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Mathematics for business

The eighth edition of "Mathematics for Business" continues to provide solid, practical, and current coverage of the mathematical topics students must master to succeed in business today. The text begins with a review of basic mathematics and goes on to introduce key business topics in ...

Environmental economics and policy

Tom Tietenberg has written the ideal book for a policy-oriented course in environmental economics, accessible to both non-majors and majors. He begins with a brief introduction to the core theory, and then offers a series of self-contained policy chapters that allow professors great flexibility when ...

Economics of health and health care

This clear, step-by-step best-selling introduction to the economics of health and health care thoroughly develops and explains economic ideas and models to reflect the full spectrum of the most current health economics literature. This book uses core economic themes as basic as supply and demand ...

Taking advice

how leaders get good counsel and use it wisely

Dan Ciampa makes the argument that almost all of the thought and commentary regarding advice has been from the "supply side," i.e. on being a good advisor or consultant (or consultancy). But this view, Ciampa argues, is of necessity incomplete. In order to have ...

World trade and payments

an introduction

Renowned for its precise, in-depth coverage of international trade and finance, this classic text features a balance of the latest research, critical policy issues, and sophisticated economic analysis.

Le Droit douanier

communautaire et national

Comme dans les six précédentes éditions, l'ouvrage se propose d'exposer méthodiquement l'essentiel des règles douanières auxquelles sont soumis les échanges internationaux de marchandises. L'abondance des réformes engagées, tant au plan international que communautaire et national, rendait nécessaire cette mise à jour ...

Introduction historique à l'étude du Droit et des institutions

Droit et institutions de la France médiévale et moderne sont ici présentés en quatre tableaux dynamiques pour en saisir les évolutions intimes et inséparables, en démonter les mécanismes subtils et toujours imbriqués, en comprendre les temps forts et en connaître les multiples artisans. L'ensemble ...

Corporate governance lessons from transition economy reforms

"Corporate Governance Lessons from Transition Economy Reforms" explores a timely topic at the intersection of economics, law, and policy reform. To date, most sophisticated theoretical work on corporate governance has focused on advanced market economies. In post-socialist countries, corporate finance and transition economics scholars have ...

Of war and Law

Modern war is law pursued by other means. Once a bit player in military conflict, law now shapes the institutional, logistical, and physical landscape of war. At the same time, law has become a political and ethical vocabulary for marking legitimate power and justifiable death ...

The future of assisted suicide and euthanasia

"The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia" provides the most thorough overview of the ethical and legal issues raised by assisted suicide and euthanasia - as well as the most comprehensive argument against their legalization - ever published. In clear terms accessible to the general reader, Neil ...

The next great globalization

how disadvantaged nations can harness their financial systems to get rich

Many prominent critics regard the international financial system as the dark side of globalization, threatening disadvantaged nations near and far. But in "The Next Great Globalization", eminent economist Frederic Mishkin argues the opposite: that financial globalization today is essential for poor nations to become rich ...

A comparison of WTO and EC Law

do different treaty objectives and purposes matter for treaty

International Crimes: Theories Practice and Evolution is unique in that it proposes a theory of international criminal law by questioning the law itself. The analysis focuses on particular definitional aspects of international crimes in order to highlight their similarities as well as the defects of ...

Global Europe, social Europe

This book makes an essential contribution to the debate now opening up over the future of Europe in the wake of the demise of the Constitution. Since 1989 much about the European Union has changed, including the very definition of 'Europe' itself. The EU has ...

Europe in the global age

Europe's social model - its system of welfare and social protection - is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of social cohesion and care for the vulnerable. Over recent years, however ...

Kant and the historical turn

philosophy as critical interpretation

Immanuel Kant's work changed the course of modern philosophy; in these essays, Karl Ameriks examines how. He compares the philosophical system set out in Kant's "Critiques" with the work of the major philosophers before and after him (Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Jacobi, Reinhold ...

From Epicurus to Epictetus

studies in hellenistic and roman philosophy

A. A. Long, one of the world's leading writers on ancient philosophy, presents eighteen essays on the philosophers and schools of the Hellenistic and Roman periods - Epicureans, Stoics, and Sceptics. The discussion ranges over four centuries of innovative and challenging thought in ethics and ...

Lavado de dinero

doctrina y práctica sobre la prevención e investigación de operaciones sospechosas

SUMARIO: La prevención como valor corporativo. Prevención "conozca a su cliente, riesgo empresario". Prevención "conozca a su cliente, riesgo jurídico". Investigación de operaciones sospechosas. El deber de informar de los sujetos obligados. Marco legal y regulatorio.

Les sarrasins

l'islam dans l'imagination européenne au Moyen Age

Au premier siècle de l'islam, la majeure partie de l'Empire romain chrétien, de la Syrie à l'Espagne, passa sous la coupe des musulmans. Confrontés à cette conquête aux proportions inédites, comment les chrétiens du Moyen Age réagirent-ils, face à ce qu'ils ...

Acciones a propio riesgo

exclusión de la tipicidad por responsabilidad de la víctima con base en una concepción funcional estructural de la sociedad

Desde mi estancia académica en España bajo la tutoría del profesor Enrique Bacigalupo empecé a intuir, pero sin entender #lo confieso#, que el derecho penal estaba superando la dogmática penal de las dos primeras décadas de la postguerra, marcada en Alemania por la doctrina finalista ...

The public sector value model

a new model for achieving high performance in the public service organizations

This book provides a new approach to understanding and improving performance and public value. This book presents the Public Service Value Model - an innovative, rigorous approach to defining public outcomes and quantifying results - to help readers understand and improve public service delivery. Filled with in-depth ...