Evaluación de impacto social

teoría, método y casos

Esta obra pretende ofrecer un punto de partida para personas profesionales, técnicas y directivas vinculadas al estudio y desarrollo de los Proyectos de Intervención en el Medio (PIM) en cualquier sector de actividad. Este trabajo presenta como principal objetivo ofrecer a personal investigador, profesional, docente ...

Grandes mercaderes de la Corona de Aragón en la baja Edad Media

Zaragoza y sus mayores fortunas mercantiles, 1380-1430

Esta monografía es una síntesis actualizada de los resultados de la tesis doctoral «La elite mercantil y financiera de Zaragoza en el primer tercio del siglo xv (1380-1430)», dirigida por Carlos Laliena. En ella se exploran las estrategias económicas de las tres mayores empresas mercantiles ...

El gran circo de la economía

un recorrido histórico por los hechos y las decisiones económicas más descabelladas

¿Sabía que, en la Inglaterra del siglo xix, había subastas en las que se compraban y vendían mujeres para luego casarse con ellas? ¿Que, durante 250 años, Italia persiguió penalmente a las cucarachas y a los grillos? ¿O que en Liberia, aún hoy, los acusados ...

Informe sobre la Desigualdad Global 2018

La desigualdad económica es uno de los fantasmas que hoy recorren el mundo. Lo mismo en países desarrollados que en los que se esfuerzan por salir de la miseria, este azote contemporáneo confirma de manera dolorosa que el progreso técnico, la apertura de los mercados ...

La cooperación transfronteriza para el desarrollo

Esta modalidad de cooperación se centra en el abordaje de desafíos comunes para regiones que, aun estando situadas en territorios de características frecuentemente similares, han tenido evoluciones históricas dispares que han dado lugar a diferencias inherentes a su pertenencia a estados distintos. Por ello, una ...

La metrópolis creativa

innovaciones sociales en América Latina y el sur de Europa

Refleja, además, la necesidad de poner en marcha dinámicas de cambio social capaces de confrontar, e incluso revertir, las crisis sistémicas periódicas y sus principales consecuencias. En el momento actual las prácticas alternativas, colaborativas, comunitarias e innovadoras se multiplican y se diversifican, dando lugar a ...

Un grano de cacao

perspectivas y futuro de la agricultura africana

Actualmente, la realidad africana alberga múltiples contradicciones. ¿Cómo explicar que un continente agrícola tenga millones de hambrientos? Para responder a esta cuestión hay numerosas hipótesis, pero todas ellas del mismo lugar: la historia. No se puede entender el modelo agrícola africano sin la colonización, ni ...

Economía para un futuro sostenible

claves para entender la economía de nue

La economía es una ciencia viva que sirve para analizar los recursos actuales y cómo se obtienen y distribuyen. En este contexto, alcanzar un futuro sostenible es el gran reto. Con un lenguaje sencillo y comprensible, este libro acerca a los lectores temas relacionados con ...

The economics of construction

The construction of housing, commercial property and infrastructure projects - roads, bridges, tunnels, railways, airports - for both the private and public sectors is one of the biggest industries in the world. It contributes around 10 per cent of world GDP, employs 7 per cent of the ...

The economy's other half

how taking gender seriously transforms macroeconomics

Choices made in macroeconomic policies - such as government spending, taxation, monetary policy and financial regulation - have distinct distributive consequences for women and men. They also shape the constraints within which efforts to advance gender equality must operate. The implications of gender dynamics for macroeconomics extends ...

The economy of the Gulf States

The six Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf - Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - have a disproportionate importance in the global economic system because of their enormous reserves of oil and gas. Matthew Gray provides a brief yet comprehensive profile ...

Microeconomics

When it comes to explaining fundamental economic principles by drawing on current economic issues and events, there is no one more effective than Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and co-author, Robin Wells. In this best-selling introductory textbook, Krugman and Wells’ signature ...

International corporate governance and regulation

Advances in Financial Economics volume 20 deals with International Corporate Governance, particularly the role played by boards of directors, internal organization design and governance mechanisms, franchise agreements, the effect of regulation and policy, the market for corporate control, and strategic alliances.

Modern energy market manipulation

As long as commodity and securities markets have been in operation, market manipulation has been a serious concern. Now that many electricity and natural gas markets have been opened to competition, manipulation threatens to destroy the value of these markets as well. Yet market manipulation ...

Austrian economics

the next generation

Austrian Economics: The Next Generation brings together emerging and established scholars to explore the insights that can be gleaned from applying Austrian economics to a range of different topics. Spanning a variety of related disciplines, from history to politics to public policy, this collection explores ...

Inequality, taxation, and intergenerational transmission

Research on Economic Inequality, volume 26, primarily contains papers presented at the 8th Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) meeting. The papers cover such topics as the effect of inheritance taxation on the "pre-distribution" of income, and tax progressivity under alternative inequality definitions ...

The corporate, real estate, household, Government and Non-Bank Financial sectors under financial stability

Sound financial stability assessments necessitate intensive analysis of different sectors, namely, the household sector, the corporate sector, the real estate sector, the government sector, and the non-bank financial sector. This volume provides a complete analysis and risk assessment of each of these sectors which make ...

The banking sector under financial stability

Many economies in the world are characterised by a bank-based financial system, that is, the financial intermediation process is mostly performed by banks. It is therefore critically important to undertake a fully-fledged analysis of the banking sector with respect to financial stability risks. The Banking ...

The winding road to the Welfare State

economic insecurity and social welfare policy in Britain

How did Britain transform itself from a nation of workhouses to one that became a model for the modern welfare state? The Winding Road to the Welfare State investigates the evolution of living standards and welfare policies in Britain from the 1830s to 1950 and ...

World in crisis

a global analysis of marx's Law of profitability

Most mainstream economists view capitalism's periodic breakdowns are nothing more than temporary aberrations from another wise unbroken path toward prosperity. For Marxists, this fundamental flaw has long been acknowledged as a central feature of the free market system. This groundbreaking volume brings together Marxist ...