Libros de

Administración estratégica

textos y casos

En este libro se hizo un esfuerzo para usar un estilo de redacción ameno y libre de jerga innecesaria, por cubrir todas las bases tradicionales e integrar algunos temas centrales (como globalización, tecnología, ética y espíritu emprendedor), que son vitales para entender la administración estratégica ...

The tyranny of utility

behavioral social science and the rise of paternalism

The general assumption that social policy should be utilitarian - that society should be organized to yield the greatest level of welfare - leads inexorably to increased government interventions. Historically, however, the science of economics has advocated limits to these interventions for utilitarian reasons and because of ...

Documentación informativa para el nuevo Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior

Manual que aborda el temario de los actuales programas de la asignatura Documentación Informativa, para los Grados de Comunicación y de Documentación, insertados en el nuevo Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior –EEES-. Los autores aprovechan su experiencia profesional, docente e investigadora para desarrollar dicho temario ...

A guide for the young economist

This book is an invaluable handbook for young economists working on their dissertations, preparing their first articles for submission to professional journals, getting ready for their first presentations at conferences and job seminars, or undertaking their first refereeing assignments. In clear, concise language--a model in ...

The fall and rise of keynesian economics

During the 1970s, when doctrines like monetarism and new classical macroeconomics ushered in an era of neoliberal economic policymaking, Keynesian economics was pushed aside. It was almost forgotten that when Keynesian thinking had dominated economic policymaking in the middle decades of the twentieth century, it ...

Governance, risk management, and compliance

it can't happen to us- avoiding corporate disaster while driving success

An expert's insider secrets to how successful CEOs and directors shape, lead, and oversee their organizations to achieve corporate goals "Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance" shows senior executives and board members how to ensure that their companies incorporate the necessary processes, organization, and technology ...

The financial crisis in constitutional perspective

the dark side of functional differentiation

This volume presents the first thorough sociologically-informed legal analysis of the financial crisis which unfolded in 2008. It combines a multitude of theoretically informed analyses of the causes, dynamics and reactions to the crisis and contextualises these within the general structural transformations characterising contemporary society ...

Reframing rights

bioconstitutionalism in the genetic age

Legal texts have been with us since the dawn of human history. Beginning in 1953, life too became textual. The discovery of the structure of DNA made it possible to represent the basic matter of life with permutations and combinations of four letters of the ...

Europäische Verfassungslehre

Die Verfassungsstrukturen der Europäischen Union sind ein zentrales Thema der Europarechtswissenschaft und des nationalen Verfassungsrechts. Mit den überkommenen Begriffen der „Allgemeinen Staatslehre“ und einem traditionellen Denken, das noch in den Kategorien von Nationalstaat und Souveränität verharrt, ist die neue politische Wirklichkeit des europäischen Verfassungsverbundes aber ...

Industrial policy for national champions

Governments around the world are deeply divided about the proper role of industrial policy, with some politicians arguing for hands-off governance and others supporting government intervention to promote "national champions"-- firms that receive government support for both political and economic reasons. In this volume, prominent ...

The foreign corrupt practices act handbook

a practical guide for multinational general counsel, transactional lawyers and white collar

Identifies all of the major FCPA risk areas and then offers practical suggestions for how companies can most effectively address these risks and conduct credible investigations. This title includes information on anti-bribery conventions; board of directors and management responsibilities; and charitable donations and political contributions.

Systems thinking

managing chaos and complexity: a platform for designing business architecture

In a global market economy, a viable business cannot be locked into a single form or function anymore. Rather, success is contingent upon a self-renewing capacity to spontaneously create structures, functions, and processes responsive to a fluctuating business landscape. Now in its third edition, "Systems ...

Global competition Law and economics

This is the second edition of the acclaimed text on global antitrust law. With markets becoming increasingly global, mergers requiring approval in several different jurisdictions, cartels in one nation affecting supply in others, and countries increasingly entering into treaties with each other about the content ...

Jurgen Habermas

Jürgen Habermas is widely regarded as one of the outstanding intellectuals of our time. This collection focuses on the theory of law which can be distilled from his vast compendium of work. At the same time the collection places this theory in the context of ...

Derecho internacional privado

Índice: Concepto, Nombre Y Autonomía De La Disciplina. Estructura De La Norma. Fuentes. Historia. Las Calificaciones Y La Adaptación. La Cuestión Previa. El Reenvío. La Prueba Del Derecho Extranjero. El Orden Público. El Fraude A La Ley. Personas Físicas. Personas Jurídicas. Concursos. Contratos. Derecho Cambiario ...

Régimes matrimoniaux et régimes patrimoniaux des couples non mariés

Conforme aux programmes de licence et de master, ce manuel fournit également une excellente préparation aux concours et examens professionnels. En plus des régimes matrimoniaux, il présente les régimes patrimoniaux des couples non mariés, partenaires d'un pacs ou concubins. L'ouvrage compte de nombreux ...

Usos y costumbres y ciudadanía femenina

hablan las presidentas municipales de Oaxaca. 1996-2010

Esta obra reúne los testimonios de mujeres que fueron presidentas municipales en Oaxaca desde 1995, fecha en la que los usos y costumbres fueron legalmente reconocidos como forma de gobierno. Se analizan sus perfiles, los mecanismos mediante los cuales accedieron al cargo y sus estilos ...

Formalismo puro

un repaso a la arquitectura moderna y contemporánea de España

Un repaso a la arquitectura moderna y contemporánea de España. Este trabajo se centra en el análisis de lo producido en arquitectura en los últimos cien años en España, intentando trazar lazos formales, ideológicos y temporales entre ellos. El objetivo de este planteamiento es relacionar ...

Sintaxis latina

En la presente obra nos proponemos ofrecer una exposición del sistema sintáctico de la lengua latina, lo bastante sencilla para poder ser asimilada por los estudiantes de enseñanzas medias, y lo suficientemente completa para resolver los problemas que plantea la lectura de los clásicos. Aun ...

Public health ethics

key concepts and issues in policy and practice

Public health ethics is a discipline concerned with the health of the public or a population as a whole, rather than focusing on the individual. This book introduces a number of this new field's central concepts and explores the key and controversial issues arising ...