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Perspectivas iusfilosóficas contemporáneas

Ross- Hart- Bobbio- Dworkin- Villey- Alexy- Finnis

Este libro conforma un valioso material de inevitable consulta al momento de introducirse en el estudio de las perspectivas iusfilosóficas contemporáneas. Como el autor lo anticipa en su prólogo, luego de agotada la primera edición de la obra, su propósito actualizador se cumplimenta en esta ...

La prudencia jurídica

introducción a la gnoseología del Derecho

Destinado a los juristas y a los estudiantes de derecho, este libro es la compilación de varios ensayos publicados separadamente, los que, por razones didácticas fueron ordenados a partir de los temas más generales a los más particulares, comenzando con el estudio del conocimiento jurídico ...

Cash return on capital invested

ten years of investment analysis with the CROCI economic profit model

In this book, Pascal Costantini gives a lively and wonderfully readable account of ten years of efforts by a small group of investment analysts to find a reliable, practical and implementable method for valuing and selecting shares. The result of their effort is an original ...

Transparency, governance and markets

INDEX: 1. Theoretical explanations of why banks promise to pay par on demand (G.P. Dwyer,Jr., M. Samartin). 2. Productivity and efficiency measurement using parametric ecometric methods (S.C. Kumbhakar ). 3. Firm, market and strategic factors in venture capital exits (D.J. Cumming, J ...

The economics of infectious disease

Infectious diseases once considered vanquished in the developed world now represent a growing challenge to public health care systems. Not only do we face threats from new diseases, such as AIDS, MRSA, SARS and Avian Flu, but old scourges, such as tuberculosis are returning in ...

Strategy, economic organization, and the knowledge economy

the coordination of firms and resources

The rise of the knowledge economy has far-reaching implications for the nature of economic organization as well as firm strategy. Not surprisingly, thinking in management studies as well as in economics has been profoundly affected by these changes. Thus, management thinking in particular has been ...

The sociology of financial markets

Financial markets have often been seen by economists as efficient mechanisms that fulfill vital functions within economies. But, do financial markets really operate in such a straightforward manner? "The Sociology of Financial Markets" approaches financial markets from a sociological perspective. It seeks to provide an ...

The Oxford handbook of work and organization

The last twenty-five years of the twentieth century was a period of extraordinary change in organizations and the economies of the developed world. This continues today. Such has been the scale and momentum of events that, for some analysts, the only comparable periods are the ...

Swarm creativity

competitive advantage through collaborative innovation networkst

Swarm Creativity introduces a powerful new concept-Collaborative Innovation Networks, or COINs. Its aim is to make the concept of COINs as ubiquitous among business managers as any methodology to enhance quality and competitive advantage. The difference though is that COINs are nothing like other methodologies ...

Una visión sistémica y cibernética del Derecho en el mundo globalizado del siglo XXI

Este innovador aporte sobre la aplicación del enfoque sistémico al derecho del libro es un invalorable aporte a la construcción de un nuevo paradigma resultante de la adopción de la teoría general de sistemas para generar modelos explicativos acerca de problemas jurídicos, que permite superar ...

Leonardo da Vinci

la vera immagine: documenti e testimonianze sulla vita e sull'opera

Catalogo ufficiale della mostra che si tiene a Firenze, prezzo l'Archivio di Stato, dal 19 ottobre 2005 al 28 gennaio 2006. La mostra è stata realizzata in occasione del Centenario della costituzione della Commissione per l'Edizione Nazionale dei Manoscritti e dei Disegni di ...

The fall of Rome

and the end of civilization

Why did Rome fall? Vicious barbarian invasions during the fifth century resulted in the cataclysmic end of the world's most powerful civilization, and a 'dark age' for its conquered peoples. Or did it? The dominant view of this period today is that the 'fall ...

Què és l'espai europeu d'educació superior?

el repte de Bolonya. Preguntes i respostes

ÍNDEX: 1. Bolonya: més que un canvi. 2. Les universitats europees davant del canvi. 3. Les universitats europees, compromeses amb el canvi. 4. La UB implementa Bolonya. 5. Annexos

Digital libraries

integrating content and systems

Low cost Internet technology has transformed library services by allowing libraries to play a creative and dynamic role in the delivery of information to their users. This book helps managers, systems personnel, and graduate students understand the challenges of providing digital library services with a ...

Managing archives

foundations, principles and practice

This book provides an up-to-date practical guide to archives management. It has three main target audiences: those who have been tasked by their organization to manage its archives but who have no prior training; those who are starting out as professionals or para- professionals in ...

Supermoney

Supermoney may be even more relevant today than when it was first published nearly twenty-five years ago. Written in the bright and funny style that became Adam Smith's trademark, this book gives a view inside institutions, professionals, and the nature of markets that has ...

Economic growth with income and wealth distribution

The book deals with economic issues related to income and wealth among individuals, regions and countries. It presents a general theory with endogenous capital, knowledge and preference changes for an economic system with heterogeneous households, multiple sectors, multiple regions and multiple countries. Economic issues and ...

The new indicators of well-being and development

The growth of GDP remains the principal focus of attention when it comes to judging the progress of the 'wealth of nations', however other attempts have been made, most of them since the 1990's, to enlarge such a narrow vision. New indicators of development ...

The rise and fall of soul and self

an intellectual history of personal identity

This ambitious new work, the first of its kind, traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present. Raymond Martin and John Barresi explore the works of a wide range of thinkers and reveal the larger ...

Democratic constitutional design and public policy

analysis and evidence

Leading scholars in rational choice analysis present the public choice, new institutionalist, and new political economy perspectives on the political and economic effects of constitutional design and review the accumulating empirical evidence. The variety of constitutional designs found in democratic governments has important effects on ...