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Innovation in real places

strategies for prosperity in an unforgiving world

A challenge to prevailing ideas about innovation and a guide to identifying the best growth strategy for your community. Across the world, cities and regions have wasted trillions of dollars on blindly copying the Silicon Valley model of growth creation. Since the early years of ...

Legitimation by constitution

a dialogue on political liberalism

"Legitimation by Constitution" is the phrase, coined by distinguished authors Frank Michelman and Alessandro Ferrara, for a key idea in Rawlsian political liberalism of a reliance on a dualist form of democracy-a subjection of ground-level lawmaking to the constraints of a higher-law constitution that most ...

Rethinking securities law

The system of securities regulation that prevails today in the United States is one that has been formed through piecemeal federal legislation, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) invocation of its administrative authority, and self-regulatory episodic action. As a consequence, the presence of consistent and logical ...

How antitrust failed workers

A trenchant account of an unacknowledged driver of inequality and wage stagnation in America: the abandonment of antitrust law, which has allowed corporations to combine into a smaller number of massive conglomerates whose market dominance robs workers of their bargaining power. The consequences of the ...

When money talks

a history of coins and numismatics

Coinage - it is one of the most successful and consistent technologies ever invented. Nothing else we still use in everyday life has a history quite like it. Look around at all the things that would bewilder a Greek, Roman, or Renaissance ancestor; then, dig into ...

In Defense of Public Debt

A dive into the origins, management, and uses and misuses of sovereign debt through the ages. Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in modern history as governments responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing economic crisis. Their dramatic rise has prompted apocalyptic warnings about ...

The dawn of everything

a new history of humanity

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow ...

Work without the worker

labour in the age of platform capitalism

We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will lead us to a new world of effortless labour and a post-work utopia of ever expanding leisure. But behind the gleaming surface stands ...

Who owns the wind?

climate crisis and the uncertain hope of renewable energy

The energy transition has begun. To succeed - to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar power - that process must be fair. Otherwise, mounting popular protest against wind farms will prolong carbon pollution and deepen the climate crisis. David Hughes examines that anti-industrial, anti-corporate resistance, drawing ...

Ending fossil fuels

why net zero is not enough

Around the world, countries and companies are setting net-zero carbon emissions targets. But "net-zero" is a term that conveniently obscures multiple futures. There could be a version of net-zero where the fossil fuel industry is still spewing tens of billions of tons of CO2 into ...

Economics and the left

interviews with progressive economists

Economics and the Left presents interviews with 24 leading progressive economists, whose life work has been dedicated to both interpreting the world and changing it for the better. They all deploy the technical tools of their trade-the "dismal science"-in various ways. Much more importantly ...

Tax haven Ireland

This is the story of how a small island on the edge of Europe became one of the world's major tax havens. From global corporations such as Apple and Google, to investment bankers and mainstream politicians, those taking advantage of Ireland's pro-business tax ...

Civilizing money

Hume, his monetary project, and the Scottish Enlightenment

'Capitalist critique and proletarian reasoning fit for our time' - Peter Linebaugh Taking the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume as its subject, this book breaks new ground in focusing its lens on a little-studied aspect of Hume's thinking: his understanding of money. George Caffentzis makes ...

Capitalism and Slavery

'It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire, without it' Sathnam Sanghera Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 ...

Theory of Legal Evidence - Evidence in Legal Theory

This book addresses theoretical problems concerning legal evidence. The concept of evidence is expected to fulfill a number of distinct roles in science and philosophy, but also in legal theory and law, some of which are complementary, while others are conflicting. In their profession, lawyers ...

La democrazia dei signori

Da oltre trent'anni l'Italia vede attuarsi periodicamente soluzioni 'irregolari' delle crisi politiche. Ciampi, Monti, Draghi. Da tempo i presidenti della Repubblica si regolano come se fosse in vigore da noi la Costituzione della Quinta Repubblica francese, o forse pensano che sia ritornato lo ...

Esame, controesame, riesame

Prova penale: dal predibattimento al dibattimento

L'impianto del Codice Vassalli consegna alle parti potenti leve nel fertile terreno del governo della prova penale oralmente resa (c.d. processo di parti), di cui è cospicua espressione il c.d. esame incrociato che nel settore della prova dichiarativa rappresenta il Novum organum ...

L' acquisizione della prova dichiarativa

Il rapporto tra giudice e le parti

Le norme di codice che regolano l'acquisizione della prova dichiarativa sono oggetto di prassi capaci di creare modelli probatori distanti da quelli di legge e in contrasto con i referenti costituzionali a presidio del giusto processo. L'indagine punta ad individuare soluzioni che riportino ...

La sospensione del procedimento con messa alla prova

un istituto da riformare

Come noto, il Capo II della legge 28 aprile 2014, n. 67 ha introdotto nell'ordinamento l'istituto della sospensione del procedimento penale con messa alla prova. Lo studio, dopo un inquadramento sistematico, che ne espone la genesi e le ragioni nonché il travagliato percorso ...

Compliance y lucha contra la corrupción en España, Portugal e Iberoamérica

La presente obra intenta hacer un recorrido más bien práctico dentro de los diferentes ámbitos del mundo del compliance con dos grandes perspectivas comparadas como son los países de España y Portugal, sin olvidar importantes aportaciones de Iberoamérica que hay que tener en cuenta como ...