Libros de: Cambridge University Press
Mostrando 1800 libros encontrados. (90 páginas).
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Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment
Kapossy, Béla Nakhimovsky, Isaac Whatmore, Richard
Cambridge University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781108416559
- Páginas: 360
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.93,19 €
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For many Enlightenment thinkers, discerning the relationship between commerce and peace was the central issue of modern politics. The logic of commerce seemed to require European states and empires to learn how to behave in ...
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An Introduction to Lie Groups and Lie Algebras
Kirillov, Alexander
Cambridge University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781316614105
- Páginas: 222
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.35,27 €
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With roots in the nineteenth century, Lie theory has since found many and varied applications in mathematics and mathematical physics, to the point where it is now regarded as a classical branch of mathematics in ...
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Managing and Working in Project Society "Institutional Challenges of Temporary Organizations"
Arvidsson, Niklas Brady, Tim Lundin, Rolf A.
Cambridge University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781107434462
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.30,05 €
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In this book, leading authorities on project organizing explore the growing deployment of projects and other types of temporary organizations, with a focus on the challenges created by projectification. The way projects are coordinated and ...
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Ethics and the Global Financial Crisis "Why Incompetence Is Worse than Greed"
De Bruin, Boudewijn
Cambridge University Press
- EAN: 9781107421653
- Páginas: 242
pvp.28,72 €
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In this topical book, Boudewijn de Bruin examines the ethical 'blind spots' that lay at the heart of the global financial crisis. He argues that the most important moral problem in finance is not the ...
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An Introduction to Decision Theory
Peterson, Martin
Cambridge University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781316606209
- Páginas: 340
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.36,50 €
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Now revised and updated, this introduction to decision theory is both accessible and comprehensive, covering topics including decision making under ignorance and risk, the foundations of utility theory, the debate over subjective and objective probability, ...
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Structured to fail? "Regulatory Performance under Competing Mandates"
Carrigan, Christopher
Cambridge University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781316632802
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.36,58 €
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In the search for explanations for three of the most pressing crises of the early twenty-first century (the housing meltdown and financial crisis, the Gulf oil spill, and the nuclear disaster at Fukushima), commentators pointed ...
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Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Project Management
Drouin, Nathalie Muller, Ralf Sankaran, Shankar
Cambridge University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781107157729
- Páginas: 394
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.150,29 €
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In recent years, organizational project management (OPM) has emerged as a field focused on how project, program and portfolio management practices strategically help firms realize organizational goals. There is a compelling need to address the ...
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Managing Open Innovation in SMEs
Vanhaverbeke, Wim
Cambridge University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781107421332
- Páginas: 234
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.36,58 €
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The concept of open innovation (OI) has become a very popular topic during the last decade, with an increasing number of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) embracing OI practices to gain competitive advantage. With the ...
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Max Weber's Economic Ethic of the World Religions "An Analysis"
Ertman, Thomas C.
Cambridge University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781107133877
- Páginas: 360
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.84,94 €
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This book brings together for the first time in English internationally-recognized specialists who seek to identify what is 'living' and what is 'dead' in the great German social scientist Max Weber's analyses of China, India ...
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Regulatory Crisis "Negotiating the Consequences of Risk, Disasters and Crisis"
Hutter, Bridget Lloyd-Bostock, Sally
Cambridge University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781316632222
- Páginas: 260
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.36,58 €
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Using a new concept - 'regulatory crisis' - this book examines how major crises may or may not affect regulation. The authors provide a detailed analysis of selected well-known disasters, tracing multiple interwoven sources of ...
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Exclusion by Elections "Inequality, Ethnic Identity, and Democracy"
Huber, John D.
Cambridge University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781316633977
- Páginas: 310
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.31,36 €
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Exclusion by Elections develops a theory about the circumstances under which 'class identities' as opposed to 'ethnic identities' become salient in democratic politics, and links this theory to issues of inequality and the propensity of ...
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The Origins of Behavioural Public Policy
Oliver, Adam J.
Cambridge University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781316649664
- Páginas: 195
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.28,74 €
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The use of behavioural science to inform policy is one of the main developments in the social sciences over the last several decades. In this book, Adam Oliver offers an accessible introduction to the development ...
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The Principles and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration
Moses, Margaret L.
Cambridge University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781316606285
- Páginas: 413
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.39,20 €
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Arbitration has become the dispute resolution method of choice in international transactions. This book provides the reader with immediate access to understanding the world of international arbitration, explaining how and why arbitration works. It provides ...
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Can Banks Still Keep a Secret? "Bank Secrecy in Financial Centres Around the World"
Booysen, Sandra Neo, Dora
Cambridge University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781107145146
- Páginas: 415
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.124,16 €
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The duty to keep customer information confidential affects banks on a daily basis. Bank secrecy regimes around the world differ and multi-national banks can find themselves in conflicted positions with a duty to protect information ...
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Britain's Political Economies "Parliament and Economic Life, 1660-1800"
Hoppit, Julian
Cambridge University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781316649909
- Páginas: 392
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.30,05 €
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The Glorious Revolution of 1688-9 transformed the role of parliament in Britain and its empire. Large numbers of statutes resulted, with most concerning economic activity. Julian Hoppit here provides the first comprehensive account of these ...
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Dollars for Dixie "Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century"
Jewell, Katherine Rye
Cambridge University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781107174023
- Páginas: 318
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.52,26 €
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Organized in 1933, the Southern States Industrial Council's (SSIC) adherence to the South as a unique political and economic entity limited its members' ability to forge political coalitions against the New Deal. The SSIC's commitment ...
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The Political Economy of Public Finance "Taxation, State Spending and Debt since the 1970s"
Buggeln, Marc Daunton, Martin Nützenadel, Alexander
Cambridge University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781107140127
- Páginas: 314
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.84,94 €
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This volume examines the major trends in public finance in developed capitalist countries since the oil crisis of 1973. That year's oil shock quickly became an economic crisis, putting an end to a period of ...
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Introduction to Energy "Resources, Technology, and Society"
Cassedy, Edward S. Grossman, Peter
Cambridge University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781107605046
- Páginas: 402
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.62,71 €
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Given the potential disruption of climate change, understanding energy issues and technologies is more important than ever if societies are to make informed choices on policy. Now in its third edition, Introduction to Energy explores ...
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Economics without Borders "Economic Research for European Policy Challenges"
Blundell, Richard Cantillo, Estelle Chizzolini, Barbara Ivaldi, Marc Leininger, Wolfgang
Cambridge University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781316636398
- Páginas: 640
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.45,73 €
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If treated as a single economy, the European Union is the largest in the world, with an estimated GDP of over 14 trillion euros. Despite its size, European economic policy has often lagged behind the ...
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Rethinking Fiscal Policy after the Crisis
Odor, Ludovit
Cambridge University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781107160583
- Páginas: 596
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.156,82 €
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Before the financial crisis, fiscal policy often played a secondary role to monetary policy, with the manipulation of interest rates to hit inflation targets being the main instrument of macroeconomic management. However, after the financial ...