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The case for big government

Political conservatives have long believed that the best government is a small government. But if this were true, noted economist Jeff Madrick argues, the nation would not be experiencing stagnant wages, rising health care costs, increasing unemployment, and concentrations of wealth for a narrow elite ...

Financial modelling in practice

a concise guide for intermediate and advanced level

With CD-ROM. "Financial Modelling in Practice: A Concise Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Level" is a practical, comprehensive and in-depth guide to financial modelling designed to cover the modelling issues that are relevant to facilitate the construction of robust and readily understandable models.Based on ...

Payment card industry data security standard handbook

The recent plethora of information security and payment card data breaches has created a tremendous amount of problems for consumers, retailers, financial institutions and service providers. "Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Handbook" addresses the payment card industry standard that includes requirements for security management ...

Código de Seguros

Se presenta una recopilación sistemática y anotada de la normativa vigente del Derecho del Seguro privado. Con las competencias asumidas por las CCAA en sus Estatutos de Autonomía, las disposiciones de ordenación, supervisión y defensa del cliente de seguros y de contrato de seguro. De ...

Understanding sustainability economics

towards pluralism in economics

This is a highly readable yet challenging book ideal for academics, students and professionals in economics, sustainability and environmental studies and policy. The author provides a critical examination of the failings of mainstream economics and the resultant environmental problems we are facing. Most importantly he ...

Representation through taxation

revenue, politics, and development on postcommunist States

Social scientists teach that politicians favor groups that are organized over those that are not. Yet even organized groups may be unable to credibly promise that their members will take certain actions in return for favorable policy treatment. In such environments, politicians have an incentive ...

From economic man to economic system

essays of human behaviour and the institutions of capitalism

A collection of essays discussing human behaviour and the institutions of capitalism. The essays are non-technical and can be used by students of all disciplines interested in capitalism and in economic behaviour. They often present unconventional views of the topics they discuss. Those containing unconventional ...

Mathematics and Politics

strategy, voting, power and proof

This book teaches humanities majors the accessibility and beauty of discrete and deductive mathematics. It assumes no prior knowledge of either college-level mathematics or political science, and could be offered at the freshman or sophomore level. The book devotes one chapter each to a model ...

Genres of the credit economy

mediating value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century britain

How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing money - in other words, participating in the modern financial system - come to seem like routine activities of everyday life? "Genres of the Credit Economy" addresses this question by examining the history of financial instruments and representations of ...

Key management ratios

the 100+ ratios every manager needs to know

With over 33,000 copies sold, Key Management Ratios is a market classic . This new edition is re-packaged with a new jacket design to revitalise the Key Management brand and new two-colour internals make it more readable and visually appealing. Key Management Ratiosis an antidote ...

The problems and promise of commercial society

Adam Smith's response to Rousseau

Adam Smith is popularly regarded as the ideological forefather of laissez-faire capitalism, while Rousseau is seen as the passionate advocate of the life of virtue in small harmonious communities and as a sharp critic of the ills of commercial society. But in fact, Smith had ...

Hijos alineados y padres alienados

mediación familiar en rupturas conflictivas

ÍNDICE: * Prólogo. Reconocimientos. Introducción. * Primera Parte: Rupturas Conflictivas 1. Rupturas conflictivas, alienación y mediación. 2. Aspectos psicojurídicos de la ruptura conyugal. 3. El síndrome de alienación parental. 4. Más allá del síndrome de alienación parental: el síndrome de alienación familiar. * Segunda Parte: Mediación transicional 5 ...

The ottoman road to war in 1914

the ottoman empire and the First World War

Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war#s devastations had become clear? Were its leaders 'simple-minded,' 'below-average' individuals, as the doyen of Turkish diplomatic history has argued? Or, as others have claimed, did the ...

The Cambridge history of Latin America. Vol.9

Brazil since 1930

Ed., Leslie Bethell The Cambridge History of Latin America, the first large-scale authoritative survey of Latin American history from ca. 1500 to the present day, is a work of international collaborative scholarship. It aims to provide a high-level synthesis of existing knowledge in chapters written ...

El viaje a la ficción

el mundo de Juan Carlos Onetti

El tema de la ficción y la vida es una constante que, desde tiempos remotos, aparece en la literatura. Pero acaso en ningún otro autor moderno aparezca con tanta fuerza y originalidad como en las novelas y los cuentos de Juan Carlos Onetti, una obra ...

International business control, reporting and corporate governance

global business best practice across cultures, countries and organisations

This book is designed to help Business Controllers/Accountants/Finance Directors/Bankers/Financial Analysts/Business Consultants to understand that International Business Control is much more than just a business being IFRS and US GAAP compliant, or just an extension of the domestic HQ control system ...

El error judicial y la formación de los jueces

En este libro se analiza qué es un error judicial, se ofrece una tipología del mismo y se examina su etiología. Para que exista un error judcial es necesario que al menos haya una respuesta correcta y que el juez se aparte de ella. Esto ...

El principio de igualdad entre hombre y mujeres en la carrera judicial

Dir. Montserrat Comas d'Argemir y Cendra. (Estudios de Derecho Judicial ; 142-2007). Indice: Presentación / Paloma Marín López El principio de igualdad de oportunidades entre hombres y mujeres en la carrera judicial / Montserrat Comas d´Argemir La Ley de Igualdad efectiva entre mujeres y hombres / Soledad ...

Análisis de la jurisprudencia tributaria comunitaria

su incidencia en los tribunales españoles

Dir. Juan Gonzalo Martínez Micó. (Estudios de Derecho Judicial ; 143-2007). Indice: La imposición directa sobre la renta de las personas jurídicas y físicas y el patrimonio: incidencia del derecho comunitario / Luis María Cazorla Prieto El Impuesto de Sociedades del Tribunal de Justicia Europeo / Manuel Vicente ...

Novedades en la concurrencia y prelación de créditos

Dir. Miguel Julián Collado Nuño. (Cuadernos de Derecho Judicial ; X-2007). Indice: Concurrencia y prelación de créditos en caso de ejecuciones singulares. La regulación previa a la reforma / David Velázquez Vioque Influencia de la modificación operada por la legislación concursal. Sistema de la Ley Concursal. Clasificación ...