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Economics

Ha-Joon Chang - Pelican, 2014 

What is economics?

What can - and can't it explain about the world?

Why does it matter?

In Economics: The User's Guide, bestselling author Ha-Joon Chang explains how the global economy works, and why anyone can understand the dismal science. Unlike many economists who claim there is only one way of 'doing economics', he introduces readers to a wide range of economic theories, from classical to Keynesian, revealing how they all have their strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. By ignoring the received wisdom, and exposing the myriad forces that shape our financial fate, Chang provides the tools that every responsible citizen needs to understand - and address - our current economic woes.

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Interpretation and Revision of International Boundary Decisions 

Kaiyan Homi Kaikobad - Cambridge University Press, 2007         Anteprima del libro          

This book, first published in 2007, seeks to examine a consistent theme occurring in judgements and awards given by international tribunals in the matter of boundary disputes, a theme which is predicated on finding some sort of difficulty in the implementation of those awards and judgements. This is a feature prominent in boundary and territorial disputes inasmuch as decisions relative to title to territory and location of a boundary line are always keenly contested and hotly disputed. Two remedies which have frequently been relied on by States are those of interpretation and revision. The author sheds light on how, when and in what circumstances will the tribunal be able to interpret or revise either its own or another tribunal's decisions. By doing so, the study succeeds in contributing to an understanding of this area of the law

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The Interpretation of Acts and Rules in Public International Law

Alexander Orakhelashvili - Oxford University Press 2008            Anteprima del libro     

                         

There are frequent claims that the international legal regulation of international law is uncertain, vague, ambiguous, or indeterminate, which does not support the stability, transparency, or predictability of international legal relations. This monograph examines the framework of interpretation in international law based on the premise of the effectiveness and determinacy of international legal regulation, which is a necessary pre-requisite for international law to be viewed as law. 

This study examines this problem for the first time since these questions were addressed, and taken as the basic premises of the international legal analysis, in the works of JL Brierly and Sir Hersch Lauterpacht. Addressing the different aspects of the effectiveness of legal regulation, this monograph explores the structural limits on, and threshold of, legal regulation, and the relationship between the established legal regulation and non-law. Once the limits of legal regulation are ascertained, the analysis proceeds to study the legal framework of interpretation that serves the maintenance and preservation of the object and intendment of the existing legal regulation. 

The final indispensable stage of analysis is the interpretation of those treaty provisions that embody the indeterminate conditions of non-law. Given that the generalist element of international legal doctrine has been virtually silent on the problem and implications of the effectiveness and determinacy of international legal regulation, this study examines the material accumulated in doctrine and practice for the past several decades, including the relevant jurisprudence of all major international tribunals

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Codice Civile. Struttura e vicende

Autore : Severino Caprioli

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Codice Civile
Tomo 1. Artt. 1-1677

a cura di Pietro Rescigno

Il Codice Civile a cura di Pietro Rescigno è una delle opere accolte con maggiore favore nella produzione giuridica Giuffrè. Alla sua nona edizione, commentata con la dottrina e annotata con la giurisprudenza, si arricchisce nei commenti e nei contenuti con le novità delle due epocali riforme: condominio e filiazione (l. n. 219/2012 e d.lgs. n. 154/2013). Con il consueto stile sintetico, scevro da riferimenti a questioni di carattere esclusivamente teorico e definitorio ma di forte valenza pratica, e con il confronto continuo tra le opinioni della dottrina, vengono commentati tutti gli articoli del codice civile (con le relative disposizioni di attuazione), comprese le disposizioni sulla legge in generale. Il volume è completato dal commento alla legge sullo scioglimento del matrimonio (l. 898/1970). L'opera, come l'edizione precedente, si ripartisce in due volumi così confermandone l'agevole consultazione.

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Il lavoro nelle reti di imprese : profili giuridici

Autore Ilario Alvino

Il libro esamina gli effetti giuridici che l'instaurazione di forme di collaborazione reticolare produce sull'applicazione del sistema di tutele predisposto dall'ordinamento a vantaggio del lavoratore subordinato. L'indagine si dipana in quattro tappe. La prima è dedicata a valutare in che modo la creazione di rapporti di collaborazione reticolare è suscettibile di incidere sulla nozione di datore di lavoro, alterando la formale imputazione del contratto di lavoro o ponendo responsabilità in capo a soggetti estranei al rapporto di lavoro. La seconda parte è dedicata all'esame degli strumenti che meglio di altri appaiono funzionali a favorire l'acquisizione e la circolazione del lavoro all'interno della rete per fronteggiarne le esigenze produttive ed organizzative. Particolare attenzione viene dedicata in quest'ambito alla facoltà di assumere congiuntamente il lavoratore recentemente riconosciuta alle imprese stipulanti il contratto di rete. Nella terza parte sono ricostruiti gli effetti che l'instaurazione di rapporti di collaborazione reticolare produce sui diritti e sugli obblighi delle parti del contratto di lavoro. L'ultima parte è infine dedicata all'approfondimento del ruolo che può essere svolto dall'autonomia collettiva.

