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La pelota no entra por azar

ideas de management desde el mundo del fútbol

Éste es mucho más que un libro de fútbol y un libro de gestión de empresas. Si quieres entender la lógica oculta en las decisiones que se toman en un club de fútbol, o si buscas ideas nuevas para tu trabajo, la lectura de este ...

Africa's turn?

Foreword by William Easterly. By the end of the twentieth century, sub-Saharan Africa had experienced twenty-five years of economic and political disaster. While 'economic miracles' in China and India raised hundreds of millions from extreme poverty, Africa seemed to have been overtaken by violent conflict ...

Inside the Fed

monetary policy and its management, Martin through Greenspan to Bernanke

Stephen Axilrod is the ultimate Federal Reserve insider. He worked at the Fed's Board of Governors for over thirty years and after that in private markets and as a consultant on monetary policy. With "Inside the Fed", he offers his unique perspective on the ...

Generation digital

politics, commerce, and childhood in the Age of the Internet

Kathryn Montgomery brings clear thinking and empirical evidence to one of the most important and widely misunderstood issues of our time: how children and teenagers shape and are shaped by digital culture. Are 'digital natives' more or less engaged with civic matters? What are the ...

Can Germany be saved?

the Malaise of the world's first welfare state

What has happened to the German economic miracle? Rebuilding from the rubble and ruin of two world wars, Germany in the second half of the twentieth century recaptured its economic strength. High-quality German- made products ranging from precision tools to automobiles again conquered world markets ...

The natural survival of work

job creation and job destruction in a growing economy

Every working day in the United States, 90,000 jobs disappear - and an equal number are created. This discovery has radically altered the way economists think about how labor markets work. Without this necessary phenomenon of 'creative destruction', our economies would experience much lower growth ...

Transforming global information and communication markets

the political economy of innovation

Innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy. How ICT markets evolve depends on politics and policy, and since the 1950s periodic overhauls of ICT policy have transformed competition and innovation. For example, in the 1980s and the 1990s ...

The economics of growth

This comprehensive introduction to economic growth presents the main facts and puzzles about growth, proposes simple methods and models needed to explain these facts, acquaints the reader with the most recent theoretical and empirical developments, and provides tools with which to analyze policy design. The ...

Economic dynamics

theory and computation

This text provides an introduction to the modern theory of economic dynamics, with emphasis on mathematical and computational techniques for modeling dynamic systems. Written to be both rigorous and engaging, the book shows how sound understanding of the underlying theory leads to effective algorithms for ...

The Common Law

Introduction by G. Edward White. Much more than an historical examination of liability, criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, and contracts, "The Common Law" articulates the ideas and judicial theory of one of the greatest justices of the Supreme Court. G. Edward White reminds ...

A brief inquiry into the meaning of sin and faith

with "on my religion"

The philosophical interest of John Rawls' recently rediscovered senior thesis, completed just before he shipped out for the Pacific in 1942, cannot be separated from our knowledge of Rawls' later work - but his defining intellectual quality and moral motivation are already visible in his defense ...

The Supreme Court and the american elite 1789-2008

'The Supreme Court follows the election returns', the fictional Mr. Dooley observed a hundred years ago. And for all our ideals and dreams of a disinterested judiciary, above the political fray, it seems Mr. Dooley was right. In this engaging - and disturbing - book, a leading ...

Law and literature

Hailed in its first edition as an 'outstanding work, as stimulating as it is intellectually distinguished' ("New York Times"), "Law and Literature" has handily lived up to the "Washington Post's" prediction that the book would 'remain essential reading for many years to come'. This ...

Thinking like a lawyer

a new introduction to legal reasoning

This primer on legal reasoning is aimed at law students and upper-level undergraduates. But it is also an original exposition of basic legal concepts that scholars and lawyers will find stimulating. It covers such topics as rules, precedent, authority, analogical reasoning, the common law, statutory ...

Transformation in american legal history

essays in honor of professor Morton J. Horwitz

Eds. Daniel W. Hamilton, Alfred L. Brophy. During his career at Harvard, Morton Horwitz changed the questions legal historians ask. "The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860" (1977) disclosed the many ways that judge-made law favored commercial and property interests and remade law to promote economic ...

Republic of debtors

bankruptcy in the age of american independence

Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, its sinfulness was preached by ministers, and the right to imprison debtors was unquestioned. By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack, and insolvency was no longer seen ...

A hundred horizons

the indian ocean in the Age of Global Empire

On December 26, 2004, giant tsunami waves destroyed communities around the Indian Ocean, from Indonesia to Kenya. Beyond the horrific death toll, this wall of water brought a telling reminder of the interconnectedness of the many countries on the ocean rim, and the insignificance of ...

Hegemonic peace and empire

the Pax Romana, Britannica, and Americana

Examines the language and the ideology of the Pax Romana, the Pax Britannica and the Pax Americana within the broader contexts of hegemonic foreign policy and empire.

The advanced econometrics of tourism demand

Tourism demand is the foundation on which all tourism-related business decisions ultimately rest. Governments and companies such as airlines, tour operators, hotels, cruise ship lines, and recreation facility providers are interested in the demand for their products by tourists. The success of many businesses depends ...

From economics imperialism to freakonomics

the shifting boundaries between economics and other social sciences

In this book Ben Fine, the author of "Social Capital versus Social Theory" and one of the primary contemporary exponents of Marxian political economy has teamed up with Dimitris Milonakis to offer one of the first systematic critiques of cliometrics, new institutional economics, and Douglass ...