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Book Freedom and Reform

Download or read book Freedom and Reform written by Frank Hyneman Knight and published by Indianapolis, Ind. : Liberty Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteen essays in this collection, first published in 1947, treat a variety of economic, social, political, and philosophical problems and were written by a legendary professor of economics at the University of Chicago. Professor Knight (1885-1972) wrote from the viewpoint of ethics as well as economics. His own words best describe his objective in this book: "The basic principle of science--truth or objectivity--is essentially a moral principle. . . . The presuppositions of objectivity are integrity, competence, humility. . . . All coercion is absolutely excluded in favor of free meeting of free minds."

Book Essays on Reform

Download or read book Essays on Reform written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Future of Law and Economics

Download or read book The Future of Law and Economics written by Guido Calabresi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a concise, compelling argument, one of the founders and most influential advocates of the law and economics movement divides the subject into two separate areas, which he identifies with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. The first, Benthamite, strain, “economic analysis of law,” examines the legal system in the light of economic theory and shows how economics might render law more effective. The second strain, law and economics, gives equal status to law, and explores how the more realistic, less theoretical discipline of law can lead to improvements in economic theory. It is the latter approach that Judge Calabresi advocates, in a series of eloquent, thoughtful essays that will appeal to students and scholars alike.

Book A Voice of Reform

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  • Author : Tatiana I. Zaslavskaia
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-07-22
  • ISBN : 1315492636
  • Pages : 197 pages

Download or read book A Voice of Reform written by Tatiana I. Zaslavskaia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1989. It has become common, both in Soviet and in Western writings about the USSR, to characterize the early 1980s (the immediate pre-Gorbachev period) as years of stagnation or, at the very least, near stagnation in the Soviet system. Since the sudden outburst of reformist thinking since 1985 it is clear there is actually an elaboration and reinforcement of concepts and ideas that had already begun to emerge in the pre-Gorbachev years. The writings of Tat 'iana I. Zaslavskaia, trained as an economist and today one of the most influential and best known Soviet sociologists, provide an illustration of this proposition.

Book Educational Reform  Essays and Addresses

Download or read book Educational Reform Essays and Addresses written by Charles William Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Law and Practice

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  • Author : Eoin O'Dell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781905536122
  • Pages : 479 pages

Download or read book Law and Practice written by Eoin O'Dell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book - presented by the Law Society of Ireland and edited by two of Ireland's leading legal minds - includes 34 award-winning essays that: critically examine specific areas of law, detail the law as it stands today, question the law's purpose and effectiveness, and examine proposals for change and recommendations for reform. Spanning an array of legal subject areas, each piece is extensively researched and referenced. Law and Practice: Essays on Reform will undoubtedly add to the debate and literature available to Irish legal thinking. Contents include: Reforming the Law on Double Jeopardy * The Origins and Evolution of the Special Criminal Court * The Presumption of Advancement and Unlawful Fraudulent Conduct * Garda Diversion of Young Offenders: An Unreasonable Threat to Due Process Rights? * Constitutional Right or Chimera? Reforming the Right of Access to a Lawyer * "Man, I feel like a woman!" A Proposal for the Legal Recognition of Transsexualism in Ireland * Cyber Certainty Definite Legal Rights in the Digital Domain * A Glitch on the Path towards Nova Hibernia: The Case for Partial Reform of Ireland's Non-Life Insurance Legislation * The Law of Nullity: Current Defects and Suggested Reforms * No Talismanic Incantation: "Subject to contract" in Irish Law * The Guys from Out of Town: Expert Witnesses - A Law Reform Proposal * Gender and the Formation of a Marriage: Tying the Knot, or Tied up in Knots? * The Road Not Taken * The Exception (Im)proves the Rule: Reforming the Irish Law of Hearsay * Privity of Contract and Third Party Rights: An Unnecessary and Complex Anomaly in Need of Reform * Online Education and Copyright Law * Recording and Representation: The Interrogation of Suspects in the Irish Pre-Trial Process~

Book New Directions for Law in Australia

Download or read book New Directions for Law in Australia written by Ron Levy and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For reasons of effectiveness, efficiency and equity, Australian law reform should be planned carefully. Academics can and should take the lead in this process. This book collects over 50 discrete law reform recommendations, encapsulated in short, digestible essays written by leading Australian scholars. It emerges from a major conference held at The Australian National University in 2016, which featured intensive discussion among participants from government, practice and the academy. The book is intended to serve as a national focal point for Australian legal innovation. It is divided into six main parts: commercial and corporate law, criminal law and evidence, environmental law, private law, public law, and legal practice and legal education. In addition, Indigenous perspectives on law reform are embedded throughout each part. This collective work—the first of its kind—will be of value to policy makers, media, law reform agencies, academics, practitioners and the judiciary. It provides a bird’s eye view of the current state and the future of law reform in Australia.

