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"Runner-Up in the Twelfth Annual Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards" Kurt Weyland is professor of government at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies (Princeton) and Democracy without Equity: Failures of Reform in Brazil.
Why do very different countries often emulate the same policy model? Two years after Ronald Reagan's income-tax simplification of 1986, Brazil adopted a similar reform...
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The decision of the British people to leave the EU was a political earthquake. A seemingly never-ending round of challenges—from the migration crisis, to continuing terror threats and the euro's woes—has left the EU in a crisis of confidence. The consequent rise in nationalism and populism has too often seemed to leave the continent's existing generation of leaders floundering.
But there is hope. A new generation of European leaders is rising...
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"Los catálogos de derechos humanos consagrados en los instrumentos internacionales, así como aquellos reconocidos en los textos internos de los Estados, se encuentran en permanente evolución. Debido a ello, el estudio de la fundamentación, de la interpretación de los derechos por vía jurisdiccional y el análisis sobre el marco jurídico existente para comprender, son de suma importancia toda vez que el ordenamiento normativo se enfrenta a permanentes...
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Google's search engine has made information and education more accessible by putting accurate and relevant information at our fingertips. People of all backgrounds and socio-economic levels are now able to take advantage of academic work that is once reserved for the privileged. A search engine like Google facilitates the spreading of knowledge and the gaining of knowledge, particularly when utilized properly. With the advancement of smart technology,...
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A new Volume in the Collection "Geopolitics", "Strait of Tensions", authored by the esteemed French Think Tank's GEW Reports & Analyses Team, delves into the complex geopolitical dynamics surrounding the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait.One of the key chokepoints in the Red Sea is the Bab el Mandeb strait, a narrow waterway situated between the coasts of Yemen and the African continent. This strait holds immense strategic and economic significance,...
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"How the global mind drives the evolution of both consciousness and civilization: explains how our brains receive consciousness from the global mind, which upgrades human consciousness according to a pre-set divine time frame; reveals how the Mayan Calendar provides a blueprint for these consciousness downloads throughout history; examines the mind shift in humans and the development of pyramids and civilization in ancient Egypt, Sumer, South America,...
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"A maverick thinker who's drawn the applause of both the populist left and right offers a searing indictment of the managerial elite. Mainstream politicians and pundits explain today's populist unrest as a simple divide between "winners" and "losers." They recognize that globalization has created massive inequalities, but these are inevitable, they say -- and the best we can do is throw a sop to the "deplorables" to keep them from revolting. But what...
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A new edition of the seminal text by the father of modern economics.
First published in 1919, John Maynard Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace created immediate controversy. Keynes was a firsthand witness to the negotiations of the Paris Peace Conference, as an official representative of the British Treasury, and he simultaneously sat as deputy for the chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme Economic Council. In these roles, he was...
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The greatest challenge of any startup and growth company is the transition from an early stage startup to a robust organization complete with a driving culture, contemporary leadership, organizational infrastructure and twenty-first-century operating methodologies. Ralf Specht provides inspiration, wisdom, and learnings gleaned from his role and experience in creating and scaling Spark 44, a Jaguar Land Rover joint venture, from concept to an award-...
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Beginning in Los Angeles International Airport, where town life--shops, services, sociability--is available without a town, Pico Iyer takes us on a tour of the transnational village our world has become. From Hong Kong, where people actually live in self-contained hotels, to Atlanta's Olympic Village, which seems to inadvertently commemorate a sort of corporate universalism, to Japan, where in the midst of alien surfaces his apartment building is...
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En un mundo globalizado como el actual, múltiples y diversas problemáticas nos invaden, la mayoría dirigidas y organizadas por el ser humano.
A lo largo de este libro, se ofrecen diversos artículos cuya intención es concienciar y animar al lector a una reflexión sobre determinadas situaciones conflictivas, inciertas o violentas que nos rodean en el día a día a cualquier persona, con el objetivo de que, a través de un debate interior, encontrar...
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A "body [found] in the snow is that of Ben Wylie, the heir to America's second-wealthiest business dynasty, and it is found in a remote patch of northern Canada. Far away, in post-crash New York, Jamie Cabot, the son of the Wylie family's housekeepers, must figure out how and why Ben died. He knows the answer lies in the tortured history of the Wylie family, who over three generations built up their massive holdings into several billion dollars' worth...
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"As Muslims grow in numbers, and as Islam's role in world affairs becomes larger, we've begun to see the breakdown in a united fellowship among believers. Certainly the misunderstandings and friction between Islamic civilization and the modern West continue. But even within Islam, Iran's clerics are split, militant fundamentalists clash with students from Islamic universities, moderate Muslim-Americans look nothing like wahhabis from Saudi Arabia....
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"Capital without Borders will offer the first in-depth, cross-national examination of the wealth management profession: an extremely powerful professional group about which little is known, except that it controls large flows of capital around the world and has a significant impact on growing wealth inequality. With Oxfam estimating that 1 percent of the global population will own more than half the world's assets by 2016, and policymakers voicing...
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Drawing on many archival findings, this book considers the emerging function and status of orchestral conductors in Britain, and the nature of the opportunities available to them, from the late Victorian era until the outbreak ofWorld War I. It does so by examining and comparing the profiles and impact of eight men whose work supplied the needs of a variety of institutions across the period but whose significant contributions were overshadowed by...
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Las sociedades modernas contemporáneas se caracterizan por presentar altos niveles de complejidad, que se expresan en la transformación de los ámbitos de la organización social, cultural y simbólica. Una consecuencia de estas transformaciones es que la responsabilidad de dotar de sentido a la experiencia y construir la propia identidad se traslada del orden institucional a la subjetividad individual.
El propósito del texto es indagar con qué...
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Le genre humain est riche ; pourtant la plupart d'entre nous sont pauvres. Un paradis en puissance s'ouvre à nous ; au lieu de cela, nous nous opprimons les uns les autres avec une grande cruauté rendant peu à peu notre planète invivable. Nous avons laissé se privatiser le bien commun et permis à ses nouveaux propriétaires d'en faire ce que bon leur semble, que la ressource soit renouvelable ou non. L'argent appelle l'argent, la concentration...
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Las distintas lecturas sobre el fenómeno de la globalización están de acuerdo en afirmar su carácter desbordado, incontrolado y acelerado, que sus efectos son cada vez más imprevisibles y que sus consecuencias dejan más para lamentar que para celebrar. Los autores añaden un elemento central en la reflexión filosófica sobre el derecho, la política y la moral: el problema de la justicia. En este libro se cuestiona a las teorías de justicia...
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In the pages of "Globalization Gone Wild! Unbelievable Stories from Around the World," embark on a captivating odyssey that transcends borders, cultures, and epochs. This meticulously crafted exploration takes you on a journey through the annals of human interconnectedness, weaving together narratives that unravel the profound impact of globalization on the tapestry of our shared existence. Dive into Ancient Traces:Delve into the dawn of global interaction,...
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LA PANDEMIA DE COVID-19 está dejando en América Latina y el Caribe la convicción de que el bien de las sociedades que componen la región depende de una reorientación en el rumbo general, tanto de las relaciones entre los países como en el orden de la justicia social de cada país.
La pandemia hace muy visibles diferentes aspectos de la realidad porque extrema los contrastes; las vacunas aparecen como síntesis de un aporte a una solución para...
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