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El gobierno y la gestión de las entidades no lucrativas público-privadas

En esta obra se pretende examinar la organización y gestión de las distintas figuras que pueden ser utilizadas para llevar a cabo una colaboración público-privada. En este sentido se incluye un examen del modo de gestión y organización de las fundaciones, asociaciones, cooperativas y demás ...

La crisis del principio de legalidad en el nuevo Derecho penal

¿decadencia o evolución?

Durante las últimas tres décadas se viene sosteniendo que el Derecho penal y, en concreto, el principio de legalidad viven en un «estado de crisis». Tal situación se habría originado, principalmente, por el importante proceso de transformación que ha experimentado en este tiempo el Derecho ...

Comunicación para el cambio social

universidad, sociedad civil y medios

¿Qué comunicación nos enseñan en la universidad? ¿Cuál nos brindan los medios? ¿Qué es la comunicación? ¿Y el cambio social? ¿Tienen sentido juntos? ¿Qué comunicación practican las ONGD? ¿Necesitamos un nuevo comunicador? ¿Reconocemos el papel de las radios comunitarias en la comunicación? Este libro es ...

OECD Tourism Trends and Policies 2012

The report provides comparative knowledge, both policy and data, through thematic chapters and country-specific policy and statistical profiles. The report highlights key tourism policy developments, focuses on issues that rank high on the policy agenda in the field of tourism and provides a broad overview ...

Salirse del tiesto

ensayistas españolas, feminismo y emancipación (1861-1923)

Tradicionalmente los ensayos escritos por mujeres en el siglo XIX han sido soslayados por la crítica al considerar que se trataba de un género literario eminentemente masculino. Sin embargo, Concepción Arenal (1820-1893), Rosario de Acuña (1850-1923) y Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (1850-1919) fueron prolíficas ensayistas ...

Derecho e incertidumbre

Este autor fue uno de los principales exponentes del llamado realismo jurídico norteamericano. Esta corriente recomienda enfáticamente examinar los datos de la experiencia judicial, y no el mundo irreal de las normas o de las doctrinas abstractas. Frank fue uno de los primeros juristas importantes ...

Equilibrium and evolution

Alfred Marshall and the Marshallians

Equilibrium and Evolution examines the deep nature of Marshall's economic thought and its implications for future generations of Marshallians. The central thesis of Neil Hart's assessment is that Marshall's failure to reconcile and integrate the forces making for evolution and development with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...