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Las razones del fisco

ética y justicia en los tributos

A pesar de la globalización y de la crisis de la imposición personal, el tributo constituye aún hoy en día uno de los instrumentos más importantes de redistribución de la riqueza a disposición de los Estados. Este libro se presenta en abierto disenso con las ...

Cómo deciden los jueces

Cómo deciden los jueces es un estudio acerca del complejo y diverso entramado de factores que llevan a los jueces a tomar las decisiones que toman. Posner pretende «descorrer el velo» que cubre una de las actividades fundamentales del derecho: la actividad de juzgar. Su ...

Inmigración, familia y Derecho

Facilitar la más plena integración social del inmigrante a través de la familia no sólo requiere el análisis jurídico filosófico, constitucional, civil, internacional, penal, protección social, etc., sino también la familia en sí y la realidad del sujeto a integrar en la sociedad de acogida ...

The handbook of news analytics in finance

Eds. Gautam Mitra, Leela Mitra. The Handbook of News Analytics in Finance is a landmark publication bringing together the latest models and applications of News Analytics for asset pricing, portfolio construction, trading and risk control. The content of the Hand Book is organised to provide ...

The relentless revolution

a history of capitalism

With its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system provides the framework for our lives. It is a framework of constant change, sometimes measured and predictable, sometimes drastic and out of control. Yet what is now ubiquitous was not always so. Capitalism took shape ...

Business intelligence

making decisions throught data analytics

This book is about using business intelligence as a management information system for supporting managerial decision making. It concentrates primarily on practical business issues and demonstrates how to apply data warehousing and data analytics to support business decision making. Additionally. it progresses through a logical ...

Destierro en Manhattan

refugiados españoles en Norteamérica

En su famoso libro Doy fe... Un año de actuación en la España nacionalista, Vilaplana contaba lo sucedido en España a partir de julio del 36. Como secretario judicial en Burgos tuvo que levantar acta de los numerosos asesinatos cometidos en la provincia y en ...

Financial accounting

"Financial Accounting, 11e, International Edition" continues a distinguished tradition of combining academic needs with professional thought to prepare students for a dynamic business world. Through market-leading integration of International Federal Reporting Standard coverage and real-world data, trusted pedagogy, and a clear writing style that simplifies ...

The Basel II risk parameters

estimation, validation, stress testing - with applications to loan risk management

Eds. Bernd Engelmann, Robert Rauhmeier. The estimation and the validation of the Basel II risk parameters PD (default probability), LGD (loss given fault), and EAD (exposure at default) is an important problem in banking practice. These parameters are used on the one hand as inputs ...

American property

a history of how, why, and what we own

In America, we are eager to claim ownership: our homes, our ideas, our organs, even our own celebrity. But beneath our nation's proprietary longing looms a troublesome question: what does it mean to own something? More simply: what is property? The question is at ...

Eurolegalism

the transformation of Law and regulation in the European Union

Despite western Europe's traditional disdain for the United States' "adversarial legalism," the European Union is shifting toward a very similar approach to the law, according to Daniel Kelemen. Coining the term "eurolegalism" to describe the hybrid that is now developing in Europe, he shows ...

Public management

organizations, governance, and performance

How effective are public managers as they seek to influence how public organizations deliver policy results? How, and how much, is management related to the performance of public programs? What aspects of management can be distinguished? Can their separable contributions to performance be estimated? The ...

The individual in the international legal system

continuity and change in International Law

Kate Parlett's study of the individual in the international legal system examines the way in which individuals have come to have a certain status in international law, from the first treaties conferring rights and capacities on individuals through to the present day. The analysis ...

Trading fish, saving fish

the interaction between regimes in International Law

Numerous international legal regimes now seek to address the global depletion of fish stocks, and increasingly their activities overlap. The relevant laws were developed at different times by different groups of states. They are motivated by divergent economic approaches, influenced by disparate non-state actors, and ...

Comercio electrónico internacional

Cada día en mayor medida, Internet está suponiendo para las empresas un canal imprescindible en el siempre complicado abordaje de los mercados internacionales. A pesar de ello, no abundan actualmente en el mercado editorial las publicaciones que contemplen de una manera sistemática las distintas áreas ...

Gestión de riesgos en la empresa internacional

Este libro constituye una guía práctica en la que se analizan los riesgos a los que están sometidas las empresas internacionales en seis grandes grupos: riesgos políticos; riesgos catastróficos o extraordinarios; riesgos contractuales; riesgos financieros; riesgos en inversiones y proyectos. Para cada riesgo se ofrece ...

Poor economics

a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty

This title comes from the award-winning founders of the unique and remarkable Abdul Latfi Jameel Poverty Action Laboratory at MIT, a transformative reappraisal of the world of the extreme poor, their lives, desires and frustrations. Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and ...

Los soportes del debate público

el desarrollo del escenario cívico de discusión de la extranjería y la inmigración

Este libro tiene como finalidad presentar una aproximación a la mecánica constitutiva del debate público. Para ello ha sido elegido uno de los temas que más relieve ha alcanzado en los últimos años: el de la inmigración y la extranjería. Con él, en el presente ...

Understanding global trade

Global trade is of vital interest to citizens as well as policymakers, yet it is widely misunderstood. This compact exposition of the market forces underlying international commerce addresses both of these concerned groups, as well as the needs of students and scholars. Although it contains ...

Convicting the innocent

where criminal prosecutions go wrong

On January 20, 1984, Earl Washington--defended for all of forty minutes by a lawyer who had never tried a death penalty case--was found guilty of rape and murder in the state of Virginia and sentenced to death. After nine years on death row, DNA testing ...