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Why Nudge?

Autore : Cass R. Sunstein

Based on a series of pathbreaking lectures given at Yale University in 2012, this powerful, thought-provoking work by national best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein combines legal theory with behavioral economics to make a fresh argument about the legitimate scope of government, bearing on obesity, smoking, distracted driving, health care, food safety, and other highly volatile, high-profile public issues. Behavioral economists have established that people often make decisions that run counter to their best interests—producing what Sunstein describes as “behavioral market failures.” Sometimes we disregard the long term; sometimes we are unrealistically optimistic; sometimes we do not see what is in front of us. With this evidence in mind, Sunstein argues for a new form of paternalism, one that protects people against serious errors but also recognizes the risk of government overreaching and usually preserves freedom of choice.

Against those who reject paternalism of any kind, Sunstein shows that “choice architecture”—government-imposed structures that affect our choices—is inevitable, and hence that a form of paternalism cannot be avoided. He urges that there are profoundly moral reasons to ensure that choice architecture is helpful rather than harmful—and that it makes people’s lives better and longer.

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Design Democracy. What Constitutions Do

Autore : Cass R. Sunstein

"In modern nations, political disagreement is the source of both the gravest danger and the greatest security," writes Cass Sunstein. All democracies face intense political conflict. But is this conflict necessarily something to fear? In this provocative book, one of our leading political and legal theorists reveals how a nation's divisions of conviction and belief can be used to safeguard democracy. Confronting one explosive political issue after another, from presidential impeachment to the limits of religious liberty, from discrimination against women and gays to the role of the judiciary, Sunstein constructs a powerful new perspective from which to show how democracies negotiate their most divisive real-world problems. He focuses on a series of concrete concerns that go to the heart of the relationship between the idea of democracy and the idea of constitutionalism. Illustrating his discussion with examples from constitutional debates and court-cases in South Africa, Eastern Europe, Israel, America, and elsewhere, Sunstein takes readers through a number of highly charged questions: When should government be permitted to control discriminatory behavior by or within religious organizations? Does it make sense to govern on the basis of popular referenda? Can the right to have an abortion be defended? Can we defend Internet regulation? Should the law step in if children are being schooled in discriminatory preferences and beliefs? Should a constitution protect rights to food, shelter, and health care? Disputes over questions such as these can be fierce enough to pose a grave threat. But in a paradox whose elaboration forms the core of Sunstein's book, it is a nation's apparently threatening diversity of opinion that can ensure its integrity. Extending his important recent work on the way deliberation within like-minded groups can produce extremism, Sunstein breaks new ground in identifying the mechanisms behind polit.

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Bad Samaritans

Autore : Ha-Joon Chang

It's rare that a book appears with a fresh perspective on world affairs, but renowned economist Ha-Joon Chang has some startlingly original things to say about the future of globalization. In theory, he argues, the world's wealthiest countries and supra-national institutions like the IMF, World Bank and WTO want to see all nations developing into modern industrial societies. In practice, though, those at the top are 'kicking away the ladder' to wealth that they themselves climbed. Why? Self-interest certainly plays a part. But, more often, rich and powerful governments and institutions are actually being 'Bad Samaritans': their intentions are worthy but their simplistic free-market ideology and poor understanding of history leads them to inflict policy errors on others. Chang demonstrates this by contrasting the route to success of economically vibrant countries with the very different route now being dictated to the world's poorer nations. In the course of this, he shows just how muddled the thinking is in such key areas as trade and foreign investment. He shows that the case for privatisation and against state involvement is far from proven. And he explores the ways in which attitudes to national cultures and political ideologies are obscuring clear thinking and creating bad policy. Finally, he argues the case for new strategies for a more prosperous world that may appall the 'Bad Samaritans'.

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Economic the user's guide

Autore : Ha-Joon Chang

What is economics? What can - and can't - it explain about the world? Why does it matter? Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at Cambridge University, and writes a column for the Guardian. The Observer called his book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, which was a no.1 bestseller, 'a witty and timely debunking of some of the biggest myths surrounding the global economy.' He won the Wassily Leontief Prize for advancing the frontiers of economic thought, and is a vocal critic of the failures of our current economic system.

