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Law and order

images, meanings,myths

In an innovative departure from the much-studied field of 'crime in the media', this lively book focuses its attention on the forces of law and order - how they visualize and represent danger and criminality, and how they represent themselves as authorities. After two chapters covering ...

Heuristics and the Law

Experts in law, psychology, and economics explore the power of "fast and frugal" heuristics in the creation and implementation of law. In recent decades, the economists' concept of rational choice has dominated legal reasoning. And yet, in practical terms, neither the lawbreakers the law addresses ...

The new environmental regulation

This work is an overview of environmental regulation in the United States and a call for a new more effective regulatory model that relies less on top-down intervention and more on collaboration, flexibility, and incentives. Environmental regulation in the United States has succeeded, to a ...

Solutions manual to accompany intermediate public economics

This is the solutions manual for all exercises in "Intermediate Public Economics", allowing students to use the analytical tools of public economics at several levels. This solutions manual for "Intermediate Public Economics" (MIT Press, 2006) offers students an opportunity to practice using the analytical tools ...

The economics of consumer credit

This work offers a cross-national analysis of empirical, theoretical, and policy issues in the consumer credit industry, including household debt, credit card usage, and bankruptcy. Academic research and policy discussions of credit markets usually focus on borrowing by firms and producers rather than households, which ...

Tax policy and labor market performance

This work talks about the effect of tax policies and welfare state incentives on the performance of the labor market: theoretical and empirical analyses by leading European and American economists. High unemployment in many European OECD countries has been attributed to factors ranging from rigid ...

Innovation and incentives

Interest in intellectual property and other institutions that promote innovation exploded during the 1990s. "Innovation and Incentives" provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the economics of innovation, suitable for teaching at both the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. It will also be useful to ...

Growth and empowerment

making development happen

Despite significant gains in promoting economic growth and living conditions (or "human progress") globally over the last twenty-five years, much of the developing world remains plagued by poverty and its attendant problems, including high rates of child mortality, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and war. In "Growth ...

Solar revolution

the economic transformation of the global energy industry

An innovative analysis that shows how the shift to solar energy - in particular, the use of photovoltaic cells - is both economically advantageous and inevitable, and will rival the information and communication technologies revolution in its transformative effects. In "Solar Revolution", fund manager and former corporate ...

Invisible engines

how software platforms drive innovation and transform industries

This work discusses how to harness the power of software platforms: what executives and entrepreneurs must know about how to use this technology to transform industries and how to develop the strategies that will create value and drive profits. Software platforms are the invisible engines ...

Niche envy

marketing discrimination in the Digital Age

The price we pay for the new strategies in database marketing closely tracks desirable customers, offering them benefits in return for personal information. We have all been to Web sites that welcome us by name, offering us discounts, deals, special access to content. For the ...

La régulation du marché de l'electricité

concurrence et accès aux réseaux

Les directives et règlement européens adoptés en 1996, 2003 et 2005 relatifs à l'achèvement du marché intérieur de l'électricité, mettent progressivement en place un marché de l'électricité européen concurrentiel tout en respectant les spécificités des marchés nationaux. Les lois françaises de transposition ...

Manual de historia del Derecho y de las instituciones

INDICE: Presentación. Cuestiones preliminares. La España prerromana. La España romana. La España visigoda. La España medieval. España en la Edad Moderna. La España liberal del siglo XIX: constitucionalismo y codificación.

Le devoir de Conseil des Notaires

L'étude du devoir de conseil dont sont débiteurs les notaires à l'égard de leur clientèle permet de constater que la notion que recouvre cette obligation est extrêmement vaste. Le manquement au devoir de conseil constitue aujourd'hui la source principale de la responsabilité ...

De l'exigibilité en droit des contrats

L'exigibilité représente le moment à compter duquel le créancier peut forcer le débiteur à accomplir son engagement. Cette qualité de l'obligation en exprime la temporalité et la force contraignante. Son rôle est, plus largement, de marquer la prise d'effet du contrat. La ...

Sociedades de familia y cuestiones patrimoniales

Esta segunda edición de la obra, que actualiza y amplía el texto original, se dedica al tema complejo y delicado de la organización jurídica que ensambla dos instituciones con valores no siempre coincidentes: la empresa y la familia. Incluyendo una visión de conjunto de los ...

Responsabilidad civil y concursal de los administradores de las sociedades comerciales

El presente libro constituye una eficaz herramienta para la solución en forma práctica de los problemas cotidianos del asesoramiento empresario que enfrentan los asesores jurídicos y contiene un examen detenido de los aspectos más importantes del derecho de daños en materia societaria y concursal, fundamentalmente ...

Expert political judgment

how good is it? how can we know?

The intelligence failures surrounding the invasion of Iraq dramatically illustrate the necessity of developing standards for evaluating expert opinion. This book fills that need. Here, Philip E. Tetlock explores what constitutes good judgment in predicting future events, and looks at why experts are often wrong ...

Lecciones de Derecho internacional público

Ninguna parcela de nuestro ordenamiento puede pensarse inmune al impacto de las normas internacionales, sin duda empujadas por el fenómeno de la mundialización de todos los factores de la vida de relación humana: comprender las instituciones internacionales y conocer cómo éstas acaban permeabilizando las concepciones ...

La fundamentación de los derechos de los niños

modelos de reconocimiento y protección

En este libro se estudia el fundamento de los derechos de los niños. ara ello se analiza en profundidad los que han sido y son sus principales modelos de reconocimiento y protección. El estudio y la reflexión crítica que se realiza en este libro de ...