Book Radicalism  Revolution  and Reform in Modern China

Download or read book Radicalism Revolution and Reform in Modern China written by Catherine Lynch and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to its reformist present as China makes a way forward through very differently conceived and contested visions of the future. In the context of early twenty-first century problems and the failures of global capitalism, is China's history of revolutionary socialism an aberration that is soon to be forgotten, or can it serve as a resource for creating a more fully human and radically democratic China with implications for all of us? Ranging from the early years of China's revolutionary twentieth-century to the present, the essays collected here look at the past and present of China with a view toward better understanding the ideas, ideals, and people who have dared to imagine radical transformation of their worlds and to assess the conceptual, political, and social limitations of these visions and their implementations. The volume's chapters focus on these issues from a range of vantage points, representing a spectrum of current scholarship. The first half of the book brings new insights to understanding how early-twentieth century intellectuals interpreted ideas that allowed them to break with China's past and to envision new paths to a modern future. It treats of Chen Duxiu, a founder of the Communist party, Mao Zedong, and Mao in relation to the non-Communist Liang Shuming and with the Dalai Lama. With continuing threads of nation and nationalities, of peasants, utopias and dystopias linking the chapters, the book's second half looks broadly at the consequences of the implementations of radical ideas, at the same time critiquing our accepted frameworks of analysis. Moving up to the present, the book investigates the effects of the reforms since the 1980s on long-term environmental degradation and on the emergence of a capitalist rural economy. It gives an unsparing view into contemporary rural China through independent films. The book concludes with an analysis of the unshakable persistence of the shibboleth, 'the rise of China,' in popular and academic imagination and argues for the importance instead of taking seriously the twentieth-century history of radicalism in China and its significance for understanding China's present and its future potentials.

Book The Impact of the Reformation

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  • Author : Heiko Augustinus Oberman
  • Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780802807328
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book The Impact of the Reformation written by Heiko Augustinus Oberman and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays from a distinguished scholar of medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation history examines one of the most fascinating and turbulent periods of human history from the perspective of the social history of ideas. Taking advantage of the windows offered by late medieval scholastic thought, the Modern Devotion, Johann von Staupitz, Martin Luther, Marian piety, and the escalation of anti-Semitism, Heiko A. Oberman illumines the social and intellectual context for the reform of church and society in the sixteenth century. These programmatic essays not only provide analyses of Reformation events but also contribute to the contemporary search for new methods and models that better capture the meaning of that period. Recognizing the distance between intellectual and social historians of the Reformation, Oberman seeks to bridge the gap by pursuing an innovative path. The impact of the Reformation is traced through everyday life as well as through individual programs for change.

Book Environmental Politics in the Middle East

Download or read book Environmental Politics in the Middle East written by Harry Verhoeven and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a critical and realistic reassessment of the threats posed to the environment in the Middle East, and what can be done about them.

Book Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics

Download or read book Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics written by Amy Plantinga Pauw and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays by thirteen feminist and womanist authors who locate themselves within the Reformed tradition. Topics explored include: the Trinity, creation, election, atonement, the church, fear, resistance, and vocation. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students interested in feminist theology. The Columbia Series in Reformed Theology represents a joint commitment by Columbia Theological Seminary and Westminster John Knox Press to provide theological resources from the Reformed tradition for the church today. This series examines theological and ethical issues that confront church and society in our own particular time and place.

Book The Open World and Closed Societies

Download or read book The Open World and Closed Societies written by V. Tomusk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-04-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about higher education reforms in the post-socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, seen through the eyes of somebody who has spent the last decade analyzing these reforms as well as negotiating and supervising reform projects in countries from Serbia and Montenegro to Mongolia. Analyzing the reforms in a broader political, economic and social context and relating these to global higher education developments, the book addresses the complexity of the processes and contradictions among the demands on higher education systems, which in many instances impede positive changes.

Book Solutions

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  • Author : Joe Biden
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-04-27
  • ISBN : 9780692459218
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Solutions written by Joe Biden and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass incarceration. In recent years it's become clear that the size of America's prison population is unsustainable -- and isn't needed to protect public safety. In this remarkable bipartisan collaboration, the country's most prominent public figures and experts join together to propose ideas for change. In these original essays, many authors speak out for the first time on the issue. The vast majority agree that reducing our incarcerated population is a priority. Marking a clear political shift on crime and punishment in America, these sentiments are a far cry from politicians racing to be the most punitive in the 1980s and 1990s. Mass incarceration threatens American democracy. Hiding in plain sight, it drives economic inequality, racial injustice, and poverty. How do we achieve change? From using federal funding to bolster police best practices to allowing for the release of low-level offenders while they wait for trial, from eliminating prison for low-level drug crimes to increasing drug and mental health treatment, the ideas in this book pave a way forward. Solutions promises to further the intellectual and political momentum to reform our justice system.

Book Politics and the English Language

Download or read book Politics and the English Language written by George Orwell and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Politics and the English Language, the second in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’. In an age where the language used in politics is constantly under the microscope, Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Book Religious and Social Reform

Download or read book Religious and Social Reform written by Mahadev Govind Ranade (Rao Bahadur) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ecclesiastical Reform  Eight essays by various writers  Edited by O  Shipley

Download or read book Ecclesiastical Reform Eight essays by various writers Edited by O Shipley written by Orby SHIPLEY and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prize Essays on Municipal Reform

Download or read book Prize Essays on Municipal Reform written by Civil Service Reform Association (Cambridge, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: