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Smart growth

building an enduring business by managing the risks of growth

Common Wall Street wisdom holds that if a business is successful, it grows, but growth can be a bane to business, overextending a company's modest resources and forcing it to compete beyond its means. Few companies achieve continuous, long-term expansion, and the "grow or ...

The Matthew effect

how advantage begets further advantage

The old saying does often seem to hold true: the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, creating a widening gap between those who have more and those who have less. The sociologist Robert K. Merton called this phenomenon the Matthew effect, named after ...

Catherine de Médicis

1519-1589

Le destin de Catherine de Médicis, reine de France, reine-mère et régente, depuis son enfance jusqu'à son mariage avec François Ier, qui reigna durant les périodes troubles du fanatisme religieux, des assassinats et des massacres entre catholiques et protestants.

Football economics and policy

In the last twenty years professional sport has grown into a business of some substance and has attracted increasing attention from investors, lawyers, governments and regulators. Commercial and cultural disputes have required an increasingly sophisticated economic analysis, and over this period Stefan Szymanski has been ...

The comparative economics of sport

In the last twenty years professional sport has grown into a business of some substance and has attracted increasing attention from investors, lawyers, governments and regulators. Commercial and cultural disputes have required an increasingly sophisticated economic analysis, and over this period Stefan Szymanski has been ...

International acquisition finance

Law and practice

Ed. Gwendoline Griffiths. This new edition of International Acquisition Finance builds on the success of the first edition in providing a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the law and practice of acquisition finance from the viewpoint of leading lawyers in over 20 different jurisdictions including ...

Treading softly

paths to ecoligical order

We are living beyond our means, running up debts both economic and ecological, consuming the planet's resources at rates not remotely sustainable. But it's hard to imagine a different way. How can we live without cheap goods and easy credit? How can we ...

The violence of financial capitalism

This first English-language edition of Christian Marazzi's most recent book, The Violence of Financial Capitalism, makes a groundbreaking work on the global financial crisis available to a new audience of readers. Marazzi, a leading figure in the European postfordist movement, first takes a broad ...

Revolutionary commerce

globalization and the french monarchy

Combining the intellectual history of the Enlightenment, Atlantic history, and the history of the French Revolution, Paul Cheney explores the political economy of globalization in eighteenth-century France. The discovery of the New World and the rise of Europe's Atlantic economy brought unprecedented wealth. It ...

ReWork

change the way you work forever

From the founders of the trailblazing software company 37signals, here is a different kind of business book - one that explores a new reality. Today, anyone can be in business. Tools that used to be out of reach are now easily accessible. Technology that cost thousands ...

Convergence and divergence of national financial systems

Eds. Patrice Baubeau, Anders Ögren. Coming out of the Codisyna project which looked at national financial systems during the Gold Standard years of 1871 1971, this collection of essays aims to form a focused, original and constructive approach to examining the question of convergence and ...

Crítica a Stammler y otros textos

Edición y traducción de Javier Rodríguez Martínez. 'Crítica a Stammler y otros textos' contribuye a acercar al lector hispanohablante aspectos poco conocidos de la obra de Max Weber. Los tres ensayos que aquí se presentan ilustran los orígenes de la sociología comprensiva, los inicios del ...

Benjamin Graham

building a profession

Eds. Jason Zweig, Rodney N. Sullivan. Learn and profit from the early writings of a financial genius. Benjamin Graham is widely known as the father of Value Investing, and mentor to Warren Buffett. But Graham made another critically important contribution by advocating that securities analysts ...

Uncontrolled risk

the lessons of Lehman Brothers and how systematic risk can still bring down the world financial system

Why was Lehman ignored when everyone else was bailed out? A risk advisor for top financial institutions and top B-school professor, Mark Williams explains how uncontrolled risk toppled a 158-year-old institution, using this story as a microcosm to illuminate the interconnection of the global financial ...

Water footprint and virtual water trade in Spain

policy implications

Auts. Alberto Garrido...[et al]. CONTENTS: Introduction.- Literature review.- Methodology.- Data and Limitations.- Water Footprint of Spain.- Net Virtual Water 'Flow'.- Bringing the analysis to the policy context.- Summary and Conclusions.

Strategy

process, content, context

This is the highly anticipated new edition of the market-leading introduction to strategic management from Bob de Wit (Maastricht School of Management) and Ron Meyer (TiasNimbas Business School). Widely acclaimed for its ability to foster creative, non-prescriptive and global strategic thinking amongst students, "Strategy, 4e ...

Cómo redactar solicitudes, reclamaciones, demandas y recursos laborales

Esta obra se ha realizado con la intención de que pueda servir como instrumento práctico que facilite la redacción de los diversos escritos -solicitudes, reclamaciones, demandas y recursos- que, en relación con el mundo del trabajo y de la Seguridad Social pudieran suscitarse y, más ...

Eclipse of the Sunnis

Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East

Two million Sunni Muslims displaced or exiled by the conflict in Iraq have spread across the Middle East, unbalancing that sensitive region. This title illuminates the flip-side of the Shia revival, the profound dislocation and destabilization of the Sunni Muslims and its impact on the ...

Práctica del seguro de buques

Después de tratar de definir el concepto de buque, las diferentes partes de que consta y las clases de buques según la carga, el autor, hace un repaso a las normativas aplicables, estructura de la póliza, etc. Ver el índice para una mejor información.

Los abogados de Guantánamo

dentro de la prisión, fuera de la ley

Eds. Mark P. Denbeaux, Jonathan Hafetz ; Prol. Javier Pérez Royo. Como consecuencia de los atentados del 11 de septiembre de 2001, Estados Unidos encarceló a más de 750 personas en su base naval de la bahía de Guantánamo (Cuba) bajo la acusación de ser "los ...