This paper discusses how economists’ views of firms’ financial structure decisions have evolved from treating firms’ profitability as given; to acknowledging that managerial actions affect profitability; to recognizing that firm value depends on the allocation of decision or control rights. The paper argues that the decision or control rights approach is useful, even though it is at an early st...

El artículo presenta las voces de distintos funcionarios policías fiscales Chile sobre sus relaciones con los sectores populares, en un contexto agudización la cuestión social. Las principales fuentes son el Boletín Policía Santiago que circuló entre 1901 y 1924 revista Ilustración Policial publicada 1921 1924. Sugerimos seno esta policía se desarrolló una potente reflexión pos estrechar lazos ...

The health of heads of states is not always handled in the same way as an incapacitating disability in ordinary professionals. Instead of suspension of responsibilities, the health status of political leaders is concealed, especially when the illness is perceived as stigmatizing, such as organic mental impairment or sexual disorder. The objective of the present paper is to analyse the malady of...

University in Kingston, in an expanding career Dr. Stuart Vandewater made innumerable contributions to Canadian anesthesia and to administrative and organizational aspects of Canadian medicine. His career shows how an anesthesiologist can influence activities that are far removed from the operating room. Born in Campbellford, Ontario, on November 16, 1924, Dr. Vandewater and his wife Mary (nee ...

Professor Dr. Karl Nickel, one of the founding fathers of interval computations in Germany, died on January 1, 2009, a couple of weeks before his 85th birthday. Karl Nickel, professor emeritus of mathematics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, Germany, was born in 1924 in Tübingen. As with most young people of his age, he had to fight in the war. After being released as a prisonerof-...