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Regulating unfair banking practices in Europe

the case of personal suretyships

Eds. Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi, Stephen Weatherill. Private persons often stand surety for a business debt incurred by family members, friends, or employers. These suretyships are commonly banking guarantees contracted by means of standard terms. Sometimes the guarantor signs the contract while he/she is not ...

The reception of international Law in the European Court of Human Rights

The growing number of international courts and tribunals and their burgeoning case law have fuelled concerns about the fragmentation of international law. This arises as a consequence of both the specialized regimes these courts create and the multiple ways in which they may interpret international ...

Law and justice in community

This book proposes a general theory of the nature of law based on the idea that law exists in all human communities before it is ever posited or in any other sense formally expressed. According to the theory, the nature of law is not captured ...

Corporate governance of non-listed companies

Studies of corporate governance traditionally focus on the governance problems of large publicly held firms, and policymakers' recommendations often focus on such firms. However most small firms, and in many countries, even many large companies, are non-listed. This book provides a comprehensive account of non-listed ...

Between authority and interpretation

In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political, and moral. The book provides an overview of Raz's work on jurisprudence and the nature of law in the context of broader questions in the ...

Beyond constitutionalism

the pluralist structure of postnational Law

Under pressure from globalisation, the classical distinction between domestic and international law has become increasingly blurred, spurring demand for new paradigms to construe the emerging postnational legal order. The typical response of constitutional and international lawyers as well as political theorists has been to extend ...

Financial globalization

growth, integration, innovation and crisis

The significance of financial globalization has sharply increased due to the current global financial crisis and the so-called Great Recession, which was sparked by the sub-prime mortgage debacle in the United Kingdom and the United States. After the failure of Northern Rock in September 2007 ...

The Lisbon Treaty

Law, politics, and treaty reform

The Lisbon Treaty reformed the foundations of the European Union and marked the culmination of a process of Treaty reform that began after the Treaty of Nice and spanned almost a decade. This book addresses the main innovations made by the new Treaty, examining its ...

Keynes betrayed

Geoff Tily argues that Keynes was primarily concerned with monetary policy, not fiscal policy. Viewed as a coherent whole, Keynes's work was concerned with the appropriate technique and infrastructure for the management of money at low rates of interest. More specifically, his rejection of ...

The politics of party funding

state funding to political parties and party competition in Western Europe

Recently there has been a convergence of party funding regimes across many states of Western Europe. The driving force behind this process has been the introduction of state funding to political parties. This book subsequently asks why state funding to political parties has been introduced ...

Reframing social citizenship

Throughout the world, governments are restructuring social and welfare provision to give a stronger role to opportunity, aspiration and individual responsibility, and to competition, markets and consumer choice. This approach centres on a logic of individual rational action: people are the best judges of what ...

Els sindicats de funcionaris de la Generalitat de Catalunya (1931-1939)

Aquest llibre analitza els projectes de sindicació i associació corporativa dels funcionaris de la Generalitat de Catalunya durant els anys 1931-1939. Tanmateix, no se#ls analitza com a subjectes passius a remolc dels esdeveniments polítics, sinó com a elements actius de la política catalana dels ...

El amanecer de la libertad

la independencia de América Latina

Presentación de José Mª Pérez de Tudela Vázquez. Dirigir la mirada hacia el pasado nunca es tarea vana, dice Carlos Sabino, y agrega: «el presente sólo cobra sentido en la me­dida en que conocemos la secuencia de hechos y de circunstancias, de emociones y ...

El Zohar: traducido, explicado y comentado

Vol. X: Secciones Bo-Beshalaj (32b-66b)

El volumen X nos habla del tema de la esclavitud en Egipto y de la salida de ese exilio, un proceso de preparación necesario y obligatorio, como medio para recibir la Torá. También alude al tema del veneno espiritual introducido por la serpiente, veneno que ...

Huracán sobre el Sáhara

memorias de un periodista en el último desastre colonial español

El 14 de noviembre de 1975 se consumó una de las mayores vergüenzas históricas de la España contemporánea. El último Gobierno de Franco, traicionando la promesa que había hecho a los habitantes del territorio y el reiterado compromiso adquirido ante las Naciones Unidas cedió la ...

Diario de un miliciano republicano

(1936-1939)

Reproducción del diario manuscrito de Josquín Aisa, obrero barcelonés alistado desde los primeros días en las Milicias Antifascistas que narra su lucha en el frente de Aragón y su posterior traslado a una compañía de las Brigadas Internacionales.

Inmigrantes en Estados Unidos y España

protagonistas en el siglo XXI

Eds. Tomás Calvo Buezas, Isabel Gentil García. El objetivo del presente libro (37 capítulos) en el que intervienen investigadores de España, América Latina y Estados Unidos, es ofrecer elementos de análisis y compa-ración desde las dos orillas, americana y europea para comprender los movimientos de ...

Dinamismo económico

tiempo y ciencia

La Economía es una ciencia humana en la que interviene decisivamente toda la compleja riqueza unitaria y original de la inteligencia, creatividad y libertad humana, pero también la naturaleza inanimada está cambiando notablemente.

Nuevos principios económicos

Coincide el autor en el argumento de simetría del premio Nobel de Economía James Buchanan según el cual debemos aplicar un mismo modelo de conducta humana en todas las ocasiones y circunstancias. Pero ese modelo de conducta no es precisamente el del homo

Obras selectas.T.I

Introducción a la vida devota. Sermones escogidos. Conversaciones espirituales

Texto preparado por Eugenio Alburquerque Frutos. Ofrece este primer volumen de las Obras selectas de san Francisco de Sales algunos de sus escritos espirituales fundamentales: la Introducción a la vida devota, una selección de sus Sermones y las Conversaciones espirituales. Ellos nos acercan e introducen ...