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Book The Costs of Opting Out

Download or read book The Costs of Opting Out written by Alfredo G. A. Valladão and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Opting Out

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pamela Stone
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2007-05-04
  • ISBN : 9780520941793
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Opting Out written by Pamela Stone and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-05-04 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noting a phenomenon that might seem to recall a previous era, The New York Times Magazine recently portrayed women who leave their careers in order to become full-time mothers as "opting out." But, are high-achieving professional women really choosing to abandon their careers in order to return home? This provocative study is the first to tackle this issue from the perspective of the women themselves. Based on a series of candid, in-depth interviews with women who returned home after working as doctors, lawyers, bankers, scientists, and other professions, Pamela Stone explores the role that their husbands, children, and coworkers play in their decision; how women’s efforts to construct new lives and new identities unfold once they are home; and where their aspirations and plans for the future lie. What we learn—contrary to many media perceptions—is that these high-flying women are not opting out but are instead being pushed out of the workplace. Drawing on their experiences, Stone outlines concrete ideas for redesigning workplaces to make it easier for women—and men—to attain their goal of living rewarding lives that combine both families and careers.

Book Adventures in Opting Out

Download or read book Adventures in Opting Out written by Cait Flanders and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opt out of expectations and live a more intentional life with this refreshing guide from the national bestselling author of The Year of Less. We all follow our own path in life. At least, that's what we're told. In reality, many of us either do what is expected of us, or follow the invisible but well-worn paths that lead to what is culturally acceptable. For some, those paths are fine -- even great. But they leave some of us feeling disconnected from ourselves and what we really want. When that discomfort finally outweighs the fear of trying something new, we're ready to opt out. After going through this process many times, Cait Flanders found there is an incredible parallel between taking a different path in life and the psychological work it takes to summit a mountain -- especially when you decide to go solo. In Adventures in Opting Out, she offers a trail map to help you with both. As you'll see, reaching the first viewpoint can be easy -- and it offers a glimpse of what you're walking toward. Climbing to the summit for the full view is worth it. But in the space between those two peaks you will enter a world completely unknown to you, and that is the most difficult part of the path to navigate. With Flanders's guidance and advice, drawn from her own journey and stories of others, you'll have all the encouragement and insight you'll need to take the path less traveled and create the life you want. Just step up to the trailhead and expect it to be an adventure.

Book The Government of Risk

Download or read book The Government of Risk written by Christopher Hood and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does regulation vary so dramatically from one area to another? Why are some risks regulated aggressively and others responded to only modestly? Is there any logic to the techniques we use in risk regulation? These key questions are explored in The Government of Risk. This book looks at a number of risk regulations regimes, considers the respects in which they differ, and examines how these differences can be explained. Analysing regulation in terms of 'regimes' allows us to see the rich, multi-dimensional nature of risk regulation. It exposes the thinness of society-wide analyses of risk controls and it offers a perspective that single case studies cannot reach. Regimes analysis breaks down the components of risk regulation systems and shows how these interact. It also shows how different parts of the same regime may be shaped by different factors and have to be understood in quite different ways. The Government of Risk shows how such an approach is of high policy relevance as well as of considerable theoretical importance.

