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Business regulation and public policy

the cost and benefits of compliance

Eds. André Nijsen...[et al]. For years, businesses have complained about the costs of regulatory compliance. On the other hand, society is becoming increasingly aware of the environmental, safety, health, financial, and other risks of business activity. Government oversight seems to be one of the ...

Schedule-based modeling of transportation networks

theory and applications

Eds. Nigel H.M. Wilson, Agostino Nuzzolo. "Schedule-Based Modeling of Transportation Networks: Theory and Applications" follows the book "Schedule-Based Dynamic Transit Modeling", published in this series in 2004, recognizing the critical role that schedules play in transportation systems. Conceived for the simulation of transit systems ...

Contemporary Iran

economy, society, politics

Edited by Ali Gheissari Provides new scholarly research, from the leading scholars in the field, on a wide range of topics relating to Iran since the revolution. Iran's geographical location, its oil, its nuclear program, its volatile political landscape, its espousal of militant Islam ...

San Martín

argentine soldier, american hero

José de San Martín (1778#1850) was an enigmatic figure#a revolutionary and a conservative, a professional soldier and an intellectual, a taciturn man who nevertheless was able to inspire the peoples of South America to follow his armies and accept his battle strategies. One ...

Weber, Habermas, and transformations of the European State

constitutional, social, and supranational democracy

This book critically engages Jürgen Habermas's comprehensive vision of constitutional democracy in the European Union. John P. McCormick draws on the writings of Max Weber (and Habermas's own critique of them) to confront the difficulty of theorizing progressive politics during moments of radical ...

Norman conquest

a new introduction

The Norman Conquest was one of the most significant events in European history. Over forty years from 1066, England was traumatised and transformed. The Anglo-Saxon ruling class was eliminated, foreign elites took control of Church and State, and England's entire political, social and cultural ...

Economic theory and global warming

In this book, Professor Uzawa modifies and extends the theoretical premises of orthodox economic theory to those broad enough to be capable of analyzing the phenomena related to environmental disequilibrium, particularly global warming, and of finding institutional arrangements and policy measures that may bring about ...

The romantic economist

imagination in economics

Since economies are dynamic processes driven by creativity, social norms, and emotions as well as rational calculation, why do economists largely study them using static equilibrium models and narrow rationalistic assumptions? Economic activity is as much a function of imagination and social sentiments as of ...

Financial derivatives

pricing, applications and mathematics

This book offers a complete, succinct account of the principles of financial derivatives pricing. The first chapter provides readers with an intuitive exposition of basic random calculus. Concepts such as volatility and time, random walks, geometric Brownian motion, and Ito's lemma are discussed heuristically ...

Experiments and competition policy

Eds. Jeroen Hinloopen, Hans- Theo Normann. Over the last decade, economists have been making much greater use of experimental methods in their research. The award of the Nobel Prize in 2002 to Vernon Smith confirmed that the use of such methods is now seen as ...

The origin and development of financial markets and institutions

from the Seventeenth Century to the present

Eds. Jeremy Atack, Larry Neal. Collectively, mankind has never had it so good despite periodic economic crises of which the current sub-prime crisis is merely the latest example. Much of this success is attributable to the increasing efficiency of the world's financial institutions as ...

Crónica del desamor

Rosa Montero retrata con audacia la historia de Ana, quien deberá cumplir con las exigencias de su trabajo como redactora en una revista, cuidar de su hijo y navegar por la noctámbula vida del convulso Madrid de finales de los setenta. Crónica del desamor es ...

Auditing cases

Learn how to think like an auditor with "Auditing Cases, 7E International Edition"! With examples pulled exclusively from real-world auditing cases, you'll quickly learn how to recognize and understand the critical factors and circumstances that determine the outcome of audits. Studying audits within the ...

Portfolio construction, management, and protection

Contemporary business statistics

With CD-ROM.

Diccionario de términos del turismo

Francés-Español / Espagnol-Français

Auts., Marina Aragón...[et al.]. Este es un diccionario especializado en términos de campos semánticos pertenecientes al mundo del turismo, desde la hostelería y la restauración hasta la gestión, el marketing, el derecho y los seguros, incluyendo vocablos de campos relacionados como los de la ...

India

democracia y violencia religiosa

Mientras Estados Unidos centra su atención en la militancia religiosa y el terrorismo en Oriente Medio, la democracia se ve asediada por el extremismo religioso en otra parte muy importante del mundo. Tal y como Martha C. Nussbaum nos revela en este penetrante examen de ...

The first philosophers

the Presocratics and the Sophists

Translated with commentary by Robin Waterfield. The first philosophers paved the way for the work of Plato and Aristotle - and hence for the whole of Western thought. Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which ...

El Informe Recarte 2009

la economía española y la crisis internacional

¿Cómo es posible haber pasado del mundo feliz de la globalización a la actual recesión mundial? La respuesta es múltiple: un mal funcionamiento de los bancos centrales -sobre todo de la Reserva Federal de Greenspan y de Bernanke-, que han permitido la formación de burbujas ...

The Hindus

an alternative history

From one of the world's foremost scholars on Hinduism, a vivid reinterpretation of its history An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the ...