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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Simiocracia

crónica de la Gran Resaca Económica

La nueva obra de Aleix Saló tras el imparable éxito de Españistán. Las causas de la crisis. Los antecedentes de la crisis. Los efectos de la crisis. La corrupción irracional. La involución social. El gobierno disfuncional. Ha llegado la simiocracia. Aleix Saló vuelve a la ...

Posteconomía

hacia un capitalismo feudal

Con tanta erudición como apasionamiento, y desde una perspectiva de mileurista hijo de la tradición libertaria, Antonio Baños Boncompain describe el mundo hacia el que nos están llevando irremisiblemente: la crisis como arma; los economistas como sacerdotes; los poderosos como señores de la Deuda... y ...

Los fundamentos últimos de la Ciencia Económica

(un ensayo sobre el método)

Este ensayo no es una contribución a la filosofía. Es tan solo una exposición de ciertas ideas que debieran tenerse en cuenta a la hora de lidiar con la teoría del conocimiento. Por lo general, la lógica tradicional y la epistemología han originado disquisiciones sobre ...

International financial statement analysis

workbook

The workbook you need to test your understanding of financial statement analysis, from the seasoned experts at the CFA Institute In a global, highly interconnected investment landscape, financial analysts must have a thorough, working knowledge of international financial statement analysis. This companion Workbook to International ...

Governance reimagined

organizational design, risk, and value creation

A timely guide for companies needing to grow equity and human capital after the recent economic turmoil. Written for leaders and students of for-profit, non-profit, political, and social organizations who are looking for a way to do their work more effectively. Most organizational leaders only ...

Votes, vetoes, and the political economy of international trade agreements

Preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) play an increasingly prominent role in the global political economy, two notable examples being the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement. These agreements foster economic integration among member states by enhancing their access to one another's markets ...

Understanding the Law

'Essential reading for new lawyers, those with a professional interest in the law, or simply the curious...the sort of book that will appeal to lawyer and non-lawyer alike, from journalist to legislator, student to enquiring member of the public. It expertly guides you through ...

The predictable surprise

the unraveling of the U.S. retirement system

Social Security is in jeopardy, private pension systems have fallen apart, and workers are trying to save for their own for retirement with the stock market in the worst shape since the Great Depression. In The Predictable Surprise, Sylvester J. Schieber shows that forewarnings of ...