Book University of Chicago Law Review  Volume 80  Number 3   Summer 2013

Download or read book University of Chicago Law Review Volume 80 Number 3 Summer 2013 written by University of Chicago Law Review and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2013-09-29 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The University of Chicago Law Review's third issue of 2013 features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and policy scholars, as well as extensive student research on cutting-edge topics. Contents include: ARTICLES * Tortfest, by J. Shahar Dillbary * Judging the Flood of Litigation, by Marin K. Levy * Unbundling Constitutionality, by Richard Primus * When Nudges Fail: Slippery Defaults, by Lauren E. Willis COMMENTS * The Firearm-Disability Dilemma: Property Insights into Felon Gun Rights * Pleading in Technicolor: When Can Litigants Incorporate Audiovisual Works into Their Complaints? * Fun with Numbers: Gall's Mixed Message regarding Variance Calculations * The Availability of Discovery Sanctions for Violations of Protective Orders * Corruption Clarified: Defining the Reach of "Agent" in 18 USC § 666 * Extra Venues for Extraterritorial Crimes? 18 USC § 3238 and Cross-Border Criminal Activity * A Historical Approach to Negligent Misrepresentation and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) REVIEW ESSAY * Commons and Growth: The Essential Role of Open Commons in Market Economies, by Yochai Benkler The University of Chicago Law Review first appeared in 1933, thirty-one years after the Law School offered its first classes. Since then the Law Review has continued to serve as a forum for the expression of ideas of leading professors, judges, and practitioners, as well as student-authors ... and as a training ground for University of Chicago Law School students, who serve as its editors and contribute original research. Principal articles and essays are authored by internationally recognized legal scholars. Quality eBook editions feature active Contents, linked footnotes, and linked URLs in notes.

Book The Ethics of Opting Out

Download or read book The Ethics of Opting Out written by Mari Ruti and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Ethics of Opting Out, Mari Ruti provides an accessible yet theoretically rigorous account of the ideological divisions that have animated queer theory during the last decade, paying particular attention to the field's rejection of dominant neoliberal narratives of success, cheerfulness, and self-actualization. More specifically, she focuses on queer negativity in the work of Lee Edelman, Jack Halberstam, and Lynne Huffer, and on the rhetoric of bad feelings found in the work of Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, David Eng, Heather Love, and José Muñoz. Ruti highlights the ways in which queer theory's desire to opt out of normative society rewrites ethical theory and practice in genuinely innovative ways at the same time as she resists turning antinormativity into a new norm. This wide-ranging and thoughtful book maps the parameters of contemporary queer theory in order to rethink the foundational assumptions of the field.

Book Opting Out

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  • Author : Maya A. Beasley
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2012-07-24
  • ISBN : 0226040127
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Opting Out written by Maya A. Beasley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has the large income gap between blacks and whites persisted for decades after the passage of civil rights legislation? More specifically, why do African Americans remain substantially underrepresented in the highest-paying professions, such as science, engineering, information technology, and finance? A sophisticated study of racial disparity, Opting Out examines why some talented black undergraduates pursue lower-paying, lower-status careers despite being amply qualified for more prosperous ones. To explore these issues, Maya A. Beasley conducted in-depth interviews with black and white juniors at two of the nation’s most elite universities, one public and one private. Beasley identifies a set of complex factors behind these students’ career aspirations, including the anticipation of discrimination in particular fields; the racial composition of classes, student groups, and teaching staff; student values; and the availability of opportunities to network. Ironically, Beasley also discovers, campus policies designed to enhance the academic and career potential of black students often reduce the diversity of their choices. Shedding new light on the root causes of racial inequality, Opting Out will be essential reading for parents, educators, students, scholars, and policymakers.

Book Opting Out of Congress

Download or read book Opting Out of Congress written by Danielle M. Thomsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book argues that ideological moderates have opted out of congressional politics because of the hyperpartisanship that pervades Congress today.

Book Pricing Carbon

    Book Details:
  • Author : A. Denny Ellerman
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2010-01-28
  • ISBN : 1139486047
  • Pages : 391 pages

Download or read book Pricing Carbon written by A. Denny Ellerman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the world's largest market for carbon and the most significant multinational initiative ever taken to mobilize markets to protect the environment. It will be an important influence on the development and implementation of trading schemes in the US, Japan, and elsewhere. However, as is true of any pioneering public policy experiment, this scheme has generated much controversy. Pricing Carbon provides the first detailed description and analysis of the EU ETS, focusing on the first 'trial' period of the scheme (2005–7). Written by an international team of experts, it allows readers to get behind the headlines and come to a better understanding of what was done and what happened based on a dispassionate, empirically based review of the evidence. This book should be read by anyone who wants to know what happens when emissions are capped, traded, and priced.

