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ETFs for the long run

what they are, how they work, and simple strategies fro successful long-term investing

Praise for "ETFs For The Long Run": 'As the title of the book suggests, ETFs are going to be an increasingly important reality for a broad class of investors in coming years. This book offers the reader real understanding of this growing force in our ...

The economics of social protection

This book focuses on arrangements for redistributing consumption opportunities over the life cycle and for providing compensation for income losses or large expenditures due to reasons such as illness and unemployment. After extensive coverage of the nature of inequalities in income and wealth in a ...

Handbook of fiscal federalism

Eds. Ehtisham Ahmad, Giorgio Brosio. This major Handbook addresses fiscal relations between different levels of government under the general rubric of 'fiscal federalism', providing a review of the latest literature as well as an invaluable guide for practitioners and policy makers seeking informed policy options ...

Historia del diseño en América Latina y el Caribe

industrialización y comunicación visual para la autonomía

Coords. Silvia Fernández y Gui Bonsiepe. Historia del Diseño en América Latina y el Caribe es una obra colectiva que ofrece un panorama del desarrollo del diseño industrial y del diseño gráfico abarcando el período de los últimos cincuenta años. El enfoque aquí presentado se ...

Understanding government budgets

a practical guide

Budgets in the United States follow rules of presentation and use terms that make sense to few outside the world of government finance. Moreover, practices vary widely among the thousands of governments in the country, between federal, state, and local levels. "Understanding Government Budgets" offers ...

The creative city

a toolkit for urban innovators

"The Creative City" is a clarion call for imaginative action in developing and running urban life. It shows how to think, plan and act creatively in addressing urban issues, with remarkable examples of innovation and regeneration from around the world. This revised edition of Charles ...

The economics of Karl Marx

analysis and application

Presents an account and technical assessment of Marx's economic analysis in Capital, with particular reference to the transformation and the surplus-value doctrine, the reproduction schemes, the falling real- wage and profit rates, and the trade cycle. The focus is on criticisms that Marx himself ...

Insights into Game Theory

an alternative mathematical experience

Few branches of mathematics have been more influential in the social sciences than game theory. In recent years, it has become an essential tool for all social scientists studying the strategic behaviour of competing individuals, firms and countries. However, the mathematical complexity of game theory ...

Country risk evaluation

methods and applications

Financial globalization has increased the significance of methods used in the evaluation of country risk, one of the major research topics in economics and finance. Written by experts in the fields of multicriteria methodology, credit risk assessment, operations research, and financial management, this book develops ...

Gestión de aprovisionamiento

Acompaña CD-ROM. ÍNDICE: 1. La gestión de compras 1.1 Introducción al aprovisionamiento 1.2 El ciclo de las compras 1.3 El control de las compras y sus indicadores 2. El contrato de compraventa 2.1 El contrato 2.2 Efectos de los contratos ...

Dirección financiera

arquitectura financiera, análisis económico, financiero y bursátil, optimización de inversiones, mercados financieros internacionales, ingeniería financiera

La Dirección financiera es hoy en día el gran juego y a la par el gran reto de la gestión empresarial, debido en gran parte a las amenazas globales de las grandes multinacionales que traspasan fronteras y generan un entorno cada vez más competitivo para ...

Financial markets volatility and performance in emerging markets

Eds. Sebastian Edwards, Márcio G.P. Garcia. Capital mobility is a double-edged sword for emerging economies, as governments must weigh the benefits of investment against the potential economic costs and political consequences of currency crises, devaluations, and instability. "Financial Markets Volatility and Performance in Emerging ...

Castles, battles and bombs

how economics explains military history

From the walls of Troy to the sands of Iraq, humans have devoted staggering resources to the art and science of war. Yet while military history has long studied the economics of conflict, until now there have been few attempts to apply the principles of ...

Leadership ethics

an introduction

Are leaders morally special? Is there something ethically distinctive about the relationship between leaders and followers? Should leaders do whatever it takes to achieve group goals? Leadership Ethics uses moral theory, as well as empirical research in psychology, to evaluate the reasons everyday leaders give ...

The Mind of Jihad

Examines contemporary jihad as a cult of violence and power. All jihadi groups, whether Shiite or Sunni, Arab or not, are characterized by a similar bloodlust. Murawiec characterizes this belief structure as identical to that of Europe#s medieval millenarians and apocalyptics, arguing that both ...

"¡Alma mia!" Cartas de Martin Heidegger a su mujer Elfride

1915-1970

[#] Tengo por delante una vida de gran valor, puedo arrojarme por completo sobre mis problemas sabiendo que tú permaneces junto a mí # me proporcionas calma cuando regreso cansado de la tierra lejana de las grandes preguntas (1° de febrero de 1916). [#] Sé que puede haber ...

El caso Leganés

Col., Oriol Güell El doctor Luis Montes llega como cada mañana desde hace varios años a su despacho a las siete y media. El coordinador de Urgencias en el Severo Ochoa todavía no sabe que ese apacible viernes 11 de marzo de 2005 será una ...

Por qué somos como somos

¿Por qué somos como somos? Es una pregunta que seguramente en los comienzos del siglo XXI se plantea de manera totalmente distinta a como se hiciera en épocas anteriores. Por primera vez en la historia el conocimiento científico comienza a formar parte de los intereses ...

Doña Sofía

la reina habla de su vida

Contiene ilustraciones La Reina hace de guía del recorrido por su vida que realizan los periodistas Carmen Enríquez y Emilio Oliva. Durante dos largas sesiones, celebradas en el Palacio de la Zarzuela, Doña Sofía ha contestado a más de un centenar de preguntas que los ...

El segundo mundo

imperios e influencia en el nuevo orden mundial

Trad., Yolanda Fontal Comparable en alcance y audacia a El fin de la historia, de Francis Fukuyama, y a El choque de civilizaciones, de Samuel P. Huntington, El segundo mundo, de Parag Khanna, será la guía definitiva de la política mundial durante los próximos años ...