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Real Estate economics

Economic explanations of real estate issues such as development, investment and policy-making are introduced in this text. It is written in a non-technical way, covering residential and commercial property markets, and includes empirical data, examples, case studies, market reports and summaries of latest research.

Economics of development

The 9th edition of Thirlwall's 'Economics of Development: Theory and Evidence' (formerly Growth and Development) represents the most thorough revision of this classic textbook to date. For nearly forty years, it has offered students a clear, comprehensive and rigorous overview of the economic aspects ...

Statistical tools for finance and insurance

Eds. Pavel Cízek, Wolfgang Karl Härdle, Rafal Weron. Statistical Tools for Finance and Insurance presents ready-to-use solutions, theoretical developments and method construction for many practical problems in quantitative finance and insurance. Written by practitioners and leading academics in the field, this book offers a unique ...

The invisible gorilla

and other ways our intuition deceives us

If a gorilla walked out into the middle of a basketball pitch, you'd notice it. Wouldn't you? If a serious violent crime took place just next to you, you'd remember it, right? The Invisible Gorilla is a fascinating look at the unbelievable ...

Domestic Law goes global

legal traditions and international courts

International courts have proliferated in the international system, with over one hundred judicial or quasi-judicial bodies in existence today. This book develops a rational legal design theory of international adjudication in order to explain the variation in state support for international courts. Initial negotiators of ...

The prospects of international trade regulation

from fragmentation to coherence

Eds. Thomas Cottier, Panagiotis Delimatsis. For a long time, the GATT led a life of its own as a self-contained regime. The evolution from tariff to non-tariff barriers brought about increasing overlaps with other regulatory areas. WTO rules increasingly interface with other areas of law ...

Public-private partnership projects in infraestructure

an essential guide for policy makers

Investment in infrastructure is critical to economic growth, quality of life, poverty reduction, access to education, healthcare, and achieving many of the goals of a robust economy. But infrastructure is difficult for the public sector to get right. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) can help; they provide ...

The Coalition and the Constitution

'England', Benjamin Disraeli famously said, 'does not love coalitions'. But 2010 saw the first peace-time coalition in Britain since the 1930s. The coalition, moreover, may well not be an aberration. For there are signs that, with the rise in strength of third parties, hung parliaments ...

Human Rights in Iran

the abuse of cultural relativism

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Are the principles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights truly universal? Or, as some have argued, are they derived exclusively from Western philosophic traditions and therefore irrelevant to many non- Western cultures? Should ...

Compendio de Derecho sucesorio

La obra es la tercera edición de un libro que en sus anteriores ediciones gozó de una magnífica acogida, entre otras razones por la calidad del trabajo tanto del autor como de la persona que ha actualizado y puesto al día su contenido, ambos notarios ...

Law and private life in the Middle Ages

proceedings of the Sixth Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Legal History 2009

Eds. Per Andersen, Mia Münster-Swendsen, Helle Vogt. This volume contains the proceedings of the conference 'Law and Private Life in the Middle Ages' held on 29 April - 1 May 2009 at the Carlsberg Academy in Copenhagen. An international group of scholars present their work on ...

Legal research methods in a modern world

a coursebook

A lawyer has to have experienced European society and the European legal research environment, for quite some time to be able to truly understand the way European legal research is conducted. The same can be said about Europeans dealing with America and its different legal ...

Liberalism

a counter-history

In this definitive historical investigation of the formation of liberalism from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Domenico Losurdo overturns complacent and self-congratulatory accounts by showing that, from its very origins, liberalism and its main thinkers- Locke,Burke, Tocqueville, Constant, Bentham, Sieyes and others-have been ...

The bonds of debt

borrowing against the Common Good

Man is born free and is everywhere in debt,A" declared the Economist in the summer of 2010, a cheeky admission that indebtedness and liberation are once again on the agenda across the globe. In this timely book, cultural critic Richard Dienst examines the current ...

Reset and reload

cambias o te cambian. Si los tiempos han cambiado, ¿por qué sigue haciendo lo de siempre?

Reset & reload. Cambias o te cambian. Tres años del inicio de la crisis, un 10% de las empresas ha cerrado sus puertas; el desempleo supera el 20%; hemos bajado 16 puestos en competitividad y el consumo y las exportaciones no terminan de recuperar niveles pasados. En estas circunstancias, aplicar las mismas lógicas de antes parece no ser la alternativa adecuada. Reset & Reload cuestiona los paradigmas empresariales actuales; desde la métrica ...

hoy es marketing

nuevos tiempos: nuevos retos, nuevas oportunidades

Coord. Felipe Llano, Joaquín Calvo. Acompaña CD-ROM. Más de 9.500 profesionales conocieron de primera mano las estrategias de marketing más novedosas de 25 grandes marcas en el evento HOY ES MARKETING. El encuentro celebrado por la escuela de negocios ESIC en 7 ciudades españolas ...

Los contratos de distribución comercial

novedades legislativas y jurisprudenciales

Dir. Daniel Vázquez Albert. La distribución comercial es un sector con una gran vitalidad económica, pero con una intensa problemática jurídica, motivada por carencias normativas, disparidades judiciales y prácticas abusivas. La presente monografía analiza en profundidad, con rigor académico y pragmatismo profesional, el estado actual ...

Derecho público y Estado autonómico

formación de funcionarios y trabajadores públicos (II)

Coord. Yolanda Gómez Sánchez. Esta obra, publicada en 2 volúmenes, se dedica al análisis de los elementos básicos de nuestro sistema constitucional, a analizar los elementos del mismo cuyo conocimiento se considera imprescindible para la formación de los funcionarios y los empleados públicos de todos ...

La protección jurisdiccional de los Derechos Fundamentales en las relaciones entre particulares

La eficacia de los derechos fundamentales en las relaciones entre particulares, aunque sigue siendo objeto de polémica doctrinal, es una realidad innegable: los derechos al honor, la intimidad o la propia imagen son opo-nibles también frente a los medios de información de titularidad privada, y ...

Programa de oposiciones

ingreso en las carreras judicial y fiscal

Sistematizado por José Flors Matíes, Gonzalo A. López Ebri.