Infrastructure and its effects on economic growth, social welfare, and sustainability receive a great deal of attention today. There is widespread agreement that infrastructure is a key dimension of global development and that its impact reaches deep into the broader economy with important and multifaceted implications for social progress.At the same time, infrastructure finance is among the most complex and challenging areas in the global financial architecture. Ingo Walter, Profes...

Nearly seventy years after the last great stock market bubble and crash, another bubble emerged and burst, despite a thick layer of regulation designed since the 1930s to prevent such things. This time the bubble was enormous, reflecting nearly twenty years of double-digit stock market growth, and its bursting had painful consequence. The search for culprits soon began, and many were discovered, including not only a number of overreaching corporations, but also their auditors, investment b...

In Regulating Wall Street, Stern has assembled a team of experts, each a specialist in a relevant discipline, to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the legislation that is now on the table. Not all of the issues addressed in the current legislation are equally important. Some, such as financial sector compensation and consumer protection - are perhaps not central to future financial stability. Others, such as the future role of the Federal Reserve, the approach to systemic risk, the re...

Privat- und Geschäftsvermögen in die Rettung der Firma investiert, Weihnachtskarten im Sommer und Wunschlohn für die Mitarbeiter! Manches "Verrückte" haben die Unternehmer Walter Stuber und Dirk Eckart seit 2001 schon gemacht und oft Kopfschütteln dafür geerntet. Aber der Erfolg gibt ihnen Recht! In diesem Buch verraten die beiden "verrückten Geschäftsführer" der Gemeinhardt Gerüstbau Service GmbH in Roßwein/Sachsen, warum querdenken so wichtig ist, um ein Unternehmen auf Kurs zu bringen, ...

Private as well as business assets invested in serving the company, Christmas cards in summer and desired wages for the employees! Since 2001, a lot of crazy ideas have come from the two entrepreneurs Walter Stuber and Dirk Eckart which were often greeted with disbelief. However, their success has proven their merit! In this book, the two "crazy managing directors" of Gemeinhardt Geruestbau Service GmbH in Rosswein/Saxony will explain why thinking outside of the box is so important, why fa...

Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors tackles the problem of narrativizing memory that is constructed from fragments that have been passed along the generations. When trauma is cultural as well as personal, it becomes ev...

O livro Desafios à estabilidade constitucional: reflexões sobre a estrutura e direitos constitucionais é uma coletânea de reflexões francas e robustas sobre a trajetória da experiência constitucional de 1988. São textos em que o balanço sobre aspectos centrais do constitucionalismo brasileiro combina dados de pesquisas rigorosas com intuições e avaliações claras dos docentes e pesquisadores envolvidos. Nossa experiência constitucional é examinada em três dimensões: a estrutura constitucion...

Wie kann schulische Teilhabe für Kinder und Jugendliche mit körperlich-motorischen Beeinträchtigungen gelingen? Dieses Buch bietet Einblicke in zentrale Fragen inklusiver Bildung. Wissenschaftlich fundierte Beiträge und praxisnahe Ansätze renommierter SonderpädagogInnen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum geben einen umfassenden Überblick über aktuelle Entwicklungen und Herausforderungen im Arbeitsfeld körperlich-motorische Entwicklung (KmE). Der Band zeichnet die theoretischen Grundlagen und d...

"As aceleradas transformações tecnológicas, incorporadas de forma cada vez mais imediata (e irrefletida) ao nosso cotidiano, têm produzido impactos sensíveis sobre as relações jurídicas. Frequentemente, a proteção aos direitos fundamentais é colocada à prova: ao mesmo tempo em que trazem benefícios inéditos à sociedade, as novas tecnologias, por vezes, colocam em risco interesses individuais tidos pela nossa ordem constitucional como imprescindíveis ao pleno desenvolvimento da pessoa human...

Die Autoren beschreiben in diesem Essential anhand von Beispielen Schwierigkeiten, die beim Sparen auftreten. Auf Basis der Systemtheorie des Soziologen N. Luhmann, die zu Grundzügen einer Soziologie des Sparens umgeformt wird, entstehen neue Einblicke, weil in Systemen (wie Wirtschaft oder Politik) gedacht wird und der einzelne Mensch außen vor bleibt. Die Aggregation der Erkenntnisse der Beispiele aus der Praxis mündet in einer Frage: Wie sollen die gesellschaftlichen Subsysteme um die b...

Experts from NYU Stern School of Business analyze new financial regulations and what they mean for the economyThe NYU Stern School of Business is one of the top business schools in the world thanks to the leading academics, researchers, and provocative thinkers who call it home. In Regulating Wall Street: The New Architecture of Global Finance, an impressive group of the Stern school’s top authorities on finance combine their expertise in capital markets, ...

Klima oder Mensch, Wald oder Acker – was prägte die Vegetationsbedeckung der Landschaften in Deutschland seit dem Ende der letzten Eiszeit vor 15.000 Jahren? Wie wandelte sich der Wald in Süddeutschland, als Doggerland in der Nordsee versank? Ab wann gab es Landwirtschaft und welche Folgen hatte sie schon frühzeitig für die Umwelt? Die Untersuchung von fossilem Blütenstaub gibt Antwort auf derartige Fragen. Sie lässt uns die Entwicklung von der Kältesteppe nach dem Abschmelzen der Gletsche...