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Constructions of neoliberal reason

Amongst intellectuals and activists, neoliberalism has become a potent signifier for the kind of free-market thinking that has dominated politics for the past three decades. Forever associated with the conviction politics of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, the free- market project has since become synonymous ...

A call for judgment

sensible finance for a dynamic economy

Our prosperity requires the enterprise of innumerable individuals and businesses who exercise their imagination and judgment-and bear responsibility for outcomes. And it is through dialogue and relationships that widespread enterprise is fostered, not merely prices in anonymous markets. Yet modern finance blatantly neglects these necessary ...

Financial ethics

a positivist analysis

Financial Ethics: A Positivist Analysis provides a framework for the study of financial ethics built on a broad review of mainstream scholarly research published in refereed finance and economics journals. The work is aimed directly at financial academics and students who are likely to be ...

Regulating unfair banking practices in Europe

the case of personal suretyships

Eds. Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi, Stephen Weatherill. Private persons often stand surety for a business debt incurred by family members, friends, or employers. These suretyships are commonly banking guarantees contracted by means of standard terms. Sometimes the guarantor signs the contract while he/she is not ...

The reception of international Law in the European Court of Human Rights

The growing number of international courts and tribunals and their burgeoning case law have fuelled concerns about the fragmentation of international law. This arises as a consequence of both the specialized regimes these courts create and the multiple ways in which they may interpret international ...

Law and justice in community

This book proposes a general theory of the nature of law based on the idea that law exists in all human communities before it is ever posited or in any other sense formally expressed. According to the theory, the nature of law is not captured ...

Corporate governance of non-listed companies

Studies of corporate governance traditionally focus on the governance problems of large publicly held firms, and policymakers' recommendations often focus on such firms. However most small firms, and in many countries, even many large companies, are non-listed. This book provides a comprehensive account of non-listed ...

Between authority and interpretation

In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political, and moral. The book provides an overview of Raz's work on jurisprudence and the nature of law in the context of broader questions in the ...

Beyond constitutionalism

the pluralist structure of postnational Law

Under pressure from globalisation, the classical distinction between domestic and international law has become increasingly blurred, spurring demand for new paradigms to construe the emerging postnational legal order. The typical response of constitutional and international lawyers as well as political theorists has been to extend ...

Financial globalization

growth, integration, innovation and crisis

The significance of financial globalization has sharply increased due to the current global financial crisis and the so-called Great Recession, which was sparked by the sub-prime mortgage debacle in the United Kingdom and the United States. After the failure of Northern Rock in September 2007 ...

The Lisbon Treaty

Law, politics, and treaty reform

The Lisbon Treaty reformed the foundations of the European Union and marked the culmination of a process of Treaty reform that began after the Treaty of Nice and spanned almost a decade. This book addresses the main innovations made by the new Treaty, examining its ...

Keynes betrayed

Geoff Tily argues that Keynes was primarily concerned with monetary policy, not fiscal policy. Viewed as a coherent whole, Keynes's work was concerned with the appropriate technique and infrastructure for the management of money at low rates of interest. More specifically, his rejection of ...

The politics of party funding

state funding to political parties and party competition in Western Europe

Recently there has been a convergence of party funding regimes across many states of Western Europe. The driving force behind this process has been the introduction of state funding to political parties. This book subsequently asks why state funding to political parties has been introduced ...

Reframing social citizenship

Throughout the world, governments are restructuring social and welfare provision to give a stronger role to opportunity, aspiration and individual responsibility, and to competition, markets and consumer choice. This approach centres on a logic of individual rational action: people are the best judges of what ...

The pursuit of justice

Law and economics of legal institutions

Ed. Edward J. López; Foreword by Robert D. Tollison. The Pursuit of Justice is a realistic yet hopeful analysis of how the law works in practice rather than in theory. The multi-chapter discussion recognizes that decision makers in the law - judges, lawyers, juries, police, forensic ...

Evidence

From DNA profiling to consideration of the accused's previous conduct, the law of evidence is a fascinating amalgam of logic, common sense, philosophy and tactics. Evidence explains the fundamentals and looks at the principles behind it.

The evolution of nordic finance

From the establishment of the first financial institutions to the latest bank rescues, this book traces the origins, development, regulation, and trajectory of the framework for capital market institutions and activities in the Nordic region. This evolution is examined from a broader comparative perspective, in ...

China after the subprime crisis

opportunities in the new economic landscape

This book analyses the post-subprime crisis world from the global, Asian and Chinese perspectives, and from research and financial market angles. It explores the hidden issues, including the potential economic and political tensions that the post-bubble adjustment will bring; dispels some of the myths about ...

The myth of too big to fail

'Too big to fail' has become a household expression. Governments the world over have insisted that taxpayers need to bailout failing financial institutions on the grounds that not doing so would induce a crisis of even greater scale in the entire economic system. But is ...

Conscientious equity

an american entrepreneur's solutions to the world's greatest problems

KEY TITLE In Conscientious Equity, Neal Asbury argues that moving away from intransigent political ideologies and toward a world driven by international commerce allows us to address and in fact solve economic instability, the destruction of the environment, crushing poverty, and crippling corruption all over ...