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Institutions and the economy

Institutions are central to economic life. They have a major impact on consumer preferences, the actions and processes of firms, levels of wealth and poverty in countries, the growth of international trade, and much more. Indeed, none of the preconditions for economic activity - such as ...

Compensation of private losses

the evolution of torts in european business Law

Tort law is one of the core areas of European private law, in particular in the field of business law. However, European tort law often receives less attention than the well-known and widely published developments in the field of European contract law. In order to ...

Forestry economics

a mangerial approach

Forestry Economics introduces students and practitioners to all aspects of the management and economics of forestry. The book adopts the approach of managerial economics textbooks and applies this to the unique processes and problems faced by managers of forests. While most forestry economics books are ...

The public nature of private property

What, exactly, is private property? Or, to ask the question another way, what rights to intrude does the public have in what is generally accepted as private property? The answer, perhaps surprisingly to some, is that the public has not only a significant interest in ...

Executive's guide to project management

organizational processes and practices for supporting complex projects

This title offers how-to guidance for defining and implementing a complex project performance environment. Sharing his forty-five years of project management experience, best-selling author and industry guru Robert Wysocki presents a straightforward, enlightening, and pragmatic guide to help senior managers make the transition to an ...

The new old world

The New Old World looks at the history of the European Union, the core continental countries within it, and the issue of its further expansion into Asia. It opens with a consideration of the origins and outcomes of European integration since the Second World War ...

The culture of commerce in England, 1660-1720

Late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England - the period between the Restoration and the South Sea Bubble - was dramatically transformed by the massive cost of fighting wars, and, significantly, a huge increase in the re-export trade. This book seeks to ask how commerce was legitimated, promoted ...

Fundamentals of corporate governance

a guide for directors and corporate counsel

This new and updated edition provides lawyers with an overview of corporate governance and how it has evolved over the past decade including the role of the board of directors in corporate governance, corporate governance in a troubled company and more.

A theory of fairness and social welfare

The definition and measurement of social welfare have been a vexed issue for the past century. This book makes a constructive, easily applicable proposal and suggests how to evaluate the economic situation of a society in a way that gives priority to the worse-off and ...

The quants

how a new breed of math whizzes conquered Wall Street and nearly destroyed it

In a fast-moving narrative, Wall Street Journal reporter Patterson explores the coterie of mathematicians behind the Wall Street crash of 2008. The story's stars are "an unusual breed of investors" called quants, who "used brain-twisting math and super-powered computers to pluck billions in fleeting ...

Ellinger's modern banking Law

Ellinger's Modern Banking Law sets banking law against the background of general legal doctrines and banking regulation, discussing its operation in the context of its wider economic function. It makes use of American, Canadian, New Zealand and Australian examples and takes account of the ...

The modern State

The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded textbook continues to provide the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to the modern state. It examines the state from its historical origins at the birth of modernity to its current jeopardized position in the globalized politics ...

The European Union

explained

This brief and accessible introduction to the European Union is ideal for scholars and professionals in government, business, the media, or the non-profit sector who need a concise overview of the structure, history, and policies of the EU. This new edition also provides useful background ...

Liberal loyalty

freedom, obligation and the State

Many political theorists today deny that citizenship can be defended on liberal grounds alone. Cosmopolitans claim that loyalty to a particular state is incompatible with universal liberal principles, which hold that we have equal duties of justice to persons everywhere, while nationalist theorists justify civic ...

Forgotten genocides

oblivion, denial, and memory

Unlike the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia, or Armenia, scant attention has been paid to the human tragedies analyzed in this book. From German Southwest Africa (now Namibia), Burundi, and eastern Congo to Tasmania, Tibet, and Kurdistan, from the mass killings of the Roms by the Nazis ...

Democratic legitimacy

impartiality, reflexivity, proximity

It's a commonplace that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions. But in "Democratic Legitimacy", Pierre Rosanvallon, one of today's leading political thinkers, argues that this crisis of confidence is partly a crisis of understanding. He ...

Terrorism studies

a reader

In an age when there is more written about terrorism than anyone can possibly read in a lifetime, it has become increasingly difficult for students and scholars to navigate the literature. At the same time, courses and modules on terrorism studies are developing at a ...

Cambiar el mundo sin tomar el poder

el significado de la revolución hoy

"La intención de este libro es la de estimular un debate, no definir una nueva línea correcta. En esto el texto ha tenido un éxito que nunca esperaba. Se ha publicado en doce idiomas y ha encontrado reacciones fuertes por todos lados [...] pero para mí ...

A brief history of Britain 1851-2010

a nation transformed

From the Great Exhibition to the Credit Crunch - the transformation of Britain from the world's greatest nation to the present day. In 1851 Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, it was the high water mark of English achievement - the nation at ...

Hitler and America

In February 1942, barely two months after he had declared war on the United States, Adolf Hitler praised America's great industrial achievements and admitted that Germany would need some time to catch up. The Americans, he said, had shown the way in developing the ...