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Droits constitutionnels étrangers

Principalement destiné aux étudiants des facultés de droit et des instituts d'études politiques, cet ouvrage, conçu sous la forme de développements synthétiques, structurés et illustrés, permettra au lecteur d'acquérir une vision comparative des droits constitutionnels étrangers situés dans leur contexte historique et leur ...

Democracy and the limits of self-government

The political institutions under which we live today evolved from a revolutionary idea that shook the world in the second part of the eighteenth century: that a people should govern itself. Yet if we judge contemporary democracies by the ideals of self-government, equality and liberty ...

Why Nations fight

Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing, and revenge. Using an original data set, Richard Ned Lebow examines the distribution of wars across three and a half centuries and argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, only a minority of ...

Global financial integration thirty years on

from reform to crisis

Eds. Geoffrey R.D. Underhill, Jasper Blom, Daniel Mügge. Early in the new millennium it appeared that a long period of financial crisis had come to an end, but the world now faces renewed and greater turmoil. This volume analyses the past three decades of ...

Deadlocks in multilateral negotiations

causes and solutions

Ed. Amrita Narlikar. Deadlocks are a feature of everyday life, as well as high politics. This volume focuses on the concept, causes, and consequences of deadlocks in multilateral settings, and analyses the types of strategies that could be used to break them. It commences with ...

Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the creation of Game Theory

from chess to social science, 1900-1960

Drawing on a wealth of new archival material, including personal correspondence and diaries, Robert Leonard tells the fascinating story of the creation of game theory by Hungarian Jewish mathematician John von Neumann and Austrian economist Oskar Morgenstern. Game theory first emerged amid discussions of the ...

The economics of cultural policy

Cultural policy is changing. Traditionally, cultural policies have been concerned with providing financial support for the arts, for cultural heritage and for institutions such as museums and galleries. In recent years, around the world, interest has grown in the creative industries as a source of ...

International migration in the age of crisis and globalization

historical and recent experiences

The international mobility of people and elites is a main feature of the global economy of today. Immigration augments the labor force in receiving countries and provides many of the bodies and minds that are essential to any vibrant economy. This book is based on ...

Resource economics

Resource Economics is a text for students with a background in calculus and intermediate microeconomics and a familiarity with the spreadsheet software Excel. The book covers basic concepts (Chapter 1), shows how to set up spreadsheets to solve simple dynamic allocation problems (Chapter 2), and ...

Prospect theory for risk and ambiguity

Prospect Theory: For Risk and Ambiguity provides the first comprehensive and accessible textbook treatment of the way decisions are made both when we have the statistical probabilities associated with uncertain future events (risk) and when we lack them (ambiguity). The book presents models, primarily prospect ...

Challenges in Central Banking

the current institutional environment and forces affecting monetary policy

Eds. Pierre L. Siklos, Martin T. Bohl, Mark E. Wohar. Changes in the field of central banking over the past two decades have been nothing short of dramatic. They include the importance of central bank autonomy, the desirability of low and stable inflation, and the ...

Fixed ideas of money

small States and exchange rate regimes

Most European countries are rather small, yet we know little about their monetary history. This book analyses for the first time the experience of seven small states (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland) during the last hundred years, starting with the restoration ...

International and comparative Competition Law

This thorough appraisal of competition law and policy from an international and comparative perspective covers the role of different international organisations active in the area, the significance of multinational enterprises and, in particular, the differences between US and EU systems. Taking examples from regions such ...

Parliamentary sovereignty

contemporary debates

This book has four main themes: (1) a criticism of 'common law constitutionalism', the theory that Parliament's authority is conferred by, and therefore is or can be made subordinate to, judge-made common law; (2) an analysis of Parliament's ability to abdicate, limit or ...

Tough choices

structured paternalism and the landscape of choice

To what extent should government be permitted to intervene in personal choices? In grappling with this question, liberal theory seeks to balance individual liberty with the advancement of collective goals such as equality. Too often, however, society's obligation to provide meaningful opportunities is overshadowed ...

Apuntes de Derecho civil patrimonial

Los autores de la presente obra han decidido confeccionar los presentes Apuntes de Derecho Civil Patrimonial con la exclusiva finalidad de facilitar la comprensión por el alumno de una materia que, en el contexto específico del Grado en Relaciones Laborales. El derecho Civil constituye el ...

Libertad religiosa y urbanismo

estudio de los equipamientos de uso religioso en España

La dimensión colectiva e institucional de la libertad religiosa necesita de lugares de culto, y de centros para las actividades formativas y de gobierno de las confesiones religiosas. La laicidad positiva que se instauró en España en 1978 debe salir al encuentro de estas necesidades ...

The military leadership of Matilda of Canossa, 1046-1115

His is the first account in English of the entire, forty year military career of one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Challenging the boundaries between military and gender history, it explains how one famous noblewoman rose to the defense of the ...

Filosofía del imperio

Hacer filosofía del imperio significa en primer lugar confrontarse con la tradición filosófica: por ello, a lo largo de este libro se suceden las visiones críticas, racionalizadoras, justificadoras, proféticas o quiliásticas sobre el Imperio que atraviesan la historia de la filosofía de la política. Se ...

Evangelizar

«Siempre es tiempo de evangelización. Siempre es el tiempo del primer anuncio. Dios nos da el don de la fe de una vez para siempre, pero nosotros tenemos que renovarla cada mañana. Consciente de mis limitaciones, ofrezco estas páginas a cuantos sienten la inquietud de ...