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Chasing Goldman Sachs

how the masters of the universe melted Wall Street down... and why they'll take us to the brink again

Suzanne McGee provides a penetrating look at the forces that transformed Wall Street from its traditional role as a capital-generating and economy-boosting engine into a behemoth operating with only its own short-term interests in mind and with reckless disregard for the broader financial system and ...

Tramitación procesal y administrativa

cuestionarios. Promoción interna

El presente libro de Cuestionarios tiene por objeto practicar el primer ejercicio de la oposición, consistente en un cuestionario de respuestas alternativas. La estructura de este trabajo sigue una sistemática de progresiva asimilación y consolidación de los conocimientos teóricos adquiridos, a través de la inclusión ...

The high-beta rich

how the manic wealthy willtake us to the next boom, bubble, and bust

The rich are not only getting richer, they are becoming more dangerous. Starting in the early 1980s the top one percent (1%) broke away from the rest of us to become the most unstable force in the economy. An elite that had once been the ...

Próxima estación, Cataluña

La historia de la inmigración andaluza en Cataluña, y de cómo ésta acogió y protegió a los trabajadores sin importar su procedencia. La creación de La Caixa, del Hospital Vall d’Hebrón, del hotel Casa Fuster, de Radio Tele-Taxi, a través de sus protagonistas. Manuel ...

Vrbes Extinctae

archaeologies of abandoned classical towns

Core tourist sites for the classical world are the ruins of those many and scattered examples of 'lost' and abandoned towns - from Pompeii to Timgad to Ephesus and Petra. Usually studied for their peaks and growth, rarely are their ends explored in detail, to consider ...

El Aleph

La mayoría de los cuentos reunidos en este libro pertenecen al género fantástico. Algunos surgieron a partir de crónicas policiales, de pinturas o simplemente de la visión de algún conventillo; otro explora el efecto que la inmortalidad causaría en los hombres; hay una glosa al ...

Cosas que me enseñó la vida gracias a la empresa

“He recorrido un extenso e intenso camino profesional, a lo largo del cual he tenido la oportunidad de trabajar y dirigir empresas de enorme prestigio y dimensión […] y de intervenir desde posiciones de responsabilidades estratégicas en sectores complejos y muy competitivos. […] He conocido y trabajado ...

Information and the modern corporation

While we have been preoccupied with the latest i-gadget from Apple and with Google's ongoing expansion, we may have missed something: the fundamental transformation of whole firms and industries into giant information-processing machines. Today, more than eighty percent of workers collect and analyze information ...

Strategy

how to create, pursue and deliver a winning strategy

YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO STRATEGY. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. The FT Guide to Strategy is your unbeatable reference on strategy. It offers an incisive overview of both corporate level and business unit level strategy, an A to Z of the world's leading strategic thinkers and ...

El juez ante la Ley

Esta obra aborda un estudio sobre el proceso de formación de las decisiones judiciales centrando su atención en las distintas respuestas que la doctrina ha ofrecido en relación con la exigencia del sometimiento de los jueces a la Ley. Para ello, lleva a cabo, a ...

The European Court's political power

selected essays

Karen Alter's work on the European Court of Justice heralded a new level of sophistication in the political analysis of the controversial institution, through its combination of legal understanding and active engagement with theoretical questions. The European Court's Political Power assembles the most ...

El empleo público local ante la crisis

INDICE: ¿Qué hacer? El empleo público local ante la crisis: políticas de ajuste en un marco de reformas. La planificación de recursos humanos: un instrumento necesario para afrontar la crisis en el empleo público local. Competencias de un gestor de recursos humanos y retos en ...

Is eating people wrong?

great legal cases and how they shaped the world

Great cases are those judicial decisions around which the common law develops. This book explores eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia that show the law as a living, breathing and down-the-street experience. It explores the social circumstances in which ...

El liberalismo no es pecado

la economía en cinco lecciones

Carlos Rodríguez Braun y Juan Ramón Rallo defienden el liberalismo rebatiendo los argumentos de sus fustigadores. Por ejemplo: la crisis la provocó la liberalización y la desregulación; no manda la política, mandan los mercados; toda reducción del Estado del Bienestar atenta contra las conquistas sociales ...

Principios de economía

Manual de aproximación a la Economía de carácter básico, concebido para cursos introductorios en los Grados derivados de las Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, y también como texto de referencia para titulaciones de otros ámbitos, fundamentalmente en el campo de las Ciencias Sociales, como son los ...

Economics and the challenge of global warming

Economics and the Challenge of Global Warming is a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the role of economics in confronting global warming, the central environmental issue of the twenty-first century. It avoids a technical exposition in order to reach a wide audience and is up ...

Thinking, fast and slow

Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound and widely regarded impact on many ...

The future of electricity demand

customers, citizens and loads

What will electricity and heat demand look like in a low-carbon world? Ambitious environmental targets will modify the shape of the electricity sector in the twenty-first century. 'Smart' technologies and demand-side management will be some of the key features of the future of electricity systems ...

Visual teams

graphic tools for commitment, innovation and high performance

Graphic tools and visual solutions for team building and development Visual Teams uses visual tools and methods to help teams--both face-to-face and virtual--reach high performance in today's work environment. As teams become more and more global and distributed, visualization provides an important channel of ...

Access points

an institutional theory of policy bias and policy complexity

Access Points develops a new theory about how democratic institutions influence policy outcomes. Access Point Theory argues that the more points of access that institutions provide to interest groups, the cheaper lobbying will be, and, thus, the more lobbying will occur. This will lead to ...