Book The Insider s Guide to the New GP Contract

Download or read book The Insider s Guide to the New GP Contract written by Simon Fradd and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't Panic! The Insider's Guide to the New GP Contract represents a concise interpretation and analysis of the GMS Contract from members of the team that negotiated it. It is therefore authoritative and timely; it identifies the important issues and underlying principles of the new GP Contract and how they relate to GPs' performance and numeration. The contents cover patient registration funding the services available in primary care practice management and other key elements of the Contract and also examines the changes that will take place in Information Technology as a result. General practitioners primary care managers and their professional advisers will find this book essential and invaluable reading.

Book Yale Law Journal  Volume 121  Number 8   June 2012

Download or read book Yale Law Journal Volume 121 Number 8 June 2012 written by Yale Law Journal and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2012-06-02 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 8th issue of Volume 121, academic year 2011-2012) features articles and essays by several notable scholars. Principal contributors include leading scholars in their fields. Contributions includes articles by Ian Ayers on opt-out provisions and an economic theory of rule-altering and by James Greiner and Cassandra Pattanayak on randomized evaluation in legal assistance, as well as an essay by Joshua Wright on the dichotomy between antitrust policy and consumer protection. Student work explores discovery law after recent changes in pretrial dismissal standards, a proposal for a fair mandatory arbitration scheme, fair notice provisions, and corporate purposes in light of the Craigslist-eBay litigation. This is the final issue for volume 121, the June 2012 issue.

Book How Not to be a Hypocrite

Download or read book How Not to be a Hypocrite written by Adam Swift and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can parents send their children to private schools and still live up to their ideals? Can you be a good citizen and a good parent? These difficult questions, and many more, are raised and answered in this insightful and thought-provoking book.

Book FCC Record

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1260 pages

Download or read book FCC Record written by United States. Federal Communications Commission and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anarchy  State  and Utopia

Download or read book Anarchy State and Utopia written by Robert Nozick and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foundational text of libertarian thought, named one of the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II (Times Literary Supplement) First published in response to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia has since become one of the defining texts in classic libertarian thought. Challenging and ultimately rejecting liberal, socialist, and conservative agendas, Nozick boldly asserts that the rights of individuals are violated as a state's responsibilities increase—and the only way to avoid these violations rests in the creation of a minimalist state limited to protection against force, fraud, theft, and the enforcement of contracts. Winner of the 1975 National Book Award, Anarchy, State and Utopia remains one of the most philosophically rich defenses of economic liberalism to date. With a new foreword by Thomas Nagel, this revised edition introduces Nozick and his work to a new generation of readers.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law written by Eyal Zamir and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2014 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and Law' brings together leading scholars of law, psychology, and economics to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of this field of research, including its strengths and limitations as well as a forecast of its future development. Its twenty-nine chapters are organized into four parts.

Book Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems

Download or read book Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems written by Joan Costa-Font and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground breaking Handbook brings together a number of chapters into one comprehensive book on the timely subject matter of the political economy of health and health care. The book contains up-to-date discussion on the state of the art of the key questions of the subject matter, and it provides a unique understanding of health policy making by drawing on an interdisciplinary approach to political economy.

Book Religious Liberty  Volume 2

    Book Details:
  • Author : Douglas Laycock
  • Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • Release : 2011-04-07
  • ISBN : 1467434299
  • Pages : 872 pages

Download or read book Religious Liberty Volume 2 written by Douglas Laycock and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than thirty years, Douglas Laycock has been studying, defending, and writing about religious liberty. In this second volume of the comprehensive collection of his writings on the subject, he has compiled articles, amicus briefs, and actual court documents relating to regulatory exemptions under the Constitution, the right to church autonomy, and the rights of non-mainstream religions. This collection — which deals with religious schools and colleges, sex abuse cases, the rights of Hare Krishnas and Scientologists, the landmark decision Employment Division v. Smith, and more — will be a valuable reference for churches, schools, and other religious organizations as they exercise their Constitutionally protected freedom of religion.