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Mitologie giuridiche della modernità

Nozioni e principi fondanti della civiltà giuridica moderna sono analizzati criticamente dall'Autore che, utilizzando gli occhiali dello storico del diritto, denuncia coraggiosamente semplicismi e mitologie, intendendo con questo contribuire ad una coscienza più vigile del giurista contemporaneo.

Forme di governo

esperienze Europee e Nord-Americana

Dopo una introduzione sui profili politico- costituzionali relativi alle nozioni di 'forma di governo' e di 'rappresentanza politica', letti anche nell'ottica della costituzione materiale e delle prospettive di riforma istituzionale, il volume analizza in modo sistematico alcune tra le più significative esperienze di governo ...

La responsabilità delle banche per la violazione degli obblighi contrattuali

Just silences

the limits and possibilities of modern Law

Is the Miranda warning, which lets an accused know of the right to remain silent, more about procedural fairness or about the conventions of speech acts and silences? Do U.S. laws about Native Americans violate the preferred or traditional "silence" of the peoples whose ...

The dismal science

how thinking like an economist undertime community

Economists celebrate the market as a device for regulating human interaction without acknowledging that their enthusiasm depends on a set of half-truths: that individuals are autonomous, self-interested, and rational calculators with unlimited wants and that the only community that matters is the nation-state. However, as ...

Financial surveillance

This is the first book length treatment of statistical surveillance methods used in financial analysis. It contains carefully selected chapters written by specialists from both fields and strikes a balance between the financial and statistical worlds, enhancing future collaborations between the two areas, and enabling ...

Foreign direct investment

analysis of aggregate flows

The 1990s saw global flows of foreign direct investment increase some sevenfold, spurring economists to explore FDI from a micro- or trade- based perspective. "Foreign Direct Investment" is one of the first books to analyze the macroeconomics of FDI, treating FDI as a unique form ...

Cognitive economics

As a manifestation of a 'cognitive turn' observable in all social sciences, "Cognitive Economics" is concerned with the beliefs and mental operations held by actors placed within a dynamical and strategic environment. It appears as a synthesis of an educative research program, dealing with crossed ...

The bridges of medieval England

transport and society, 400-1800

Medieval bridges are startling achievements of design and engineering comparable with the great cathedrals of the period, and are also proof of the great importance of road transport in the middle ages and of the size and sophistication of the medieval economy. David Harrison rewrites ...

Las palabras y las cosas

una arqueología de las ciencias humanas

El proyecto de la obra es triple: primero, es una arqueología, un estudio sistemático que busca reconstituir a través de las obras de los teóricos y los pragmáticos las configuraciones mentales que dan cuenta de la naturaleza de las #ciencias# desde fines del Renacimiento, y ...

Funky business forever

how to enjoy capitalism

"The antidote to bland writing and bland thinking" "Tom Peters "Funky Business "tells us that difference rules, and difference comes from the way people think. In this world, we can no longer do "business as usual" - we need funky business. With its fresh thinking approach ...

Value merchants

demonstrating and documenting superior value in business markets

Value Merchants offers a detailed, step-by-step explanation of customer value management and how to implement it. The authors provide the tools to turn your salespeople into "value merchants" who can conceptualize your company's value and work with customers to document cost savings and substantiate ...

Redifining global strategy

crossing borders in a world where differences still matter

Why do so many global strategies fail - despite companies' powerful brands and other border-crossing advantages? Seduced by market size, the illusion of a borderless, "flat" world, and the allure of similarities, firms launch one-size-fits-all strategies. But cross-border differences are larger than we often assume, explains ...

IT risks

turning business threats into competitive advantage

Are you exposing your business to IT risk, and leaving profit opportunities on the table? You might be if you are managing your IT risk using more traditional approaches. "IT Risk", a new book based on research conducted by MIT's Center for Information Systems ...

Police reform

forces for change

This book focuses on the very topical subject of police reform in the UK. Currently, the police service is undergoing a time of significant change and reform as a result of the 'modernisation' agenda. Planned force re-structuring, the performance culture, recruitment and training issues are ...

Gli accordi di salvataggio delle imprese in crisi

ricostruzione di una disciplina

Il volume tratta di uno dei temi più attuali del diritto fallimentare ossia della soluzione negoziale alle crisi d'impresa. L'argomento è affrontato non solo nei suoi aspetti di diritto fallimentare, ma, alla luce di una visione sistematica dell'istituto, anche negli aspetti di ...

Erbrecht

Las fuentes del Derecho

¿Cuál es la fuerza normativa de las Constitución? ¿Cuál es la naturaleza de la Ley Orgánica?. Éstas, entre otras, son las cuestiones a las que se pretende dar respuesta en este libro prestando especial atención a la jurisprudencia del TC sobre ellas.

Monetary integration in Europe

The European Economic and Monetary Union comprises twelve member states and forms a currency area of considerable size and, until now, remarkable stability. Still, however, discussion is going on whether it can survive as an institution providing the highest degree of monetary integration which is ...

Responsabilidad civil del fabricante por productos defectuosos

fundamentos y aplicación

La monografía de la Profesora Juana Marco Molina persigue primordialmente dos objetivos: en primer término, demostrar cómo la responsabilidad objetiva del fabricante de productos defectuosos es un fenómeno ligado al Estado del bienestar, puesto que despega junto con él y está viéndose cuestionada al mismo ...