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Clement of Alexandria and the beginnings of Christian Apophaticism

Can humans know God? Can created beings approach the Uncreated? The concept of God and questions about our ability to know him are central to this book. Eastern Orthodox theology distinguishes between knowing God as he is (his divine essence) and as he presents himself ...

Managerial economics and organizational architecture

With two distinct objectives, this text's approach to managerial economics takes models from recent economics research and applies the research to the internal structure of a firm. After teaching basic applied economics, the authors look inside the firm and apply this analysis to management ...

The emergence of China

opportunities and challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean

China is emerging as a truly global economic and political power. China's impact on Latin America and the Caribbean region is mixed, however-- fostering a trade market for some countries, but creating competition for others. This pioneering volume, produced by the Inter-American Development Bank ...

Institutions, development, and economic growth

Leading international economists discuss how and why institutions influence growth. This work talks about the empirical and theoretical studies that provide an overview and contribute to the current research. The determinants of economic growth and development are hotly debated among economists. Financial crises and failed ...

Fairness in adaptation to climate change

This is an interdisciplinary scientific and policy analysis on the challenges of ensuring that adaptation to global climate change does not place unfair burdens on already vulnerable populations. As a global society, we need to take action not only to prevent the potentially catastrophic effects ...

Globalization and the poor periphery before 1950

A leading authority on economic globalisation argues that industrialisation in the core countries of northwest Europe and its overseas settlements combined with a worldwide revolution in transportation to produce deindustrialisation and an antiglobal backlash in industrially lagging poorer countries. In "Globalization and the Poor Periphery ...

What's the beef?

the contested governance of european food safety

This title examines European food safety regulation at the national, European, and international levels as a case of "contested governance," illustrating issues of institutional trust and legitimacy. A series of food-related crises - most notably mad cow disease in Britain, farmer protests in France against American ...

Transmitting knowledge

Words, images and instruments in Early Modern Europe.

Based on new research, a distinguished international team studies the forms in which scientific knowledge was transmitted in the late medieval and early modern period, the ways they interacted, and the people to whom the knowledge was directed. Among the famous authors whose work is ...

Gatekeepers

the professions and corporate governance

In the wake of a series of corporate governance disasters in the US and Europe, which have gained almost mythic status - Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, HealthSouth, Parmalat - one question has not yet been addressed. A number of 'gatekeeping' professions - auditors, attorneys, securities analysts, credit-rating agencies ...

Technical analysis of the currency market

classic techniques for profiting from market swings and trader sentiment

This is a comprehensive guide that demonstrates how technical analysis can generate profit-making strategies in the foreign exchange market. The $2 trillion foreign exchange market is now open to all traders. This book explains how technical tools can be used to properly diagnose this dynamic ...

How to cure a fanatic

a guide to method

This is a practical guide to the historical study of international politics. The focus is on the nuts and bolts of historical research - that is, on how to use original sources, analyze and interpret historical works, and actually write a work of history. Two appendixes ...

The economics of attention

style and substance in the age of information

If economics is about the allocation of resources, then what is the most precious resource in our new information economy? Certainly not information, for we are drowning in it. No, what we are short of is the attention to make sense of that information. With ...

American taxation, american slavery

At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the war for independence may have been long over, but the true conclusion to the American Revolution was still being written. The choices in the 1800 election could not have been starker: Federalist John Adams prized the need ...

Financial founding fathers

the men who made America rich

When you think of the founding fathers, you think of men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin - exceptional minds and matchless statesmen who led the colonies to a seemingly impossible victory over the British and established the constitutional and legal framework for our ...

Regulating utilities and promoting competition

lessons for the future

Regulating Utilities and Promoting Competition continues the series of annual books, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School, which critically review the state of utility regulation and competition policy. Contents: Introduction 1. The Future of the Railways in ...

Public finance

Shoup (political economy, Columbia U.) takes a comprehensive and global approach to the issue of how people pay for their governments' services, while also considering the goals, effects, and criteria of the public finance methods they use. Graced with a new introduction by Steven Medema.

Encyclopedia of Finance

"The Encyclopedia of Finance" is a major new reference work covering all aspects of finance. Coverage includes finance (financial management, security analysis, portfolio management, financial markets and instruments, insurance, real estate, options and futures, international finance) and statistical applications in finance (applications in portfolio analysis ...

Economics confronts the economy

Phil Klein, in a low key but deeply reasoned text, critiques economic theory for its misrepresentations of the economy and other shortcomings. In particular, Klein provides a critique of how mainstream economists # creating a corpus of doctrines that seem "quantitative, precise, logical, elegant, rigorous, and ...

Guía práctica sobre la legislación del consumo de tabaco

la Ley 28/2005, de 26 de diciembre, de medidas sanitarias frente al tabaquismo y reguladora de la venta, el suministro, el consumo y la publicidad de los productos del tabaco

La Ley 28/2005, de 26 de diciembre, de medidas sanitarias frente al tabaquismo y reguladora de la venta, el suministro, el consumo y la publicidad de los productos del tabaco. Por ello, esta obra contiene un estudio exhaustivo, actual, completo y teórico-práctico de la ...

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