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What environmentalists need to know about economics

KEY TITLE Economic insights are essential to understanding the root causes of environmental problems and the policy options for how to change behavior at the individual, community, national, and international levels. What Environmentalists Need to Know about Economics Provides a conceptual set of tools for ...

The legacy of punishment in international Law

This book explores the evolution of international punishment from a natural law-based ground for the use of force and conquest to a series of jurisdictional and disciplinary practices in international law not previously seen as being conceptually related.

Ethics, Law and military operations

Ed. David Whetham. Public anger at perceived ethical and legal failures in recent wars has reinforced the importance of understanding military ethics. Ethics, Law and Military Operations is one of the first texts to examine both the ethical and the legal considerations of contemporary military ...

Operations rules

delivering customer value through flexible operations

In recent years, management gurus have urged businesses to adopt such strategies as just-in-time, lean manufacturing, offshoring, and frequent deliveries to retail outlets. But today, these much-touted strategies may be risky. Global financial turmoil, rising labor costs in developing countries, and huge volatility in the ...

Revisiting Keynes

Eds. Lorenzo Pecchi, Gustavo Piga. In 1931 distinguished economist John Maynard Keynes published a short essay, Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, in his collection Essays in Persuasion. In the essay, he expressed optimism for the economic future despite the doldrums of the post-World War I ...

Minimum wages

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009. Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred countries, both industrialized and developing. The United States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938 and has increased the minimum wage and its coverage at irregular intervals ever since; in addition ...

Happiness

a revolution in economics

Revolutionary developments in economics are rare. The conservative bias of the field and its enshrined knowledge make it difficult to introduce new ideas not in line with received theory. Happiness research, however, has the potential to change economics substantially. Its findings, which are gradually being ...

The Comingled Code

open source and economic development

Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often generate more heat than light. Advocates passionately assert the benefits of open source while critics decry its effects. Missing from the debate is rigorous economic analysis and systematic economic evidence of the impact of open ...

Product variety and the gains from international trade

The application of the monopolistic competition model to international trade by Elhanan Helpman, Paul Krugman, and Kelvin Lancaster was one of the great achievements of international trade theory in the 1970s and 1980s. Monopolistic competition models have required new empirical methods to implement their theoretical ...

Macroeconomic essentials

understanding economics in the news

This introductory text offers an alternative to the encyclopedic, technically oriented approach taken by traditional textbooks on macroeconomic principles. Concise and nontechnical but rigorous, its goal is not to teach students to shift curves on diagrams but to help them understand fundamental macroeconomic concepts and ...

The indirect side of direct investment

multinational company finance and taxation

The recent increase in cross-border flows of foreign direct investment has sharpened the research focus on multinational taxation. In this book, taxation experts Jack Mintz and Alfons Weichenrieder examine how multinational corporations use indirect financing structures--organizing themselves into groups with several tiers of ownership--to reduce ...

Derecho penal

Parte Especial

Esta obra es el resultado de un pormenorizado análisis del Derecho Penal (parte especial), en el que se recogen las opiniones más actuales y significativas de la doctrina académica y jurisprudencial. La exposición de los temas sigue, en general, y para su mejor localización y ...

Nationalism

For the last two centuries, nationalism has been a central feature of society and politics. Few ideologies can match its power and resonance, and no other political movement and symbolic language has such worldwide appeal and resilience. But nationalism is also a form of public ...

A Companion to Latin American History

Ed. Thomas H. Holloway. The Companion to Latin American History collects the work of leading experts in the field to create a single-source overview of the diverse history and current trends in the study of Latin America. * Presents a state-of-the-art overview of the history of ...

El libro Rojo

Edición castellana al cuidado de Bernardo Nante. Gran formato con ilustraciones. El libro rojo o Liber Novus narra e ilustra bellamente las fulgurantes y aterradoras visiones de C. G. Jung acaecidas entre los años 1913 y 1916 y su audaz intento de comprenderlas. No es ...

Autobiografía

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) es uno de los hombres que más profunda huella ha dejado en el pensamiento occidental de nuestro tiempo, y #fruto de una curiosidad intelectual casi ilimitada# se ha convertido en un referente en las más diversas ramas del saber. Estudió matemáticas, física ...

Relaciones laborales

una visión unificadora

Coord. Luis Enrique Ramírez. SUMARIO: ¿Por qué una carta sociolaboral para los trabajadores latinoamericanos? Luis Enrique Ramírez.- El nuevo desarrollismo como superación dialéctica del neoliberalismo en Argentina. Mariano Féliz.- Derecho a la organización sindical libre y democrática. David Duarte.- Algunos aportes sobre la democracia sindical ...

Medidas urgentes para la reforma del mercado laboral

comentarios a la Ley 35/2010, de 17 de septiembre

La presente obra le servirá para hacer un análisis sistemático de las novedades que la Ley 35/2010 incorpora a la legislación laboral y de seguridad social, haciendo referencia básicamente a las disposiciones de carácter normativo y prescindiendo de #las cada vez más abundantes# prescripciones ...

Violencia intrafamiliar

raíces, factores y formas de la violencia en el hogar

No pasarán... aunque lleven trajes

la lucha contra la extrema derecha hoy

En toda Europa existe una creciente amenaza de la extrema derecha. Especialmente preocupante en el Estado español es el crecimiento electoral de Plataforma per Catalunya, cuyo líder, el confesado franquista Josep Anglada, sigue el modelo de Le Pen en Francia: esconder una política de extrema ...