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Ensayo de 1899 que anticipa muchos debates del siglo XX: la función del estado, la evolución de las instituciones, el papel del individuo…

I lap up everything John Crace writes gratefully I love his cleverness his wit and his heart Nigella Lawson From the ingeniously quick witted John Crace comes a satirical memoir from the eyes of his beloved dog Herbie And as a Westminster veteran boy does he have some stories to share It started when a chance encounter with Sadiq Khan s Labrador landed Herbie a job working as a special advisor to Ed Miliband in 2014 Then he was summoned by David Cameron to work on the Remain campaign in the EU referendum He experienced the pain of working with Theresa May was sacked and then rehired by Boris Johnson to advise on Covid was at Balmoral when the Queen died had a ringside seat for Liz Truss was fired by Rishi Sunak and then latterly taken on by Keir Starmer This is the story the politicians didn t want you to know What are Larry the Cat and Dilyn the Dog really like How did Charlotte Owen get a peerage Herbert Hound finally tells all

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021 What will you sacrifice for the truth Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate has landed her in trouble with the most powerful man in the country President Duterte Now hounded by the state she has multiple arrest warrants against her name and a potential 100 years behind bars to prepare for while she stands trial for speaking the truth How to Stand Up to a Dictator is the story of how democracy dies by a thousand cuts and how an invisible atom bomb has exploded online that is killing our freedoms It maps a network of disinformation a heinous web of cause and effect that has netted the globe from Duterte s drug wars to America s Capitol Hill to Britain s Brexit to Russian and Chinese cyber warfare to Facebook and Silicon Valley to our own clicks and our own votes Told from the frontline of the digital war this is Maria Ressa s urgent cry for us to wake up and hold the line before it is too late Praise for Maria Ressa Winner of the UNESCO Press Freedom Award 2021 A personal hero of mine she s an important warning for the rest of us Hillary Clint

Si hacemos un recorrido por la trayectoria filosófica de Adela Cortina, vemos con facilidad que su obra ha transitado por diversos horizontes: desde Kant hasta la Escuela de Fráncfort (Apel y Habermas), pasando por la tradicion filosofica española (Ortega,Zubiri, Aranguren); y que, sobre todo, ha logrado lo mas dificil: tener una voz propia en el panorama filosofico actual. Una voz que tiene nombre y apellidos: "etica de la razon cordial".A partir de estos elementos, en el presente libro se ha propuesto, como objetivo, realizar una reconstruccion de su filosofia politica, desde una hermeneutica creativa, que tiene como mar de fondo el concepto de justicia, cuya plasmacion se produce a partir de determinadas discusiones (liberalismo y socialismo, Teoria critica y neoconservadurismo?) que finalizan en una "Teoria de la democracia".Semejante reconstruccion critica pretende, pues, avanzar en algunos caminos abiertos por esta fructifera y maratoniana actividad academica, articulada, desde el comienzo, en torno a una democracia radical institucionalizada por medio de las eticas aplicadas. Si tenemos en cuenta que, de un tiempo a esta parte, la democracia sufre un retroceso de peso politico, es comprensible, aunque tambien alarmante, que se analicen algunas de las actuales "amenazas" como son las democracias "iliberales"; el fenomeno de la posverdad; la polarizacion politica y el auge de los populismos; la "aporofobia", y las repercusiones de los avances en Inteligencia Artificial. Todo ello dentro del marco de una preocupante globalizacion asimetrica, y de una geopolitica que esta marcando una nueva confrontacion entre las autocracias y las viejas democracias.Lo peor que le puede ocurrir a la democracia es que pensemos que ya la hemos conquistado (Cortina dixitfi).

Un espectre ronda per Europa, l''espectre del comunisme. Totes les potencies de la vella Europa s''han aliat en una santa cacera major per acorralar aquest espectre: el Papa i el Tsar, Metternich i Guizot, els radicals francesos i els policies alemanys. On es el partit d'' oposicio que no hagi estat acusat de comunisme pels adversaris en el govern? On es el partit d''oposicio que no hagi estigmatitzat amb el retret infamant de comunista els seus adversaris ja siguin de dretes o d''esquerres? En resulten dues coses: El comunisme ja es reconegut com una potencia per totes les potencies europees. Ha arribat l''hora que els comunistes exposin; obertament a tothom les seves concepcions, els seu s objectius i les seves tendencies, i contraposin a les llegendes de l'' espectre comunista un manifest del propi partit. Amb aquest objectiu els comunistes de di verses nacionalitats s''han reunit a Londres i han esbossat el seguent manifest, que es publica en llengua anglesa, francesa, alemanya, italiana, flamenca i danesa.

