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The essentials of risk management

Vital information from the bestselling "Risk Management" is made accessible to a wider professional audience. For ease of readability, complicated mathematical equations are located in appendixes instead of chapter text. The authors are prize-winning researchers and practitioners; each is a prominent and influential figure in ...

Technology matters

questions to live with

This book discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that clarify what technology is and why it matters. Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. We have used tools for more than 100,000 years, and their central ...

The literature of ancient sumer

This anthology of Sumerian literature constitutes the most comprehensive collection ever published, and includes examples of most of the different types of composition written in the language, from narrative myths and lyrical hymns to proverbs and love poetry. The translations have benefited both from the ...

Econometric theory and practice

frontiers of analysis and applied research

This book is a collection of essays written in honor of Professor Peter C. B. Phillips of Yale University by some of his former students. The essays analyze a number of state of the art issues in econometrics, all of which Professor Phillips has directly ...

The roman predicament

how the rules of international order create the politics of empire

Modern America owes the Roman Empire for more than gladiator movies and the architecture of the nation's Capitol. It can also thank the ancient republic for some helpful lessons in globalization. So argues economic historian Harold James in this masterful work of intellectual history ...

The exchange rate in a behavioral finance framework

This book provides an alternative view of the workings of foreign exchange markets. The authors' modeling approach is based on the idea that agents use simple forecasting rules and switch to those rules that have been shown to be the most profitable in the past ...

Stakeholders

theory and practice

The research on social discourse in societies, firms, and organizations written by researchers working in fields such as Management, Corporate Governance, Accounting and Finance, Strategy, Sociology, and Politics often make reference to the term 'stakeholder'. Yet the concept of the 'stakeholder' is unclear, and research ...

Monetary and exchange rate systems

a global view of financial crises

Global marketing

Global stock markets and portfolio management

This book presents the latest empirical findings on stock markets in a number of emerging markets, including Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe and Middle East and North Africa. In each case the authors employ the latest techniques to assess the response of emerging markets stocks ...

The structured self in hellenistic and roman thought

Christopher Gill offers a new analysis of what is innovative in Hellenistic - especially Stoic and Epicurean - philosophical thinking about selfhood and personality. His wide-ranging discussion of Stoic and Epicurean ideas is illustrated by a more detailed examination of the Stoic theory of the passions and ...

Space, time, matter, and form

essays on Aristotle's physics

The first five papers look at issues raised in the first two books of the Physics, centred on notions of matter and form, and the idea of substance as what persists through change. They also range over other of Aristotle's scientific works, such as ...

Plato and Aristotle in agreement?

platonists on Aristotle from antiochus to porphyry

An exciting new perspective on later ancient philosophy Argues against prevailing wisdom about the Platonists' opinion of Aristotle Karamanolis is one of the world's brightest young stars in this field George Karamanolis breaks new ground in the study of later ancient philosophy by examining ...

Reason and value

themes from the moral philosophy of Joseph Raz

"Reason and Value" collects 15 new papers by leading contemporary philosophers on themes from the work of Joseph Raz. Raz has made major contributions in a wide range of areas, including jurisprudence, political philosophy, and the theory of practical reason; but all of his work ...

Beyond the regulation approach

putting capitalist economies in their place

Table of Contents: 1 Early regulation approaches in retrospect and prospect 2 Fordism and post-Fordism 3 Fordism, post-Fordism and the capitalist state 4 Neo-conservative regimes and the transition to post-Fordism 5 A regulationist re-reading of East Asian newly industrializing economies : from peripheral Fordism to exportism ...

New frontiers in the economics of innovation and new technology

essays in honour of Paul A. David

Recent research on the economics of innovation has acknowledged the importance of path dependence and networks in the evolution of economies and the diffusion of new techniques, products, and processes. These are topics pioneered by Paul A. David, one of the world's leading scholars ...

Innovation strategies in interdependent States

essays on Smaller Nations, regions and cities in a globalized world

Examining the issues facing smaller regions and countries, John de la Mothe explores how innovation, strategy and interdependence shape their performance, competition, and futures. Innovation and interdependence are central elements of advanced and advancing economies. In our globalized world, the production of knowledge is continually ...

The council of ministers

The Council of Ministers lies at the fulcrum of decision-making in the European Union. It is a key legislative institution, an executive institution in important policy areas, and a forum through which politicians and policy-makers from the member states address shared challenges and develop collective ...

Cortijos, haciendas y lagares

arquitectura de las grandes explotaciones agrarias en Andalucía: Provincia de Almería

INDICE: La arquitectura agraria en Andalucía. La arquitectura agraria en la provincia de Almería. Introducción. Aproximación a la geografía de la provincia. El marco agrario: hisotria y paisaje. La arquitectura agraria. La arquitectura agraria de Almería hoy. Inventario de edificios. Comarcas meridionales. De los Filabres ...

Globalization and violence

The concept of 'globalization' has in an extraordinarily short time become the dominant motif of the contemporary social sciences. "Central Currents in Globalization" is an integrated collection of four multi-volume sets that represent the systematic mapping of globalization studies. The series sets out the contours ...