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The new dynamic public finance

Optimal tax design attempts to resolve a well-known trade-off: namely, that high taxes are bad insofar as they discourage people from working, but good to the degree that, by redistributing wealth, they help insure people against productivity shocks. Until recently, however, economic research on this ...

Penal abolitionism

Abolitionism is not only a strategy or a set of demands, aimed at the reduction (or suppression) of custody, it is also a perspective, a philosophy, an approach which challenges conventional definitions of crime. This book examines the origin, philosophy and achievements of abolitionism and ...

Museología y documentación

criterios para la definición de un proyecto de documentación en museos

A lo largo de las páginas de esta obra, el autor inicia una exploración de los nuevos requerimientos de la sociedad en relación con los museos, especialmente a raíz de la evolución de la sociedad de la información y su implicación en la construcción de ...

El budismo explicado a mis hijas

El budismo atrae y seduce a muchos de nuestros contemporáneos en Europa y en América. ¿Cómo explicar esa atracción? ¿De dónde proviene ese éxito? Al final del libro Dennis Gira responde a esas preguntas, pero antes nos presenta, en un lenguaje sencillo, para los jóvenes ...

Perché obbedire al Diritto?

la risposta convenzionalista ed i suoi limiti

Le risposte affermative alla domanda scelta come titolo del libro - Perché obbedire al diritto? - sono riconducibili a tre alternative: a) la normatività del diritto dipende dalla coazione ("modello del bandito"); b) la normatività del diritto dipende da ragioni morali ("modello della morale"); c) la normatività ...

The powers that be

global energy for the Twenty-First Century and beyond

Gasoline prices are high and rapidly climbing. Oil and natural gas reserves are dwindling, while demand is poised to skyrocket, as developing nations around the world lead their citizens into the modern energy economy. Meanwhile, the grave threat of catastrophic climate change looms ever larger ...

Parchment paper pixels

Law and the technologies of communication

Technological revolutions have had an unquestionable, if still debatable, impact on culture and society - perhaps none more so than the written word. In the legal realm, the rise of literacy and print culture made possible the governing of large empires, the memorializing of private legal ...

The American Supreme Court

Revised by Sanford Levinson. Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, Robert G. McCloskey's classic work on the Supreme Court's role in constructing the U.S. Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation's highest court. For this new fifth edition ...

Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject

Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject is a collection of over 7,000 quotations arranged thematically for easy look-up. Covering nearly 600 subjects, this book features a wealth of topics relevant to modern society, from Beauty, Baseball, and Belief to Patriotism, The Past, and Power ...

Municipal infrastructure financing

innovative practices from developing countries

Ed. Munawwar Alam. "Municipal Infrastructure Financing" provides an overview of the municipal finances and the extent of private sector involvement in the delivery of municipal services in selected Commonwealth developing countries. Four cities are examined in detail: Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Kampala in Uganda ...

Federal Banking in Brazil

policies and competitive advantages

This study is the first in a decade to provide an overview of banking in Brazil. It is argued that the big three federal banks have long provided essential policy alternatives and, since the liberalization of the industry in the 1990s, have realized competitive advantages ...

Biotechnological inventions

moral restraints and patent Law

Advances in modern biotechnology have produced profound and far- reaching implications for the relationship between humans, animals and the environment. As a result, a debate has arisen surrounding the legal, moral and social problems connected with this technology. A central part of this debate focuses ...

Democracy Law and governance

This book concerns the transformation of the modes of governance of contemporary developed democracies and aims to define the conditions required for the promotion of the public interest in these democracies' public policy. It has two goals - firstly to show why a sound theoretical appraoch ...

Reapraissals in the Law of property

Some of the most basic doctrines of property law are very old, many dating to the medieval era. How can legal rules that were born so long ago remain viable today? In "Reappraisals in the Law of Property", author John V. Orth considers various topics ...

The economics of abundance

a political economy of freedom, equity, and sustainability

No matter how many resources we consume we never seem to have enough. "The Economics of Abundance" is a balanced book in which Wolfgang Hoeschele challenges why this is so. He claims that our current capitalist economy can exist only on the basis of manufactured ...

La imitación de los modernos

(Tipografías 2)

Traducción y epílogo de Cristóbal Durán R. Este libro, publicado en 1986, reúne diez conferencias dictadas entre 1978 y 1985. Bajo diversos apremios y recorriendo textos disímiles - Heidegger, Hólderlin, Lyotard, Derrida, Diderot, Nietzsche-, se aboca a la idea de ir siguiendo rigurosamente los lazos que ...

La ciudad vista

mercancías y cultura urbana

A lo largo de varios años, Beatriz Sarlo recorrió la ciudad tomando fotos de aquellos lugares que revelaban una mutación significativa en la vida urbana. A partir de esas imágenes, La ciudad vista, muestra el Buenos Aires que fue configurándose en las últimas décadas sobre ...

Las dos caras de un gueto

ensayos sobre marginalización y penalización

Los ensayos que componen este libro analizan la cambiante conexión entre marginalidad social, división étnica y políticas de Estado en las metrópolis del Primer Mundo desde una perspectiva teórica y comparada. En ello Loïc Wacquant revisita esa dura realidad histórica, a la vez que reconstruye ...

Cábala hebrea y cábala cristiana

En los últimos 30 años el estudio académico de la mística judía ha sido encaminado y liderado por Moshé Idel. Dotado de una erudición y un manejo innovador de las fuentes y de la fenomenología del estudio de las religiones, nos vuelve a sorprender con ...

Instituciones de Derecho financiero

El libro que ahora presento "INSTITUCIONES" de Derecho Financiero, encierra una última reflexión sobre la organización jurídica de la Hacienda Pública en España; centrada, claro está, en las instituciones, partes o piezas fundamentales de tal mecanismo u organización: el Tributo, la Deuda pública y el ...