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La disciplina della concorrenza in Italia

Questo manuale, qui presentato in una nuova edizione rivista ed aggiornata, illustra in maniera sistematica la disciplina antitrust in Italia, dedicando ampio spazio alle fattispecie materiali (intese, abusi e concentrazioni), ai profili procedurali, al sindacato del giudice amministrativo e alla tutela dinanzi al giudice ordinario ...

The invention of enterprise

entrepreneurship from ancient Mesopotamia to modern times

Edited by David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr and William J. Baumol. 'There are other books on the history of entrepreneurship, but The Invention of Enterprise offers a substantial and fresh approach. These top-notch economic historians cover a vast geographic span and broad period of time ...

Experimental economics

rethinking the rules

Auts. Nicholas Bardsley...[et.al]. Since the 1980s, there has been explosive growth in the use of experimental methods in economics, leading to exciting developments in economic theory and policy. Despite this, the status of experimental economics remains controversial. In "Experimental Economics", the authors draw ...

Politics and the imagination

In politics, utopian's do not have a monopoly on imagination. Even the most conservative defenses of the status quo, Raymond Geuss argues, require imaginative acts of some kind. In this collection of recent essays, including his most overtly political writing yet, Geuss explores the ...

Capital ideas

the IMF and the rise of financial liberalization

The right of governments to employ capital controls has always been the official orthodoxy of the International Monetary Fund, and the organization's formal rules providing this right have not changed significantly since the IMF was founded in 1945. But informally, among the staff inside ...

Volatility and time series econometrics

essays in honor of Robert F. Engle. Advanced texts in econometrics

Eds. Tim Bollerslev, Jeffrey R. Russell, Mark W. Watson. Robert Engle received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2003 for his work in time series econometrics. This book contains 16 original research contributions by some the leading academic researchers in the fields of time series ...

Preventive Human Rights strategies

Identifies the need for preventive human rights strategies, maps what exists by way of such strategies, and offers policy options to deal with the world of the future.

Global energy governance

the new rules of the game

The global market for oil and gas resources is rapidly changing. Three major trends - the rise of new consumers, the increasing influence of state players, and concerns about climate change - are combining to challenge existing regulatory structures, many of which have been in place for ...

Beyond right and wrong

the power of effective decision making for attorneys and clients

This book guides attorneys and clients through legal decision making. It analyzes 11,306 attorney-client decisions in actual cases and summarizes decades of research regarding judge, jury, litigant and attorney decision making. To explain why many litigation outcomes are suboptimal, the book describes the psychological ...

Economic analysis of the DCFR

the work of the economic impact group within CoPECL

Eds. Pierre Larouche, Filomena Chirico. The Economic Impact Group (EIG) was created to support the work on the DCFR with insights from law and economics. It brings together a number of leading European law and economics scholars. The Group looked at the main elements of ...

Identity economics

how our identities shape our work, wages, and well-being

In 1995, economist Rachel Kranton wrote future Nobel Prize-winner George Akerlof a letter insisting that his most recent paper was wrong. Identity, she argued, was the missing element that would help to explain why people - facing the same economic circumstances - would make different choices. This ...

The politics of happiness

what government can learn from the new research on well-being

During the past forty years, thousands of studies have been carried out on the subject of happiness. Some have explored the levels of happiness or dissatisfaction associated with typical daily activities, such as working, seeing friends, or doing household chores. Others have tried to determine ...

Innovation, intellectual property, and economic growth

What drives innovation? How does it contribute to the growth of firms, industries, and economies? And do intellectual property rights help or hurt innovation and growth? Uniquely combining microeconomics, macroeconomics, and theory with empirical analysis drawn from the United States and Europe, this book introduces ...

Demanding democracy

american radicals in serach of a new politics

This is a major work of history and political theory that traces radical democratic thought in America across the twentieth century, seeking to recover ideas that could reenergize democratic activism today. The question of how citizens should behave as they struggle to create a more ...

Untying the knot

marriage, the State, and the case for their divorce

Marriage is at the center of one of today's fiercest political debates. Activists argue about how to define it, judges and legislators decide who should benefit from it, and scholars consider how the state should protect those who are denied it. Few, however, ask ...

Capitalism and the jews

The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism, separates ...

Animal spirits

how human psychology drives the economy, and why it matters for global capitalism

The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, 'animal spirits' are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists ...

The venturesome economy

how innovation sustains prosperity in more connected world

Many warn that the next stage of globalization - the offshoring of research and development to China and India - threatens the foundations of Western prosperity. But in "The Venturesome Economy", acclaimed business and economics scholar Amar Bhide shows how wrong the doomsayers are. Using extensive field ...

Economic gangsters

corruption, violence, and the poverty of nations

Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him - he has diplomatic immunity. He's the Chinese smuggler who dodges tariffs by magically transforming frozen ...

American government

power and purpose

Aut. Theodore J. Lowi...[et al]. In this major revision, new co-author Stephen Ansolabehere sharpens the contemporary analytical perspective in the political behaviour chapters and a new primer on 'Analyzing Evidence' in Chapter 1 sets the stage for sections in every chapter that highlight the ...