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Limits of constitutional democracy

Eds. Jeffrey K. Tulis, Stephen Macedo. Constitutional democracy is at once a flourishing idea filled with optimism and promise - and an enterprise fraught with limitations. Uncovering the reasons for this ambivalence, this book looks at the difficulties of constitutional democracy, and reexamines fundamental questions: What ...

Economic lives

how culture shapes the economy

Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No one has played a greater role in this development ...

Cultivating conscience

how good laws make good people

Contemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day, we behave unselfishly - few of us mug the elderly or steal the paper from our neighbor's yard, and many of us go ...

Gold standard at the turn of the Twentieth Century

rising powers, global money, and the Age of Empire

By the end of the nineteenth century, the world was ready to adopt the gold standard out of concerns of national power, prestige, and anti- English competition. Yet although the gold standard allowed countries to enact a virtual single world currency, the years before World ...

The animal rights debate

abolition or regulation?

Gary L. Francione is a law professor and leading philosopher of animal rights theory. Robert Garner is a political theorist specializing in the philosophy and politics of animal protection. Francione maintains that we have no moral justification for using nonhumans and argues that because animals ...

Credit engineering for bankers

a practical guide for bank leading

More efficient credit portfolio engineering can increase the decision- making power of bankers and boost the market value of their banks. By implementing robust risk management procedures, bankers can develop comprehensive views of obligors by integrating fundamental and market data into a portfolio framework that ...

Matisse y la Alhambra

1910-2010

Dir. Mª del Mar Villafranca Jiménez. Catálogo de la exposición. Matisse #regresa# a la Alhambra cien años después de su visita al Monumento nazarí. Matisse y la Alhambra (1910-2010) es el título de la exposición con la que el Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife ...

Zero-Sum Game

the rise of the world's largest derivatives exchange

In 2007, a stranger-than-fiction multibillion-dollar bidding war for the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) erupted between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and Atlanta's IntercontinentalExchange (ICE). Zero-Sum Game: The Rise of the World's Largest Derivatives Exchange takes readers behind the scenes of this battle ...

The future of finance

a new model for banking and investment

Foreword by Frank J. Fabozzi. New banking and investment business models to navigate the post- financial crisis environment The financial crisis of 2007-2008 has discredited business models in the banking and fund management industries. In The Future of Finance, Moorad Choudhry and Gino Landuyt argue ...

Crash of the titans

greed, hubris, the fall of Merrill Lynch, and the near-collapse of Bank of America

Crash of the Titans is a financial thriller that puts you in the theater as the historic events of the financial crisis unfold and people responsible for billion of dollars of other people#s money gamble recklessly to enhance their power and their paychecks or ...

When money dies

the nightmare of deficit spending, devaluation, and hyperinflation in Weimar Germany

When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nation#s currency depreciates beyond recovery. In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German ...

Brazil on the rise

the story of a country transformed

A fabled country with a reputation for danger, romance and intrigue, Brazil has transformed itself in the past decade. Brazil on the Rise, written by the go-to journalist on Brazil, intimately portrays a country of contradictions, a country of passion and above all a country ...

Bought and paid for

the unholy alliance between Barack Obama and Wall Street

As the author attempts to show that the White House rewarded some of its high-profile campaign donors in the financial industry by structuring the massive bailout in a way that let the biggest banks earn huge profits. But in the second half, Gasparino undermines his ...

Spend shift

how the post-crisis values revolution is changing the way we buy, sell, and live

Foreword by Philip Kotler. Understanding the post-crisis consumer In Spend Shift, John Gerzema, world-renowned expert on consumer values, and Pulitzer prizewinning author Michael D'Antonio document the rise of a vibrant, values-driven post-recession economy. To tell the story of this movement, the authors travel to ...

Seven strategy questions

a simple approach for better execution

To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into the day-to-day actions carried out in your company. That means channeling resources into the right efforts, achieving the right balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone pulling in the ...

Mercado de trabajo y la competitividad de la economía española

La economía española atraviesa una profunda situación recesiva desde hace más de dos años, durante la cual, la continua caída en los crecimientos de la riqueza nacional está impactando sobre el comportamiento del mercado de trabajo. Una parte de nuestros problemas tiene su origen en ...

Epistolario 1924-1948

Edición, estudio introductorio y notas Octavio Ruiz-Manjón.

The economics of the environment

For undergraduate students with a background in either economics or environmental sciences. Gain a deeper understanding of economics and the environment. The Economics of the Environment completely integrates economics and environmental issues, explaining how both market successes and failures affect the environment. This text also ...

Idées d'Empire en Italie et en Espagne

XIVe-XVIIe siècle

Dirs. Françoise Crémoux, Jean-Louis Fournel. Loin de se référer à un concept univoque, les textes rassemblés dans ce volume voudraient montrer comment, à l'épreuve des limites spatiales et temporelles que nous nous sommes fixées, la question de l'empire acquiert une productivité politique et ...

Tutela judicial de los consumidores y transacciones colectivas

El presente trabajo aborda una dimensión de la tutela judicial de los consumidores y usuarios que no había sido hasta ahora objeto de tratamiento en nuestro país: la celebración de transacciones colectivas como forma de poner fin a los procesos civiles en que se hayan ...