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Brazilian multinationals

competences for internationalization

Since the 1950s, subsidiaries of the most prestigious foreign multinationals have played a key role in Brazilian economic development, thus creating a very competitive domestic market. On top of this, government interventions in the last few decades have been inconsistent and contradictory, resulting in a ...

La reforma de la gestión pública

un análisis comparado

INDICE: la naturaleza dela reforma de la gestión pública. Problemas y respuestas: un modelo de reforma de la gerencia pública. Trayectorias de modernización y reforma. Los resultados y sus oscuros contornos. política y gestión. Compensaciones, equilibrio, límites, dilemas, contradicciones y paradojas. Reflexiones: gestión y gobierno ...

Medical Law

The Palgrave Macmillan Law Masters series is a long-running and successful list of titles offering clear, concise and authoritative guides to the main subject areas, written by experienced and respected authors. This major new text provides a thorough exploration of medical law and ethics, written ...

Propuestas

Esta colección de ensayos o «ejercicios de precisión conceptual» intenta aportar alguna claridad en el tratamiento de cuestiones de relevancia político-moral como el concepto de tolerancia, el significado moral del concepto de dignidad humana, la calamidad moral del Holocausto, la respuesta a la violencia extraordinaria ...

International Law and indigenous knowledge

Intellectual Property, plnat biodiversity, and traditional medicine

As knowledge becomes increasingly important to the Indigenous quest for self-determination, cultural survival, and economic empowerment, the gulf between Indigenous and Western scientific knowledge and concepts of intellectual property assumes a new significance. In International Law and Indigenous Knowledge, Chidi Oguamanan argues that Indigenous knowledge ...

Religion and public reasons

The essays in Religion and Public Reasons seek to argue for, and illustrate, a central element of John Finnis's theory of natural law: that the main tenets of personal and political morality, and of a good legal order, are taught both by reason (arguments ...

Las fronteras de la justicia distributiva

una perspectiva rawlsiana

INDICE: Justicia distributiva internacional, asociativismo y autogobierno. La consistencia del contextualismo institucional e internacional. El deber dual de asistencia como especificación del deber natural de justicia. El peso del deber de asistencia a pueblos foráneos frente a las exigencias de jusiticia doméstica.

Women under Islam

gender, justice and the politics of Islamic Law

How Islam treats women is one of the most hotly contested questions of our times. Islamic law is often misrepresented as a single monolithic concept, rather than a collection of different interpretations and practices. To move the debate on Islamic law and gender forward, it ...

De los niveladores a Marbury vs. Madison

la génesis de la democracia constitucional

INDICE: Los "niveladores": contexto, antecedentes e ideas. El constitucionalismo estadounidense. Conslusiones.

El Derecho a la información audiovisual de los juicios

INDICE: Aproximación a la transparencia informativa sobre el funcionamiento de los poderes del Estado democrático: una referencia a los órganos de naturaleza asamblearia ante los medios de comunicación audiovisuales.  El derecho a la información audiovisual de los juicios. Conclusiones.

Radical democracy and political theology

Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote that "the people reign over the American political world like God over the universe," unwittingly casting democracy as the political instantiation of the death of God. According to Jeffrey W. Robbins, Tocqueville's assessment remains an apt observation of modern ...

Luces y republicanismo

economía y políica en las apuntaciones al Genovesi de Ramón de Salas

Why Marx was right

In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism - that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a ...

The little book of valuation

how to value a company, pick a stock, and profit

An accessible, and intuitive, guide to stock valuation Valuation is at the heart of any investment decision, whether that decision is to buy, sell, or hold. In The Little Book of Valuation, expert Aswath Damodaran explains the techniques in language that any investors can understand ...

The two narratives of political economy

Captures the 17th-19th century origins and developments ofpolitical economy by editing original texts and illuminatingtheir relevance for today's political debate Political economy from the 17th century to the present can be captured in two narratives originating with Locke and Rousseau. Those original narratives were ...

Confidence game

hoiw hedge fund manager Bill Ackman called Wall Street's bluff

An expose on the delusion, greed, and arrogance that led to America's credit crisis The collapse of America's credit markets in 2008 is quite possibly the biggest financial disaster in U.S. history. Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street ...

Estudios sobre la venta a plazos de bienes muebles

Los años transcurridos desde la promulgación de la Ley de Venta a Plazos han visto aparecer obras de diversa índole sobre la misma. Mientras algunas analizan uno por uno sus artículos, otras se han centrado en concretos aspectos, muy variados entre sí, que plantea el ...

Managing to the new regulatory reality

doing business under the Dodd-Frank Act

How to manage and profit from the new financial regulatory reality Now, more than ever, navigating the new financial regulations is paramount for the survival of many large institutions. Managing to the New Regulatory Reality: Doing Business Under the Dodd-Frank Act provides the most important ...

Reglamento de las infraestructuras comunes de telecomunicaciones en el interior de las edificaciones

Real Decreto 346/2011, de 11 de marzo

Historia y psicoanálisis

entre ciencia y ficción

Esta nueva edición, convierte el libro en una nueva obra con respecto a la primera publicación, pero sin perder su esencia. Además de haberse añadido dos capítulos: "Historia y estructura" (VII) y "Lo ausente de la historia" (VIII), Luce Giard reordenó el contenido y escribió ...