El proyectorado

Bolivia tras 20 años de ayuda externa

La concesión de ayuda ha sido la principal respuesta del Norte al problema de la pobreza en el Sur. Pero la ayuda puede socavar la institucionalidad de los países pobres agudizando su dependencia externa. El caso de Bolivia ilustra este fenómeno. Durante los últimos veinte ...

The faith of scientists

in their own words

The Faith of Scientists is an anthology of writings by twenty-one legendary scientists, from the dawn of the Scientific Revolution to the frontiers of science today, about their faith, their views about God, and the place religion holds--or doesn't--in their lives in light of ...

La flecha quebrada

Durante el segundo cuarto del siglo XX, España, y la mayor parte de europa, vivió sumida en una marea constante de acontecimientos que convulsionaron la escena política global, y definieron de manera implacable el transcurso de la vida de la mayoría de sus habitantes. La ...

The venturesome economy

how innovation sustains prosperity in a more connected world

Many warn that the next stage of globalization - the offshoring of research and development to China and India - threatens the foundations of Western prosperity. But in "The Venturesome Economy", acclaimed business and economics scholar Amar Bhide shows how wrong the doomsayers are. Using extensive field ...

Construyendo campañas nacionales

activistas, alianzas y cómo inducir el cambio

Mediante la explicación de cinco ejemplos de campañas por los derechos laborales de las mujeres, esta guía ofrece una serie de aprendizajes sobre movilización social para hacer posible el cambio en otros lugares y en otras cuestiones de justicia social.

World Copyright Law

An engine, not a camera

how financial models shape markets

In "An Engine, Not a Camera", Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based on elegant mathematical models of markets, were not simply external analyses but intrinsic parts of ...

Indifference pricing

theory and applications

This is the first book about the emerging field of utility indifference pricing for valuing derivatives in incomplete markets. Rene Carmona brings together a who's who of leading experts in the field to provide the definitive introduction for students, scholars, and researchers. Until recently ...

Plumes

ostrich feathers, jews, and a lost world of global commerce

From Yiddish-speaking Russian-Lithuanian feather handlers in South Africa to London manufacturers and wholesalers, from rival Sephardic families whose feathers were imported from the Sahara and traded across the Mediterranean, from New York's Lower East Side to entrepreneurial farms in the American West, Stein explores ...

Accounting Best Practices

Praise for "Accounting Best Practices, Fifth Edition": 'For a comprehensive, yet easy-to-read guide to fixing those all-too-common shortcomings in your accounting department, look no further than this excellent book. Steve Bragg provides hundreds of fixes, many of them requiring surprisingly little time or cost while ...

The Handbook of Structured Finance

Stay On Top of Every Major Issue in the Structured Finance Marketand Learn Powerful New Models for Identifying, Measuring, Pricing, and Monitoring Your Deals The Handbook of Structured Finance is a complete guide to themajor issues facing investors in the structured finance market.Comprehensive and ...

Intellectual property, trade and development

strategies to optimize economic development in a TRIPS plus era

There is a fast-growing need in many countries, in particular in the developing world, to come to a greater understanding of the links between intellectual property, trade rules and economic and social development and to find new ways of implementing intellectual property rules and optimizing ...

Development on the ground

Clusters, Networks and Regions in Emerging Economies

Edited by two leading scholars who have been instrumental in the shaping of current thinking in the field of regional and industrial economics, this volume brings together a range of theoretical and empirical contributions that analyze and explain distinct patterns of regional development, and the ...

The business of fashion

designing, manufacturing, and marketing

The Third Edition of this authoritative text focuses on the organization and operation of the U.S. textile and fashion industry - how fashion apparel and accessories are designed, manufactured, marketed, and distributed - and examines the role of these industries within a global context. Since the ...

Fashion

the industry and its careers

Considering a career in fashion? This exciting and dynamic industry presents a wide range of different possible career choices. But without being on the inside, it's difficult to determine exactly what a designer does-or a textile manufacturer, wholesaler, illustrator, model, product developer, journalist, or ...

Measuring the new economy

statistics between hard-boiled indicators and intangible phenomena

This book is about the intriguing subject of measuring the New Economy, which in brief means ICT and its impact on society. It brings to the surface various old and new statistical issues which call for a solution, not in the least because politicians in ...

The Apple way

12 management lessons from the world's most innovative company

Apple's stock has increased in value an unprecedented 250 percent in the past year, and a two-for-one split was announced in February 2005. More than 10 million iPods have sold, putting Apple at the forefront of the digital music revolution. This book is filled ...

Rocking Wall Street

four powerful strategies that will shake up the way you invest, build your wealth, and give you your life back

This book provides four critical investing principles to beat the Wall Street "casino" at its own game and help you become successful in every phase of life. Celebrated money manager and songwriter Gary Marks has made a fortune knowing when to follow the rules for ...

Copyright in a global information economy

Instructors can depend on this casebook for: comprehensive coverage of all basic topics in domestic and international copyright law, including the purpose and sources of copyright law, the requirements for obtaining copyright protection and proving infringement, and the effects of technology shifts on copyright protection ...

Inflation-linked products

a guide for investor and asset and liability managers

Presents the global phenomenon of inflation-linked products. This title explains the surge of interest in inflation-linked government bonds and the range of securities and derivatives that have been created to meet the demand from investors. It is for product structurers, inflation traders, financial institution treasurers ...