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The three tensions

winning the struggle to perfomr without compromise

A manager argued that he could either increase his business unit's margins or its sales, but not both. His chief executive reminded him of the time when people lived in mud huts and faced the stark choice between light and heat: punch a hole ...

Where value hides

a new way to uncover profitable growth for your business

"Where Value Hides" introduces the Strategic Market Positioning theory, which accurately reveals a company's true health based on factors like market share. SMP helps your business define its markets, measure the real value of those markets, and correct bad assumptions. This book uses real-life ...

The leader of the future 2

visions, strategies, and practices for the New Era

"The Leader of the Future 2" follows in the footsteps of the international best-seller "The Leader of the Future", which has been translated into twenty-eight languages, and is one of the most widely distributed edited collections on leadership to date. In twenty-seven inspiring and insightful ...

The economic analysis of public policy

A critical analysis of public policy decisions requires a far greater depth of knowledge than one receives from news reports and political speeches. Issues such as how best to reduce traffic congestion, reduce acid rain, improve airline safety or develop a parcel of land are ...

Valleseco

crónicas de un siglo

Esta obra es una detallada relación de hechos que a lo largo de un siglo han conformado la historia del municipio más joven de Gran Canaria. Se trata de un relato objetivo de los acontecimientos más destacados, que se reflejan en las Actas de Plenos ...

Estructura económica de Madrid

Suma de la colaboración de más de medio centenar de reconocidos autores, esta obra -que en su tercera edición actualiza y amplía las aparecidas en 1999 y 2003- constituye, por su amplitud, planteamiento integrador y voluntad analítica, la más ambiciosa aportación disponible sobre la economía ...

A legal theory without Law

Posner v. Hayek on ecoomic analysis of Law

Justice between simplification and formalism

a discussion and critique of the World Bank sponsored Lex Mundi project on efficiency of civil procedure

A recent study in the field of comparative economics (or, more precisely, "numerical comparative law") constructed an index of procedural formalism of dispute resolution for more than 100 countries and analyzed the relationship between procedural formalism and certain aspects of quality of the judicial systems ...

Internationalisation and economic institutions

comparing european experiences

This book examines when, how and why internationalisation affects national economic institutions. It confronts questions at the heart of debates in political economy and comparative politics: What does internationalisation of markets mean? Who are its carriers in domestic arenas? Through which mechanisms does it affect ...

War, wine, and taxes

the political economy of anglo-french trade, 1689-1900

In "War, Wine, and Taxes", John Nye debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs - notably on French wine - as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France and to respond to ...

The right talk

how conservatives transformed the great society into the economic society

Political analyst Mark Smith offers the most original and compelling explanation yet of America's startling swing to the political right. How did the GOP transform itself from a party outgunned and outmaneuvered into one that today defines the nation's most important policy choices ...

The new comparative economic history

essays in honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson

In this work, essays by internationally prominent economists examine long run cross- country economic trends from the perspective of New Comparative Economic History, an approach pioneered by Harvard economist Jeffrey G. Williamson. The innovative approach to economic history known as the New Comparative Economic History ...

Specificity and the macroeconomics of restructuring

ÍNDICE: I. Introduction. 1. Introduction. 2. The empirics of aggregate restructuring. II. The basics. 3. The "Fundamental Transformation". 4. Efficient restructuring. III. Inefficient restructuring. 5. Ineficient restructuring. 6. Financial market specificity and restructuring. 7. Application: structural adjustment. IV. Institutional and Technological evolution. 8. Institution, interest ...

El desafío de la innovación

de la sociedad de la información en adelante

El desafío de la innovación ofrece una visión, no la única, de los retos a los que se enfrentan la economía y la sociedad en el mundo actual. La llamada Sociedad de la Información está condicionada, como toda realidad, por un entorno que presenta unas ...

La tierra herida

¿qué mundo heredarán nuestros hijos?

¿Qué futuro le espera a nuestro planeta? ¿Qué mundo heredarán nuestros hijos? ¿Hasta qué punto es el ser humano el responsable de todos estos inquietantes cambios? Y sobre todo, ¿hasta qué punto estamos a tiempo de evitarlos o de paliar sus efectos? A estas y ...

Money laundering

business compliance

In the drive to halt funding terrorist activity, control of money laundering activity has risen high on the Governments agenda. The Money Laundering Regulations 2003 expand the Regulators already wide powers. Failure to comply with anti-money laundering provisions prevents businesses functioning properly, carries severe financial ...

Anti money laundering

a guide for financial firms

Focusing on how a system can be constructed to prevent firms from being used to further financial crime, and how to avoid regulatory penalties, this work guides on how to implement a proportionate and effective anti-money laundering regime. It is aimed at compliance professionals, lawyers ...

Matemática de las operaciones financieras. Cuaderno. T. II

rentas, constitución, préstamos, empréstitos

Operational risk

a guide to basel II capital requirements. models, and analysis

While operational risk has long been regarded as a mere part of "other" risks outside the realm of credit and market risk it has quickly made its way to the forefront of finance. In fact, with implementation of the Basel II Capital Accord already underway ...

La política económica española desde entrada en la Unión Monetaria

una análisis crítico

Obra magna, recopilatoria de los 440 artículos publicados por el Profesor Barea, Presidente de Honor de AECA, en los Diarios La Razón y Cinco Días, entre los años 2000 y 2004. La estructura del libro, que agrupa los artículos por temas en capítulos y subcapítulos ...