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La protección frente a las cláusulas abusivas en préstamos y créditos

Un informe del Banco Central Europeo revelaba hace poco que España es uno de los países europeos con intereses y comisiones más caros. En un contexto generalizado de crisis económica, el presente trabajo trata de colocar la atención del lector en la necesidad de que ...

Rebelión en las marcas

Las marcas de distribuidor, conocidas popularmente como marcas blancas, han convulsionado el mercado en los últimos años, poniendo en jaque a las marcas clásicas, cuestionando su statu quo, cambiando las reglas de juego y el orden establecido en los sistemas de producción y distribución minorista ...

The devil's deal

an insider's tale of how money is made

This is the ultimate insider's tale of how international finance really operates. This controversial first person account details the ins and outs of global finance. Over 20 years the author has enjoyed privileged access to many of the world's top players in money ...

En torno a la sucesión en los títulos nobiliarios

La primera parte de la obra, titulada Sucesión en los títulos nobiliarios, Constitución y Derecho civil, se ocupa de estudiar el origen de los títulos nobiliarios y su íntima conexión con la Corona, poniendo de relieve la consideración de éstos como nombres de honor y ...

Paid owned earned

maximizing marketing returns in a socially connected world

The complexity of media that now sees multiple channels accessed through multiple devices has created major challenges for today's marketing and advertising professionals. Consumer time is split between TVs, laptops, iPads, X-Boxes and smartphones, with traditional media, websites, videos, social networks and apps all ...

Il Diritto tra forma e formalismo

La sociedad que no amaba a las mujeres

¿Qué tienen en común Isabel la Católica, Teresa de Jesús, Clara Campoamor, Frida Khalo y Coco Chanel? Todas fueron mujeres excepcionales y vencieron las trabas de una sociedad que no favorecía el desarrollo de su talento por el mero hecho de ser mujer. Esta obra ...

Krupp

a history of the legendary german firm

The history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than the famous steel and arms maker. In this book, Harold James tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between ...

Constitutional pluralism in the European Union and beyond

Constitutional pluralism has become immensely popular among scholars who study European integration and issues of global governance.aSome of them believe that constitutionalism, traditionally thought to be bound to a nation state, can emerge beyond state borders - most importantly in the process of European integration ...

Finance and the good society

The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. "New York Times" best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance - he is probably the only person to ...

Effective auditing for corporates

key developments in practice and procedures

In the wake of the recent financial crisis, increasing the effectiveness of auditing has weighed heavily on the minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and accounting irregularities can go unnoticed. However ...

Global and national macroeconometric modelling

a long-run structural approach

This book provides a comprehensive description of the state-of-the-art in modelling global and national economies. It introduces the long-run structural approach to modelling that can be readily adopted for use in understanding how economies work, and in generating forecasts for decision- and policy-makers. The book ...

Macroeconomics

understanding the global economy

A revised and updated edition of a very successful macroeconomics textbook. The authors deal with sophisticated issues using advanced economic theory, but in a manner that is accessible to anyone taking a single course in macroeconomics. They begin with real-world economic issues, and describe why ...

Understanding public policy

Updated it its 14th edition, Understanding Public Policy focuses on the policy challenges confronting the Obama administration. This edition provides students with a close up look at the American healthcare system, current economic policies, issues of homeland security and defense policy among many other current ...

Libertad de emprender

El actual modelo económico en el mundo occidental se caracteriza por un sobredimensionamiento del Estado que ha provocado déficit público, desempleo y bajas tasas de crecimiento económico. Esta obra defiende la necesidad de recuperar las bases del libre mercado que hicieron triunfar al sistema capitalista ...

Patrones de capitalización y crecimiento (1985-2008)

panorama internacional

Durante los últimos 25 años, el stock de capital mundial se ha más que duplicado y el de algunos países emergentes se ha multiplicado por un factor igual o superior a cinco. El estudio detalla a nivel internacional qué regiones y países poseen mayor capacidad ...

Free market fairness

Can libertarians care about social justice? In "Free Market Fairness", John Tomasi argues that they can and should. Drawing simultaneously on moral insights from defenders of economic liberty such as F. A. Hayek and advocates of social justice such as John Rawls, Tomasi presents a ...

The arab-israeli conflict

a guide for the perplexed

The Guide aims to demystify and clarify one of the key conflicts of our time, explaining who, what, where, and why in a balanced manner. "The Arab-Israeli Conflict" explains what the term "Arab-Israeli Conflict" refers to, providing an accurate and dispassionate description of the current ...

Guardians of finance

making regulators work for US

The recent financial crisis was an accident, a "perfect storm" fueled by an unforeseeable confluence of events that unfortunately combined to bring down the global financial systems. And policy makers? They did everything they could, given their limited authority. It was all a terrible, unavoidable ...

The invention of enterprise

entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to modern times

Whether hailed as heroes or cast as threats to social order, entrepreneurs - and their innovations - have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations. The "Invention of Enterprise" gathers together, for the first time, leading economic historians to explore the entrepreneur's ...