'Hay unos números en mi café' es una serie que pretende hacer fácil lo difícil. Acercarnos a conceptos matemáticos complejos de un modo sencillo y didáctico con múltiples ejemplos, ilustraciones y un lenguaje apto y comprensible para todos los públicos.Francisco Salas Molina aborda en el primer libro El equilibrio de John Nash. La famosa teoría de juegos que contribuyó a desarrollar Nash de manera crucial con tan solo 20 años. Matemáticas, historia y biogr...

In the ongoing Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization negotiations, developing countries have had much greater leverage, due at least in part to their large and growing share of world trade. But will the increased influence of developing countries translate into a final agreement that is truly more development-friendly? What would be key ingredients in such a final outcome of the negotiations, and what would the developing countries really get out of it. This two volume set see...

This book, the companion volume to 'Low Carbon, High Growth: Latin American Responses to Climate Change', examines some of the major threats posed by climate change to the region's economies, societies, and biodiversity. It describes the patterns of greenhouse gas emissions in the Latin America and Caribbean region and in specific countries, finding that the future trajectory could be increases in emissions relative to other regions. 'Low-Carbon Development' explains why it is in the regio...

Roads are the arteries through which the economy pulses. They connect sellers to markets, workers to jobs, students to education, and the sick to hospitals. Yet much of the developing world, Africa in particular, lacks adequate transportation infrastructure. Accordingly investments in transportation remain a cornerstone of the development agenda. Sub-Saharan Africa spends roughly $6.8 billion per year on paving roads, and the World Bank invests more on roads than on education, health, and ...

First published in 1998. This work contributes to the discussion of Knight by showing that uncertainty broadens the conception of economic welfare, and that a new cost analysis holds the key to unlocking the Knightian corpus. It develops Knight's suggestion that uncertainty-control costs can be reduced - arguing that the large firm enjoys economic rent from utilizing its dominant vantage point in the market. The author demonstrates that while Knight provides the intellectual stimulus which...

Enhancing the productivity of agriculture is vital for Sub-Saharan Africa's economic future and is one of the most important tools to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity in the region. How governments elect to spend public resources has significant development impact in this regard. Choosing to catalyze a shift toward more effective, efficient, and climate-resilient public spending in agriculture can accelerate change and unleash growth. Not only does agricultural public spendi...

Enhancing the productivity of agriculture is vital for Sub-Saharan Africa's economic future and is one of the most important tools to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity in the region. How governments elect to spend public resources has significant development impact in this regard. Choosing to catalyze a shift toward more effective, efficient, and climate-resilient public spending in agriculture can accelerate change and unleash growth. Not only does agricultural public spendi...

Roads are the arteries through which the economy pulses. They connect sellers to markets, workers to jobs, students to education, and the sick to hospitals. Yet much of the developing world, Africa in particular, lacks adequate transportation infrastructure. Accordingly investments in transportation remain a cornerstone of the development agenda. Sub-Saharan Africa spends roughly $6.8 billion per year on paving roads, and the World Bank invests more on roads than on education, health, and ...

Policy makers in many countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region have found it challenging to determine how to treat natural resource commodity production and how to manage the recurrent cycles of booms and busts. 'Natural Resources in Latin America and the Caribbean: Beyond Booms and Busts?' addresses the major concerns associated with commodity dependence, summarizing the state of the art in existing literature and filling in the knowledge gaps with new analysis. The report fin...

Sommaire: G. Defaux, «De Marie à Délie: Le cèdre, le venin, la licorne et la Colonne du Dieu vivant»; J. C. Nash, «Per angusta ad augusta: Ronsard and the Renaissance Belief in Poetry as Therapy»; C. Yandell, «“L’amour au féminin”? Ronsard and Pontus de Tyard Speaking as Women»; F. Rigolot, «Ronsard et la théorie méliorative de l’imitation»; Ph. Ford, « “What Song the Sirens Sang...”: The Representation of Odysseus in Ronsard’s Poetry»; A. Moss, «Ronsard the Poet: Ronsard the Hermaphrodite...

This is the powerful, dramatic biography of math genius John Nash, who overcame serious mental illness and schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize. This book is the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly and directed by Ron Howard.“How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?” the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner....

Eight years apart. One storm. No escape from the past.Finnish investor Olli Tuominen is ready to marry again—until the law reminds him he’s still bound to his first wife, Bendicíon “Benny” Obiang. Serving her divorce papers should’ve been simple. But Benny has never been simple.The moment he sees her, all the control he’s built his life around unravels. The submissive who once surrendered to his every command is still the only woman who’s ever brou...