Investigación, comunicación y universidad = Research, communication and university

proyectos I+D y tesis doctorales, debates y encuesta a investigadores en las Facultades con Grados de Comunicación en España

¿Qué es lo que miden los rankings de universidades? ¿La productividad y la eficiencia? ¿El prestigio académico? Las dimensiones principales de los criterios de evaluación de las universidades en los rankings internacionales privilegian la docencia, la investigación más la innovación, y el desarrollo tecnológico. Sin ...

The age of surveillance capitalism

the fight for a human future at the new frontier of power

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. Shoshana Zuboff's interdisciplinary breadth and depth enable her to come ...

Decisiones, incertidumbre y el cerebro

la ciencia de la neuroeconomía

Hasta hace relativamente poco tiempo se consideraba que el comportamiento humano, en particular el del cerebro, estaba determinado por ciertas variables, susceptibles, si no de modificarse, sí al menos de medirse. Desde la Antigüedad se debate si el ser humano tiene un destino escrito, si ...

Energy kingdoms

oil and political survival in the Persian Gulf

After the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the Gulf monarchies-Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain-went from being among the world's poorest and most isolated places to some of its most ostentatiously wealthy. To maintain support, the ruling sheikhs ...

Democracy and prosperity

reinventing capitalism through a turbulent century

A groundbreaking new historical analysis of how global capitalism and advanced democracies mutually support each other It is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism, in turn explaining rising inequality and mounting ...

La bolsa o la vida

los 9 pasos para transformar tu relación con el dinero y alcanzar la libertad financiera

Millones de personas han descubierto cómo recuperar su libertad financiera gracias a este libro: en nueve fáciles pasos, aprenderás a gestionar tus ingresos, ahorrar, evitar endeudarte, prescindir de los excesos y vivir mejor por menos dinero, invertir tu dinero y crear riqueza, y mantener conversaciones ...

Patently mathematical

picking partners, passwords, and careers by the numbers

How do dating sites match compatible partners? What do cell phones and sea coasts have in common? And why do computer scientists keep ant colonies? Jeff Suzuki answers these questions and more in Patently Mathematical, which explores the mathematics behind some of the key inventions ...

A random walk down Wall Street

the time-tested strategy for successful investing

Today's stock market is not for the faint hearted. At a time of frightening volatility, the answer is to turn to Burton G. Malkiel's advice in his reassuring, authoritative, gimmick-free and perennially best-selling guide to investing. Long established as the first book to ...

The joy of missing out

the art of self-restraint in an age of excess

An antidote to experience-obsessed consumer society, emphasising the slower build of restraint and moderation. Follows the success of Brinkmann's }Stand Firm{ - a comparable rejection of pop psychology's obsession with self-development.

Bloomberg by Bloomberg

Mike Bloomberg's company is a major provider of financial information and news through on-line services, a wire service, national radio networks, a monthly financial magazine and Bloomberg Business News on PBS. This is his story.

Accounting for goodwill and other intangible assets

Concepts, methods, and issues in calculating the fair value of intangibles Accounting for Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets is a guide to one of the most challenging aspects of business valuation. Not only must executives and valuation professionals understand the complicated set of rules and ...

Smart cities, smart future

showcasing tomorrow

Are you curious about smart cities? You should be! By mid-century, two-thirds of us will live in cities. The world of tomorrow will be a world of cities. But will they be smart cities? Smart cities are complex blends of technologies, systems and services designed ...

#MakeoverMonday

improving how we visualize and analyze data, one chart at a time

Explore different perspectives and approaches to create more effective visualizations #MakeoverMonday offers inspiration and a giant dose of perspective for those who communicate data. Originally a small project in the data visualization community, #MakeoverMonday features a weekly chart or graph and a dataset that community ...

Beyond debt

islamic experiments in global finance

Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. This realization has led to cries for change-yet there is little popular awareness of possible alternatives. Beyond Debt describes efforts to create a transnational economy free of debt. Based ...

Naked economics

undressing the dismal science

This is a new edition of the best-selling economics book that won't put you to sleep. In our challenging economic climate, this perennial favourite of students and general readers includes commentary on hot topics such as automation, trade and income inequality. Ten years after ...

Confronting inequality

how societies can choose inclusive growth

Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the tradeoff we must accept to achieve economic growth. In this ...

Trusting nudges

toward a bill of rights for nudging

Many "nudges" aim to make life simpler, safer, or easier for people to navigate, but what do members of the public really think about these policies? Drawing on surveys from numerous nations around the world, Sunstein and Reisch explore whether citizens approve of nudge policies ...

The rise of precarious employment in Europe

theoretical perspectives, Reforms and Employment trends in the era of economic crisis

The deterioration of employment conditions for an increasing number of employees in late capitalism has prompted researchers to find ways to conceptualise, as well as measure, these observed new tendencies. This book examines precarious employment in Europe through the economic crisis, drawing on two main ...

Fighting financial crises

learning from the past

If you've got some money in the bank, chances are you've never seriously worried about not being able to withdraw it. But there was a time in the United States, an era that ended just over a hundred years ago, in which bank ...

Romper con las megaempresas

Hoy en día es inaceptable que las corporaciones transnacionales dominen los mercados en todo el mundo. Cuando hacen lobby, a menudo crean redes complejas, llamadas «complejos corporativos», que poseen una alta concentración de poder económico y político. Esto ha resultado en formas injustificables de dominación ...