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Tras el consenso

entre la utopía y la nostalgia

De acuerdo a una sugerente intuición de Hegel, expresada en varios de sus escritos, la condición del hombre moderno parece oscilar entre el sentimiento de pérdida y el impulso de búsqueda de la felicidad. Ambas cosas parecen serle constitutivas: la ruptura con el psasado y ...

The war for muslim minds

islam and the west

The events of September 11, 2001, forever changed the world as we knew it. In their wake, the quest for international order has prompted a reshuffling of global aims and priorities. In a fresh approach, Gilles Kepel focuses on the Middle East as a nexus ...

El siglo XVI

INDICE: las palabras clave. Los lugares. Los protagonistas.

El siglo XX

arte contemporáneo

INDICE: Las palabras clave. Los lugares. Los protagonistas.

Últimas conversaciones con Pilar Primo

Le ordeno a usted que me quiera

Semblanza biográfica de la que al parecer fue el primer gran amor del general Franco. Cuando el militar conoció a Sofía Subirán en Melilla, él era Paquito, un prometedor oficial de voz atiplada y gestos torpes por quien la joven no mostró ninguna inclinación. Más ...

Law and new governance in the EU and US

New approaches to governance have attracted significant scholarly attention in recent years. Commentators on both sides of the Atlantic have identified, charted and evaluated the rise and spread of forms of governance, forms which seem to differ from previous regulatory and legal paradigms. In Europe ...

Freedom and responsibility in reproductive choice

What responsibilities, if any, do we have towards our genetic offspring, before or after birth and perhaps even before creation, merely by virtue of the genetic link? What claims, if any, arise from the mere genetic parental relation? Should society through its legal arrangements allow ...

The two faces of justice

Justice is a human virtue that is at once unconditional and conditional. Under favourable circumstances, we can be motivated to act justly by the belief that we must live up to what justice requires, irrespective of whether we benefit from doing so. But, our will ...

Latin America's political economy of the possible

beyond good revolutionaries and free-marketeers

The political and economic transformation is now emerging in Latin America, as some countries eschew rigid ideologies and adopt a more pragmatic combination of neoclassical orthodoxies and progressive social policies. Neither socialism nor free market neoliberalism has been a very helpful model for Latin America ...

European Community plant variety protection

This book is intended as a practical guide to the European Community plant variety protection system under Council Regulation (EC) 2100/94. This system was introduced to enable breeders to protect in Europe new varieties of plants with a tailor-made intellectual property right. The plant ...

Understanding poverty

Brings together essays by thirty-four leading economists about important things they have learnt from their research that relate to poverty. These essays range from the impact of colonialism and globalization to the future of micro-credit and the quest for vaccines.

The calculus of retirement income

financial models for pension annuities and life insurance

The book introduces and develops the basic actuarial models and underlying pricing of life-contingent pension annuities and life insurance from a unique financial perspective. The ideas and techniques are then applied to the real-world problem of generating sustainable retirement income towards the end of the ...

Economic analysis, moral philosophy, and public policy

This book shows through accessible argument and numerous examples how understanding moral philosophy can improve economic analysis, how moral philosophy can benefit from economists' analytical tools, and how economic analysis and moral philosophy together can inform public policy. Part I explores rationality and its connections ...

The role of policymakers in business cycle fluctuations

The book's central theme is that a policymaker's role is to enhance the public's ability to co-ordinate their price information, price expectations, and economic activities. This role is fulfilled when policymakers maintain inflation stability. Inflation persists less when an implicit or explicit ...

The elements of justice

What is justice? Questions of justice are questions about what people are due. However, what that means in practice depends on the context in which the question is raised. Depending on context, the formal question of what people are due is answered by principles of ...

Evolutionary microeconomics

Classical microeconomics is intended to explain how a price system is able to coordinate the economic agents. But even if it can be extended to incomplete information and externalities, it remains grounded on very heroic assumptions. Agents are endowed with a very strong rationality, equilibrium ...

Dealing with Darwin

how great companies innovate at every phase of their evolution

Maverick real estate financing

the art of raising capital and owning properties like Ross, Sanders and Carey

This book includes Real estate financing lessons, by some of the best minds in the business. The real estate market is booming, and over the last few years, people have turned to this reliable investment because of its incredible potential. However, real estate investing is ...

Economic justice in an unfair world

toward a level playing field

Recent years have seen a growing number of activists, scholars, and even policymakers claiming that the global economy is unfair and unjust, particularly to developing countries and the poor within them. But what would a fair or just global economy look like? "Economic Justice in ...