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The Law of Nations Treated according to the scientific method

Christian Wolff's natural law theory was founded on his rationalist philosophy and metaphysics, which were strongly influenced by the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Like Leibniz, Wolff was convinced that justice and morality were based on universally valid principles of reason and that these ...

Copyright

what everyone needs to know

Copyright law was once an esoteric backwater, the special province of professional authors, publishers, and media companies. This is no longer the case. In the age of social media and cloud storage, we have become a copying and sharing culture. Much of our everyday communication ...

Institutional cosmopolitanism

Is a global institutional order composed of sovereign states fit for cosmopolitan moral purpose? Cosmopolitan political theorists challenge claims that states, nations or other collectives have ultimate moral significance. They focus instead on individuals: on what they share and on what each may owe to ...

Comparative Human Rights Law

Courts in different jurisdictions face similar human rights questions. Does the death penalty breach human rights? Does freedom of speech include racist speech? Is there a right to health? This book uses the prism of comparative law to examine the fascinating ways in which these ...

Foundational principles of contract Law

Foundational Principles of Contract Law not only sets out the principles and rules of contract law, it places more emphasis on what the principles and rules of contract law should be, based on policy, morality, and experience. A major premise of the book is that ...

Responsible parties

saving democracy from itself

How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics In recent decades, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to ...

The great delusion

liberal dreams and international realities

A major theoretical statement by a distinguished political scholar explains why a policy of liberal hegemony is doomed to fail In this major statement, the renowned international-relations scholar John Mearsheimer argues that liberal hegemony, the foreign policy pursued by the United States since the Cold ...

Aquinas and the market

toward a humane economy

Economists investigate the workings of markets and tend to set ethical questions aside. Theologians often dismiss economics, losing insights into the influence of market incentives on individual behavior. Mary L. Hirschfeld bridges this gap by showing how a humane economy can lead to the good ...

On press

the liberal values that shaped the news

As Matthew Pressman's timely history reveals, during the turbulent 1960s and 70s the core values that held the news industry together broke apart and the distinctive characteristics of contemporary American print journalism emerged. Simply reporting the facts was no longer enough as reporters recognized ...

Industry of anonymity

inside the business of cybercrime

Jonathan Lusthaus lifts the veil on cybercriminals in the most extensive account yet of the lives they lead and the vast international industry they have created. Having traveled to hotspots around the world to meet with hundreds of law enforcement agents, security gurus, hackers, and ...

The invisible constitution in comparative perspective

Constitutions worldwide inevitably have 'invisible' features: they have silences and lacunae, unwritten or conventional underpinnings, and social and political dimensions not apparent to certain observers. The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective helps us understand these dimensions to contemporary constitutions, and their role in the interpretation ...

The new economics

for industry, government, education

A new edition of a book that details the system of transformation underlying the 14 Points for Management presented in Deming's Out of the Crisis. It would be better if everyone would work together as a system, with the aim for everybody to win ...

Adam Smith

father of economics

A dazzlingly original account of the life and thought of Adam Smith, the greatest economist of all time Adam Smith (1723-1790) is now widely regarded as the greatest economist of all time. But what he really thought, and the implications of his ideas, remain fiercely ...

Keeping at it

the quest for sound money and good government

Paul Volcker has devoted his life's work to public service and the critical importance of open, disciplined and efficient government. As chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987) he literally rescued the American economy from destroying itself, summoning the courage to take radical and controversial ...

La fragilidad del campamento

un ensayo sobre el papel de la tolerancia

La tolerancia es un instrumento que nos previene de la injusticia. Por eso, cuando los ciudadanos la desdeñan ponen en peligro grandes logros de la humanidad que tienen que ver con las libertades, los derechos o la idea misma de igualdad. De ahí la importancia ...

Árboles de largo invierno

un ensayo sobre la humillación

La pobreza, la desigualdad, el hambre, el analfabetismo, la corrupción, la injusticia, las enfermedades curables no atendidas son fuentes de humillación para quienes las padecen, un impedimento para llevar una vida digna. Es el caldo de cultivo para la violencia y, por tanto, no es ...

Edge of chaos

why democracy is failing to deliver economic growth?and how to fix it

From an internationally acclaimed economist, a provocative call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracy Around the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes. Liberal democracy, history's greatest ...

El soñador de la orilla del Tigris

Tras años de exilio en Paría, Farzand decide regresar a su hogar en el Kurdistán sirio, gravemente afectado por la guerra civil. Basándose en sus propias vivencias, pero lejos de componer una autobiografía, Fawaz Hussain traza un magnífico relato cargado de nostalgia y humanidad sobre ...

The limits of criminal law

anglo-german concepts and principles

The Limits of Criminal Law explores the normative and performative limits of criminal law at the borders of crime with tort, non-criminal enforcement, medical law, business regulation, administrative sanctions, terrorism and intelligence law.

Calles de Berlín y de otras ciudades

Uno de los libros más bellos, conmovedores y extraordinarios sobre los rincones perdidos de las ciudades europeas. Un clásico que ha marcado nuestra cultura en todo el siglo xx, y que permanecía inédito en castellano. De Berlín a París, de Marsella a Niza… Lugares inolvidables ...