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Capitalism without capital

Capitalism Without Capital explores the events which took place in the financial markets from September 2008 to March 2009, including the dramatic 'historical week' at Wall Street of September 11, 2008. This book follows on the heels of another book by Dimitris N. Chorafas, Financial ...

Actividades de Derecho financiero y tributario

un enfoque por competencias

Coords. Ana Mª Delgado García, Rafael Oliver Cuello. El nuevo enfoque docente basado en competencias, fruto de la adaptación al Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior, implica necesariamente un replanteamiento de la evaluación, que debe estar dirigida a la valoración del nivel alcanzado de desarrollo de ...

Institutions, communication and values

Institutions are man-made entities and their workings, the changes they undergo, as well as the way they need to be understood, is fundamentally imbued in language and communication. Through these social interactions, distinctions are created, emphases are placed and connections and belongings emerge. This book ...

Central Bank independence, accountability, and transparency

a global perspective

Foreword by Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Explores three key areas of central banking and governance - autonomy, accountability and transparency. This book looks at links between the areas, as well as assesses the impact of central bank autonomy on macroeconomic performance.

Global imbalances, exchange rates and stabilization policy

As Economies become more integrated with the rest of the world, the need to better understand their international monetary linkages becomes ever more important. This book analyzes key international monetary issues from a macro-foundations perspective, focusing on economy-wide variables that form the basis of real-world ...

Everyday economics

honest answers to tough questions

Written in a Q&A format, this book covers all the questions you have about our global economy. Organized thematically these questions cover Financial Markets; Personal Finance (Your Money); Central Banks (The Fed); Employment and Compensation; Globalization and Markets; Economics Bubbles and Bursts (Cycles) and the governments role in model economics. The book will answer questions such as: Could national economies reach a right balance between ...

The caribbean economy in the Age of Globalization

Examines how globalization is altering the structure of the extremely foreign trade-dependent Caribbean economies. This book treats these small economies together as a single economy by focusing on their common features.

Ronald Dworkin's theory of equality

domestic and global perspectives

Ronald Dworkin's work on equality has shaped debates in the field of distributive justice for nearly three decades. His idea of an egalitarian plateau in contemporary political thought along with his more concrete conception of equality of resources have generated a great deal of ...

The European Union and world politics

consensus and division

Eds. Andrew Gamble, David Lane. The European Union is an unprecedented form of state. Initially founded to provide security and promote wealth in Europe, it has become a global economic power and poses a challenge to the hegemony of the USA and to the increasing ...

What makes the EU viable?

european integration in the light of the antebellum US experience

This book is distinguished by its use of the antebellum US experience as a foil to address the under-explored question of what makes the EU viable. The nature of political conflict in both cases is defined in terms of four contested rules of the game ...

Tropas de Casa Real

historia orgánica

Contiene ilustraciones. Esta obra realiza un itinerario cronológico por todas las tropas de la Casa Real española que se han ido sucediendo hasta el momento presente.

Busted

life inside the great mortgage meltdown

This is the story of the fiasco that sank millions of Americans, including one journalist, who thought he knew better. A "The New York Times" economics reporter, Edmund L. Andrews was intimately aware of the dangers posed by easy mortgages. But, eager to start a ...

Pensar como un economista

homenaje al profesor Andrés Fernández Díaz

Series históricas de capital público España y su distribución territorial (1900-2005)

La Fundación BBVA y el Ivie publican estimaciones periódicas de las dotaciones de capital en España desde 1995. Continuando con este esfuerzo, el presente volumen ofrece una novedosa panorámica de la actividad inversora del sector público, al presentar por primera vez una visión de muy ...

Autonomía de la voluntad y control registral

(Teoría y Derecho. Revista de Pensamiento Jurídico, Nº5, año 2009)

Sex trafficking

international context and response

Trafficking in persons, particularly the trafficking of women into sexual servitude (sex trafficking) has generated much attention over the past decade. This book provides a critical examination of the international and national frameworks developed to respond to this issue - focused both on the design of ...

Arte y gestión

una poética para el gerente del tercer milenio

¿Por qué el gerente como artista? La imagen más sublime del artista está asociada a la Torre de Marfil. En cambio, la del gerente es la de alguien que sabe delegar y comunicarse. ¿Cómo se relacionan esas dos figuras? ¿Por qué el gerente como artista ...

El principio de legalidad y el control judicial de la discrecionalidad administrativa

En la obra se incluyen un conjunto de estudios que, aún cuando pueden ser objeto de una separación conceptual, tienen en común el hecho de que todos ellos giran alrededor del gran tema del principio de legalidad en el Estado de Derecho. En primer lugar ...

Evolución creativa

la física cuántica reconcilia el darwinismo y el diseño inteligente

«El profesor Goswami propone una nueva forma de pensamiento que podría cambiar la naturaleza misma de lo que entendemos por mundo físico como algo diferente del mundo espiritual». Fred Alan Wolf, autor de La mente en la materia. Educado en la sagrada tradición hindú, el ...

La mente del samurái

una antología del Bushido

Edición y traducción de Thomas Cleary. A través de los tiempos, los samuráis han sido asociados con los conceptos de honor, ausencia de temor, calma, acción decisiva, pensamiento estratégico y capacidad militar. Su código ético se conoce como Bushido o el camino del caballero guerrero ...