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Administración de empresas

un enfoque interdisciplinar

Este libro pretende ser tradicional, contemporáneo y multidisciplinar. Tradicional, porque analiza las contribuciones que hicieron a la administración los pioneros de la especialidad. Contemporáneo porque incluye las aportaciones académicas más recientes. Multidisciplinar porque abarca una amplia y equilibrada gama de conocimientos, incluida la práctica empresarial ...

The super-rich shall inherit the earth

the new global oligarchs and how they're taking over our world

In 2000 No Logo described a vision of rapacious corporations building brands at the expense of impoverished third world employees and ripped- off first world consumers. Now, only eight years later, No Logo looks almost optimistic against the rise of a new and insidious club ...

Africans in Europe

the Culture of Exile and Emigration from Equatorial Guinea to Spain

What differentiates emigration from exile? This book delves theoretically and practically into this core question of population movements. Tracing the shifts of Africans into and out of Equatorial Guinea, it explores a small former Spanish colony in central Africa. Throughout its history, many inhabitants of ...

The commodities investor

a beginner's guide to diversifying your portfolio with commodities

In 2007/08 the commodity story reached epic proportions as rising demand, limited supply and volatile stock markets collided to send the cost of resources and agricultural commodities sky high across the globe. This perfect storm - this soaring want and need for everything from oil ...

The 21st-Century case for a managed economy

the role of desequilibrium feedback loops and scientific method in post- crash economics

For decades, free-market economists have told a consistent story. Markets are rational, efficient, stable and fair, and even volatile financial markets should be left mostly to their own devices. Governments, meanwhile, should maintain basic institutions but should otherwise stay out of the way. This is ...

Engels

a very short introduction

It is by no means absurd to say that Engels invented Marxism. His work did more than Marx to make converts of the most influential political movement of modern times. He was not only the father of dialectical and historical materialism, the official philosophies of ...

Hacer vivir, dejar morir

biopolítica y capitalismo

Coords. Sonia Arribas, Germán Cano, Javier Ugarte. INDICE: Más allá del biopoder: el arte de la existencia. Biopolítica, liberalismo y neoliberalismo: acción política. Neoliberalismo y gobierno de la vida. Gubernamentalidad, biopolítica, neoliberalismo: Foucault en situación. El resentimiento como estrategia de poder. Biopolítica y "población" en ...

Violent Democracies in Latin America

Eds. Enrique Desmond Arias and Daniel M. Goldstein. Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned ...

Historia de la medicina

desde chamanes y filósofos hasta la medicina nuclear

Esta obra recorre las etapas históricas y analiza cómo se entendía la salud y la enfermedad en las diferentes sociedades y culturas hasta la actualidad.

Productividad

una perspectiva internacional y sectorial

La presente publicación analiza con detalle los perfiles seguidos por la productividad del trabajo a lo largo del periodo 1970-2005 en cada uno de los países pertenecientes a la UE-25, Australia, Corea del Sur, Estados Unidos y Japón. El punto de partida son los resultados ...

Industrial organization in context

Industrial Organization is a central branch of microeconomics that has historically provoked a great deal of debate among economists. Steve Martin draws on this debate and economic history in order to examine the economics of markets, industries and their participants and in doing so addresses ...

Law as a moral idea

This book argues that the institutions of law, and the structures of legal thought, are to be understood by reference to a moral ideal. The idea of law is an ideal of freedom, or independence from the power of others. The moral value and justificatory ...

Contabilidad de sociedades

supuestos prácticos

La contabilidad de sociedades tiene como objeto el estudio de las particularidades contables que presenta la normativa mercantil, por lo que resulta obligado conocer esta última para proceder a la contabilización de las distintas operaciones allí reguladas. Este derecho contable tiene un campo de actuación ...

Eventful cities

cultural management and urban revitalisation

Cities used to compete to be monumental - now they compete to be eventful. Processes of globalisation, economic restructuring and urban redevelopment have placed events at the centre of strategies for change in cities. Events offer the potential to achieve economic, social, cultural and environmental aims ...

Stalking the black swan

research and decision making in a world of extreme volatility

Kenneth A. Posner spent more than a decade tracking the volatile stock sector known as "specialty finance." A research analyst with Morgan Stanley, Posner monitored markets known for surprise shifts in volatility, including the stocks of controversial credit card companies and mortgage lenders, some of ...

General principles of Luxembourg taxation

This book has been designed to give a comprehensive overview of the key features of Luxembourg taxation. Luxembourg is well known for its favourable tax regimes and the aim of the author is to describe the most attractive of those regimes, like the participation exemption ...

Margins of conflict

the ECHR and transitions to and from armed conflict

Ed. Antoine Buyse. The European Convention on Human Rights was drafted in the wake of World War II. The dark shadows of war have never fully receded from Europe however. Armed conflict has resurged time and again, from Northern Ireland to Cyprus and Turkey, and ...

International criminal procedure

a clash of legal cultures

The procedures used by international criminal courts blend elements of civil law and common law procedures. This mixture causes disputes between civil and common law lawyers which are hard to resolve while the disputants remain philosophically bound by the premises of their native legal systems ...

Reforming the international financial system for development

Ed. Jomo Kwame Sundaram. The 1944 Bretton Woods conference created new institutions for international economic governance. Though flawed, the system led to a golden age in postwar reconstruction, sustained economic growth, job creation, and postcolonial development. Yet financial liberalization since the 1970s has involved deregulation ...

Mastering derivatives markets

a step-by-step guide to the products, applications and risk

"The first port of call for anyone looking to truly understand derivatives markets, appreciate the role they play within the global financial system and develop the technical knowledge to trade." Matthew Thompson, Chief Strategy & Business Development Officer, Dubai Mercantile Exchange "An essential read for anyone ...