Política y financiación pública de la cinematografía

países iberoamericanos en el contexto internacional: (antecedentes, instituciones y experiencias)

¿Quién crea empresas?

redes y empresarialidad

Economic policy in the Age og Globalisation

Libertad de empresa y relaciones laborales en España

Nuevas estrategias para la competitividad de las empresas

GPI, SEIS SIGMA, 5S

How economists model the world into numbers

Economics is dominated by model building, therefore a comprehension of how such models work is vital to understanding the discipline. This book provides a critical analysis of the economist's favorite tool, and as such will be an enlightening read for some, and an intriguing ...

The guide to critical thinking in economics

This book is a summary and guide to the art of reasoning in economics and in everyday life, from one of the foremost authors and researchers in the field of critical thinking. Critical thinking is evaluating whether we should be convinced that some claim is ...

The triumph of numbers

how counting shaped modern life

Consulting and collecting numbers has been a feature of human affairs since antiquity#tax collection, head counts for military service#but not until the Scientific Revolution in the seventeenth century did social numbers such as births, deaths, and marriages begin to be analyzed. The late ...

Field experiments in economics

Experimental economists are leaving the reservation. They are recruiting subjects in the field rather than in the classroom, using field goods rather than induced valuations, and using field context rather than abstract terminology in instructions. This volume examines the methodology of field experiments, and offers ...

Foundations of dynamic economic analysis

optimal control theory and applications

Foundations of Dynamic Economic Analysis presents a modern and thorough exposition of the fundamental mathematical formalism used to study optimal control theory, i.e., continuous time dynamic economic processes, and to interpret dynamic economic behavior. The style of presentation, with its continual emphasis on the ...

Two minds

intuition and analysis in the history of economic thought

The Two Minds noted economist Roger Frantz explores in this landmark book are, first, the analytical mind and, second, the intuitive mind. In part one he presents the leading theories on intuition, discusses recent developments in cognitive science, and borrows from such non-economist intuitors as ...

Economic sociodynamics

In this ambitious book, the authors challenge mainstream economic theory by reconsidering the principle of individualism as its foundation. They refer to that version which fails to recognize the existence of the interests of society as such, and thus excludes the role of the state ...

Differential information economies

One of the main problems in current economic theory is to write contracts which are Pareto optimal, incentive compatible, and also implementable as a perfect Bayesian equilibrium of a dynamic, noncooperative game. The question arises whether it is possible to provide Walrasian type or cooperative ...

New tools of economic dynamics

New Tools of Economic Dynamics gives an introduction and overview of recently developed methods and tools, most of them developed outside economics, to deal with the qualitative analysis of economic dynamics. It reports the results of a three-year research project by a European and Latin ...

The origins of Law and Economics

essays by the Founding Fathers

This unique collection of largely unpublished papers brings together the founding fathers of law and economics to provide their own views on the origins and intellectual history of the field. Law and economics emerged as a separate field of scholarship during the early 1960s, fueled ...

Neo-liberal economic policy

critical essays

Over the past two decades there has been a prevailing shift in economic policy in many countries. This reflects the continuing rise of neo- liberalism # the doctrine that economic policy should #leave it to the market# and that governments should retreat from market intervention. This ...

Who's afraid of Adam Smith?

how the market got his soul!

In this spirited and timely book, Peter Dougherty shows how economists are drawing on Adam Smith's civic writings to illuminate how the market creates not only fiscal capital, but "social capital." Dougherty demonstrates how Smith's ideas are currently experiencing a renaissance. He then ...

Economic Theory and cognitive science

microexplanation

In this study, Don Ross explores the relationship of economics to other branches of behavioral science, asking, in the course of his analysis, under what interpretation economics is a sound empirical science. The book explores the relationships between economic theory and the theoretical foundations of ...

El léxico del discurso económico empresarial

identificación, selección y enseñanza en Español como Lengua Extranjera con fines específicos

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo principal la elaboración de una metodología que permita la selección objetiva y científica del vocabulario típico del discurso económico empresarial.Para este propósito se recurre a la terminología y a la lexicología así como a algunas herramientas de la léxico-estad ...

The economic sociology of capitalism

This book represents a major step forward in the use of economic sociology to illuminate the nature and workings of capitalism amid the far-reaching changes of the contemporary era of global capitalism. For the past twenty years economic sociologists have focused on mesa-level phenomena of ...