Philosophical, Theological, and Comparative Perspectives on Canon Law takes up the fundamental question "What is law?" through a comparative study of canon law and secular legal theory. Canon law is analogous to the concept of law described by secular theorists such ...

Sustainability economics

an introduction

The book is a concise introduction to an emerging field within economics. Drawing on numerous disciplines, including environmental science, environmental and ecological economics and optimal growth theory, sustainability remains a hazy and complex subject. The author set out with two objectives: one, to bring some ...

Sangre y pertenencia

viajes al nuevo nacionalismo

Sangre y pertenencia, escrito por Michael Ignatieff, embarca al lector en un viaje por distintos países para entender y dibujar las distintas caras del nacionalismo y sus consecuencias. Los países y regiones incluidas en el recorrido son la antigua Yugoslavia, Ucrania, Alemania, Quebec, Kurdistán e ...

The rise of fiscal states

a global history, 1500-1914

From the Netherlands to the Ottoman Empire, to Japan and India, this groundbreaking volume confronts the complex and diverse problem of the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia between 1500 and 1914. This series of country case studies from leading economic historians reveals that distinctive ...

From financial crisis to stagnation

the destruction of shared prosperity and the role of economics

The US economy today is confronted with the prospect of extended stagnation. This book explores why. Thomas I. Palley argues that the Great Recession and destruction of shared prosperity is due to flawed economic policy over the past thirty years. One flaw was the growth ...

El sistema moderno del Derecho penal

cuestiones fundamentales

El fin del Derecho penal del Estado y las formas de imputación. Contribución a la crítica del sistema jurídico-penal de orientación político-criminal de Roxin. Imputación objetiva y personal a título de injusto, a la vez, una contribución al estudio de la aberratio ictus. Imputación individual ...