This edited volume offers new scholarship on economic rights by leading scholars in the fields of economics, law, and political science. It analyzes the central features of economic rights: their conceptual, measurement, and policy dimensions. In its introduction, the book provides a new conceptualization of economic rights based on a thr...
This edited volume offers new scholarship on economic rights by leading scholars in the fields of economics, law, and political science. It analyzes the central features of economic rights: their conceptual, measurement, and policy dimensions. In its introduction, the book provides a new conceptualization of economic rights based on a thr...
This book examines environmental law from a range of perspectives, emphasising the policy world from which environmental law is drawn and nourished. Those working within the discipline of environmental law need to engage with concepts and methods employed by disciplines other than law. The authors analyse the ways in which legal activitie...
Fighting the War on File Sharing aims at a multi-faceted understanding of why peer-to-peer services currently fail to gain their full potential in our society. The analysis focuses on music-file sharing. Three parts of the book (‘The Morality of Regulation by Architecture’, ‘The Economics of Peer-to-Peer in Music’ and ‘Intellect...
While the WTO agreements do not regulate the use of biotechnology per se, their rules can have a profound impact on the use of the technology for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. This book seeks to identify the challenges to international trade regulation that arise from biotechnology. The contributions examine whether existin...
Cartea poate fi considerată o microenciclopedie pentru cei care fac primii paşi în cunoaşterea economiei mondiale. Cele 81 de concepte economice fundamentale sînt în stare să schimbe cu adevărat concepţia despre lume a cititorului, mai ales a celui din fostele ţări (sau republici) socialiste, în...
Metoda incisiva de analiza a lui Bauman, reputat sociolog, estre un bun antidot pentru exuberanta celor care cred ca vor scoate beneficii din noul ritm al vietii moderne, fara a-si asuma nici un risc. Contributie majora la dezbaterea actuala asupra naturii, istoriei si consecintelor trend-ului globalizarii, lucrarea se afla deja pe masa d...
Intre Pax Americana si Lex humana, celebrul politolog american Benjamin R. Barber realizeaza o analiza competenta si necrutatoare a politicii americane.
'In marea lupta pentru definirea rolului Americii in lumea de dupa Razboiul Rece, profesorul Barber ne ofera primul raspuns coerent si cuprinzator la doctrinele neclare si pericul...
A range of emerging refugee claims is beginning to challenge the boundaries of the Refugee Convention regime and question traditional distinctions between 'economic migrants' and 'political refugees'. This book identifies the conceptual and analytical challenges presented by claims based on socio-economic deprivation, and undertakes an as...
This book examines the coherent international tax regime that is embodied in both the tax treaty network and in domestic laws, and the way it forms a significant part of international law, both treaty based and customary. The practical implication is that countries are not free to adopt any international tax rules they please, but rather...
This book examines the coherent international tax regime that is embodied in both the tax treaty network and in domestic laws, and the way it forms a significant part of international law, both treaty based and customary. The practical implication is that countries are not free to adopt any international tax rules they please, but rather...