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The application of the precautionary principle in practice

comparative dimensions

This overview of the role played by the precautionary principle in international trade law, European law and national law compares how precautionary considerations have been applied in the fields of pesticide regulation and the regulation of base stations for mobile telephones in Sweden, the UK ...

Social and economic networks

Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which network ...

Ingredient branding

making the invisible visible

"An Ingredient Brand is exactly what the name implies: an ingredient or component of a product that has its own brand identity. This is the first comprehensive book that explains how Ingredient Branding works and how brand managers can successfully improve the performance of component ...

Political obligation

Do we have any obligations to our political society? If so, how should they be understood and explained? Political philosophers since Socrates have grappled with these questions, and have reached a diverse range of conclusions. Following on from the success of the first edition, this ...

See no Evil

uncovering the truth behind the financial crisis

We are doomed to experience further financial crises in the future, because money is powerful, bankers clever, political will malleable, and memories short. So argues Erik Banks in this brilliant book, which tells the story of the recent global economic crisis in the words of ...

Knowledge and environmental policy

re-imagining the boundaries of science and politics

During the George W. Bush administration, politics and ideology routinely trumped scientific knowledge in making environmental policy. Data were falsified, reports were edited selectively, and scientists were censored. The Obama administration has pledged to restore science to the policy making process. And yet, as the ...

Constitutional theocracy

At the intersection of two sweeping global trends - the rise of popular support for principles of theocratic governance and the spread of constitutionalism and judicial review - a new legal order has emerged: constitutional theocracy. It enshrines religion and its interlocutors as 'a' or 'the' source ...

World economic outlook

recovery, risk, and rebalancing

Elaborated by International Monetary Fund.

Why the world economy needs a financial crash

and other critical essays on finance and financial economics

The essays in this volume explain how financial inflation shifts banking and financial markets towards more speculative activity, changing the financial structure of the economy and corroding the social and political values that underlie welfare state capitalism. The essays begin with an article that was ...

The new Cambridge history of Islam

Vol.III: The eastern islamic world, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries

This volume traces the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth. As the faith crossed cultural boundaries, the trader and the mystic became as important as the soldier and the administrator. Distinctive Islamic idioms began to emerge ...

The new Cambridge history of Islam. Vol. IV

Islamic cultures and societies to the end of the Eighteenth Century

Ed. Robert Irwin. Robert Irwin's authoritative introduction to the fourth volume of The New Cambridge History of Islam offers a panoramic vision of Islamic culture from its origins to around 1800. The introductory chapter, which highlights key developments and introduces some of Islam's ...

La contabilidad empresarial

Prol. José Manuel Rodríguez Carrasco. La contabilidad es la única información capaz de representar a la organización como una maqueta a escala, reflejándola en sus detalles más esenciales. Esta maqueta, fabricada por un grupo de personas expertas, es el mapa sobre el cual los grupos ...

Migraciones y fronteras

nuevos contornos para la movilidad internacional

Eds. Mª Eugenia Anguiano, Ana López Sala. Las fronteras han adquirido en el cambiante mundo del siglo XXI nuevos significados políticos, simbólicos y estratégicos, especialmente en sociedades de inmigración, y su transformación física ha implicado la redefinición ideológica de sus funciones y su naturaleza. Las ...

Advanced microeconomic theory

Advanced Microeconomic Theory' remains a rigorous, up-to-date standard in microeconomics, giving all the core mathematics and modern theory the advanced student must master. This student-friendly text, with its efficient theorem-proof organization, and many examples and exercises, is uniquely effective in advanced courses.

Advanced modern macroeconomics

analysis and application

Modern Macroeconomics' provides a back-to-basics approach to macroeconomics. Requiring only a microeconomics background, the book is a comprehensive introduction to macroeconomics that builds the essential elements in a methodologically consistent fashion.

El régimen profesional y de Seguridad Social de los trabajadores autónomos

El día 12 de octubre de 2007 entró en vigor la Ley 20/2007, de 11 de julio, del Estatuto del trabajo autónomo, que regula los derechos y obligaciones del trabajador autónomo, así como las medidas tendentes a que el Régimen Especial de Trabajadores Autónomos ...

Mercado y competencia

La defensa de la competencia es uno de los elementos básicos de la economía de mercado y de la política económica de un país. En el ámbito europeo su garantía ha estado presente desde sus inicios en las políticas básicas de la Unión Europea para ...

Breve historia de Atila y los Hunos

Un fabuloso viaje junto al pueblo de origen oscuro e incierto, nómada y cazador, que llegó a Occidente empujando a otros pueblos apacibles y que originó las oleadas bárbaras que terminaron con el Imperio romano de Occidente. Un palpitante recorrido por la historia, la cultura ...

Breve historia de la China milenaria

La apasionante historia de la China milenaria, desde la prehistoria hasta la llegada de Gengis Kan y los mongoles en el siglo XIII, pasando por Qin Shihuang y su ejército de terracota, Confucio y las cien escuelas del pensamiento, y por la construcción de la ...

Ecoetiquetado de bienes y servicios para un desarrollo sostenible

El ecoetiquetado de bienes y servicios es una herramienta consolidada para informar de las cargas ambientales de los productos consumidos. De forma práctica e ilustrativa, el autor nos presenta la metodología MC3 que permite a las entidades calcular simultáneamente la huella ecológica corporativa (HEC) y ...