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Derecho público y Estado autonómico

formación de funcionarios y trabajadores públicos (I)

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 actividad del Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas en caso de amenaza a la paz

Los Estados atribuyeron al Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas la función primordial de mantener la paz y la segundad internacionales. Con las disposiciones aprobadas en 1945 y tras un largo periodo de actividad casi nula, el Consejo pudo, a partir de 1990, enfrentarse a ...

Derecho penal de menores

Lecciones de Derecho internacional público

Sentencing in international criminal Law

the UN ad hoc tribunals and future perspectives for the ICC

This book deals with sentencing in international criminal law, focusing on the approach of the UN ad hoc Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR). In contrast to sentencing in domestic jurisdictions, and in spite of its growing importance, sentencing law is a ...

Juan March (1880-1962)

Juan March nació en 1880 en una familia de comerciantes de un pueblo de Mallorca. Cuando murió en 1962 era uno de los hombres más ricos del mundo. Su vertiginoso enriquecimiento le hizo estar desde muy pronto en boca de jueces, políticos y periodistas. Su ...

Front page economics

In an age when pundits constantly decry bias in the media, we have naturally become skeptical of the news. But the bluntness of such critiques masks the much more sophisticated way in which the media frame important stories. In "Front Page Economics", Gerald D. Suttles ...

Trade and poverty

when the Third World fell behind

Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order--two hundred years in the making--was already characterized by a vast difference in per capita income ...

Mathematics for economics

Auts. Michael Hoy...[et al]. This paperback edition is not available in the U.S. and Canada. This text offers a comprehensive presentation of the mathematics required to tackle problems in economic analysis. To give a better understanding of the mathematical concepts, the text follows ...

Game theory and the humanities

bridging two worlds

Game theory models are ubiquitous in economics, common in political science, and increasingly used in psychology and sociology; in evolutionary biology, they offer compelling explanations for competition in nature. But game theory has been only sporadically applied to the humanities; indeed, we almost never associate ...

The economics of enough

how to run the economy as if the future matters

The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the ...

Exchange-rate dynamics

Variations in the foreign exchange market influence all aspects of the world economy, and understanding these dynamics is one of the great challenges of international economics. This book provides a new, comprehensive, and in-depth examination of the standard theories and latest research in exchange-rate economics ...

The new global rulers

the privatization of regulation in the world economy

Over the past two decades, governments have delegated extensive regulatory authority to international private-sector organizations. This internationalization and privatization of rule making has been motivated not only by the economic benefits of common rules for global markets, but also by the realization that government regulators ...

Rational decisions

It is widely held that Bayesian decision theory is the final word on how a rational person should make decisions. However, Leonard Savage - the inventor of Bayesian decision theory - argued that it would be ridiculous to use his theory outside the kind of small world ...

What you need to know about strategy

This is the fourth title in Capstone's new, essential business series What You Need to Know About... These accessible books will get anyone up to speed on a core business subject, fast.

Giurisdizioni di legittimità e regole di accesso

esperienze europee a confronto

A cura di Guido Alpa, Vincenzo Carbone. Nel processo italiano, il ricorso alla Corte di cassazione - la Suprema Corte, unica in Roma, custode del diritto oggettivo nazionale - per sindacare la violazione della legge in una sentenza o in un provvedimento sulla libertà personale è una ...

Servizi pubblici e autorità di regolazione in Europa

A cura di Giuseppe Franco Ferrari. Il volume analizza le istituzioni deputate al governo dei mercati energetici (elettricità e gas naturale) nei principali paesi dell'Unione europea. Il diritto comunitario, nel perseguire l'obiettivo di creare un mercato comune nei settori considerati, non solo ha ...

How the West was lost

fifty years of economic folly -and the stark choices ahead

Amid the hype of China#s rise to global power, the most important story of our generation is being pushed aside: how America#s rapidly growing population of the unskilled, unemployed, and disaffected threatens the nation#s wealth and stature. In How the West Was ...

La Iglesia, carcelera de la mujer

prisión del cuerpo, prisión del alma

A lo largo del tiempo, la Iglesia no ha tenido buena relación con la mujer, a excepción de un breve período en los comienzos del Cristianismo. En el siglo II la excluyó de los oficios y actividades eclesiásticas que realizaba» para otorgar protagonismo único al ...

Blind spots

why we fail to do what's right and what to do about it

When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In "Blind Spots", leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we ...