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Property taxes and tax revolts

the legacy of Preposition 13

Property tax revolts have occurred both in the United States and elsewhere. This book examines the causes and consequences of such revolts with a special focus on the California experience with Proposition 13. The work examines the consequences of property tax limitations for public finance ...

The Jurisprudence of GATT and the WTO

insights on treaty Law and economic relations

This book contains a selection of essays and articles by John H. Jackson previously published over four decades and collected together into one volume. Each article has been selected for its continued relevance to contemporary issues in international trade. Particular attention has been given to ...

International financial governance under stress

global structures versus national imperatives

Persistent episodes of global financial crises have placed the existing system of international monetary and financial governance under stress. The resulting economic turmoil provides a focal point for rethinking the norms and institutions of global financial architecture and the policy options of public and private ...

España y Francia

historia secular de un desencuentro

Hay que considerar casi como un dogma de política exterior el que las relaciones entre países vecinos tienen que ser malas generalmente; aunque, algunas veces, las circunstancias obliguen a un entendimiento. Es decir que, por desgracia, priman las ambiciones y los intereses contrapuestos, sobre la ...

Procedimientos especiales de responsabilidad administrativa

(expropiación, contratos, anulación de actos y leyes ampliatorias de la responsabilidad)

"El procedimiento general de responsabilidad administrativa se rige por la Ley 30/1992. El mismo constituye el cauce habitual para tramitar las peticiones de indemnización por los daños y perjuicios causados por la Administración. Pero junto a esta regulación el legislador ha creado procedimientos especiales ...

Des musées au-dessus de tout soupçon

Conservatoires du patrimoine, garants de la mémoire, refuges du Beau, les musées relèvent a priori d'une autre branche de l'activité humaine que la guerre, et plus généralement que l'exercice de la violence... Et pourtant... On s'est bien gardé jusqu'à présent ...

El monacato en los reinos de León y Castilla (siglos VII-XIII)

X Congreso de Estudios Medievales 2005

Cómo la vida imita al ajedrez

Sólo una privilegiada mente estratégica como la de Garry Kasparov podía imaginar que la existencia humana, con sus dificultades cotidianas, es equivalente a una compleja partida de ajedrez. En la vida, como en el tablero, es necesario analizar, descartar, organizar el pensamiento, prever problemas, preparar ...

La responsabilità da reato degli enti

sanzioni e loro natura

What sticks

why most advertising fails and how to guarantee yours succeeds

The magnitude of waste in advertising is staggering: $85 billion each year. This book will demonstrate how to spend advertising dollars effectively, offering practical, hands-on solutions based on the authors' $4 million dollars' worth of recent landmark research-- extensive, "proprietary" research--to measure the effectiveness of ...

Free movement, social security and gender in the EU

This work examines the system of co-ordination of national social security laws in the European Union from a gender perspective. The central question that it raises concerns the level of social security protection enjoyed by women moving throughout the Union in cases of work interruption ...

From Al-Andalus to Khurasan

documents from the Medieval Muslim World

Environment and politics

"Environment and Politics" is a concise introduction to the study of environmental politics, explaining the key concepts, conflicts, political systems and the practices of policy-making. The authors examine a diverse range of environmental problems and policy solutions within different nations and cultures. This third edition ...

Microeconomics using Excel

integrating economic theory, policy analysis and spreadsheet modelling

Using Microsoft Excel, the market leading spreadsheet package, this book combines theory with modelling aspects and spreadsheet analysis. "Microeconomics Using Excel" provides students with the tools with which to better understand microeconomic analysis. A new textbook, it focuses on solving microeconomic problems by integrating economic ...

Tradition and change in administrative Law

an Anglo-German comparison

Administrative legal systems are based on national constitutional legal traditions and cultural values. English judges have for centuries applied the common law. In Germany, judges have developed Administrative legal principles for the protection of the individual against state action. However, over the last few decades ...

The market for corporate control in Japan

M&AS, hostile takeovers and regulatory framework

This book analyzes the modern trend in the Japanese M and A market and reveals from different angles the process of convergence to a new monitoring model of the corporation: "the market for corporate control". A prima facie verification is based on the examination of ...

Peoples and international Law

how nationalism and self-determination shape a contemporary Law of nation

Peoples and International Law is the most comprehensive current account of the right of self-determination in international law. The book examines the law of self-determination as the product of the interaction between nationalism and international law. This broad and interdisciplinary work charts this interaction through ...

Innovation and the State

political choice and strategies for growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland

This book is about choice. Its main argument is that, contrary to popular belief, intensified globalization gives emerging economies a larger number of economic development alternatives than they have had since World War II. This is especially true in the case of rapid innovation-based industries ...

The Microsoft case

antitrust, high technology, and consumer welfare

Microsoft was the defining antitrust case of our era, and will be the focus of scholarly discussion about the proper role of antitrust for years to come. This book tells the story of the litigation and shows how law, ideology, evidence, and economic theory influenced ...

The medical malpractice myth

American health care is in crisis because of exploding medical malpractice litigation. Insurance premiums for doctors and malpractice lawsuits are skyrocketing, rendering doctors both afraid and unable to afford to practice medicine. Undeserving victims sue at the drop of a hat, egged on by greedy ...