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The Supreme Court and the attitudinal model revisited

Autori : Jeffrey a. Segal and Haroldm J. Spaeth

This book, authored by two leading scholars of the Supreme Court and its policy making, systematically presents and validates the use of the attitudinal model to explain and predict Supreme Court decision making. In the process, it critiques the two major alternative models of Supreme Court decision making and their major variants: the legal and rational choice. Using the US Supreme Court Data Base, the justices' private papers, and other sources of information, the book analyzes the appointment process, certiorari, the decision on the merits, opinion assignments, and the formation of opinion coalitions. The book will be the definitive presentation of the attitudinal model as well as an authoritative critique of the legal and rational choice models. The book thoroughly reflects research done since the 1993 publication of its predecessor, as well as decisions and developments in the Supreme Court, including the momentous decision of Bush v. Gore.

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v.2.: Processo di cognizione. Impugnazioni

Autore : Girolamo Monteleone

Il volume racchiude i saggi aventi ad oggetto il processo di cognizione di primo grado e le impugnazioni nelle sue più varie sfumature e in diversi campi di applicazione, dall’estinzione del giudizio in primo grado all’inammissibilità del ricorso alla Cassazione Civile.




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Scritti sul processo civile
v.1.: Teoria generale del processo. Disposizioni generali del codice di procedura civile

Autore : Girolamo Monteleone

Il volume racchiude i saggi aventi ad oggetto problemi di Teoria generale del processo e questioni attinenti le disposizioni generali del codice di procedura civile. Esso si apre con il saggio più recente, riguardante la motivazione della sentenza, per sottolineare il dissenso dell'autore rispetto a recenti e deprecabili tendenze volte a sminuire l'importanza di questo fondamentale istituto.

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Ritrattazione della volontà risolutoria e reviviscenza del contratto

Autore : Luisa Pascucci

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Il contratto di assicurazione per conto

Autore : Domenica Pirilli

Sotto il titolo "Assicurazione per conto altrui o per conto di chi spetta" il disposto di cui all'art. 1891 c.c. trova opportuna collocazione tra i due poli dell'interesse (in senso tecnico-assicurativo) e del principio indennitario. È una dialettica centrale nelle problematiche civilistiche: essa, ponendosi in equilibrio tra criterio formale di legittimazione (es. possesso della polizza) e criterio sostanziale di titolarità dell'interesse assicurato, contribuisce a mantenere vivo il dibattito in un settore, quello assicurativo, da sempre foriero di idee nuove e pronto nel dare risposte adeguate alle esigenze che provengono dalla società, sia essa quella mercantile del XIV secolo o quella globalizzata odierna. Tutto ciò in ragione della duttilità che rende l'assicurazione inossidabile e che induce un sempre maggiore ricorso alla stessa. Ma l'assicurazione, pur incline all'interdisciplinarietà, per rimanere nell'alveo che le è proprio e continuare a svolgere il ruolo precipuo che ormai le viene riconosciuto, deve mantenere la propria identità di strumento principe di governo dei rischi evitando di tramutarsi in mezzo attraverso cui ottenere un ingiustificato arricchimento.          




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Il procedimento di divisione a domanda congiunta

di Rosaria Giordano

Tra gli argomenti trattati: Presupposti per la proposizione del ricorso ex art. 791-bis c.p.c. Soggetti delegabili per l'espletamento delle operazioni di divisione. Rapporti fra mediazione obbligatoria e controversie divisorie. Opposizione alla vendita e/o al progetto di divisione. Adempimenti successivi all'approvazione del progetto di divisione. 

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Rules, Games and Common-pool Resources 

di Elinor Ostrom...et al.

Explores ways that the tragedy of the commons can be avoided by people who use common-property resources

           

              

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The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

Angus Deaton - Princeton University Press, 2013

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty - Harvard University Press, 2014  

The main driver of inequality--returns on capital that exceed the rate of economic growth--is again threatening to generate extreme discontent and undermine democratic values. Thomas Piketty's findings in this ambitious, original, rigorous work will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality

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Precedent in the United States Supreme Court

Christopher J. Peters - Springer Netherlands, 2014 

This volume presents a variety of both normative and descriptive perspectives on the use of precedent by the United States Supreme Court. It brings together a diverse group of American legal scholars, some of whom have been influenced by the Segal/Spaeth "attitudinal" model and some of whom have not. The group of contributors includes legal theorists and empiricists, constitutional lawyers and legal generalists, leading authorities and up-and-coming scholars. The book addresses questions such as how the Court establishes durable precedent, how the Court decides to overrule precedent, the effects of precedent on case selection, the scope of constitutional precedent, the influence of concurrences and dissents, and the normative foundations of constitutional precedent. Most of these questions have been addressed by the Court itself only obliquely, if at all. The volume will be valuable to readers both in the United States and abroad, particularly in light of ongoing debates over the role of precedent in civil-law nations and emerging legal systems.