Energy drives the economy economics informs policy and policy affects social outcomes Since the oil crises of the 1970s pundits have debated the validity of this sequence but most economists and politicians still ignore it Thus they delude the public about the underlying influence of energy costs and constraints on economic policies that address such pressing contemporary issues as income inequality growth debt and climate change To understand why Carey King explores the scientific and rhetorical basis of the competing narratives both within and between energy technology and economics Energy and economic discourse seems to mirror Newton s 3rd Law of Motion For every narrative there is an equal and opposite counter narrative The competing energy narratives pit drill baby drill against renewable technologies such as wind and solar Both claim to provide secure reliable clean and affordable energy to support economic growth with the most benefit to society but how To answer this question we need to understand the competing economic narratives techno optimism and techno realism Techno optimism claims that innovation overcomes any physical resource constraints and enables the social outcomes and economic growth we desire Techno realism in cont

This open access book foregrounds novel collaborations between the Social Sciences and Humanities SSH and Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics STEM disciplines for the benefit of Eu

Spanning millennia and continents here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization Boccaletti of The Nature Conservancy tackles the most important story of our time our relationship with water in a world of looming scarcity Kelly McEvers NPR Host Writing with authority and brio Giulio Boccaletti honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment University of Oxford shrewdly combines environmental and social history beginning with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers Even as he describes how these societies were made possible by sea level changes from the last glacial melt he incisively examines how this type of farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping which in turn led to a population explosion and labor specialization We see with clarity how irrigation s structure informed social structure inventions such as the calendar sprung from agricultural necessity how in ancient Greece the communal ownership of wells laid the groundwork for democracy how the Greek and Roman experiences with water security resulted in systems of taxation and how the modern world as we know it began with a

Spanning millennia and continents here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization Boccaletti of The Nature Conservancy tackles the most important story of our time our relationship with water in a world of looming scarcity Kelly McEvers NPR Host Writing with authority and brio Giulio Boccaletti honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment University of Oxford shrewdly combines environmental and social history beginning with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers Even as he describes how these societies were made possible by sea level changes from the last glacial melt he incisively examines how this type of farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping which in turn led to a population explosion and labor specialization We see with clarity how irrigation s structure informed social structure inventions such as the calendar sprung from agricultural necessity how in ancient Greece the communal ownership of wells laid the groundwork for democracy how the Greek and Roman experiences with water security resulted in systems of taxation and how the modern world as we know it began with a

Fun illustrations and a humorous writing style make the science of climate change less overwhelming and easier to understand

The Multilevel Politics of Trade presents a timely comparative analysis of eight federations plus the European Union to explore why some sub federal actors have become more active in trade politics in recent years As the contributing authors find there is considerable variation in the intensity and modes of sub federal participation This they attribute to three key factors the distinctive institutional features of federal systems the nature and scope of trade policy and trade agreements and the extent of social mobilization that accompanies a particular trade policy conversation As a whole The Multilevel Politics of Trade argues that sub federal actors interests jurisdictional political and economic are what motivate them to participate in trade debates However institutional configurations coupled with the influence of civil society actors political parties and others determine the nature and scope of that participation Informed by a deep knowledge of federal dynamics this volume provides extensive comparative analyses of all seven of the North American and European federations and represents a significant intervention into the study of both federalism and political economy

After decades of pervasive influence over government policy economists have done much to create the world in which we live And yet how well do they actually understand human behaviour As the Western world turns against experts has their time come to an end

In 2008 the first Green New Deal was devised by Pettifor and a group of English economist and thinkers but was ignored within the tumults of the financial crash A decade later the ideas was revived within the democratic socialists in the US forefront by Alexandria Ocasio Cortez The Green New Deal demands a radical and urgent reversal of the current state of the global economy including total de carbonisation and a commitment to fairness and social justice Critics on all sides have been quick to observe that the GND is a pipe dream that could never be implemented and would cost the earth But as Ann Pettifor shows we need to rethink the function of money and how it works within the global system How can we bail out the banks but not the planet We have to stop thinking about the imperative of economic growth nothing grows for ever The program will be a long term project but it needs to start immediately