"Public enforcement" y descentralización en la aplicación de las normas de libre competencia en la Comunidad Europea y en España

This academic resource introduces planned obsolescence as a business strategy based on the design o planning, projection and control of (he usefuI lifetime of numerous products in order to boost demand and stimulate consurnption, encouraging individuals to purchase after the loss of functionality of its assets or its expiration. It also examines the most sígnificant cases that have led such a strategy: from inception to the present day. with a focus on the technology sector. In addition, it considers the attributes that make up the strategy of built-in obsolescence relevant for law. and also ...

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing...

En La economía del hidrógeno, Jeremy Rifkin nos acompaña, en un viaje revelador, a otra gran era comercial de la historia. Rifkin prevé el nacimiento de una nueva economía basada en el hidrógeno, que cambiará radicalmente la naturaleza de nuestras instituciones sociales, políticas y mercantiles, al igual que hicieron la energía del carbón y del vapor al comienzo de la era industrial. Rifkin observa que nos acercamos rápidamente a un punto crítico en la era de los combustibles fósiles, de consecuencias potencialmente desastrosas para la civilización industrial. Si hasta ahora los ...

This bibliography, the most comprehensive yet published, contains over 4,100 citations and offers a wealth of useful information to aid the researcher in locating sources for the study of the foreign policy of the French Second Empire. It includes books, articles, doctoral dissertations, and general studies of major diplomatic history topics relating to the political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of Second Empire foreign policy that have been published between the mid-1880s and the mid 1980s in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

A lo largo de varias décadas pensamos a la democracia como una solución... Hoy resulta claro que la democracia, en efecto, resuelve algunos problemas: el de la convivencia/competencia entre diversas corrientes políticas e ideológicas, el del relevo gubernamental sin tener que acudir al expediente de la violencia, el de la expansión de las libertades y el ejercicio de derechos políticos, entre otros. Pero también resulta inescapable que la democracia, por su propia complejidad, por ser un régimen en el que coexisten y compiten una diversidad de opciones políticas, tiende a hacer más...