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The Law of extradition and mutual assist

The Law of Extradition and Mutual Assistance provides a comprehensive and authoritative treatment of the laws covering the extradition arrangements between the UK and other states, as well as international mutual assistance. Since the first edition was published by Cameron May in 2002, the Extradition ...

Predicting party sizes

the logic of simple electoral systems

For a given electoral system, what average number and sizes of parties and government duration can we expect? Predicting Party Sizes is the first book to make specific predictions that agree with world averages. The basic factors are the numbers of seats in the assembly ...

Exotic preferences

behavioral economics and human motivation

George Loewenstein is one of the pioneers of the rapidly growing field of behavioral economics. For over twenty years he has been working at the intersection of economics and psychology and is one of the few people of whom it can be said that their ...

An introduction to state space time

Providing a practical introduction to state space methods as applied to unobserved components time series models, also known as structural time series models, this book introduces time series analysis using state space methodology to readers who are neither familiar with time series analysis, nor with ...

The modern firm

organizational design for performance and growth

Business firms around the world are experimenting with new organizational designs, changing their formal architectures, their routines and processes, and their corporate cultures as they seek to improve their current performance and their growth prospects. In the process they are changing the scope of their ...

Managing global customers

an integrated approach

Multinational companies need to manage their relationships with multinational customers with a globally integrated approach. This book provides a systematic framework for developing and implementing such global customer management programs. It draws on in-depth research at over 20 major U.S. and European multinational companies ...

The debate over corporate social responsibility

Should business strive to be socially responsible, and if so, how? The Debate over Corporate Social Responsibility updates and broadens the discussion of these questions by bringing together in one volume a variety of practical and theoretical perspectives on corporate social responsibility. It is perhaps ...

Globalization for development

trade, finance, aid, migration, and policy

Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development is not well understood. The revised and updated edition of Globalization for Development identifies the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse. The book defines the big historical trends, identifies main global ...

The role of finance director

Now available in a fully revised third edition, updated to reflect the shifting nature of this pivotal role, this best-selling briefing is essential reading for all finance directors. As the business environment changes, so must the role of the finance director. No more just the ...

Creación, diseño y producción de libros

Texto riguroso que muestra todo el proceso de edición, producción, impresión y manipulación de un libro. De interés para editores, diseñadores, correctores o todo aquel que intervenga en dicho proceso. Datos actualizados que incluyen las últimas tecnologías aplicadas, como CTP, o los programas más utilizados ...

The regulation of the State in competitive markets in the EU

This book looks at the changing role and nature of the regulation of State intervention in the liberalised and privatised markets of the European Union. It examines how the traditional role of the State is now challenged by European Union law, and the implications for ...

Primo Levi

la vita, le opere

Primo Levi non è soltanto il testimone insuperabile dello sterminio degli Ebrei e il custode della memoria, ma anche l'analista della «zona grigia», il narratore della felicità del lavoro creativo e di profetici apologhi fantascientifici, il romanziere di una ritrovata identità ebraica, l'enciclopedista ...

Abuso di mercato e informazione economica

i giornalisti e le nuove regole

Il libro tratta della disciplina in tema di abuso del mercato, in particolare dopo la riforma operata dalla legge n. 62 del 2005. Poiché la nuova disciplina trae spunto da direttive europee, la trattazione prende le mosse da un commento alle medesime, per poi analizzare ...

Il Diritto dei sistemi di pagamento

Il volume raccoglie le relazioni svolte al Convegno di Siena del 27-28 settembre 2005, dal Titolo "Il diritto dei sistemi di pagamento".

Remote sensing in archaeology

Whether deployed in space or on the surface of the earth, remote sensing instruments are increasingly becoming standard archaeological tools. Space age techniques have begun to accumulate a wealth of information and unusual evidence such as the presence of sand-buried courses of ancient rivers in ...

Global marketing management

"Global Marketing Management" prepares the reader to become an effective manager, overseeing global marketing activities in an increasingly competitive environment. The approach presents marketing with an interdisciplinary, cross-functional perspective, where the marketer has a sound understanding of how the various functional areas interface with marketing.

Equilibrium and rationality

game theory revised by decision rules

This book represents a major contribution to game theory. It offers this conception of equilibrium in games: strategic equilibrium. This conception arises from a study of expected utility decision principles, which must be revised to take account of the evidence a choice provides concerning its ...

Trade and industrial policy under international oligopoly

The existence of firms with different levels of efficiency within a country plays an important role in this in-depth analysis of industrial and trade policies in a multi-country trade-theoretic framework. Sajal Lahiri and Yoshiyasu Ono examine various industrial policies, R&D subsidies and trade policies ...

Between the Dollar-Sterling Gold Points

exchange rates, parity and market behavior

Officer begins this book with a historical perspective of the monetary standards of the United States and Britain. He then develops data on exchange rates, mint parity and gold points, with which he investigates three important features of Anglo-American monetary history. First, the integration of ...

Designing inclusion

tools to raise low-end pay and employment in private enterprise

An inclusion failure has become highly visible in the advanced economies of the West. Too many able-bodied people are subject to chronic joblessness and, when employed, cannot earn a living remotely like that in the mainstream of the population. One policy response has been to ...