Libros de

Structural unemployment in western Europe

reasons and remedies

Leading international economists examine the different patterns and long-term trends behind persistent unemployment across Western Europe in light of recent developments in labour market theory. Structural unemployment, or persistently high levels of unemployment that do not follow the ups and downs of a typical business ...

Globalization and its enemies

This work makes a provocative argument that the frustrations of globalisation stem from the gap between the expectations created and the lagging economic reality in poor countries. The enemies of globalisation - whether they denounce the exploitation of poor countries by rich ones or the imposition ...

What is a nation?

Europe 1789-1914

Nationalism has had global repercusions throughout the modern world, lying at the root of wars, revolutions, and social and cultural movements. This volumes analyses and compares differents forms of nationalism as they originated and developed in Europe throughout the "long nineteenth century" and offers an ...

The Cambridge companion to Keynes

John Maynard Keynes (1883 1946) was the most important economist of the twentieth century. He was also a philosopher who wrote on ethics and the theory of probability and was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group of writers and artists. In this volume contributors ...

Cycle representations of Markov processes

This book is a prototype providing new insight into Markovian dependence via the cycle decompositions. It presents a systematic account of a class of stochastic processes known as cycle (or circuit) processes - so-called because they may be defined by directed cycles. These processes have special ...

The economics of public utilities

Public utilities supply a set of goods and services that are central to the workings of a modern economy. Their importance in the economy's structure is matched by the interest and complexity of the problems they present for the ecomic analysis. This two-volume set ...

Econophysics of wealth distributions

Econophys-Kolkata I

Understanding the distribution of income and wealth in an economy has been a classic problem in economics for the last hundred years. Apart from the rapidly decaying number density of people with their income crossing over to a robust power law for the very rich ...

La dette publique dans l'histoire

zzles Journées du Centre de Recherches Historiques>> des 26, 27 et 28 novembre 2001

La question de la dette publique, de son rôle économique ou de son poids excessif, est au c#ur des préoccupations contemporaines. Le paradoxe est que les problèmes liés à l'endettement de l'Etat ont finalement peu mobilisé la réflexion des historiens, hormis pour ...

Aktiengestez

De l'intervention au Kosovo en 1999 à l'intervention en Irak de 2003

analyse comparative des fondements politiques et juridiques

De l'intervention au Kosovo en 1999 à l'intervention en Irak de 2003, deux recours à la force par des coalitions sans autorisation du Conseil de sécurité. Et pourtant, si la première fut largement approuvée, la seconde a suscité les plus vives protestations. Mais ...

Origins and development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Origins and Development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict is an accessible, engagingly written analysis of that conflict, discussing its most significant issues and events from its onset to today. Narrative chapters, written from an objective viewpoint, explain the topics in an easily understandable manner. Whether the ...

La fábrica penal

visión interdisciplinaria del sistema punitivo

Ceremonias de expiación. La construcción criminal. Un castigo circular (juicios a animales). Preguntas sobre la racionalidad en la teoría y la práctica del castigo. Igualdad e imposición. Los valores, objetividad, jerarquía y función. Un Derecho para gobernarlos a todos (reglas, razón y fuerza como presupuestos ...

La nación sin ciudadanos

el dilema del País Vasco

En pleno siglo XXI el País Vasco continúa siendo una sociedad fracturada en la que, como han denunciado órganos internacionales, la democracia, la libertad, la igualdad entre ciudadanos y el disfrute de los derechos fundamentales no existen para aquellos que no son nacionalistas. Otorgada la ...

Guerra Civil Aragón.T.III: Teruel

Durante casi tres años, Teruel y su provincia fueron uno de los escenarios principales de la guerra civil. Los combates desarrollados en tierras turolenses, constituyeron la causa fundamental de la derrota final republicana.

Ifni 1957-1958

la prensa y la guerra que nunca existió

Entre 1957 y 1958 España se vio envuelta en un conflicto en sus territorios de Ifni y Sahara contra unas pretendidas "bandas de liberación". La férrea censura impuesta por el régimen impidió que la sociedad española conociera realmente lo que estaba sucediendo en aquellos lejanos ...

El sistema de competencias de la Unión Europea en el Tratado por el que se establece una Constitución para Europa

Apuntes sobre la jubilación forzosa

En la presente obre se recopilan comentarios realizados por tres autores, así como diversos textos normativos y resoluciones judiciales a partir de las cuales quepa abordar cada uno de los múltiples supuestos que siguen planteandose en la realidad. No se ha pretendido realizar un estudio ...

International Law, museums and the return of cultural objects

While the question of the return of cultural objects is by no means a new one, it has become the subject of increasingly intense debate in recent years. This important book explores the removal and the return of cultural objects from occupied communities during the ...

Muslim cultures today

a reference guide

There is strong demand for current, accurate, and objective information about Islamic societies and Muslims around the world. This is the first survey for a general audience of key current topics in 16 countries with significant Muslim populations. Each chapter covering a country contains the ...

Avoiding the abyss

progress, shortfalls, and thw way ahead in combating the WMD threat

In a world of over 190 sovereign states, how can the United States and its allies work to reduce the number of states that possess or could acquire chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons? Despite the disarmament of nations such as Libya and Iraq, the ...