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In Palabras de filosofos. Oralidad, escritura y memoria en la filosofia Antigua (Words of the Philosophers. Orality, Writing, & Memory in Ancient Philosophy), Sergio Perez treats the understanding of philosophy in the ancient Greek world. It is argued that in his emphasis on the importance of orality in philosophical tradition that he sets out to denaturalize contemporary beliefs about this theoretical activity. Perez is able to critique modern academic philosophy from his standpoint, & his method in doing this is one of the principle contributions of this book. Perez laments the disconnection between theory & life, between knowledge & virtue, in modern philosophers. M. Pflum

Unlike the frequent research that analyzes the effects of various demographic, economic and political factors on fiscal deficits of governments, this research focuses on studying whether certain structures of public spending policies are associated with situations of fiscal imbalances. Using a panel data model with endogenous variables and taking into account various socio- economic factors as instruments, the authors have observed that the spending policies of Basic public services, social protection and social promotion, preferential services, and promotion of economic activity have different significant effects on the position of the budgetary balance in the Spanish municipal governments. Adapted from the source document.