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What every environmentalist needs to konw about capitalism

a citizen's guide to capitalism and the environment

There is a growing consensus that the planet is heading toward environmental catastrophe: climate change, ocean acidification, ozone depletion, global freshwater use, loss of biodiversity, and chemical pollution all threaten our future unless we act. What is less clear is how humanity should respond. The ...

Microfinance and its discontents

women in debt in Bangladesh

In 2006 the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize for its innovative microfinancing operations. This path-breaking study of gender, grassroots globalization, and neoliberalism in Bangladesh looks critically at the Grameen Bank and three of the leading NGOs in the country. Amid euphoria ...

Guía de las prestaciones de la Seguridad Social

desempleo, incapacidad permanente, jubilación y viudedad/orfandad

Con esta publicación, elaborada desde un punto de vista analítico, pero sin descuidar sus aspectos didácticos y prácticos, se intenta proporcionar una herramienta idónea de consulta, tanto para los profesionales que desarrollan su cometido en el ámbito sociolaboral, como para los alumnos con interés en ...

Guía para orientación legal en inmigración

La extranjería es una materia que no se circunscribe sólo a los instrumentos básicos que la regulan (Ley y Reglamento de Extranjería), y los procedimientos que en ellos se establecen (entradas y salidas de España, autorizaciones de residencia y trabajo, infracciones y sanciones...), sino que ...

We first

how brands and consumers use social media to build a better world

A social media expert with global experience with many of the world's biggest brands - including Nike, Toyota and Motorola - Simon Mainwaring offers a visionary new practice in which brands leverage social media to earn consumer goodwill, loyalty and profit, while creating a third pillar ...

Fighting financial fires

an IMF insider account

The 2007 financial crisis almost brought down the global financial system and threatened to lead the world economy into a severe depression. The impact of the crisis was only curtailed by extraordinary measures taken by governments, central banks and an institution once considered by many ...

El pequeño libro de las grandes decisiones

cincuenta modelos para el pensamiento estratégico

Este libro le ayudará a resolver con éxito las cuestiones más complejas de una forma sencilla. En él se incluyen los cincuenta modelos de toma de decisiones más conocidos, descritos de forma breve y acompañados por un gráfico ilustrativo. A la hora de tomar una ...

Corruption

the new corporate challenge

Concerns about corruption have advanced rapidly up the list of priorities for companies throughout the world. Today, firms of every size are under particular pressure as the recently passed UK Bribery Act places some onerous obligations on their directors and employees. Now, for the first ...

Brand resilience

managing risk and recovery in a high-speed world

As the recent Tiger Woods scandal illustrates, brand reputation is more precarious than ever before. True and false information spreads like wildfire in the vast and interconnected social media landscape and even the most venerable brands can be leveled in a flash - by disgruntled customers ...

El acoso de las fantasías

Nuestra época está infestada de fantasmas: existe un antagonismo cada vez mayor entre el proceso de abstracción acelerada de nuestras vidas –sea en el ámbito del universo digital o de las relaciones mercantiles– y el diluvio de imágenes pseudoconcretas que nos rodean. Ante esta situación ...

Asymmetric trade negotiations

The slow pace of the Doha Round has boosted the proliferation of regional and bilateral trade agreements. Paradoxically, the more powerful actors, the US and the European Union, who at the same time have benefited the most from the multilateral system, have also been engaged ...

Data-Driven business decisions

A hands-on guide to the use of quantitative methods and software for making successful business decisions The appropriate use of quantitative methods lies at the core of successful decisions made by managers, researchers, and students in the field of business. Providing a framework for the ...

Grow globally

opportunities for your middle-market company around the world

Discover proven strategies and solutions for successful participation in the global market With less than fifty percent of middle market US companies succeeding at going global, corporate executives need to know how to build effective global execution platforms that will allow their organizations to thrive ...

The risk premium factor

a new model for understanding the volatile forces that drive stock prices

This is a radical, definitive explanation of the link between loss aversion theory, the equity risk premium and stock price, and how to profit from it. "The Risk Premium Factor" presents and proves a radical new theory that explains the stock market, offering a quantitative ...

Equity valuation and portfolio management

A detailed look at equity valuation and portfolio management Equity valuation is a method of valuing stock prices using fundamental analysis to determine the worth of the business and discover investment opportunities. In Equity Valuation and Portfolio Management Frank J. Fabozzi and Harry M. Markowitz ...

Dynamics copula methods in finance

The latest tools and techniques for pricing and risk management This book introduces readers to the use of copula functions to represent the dynamics of financial assets and risk factors, integrated temporal and cross-section applications. The first part of the book will briefly introduce the ...

Complexity

a guided tour

What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate ...

Debating the ethics of inmigration

is there a right to exclude?

Do states have the right to prevent potential immigrants from crossing their borders, or should people have the freedom to migrate and settle wherever they wish? Christopher Heath Wellman and Phillip Cole develop and defend opposing answers to this timely and important question. Appealing to ...

Casualties of credit

the english financial revolution, 1620-1720

Modern credit, developed during the financial revolution of 1620¬--1720, laid the foundation for England's political, military, and economic dominance in the eighteenth century. Possessed of a generally circulating credit currency, a modern national debt, and sophisticated financial markets, England developed a fiscal-military state ...

Optimal control theory with applications in economics

This book bridges optimal control theory and economics, discussing ordinary differential equations, optimal control, game theory, and mechanism design in one volume. Technically rigorous and largely self-contained, it provides an introduction to the use of optimal control theory for deterministic continuous-time systems in economics. The ...