Stefik examines the "magic" of new technologies in light of older issues involving the conflict of values in society. Issues include censorship, copyright protection, privacy, and economic stability.
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"In Regulation and Development Jean-Jacques Laffont provides the first theoretical analysis of regulation of public services for developing countries. He shows how the debate between price-cap regulation and cost-of-service regulation is affected by the characteristics of less d…
A few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered capitalism's relatively recent emergence? Until now, the conceptual toolkit available to answer t…
"The main thesis of the book is that the welfare state cannot have a sustainable future, given the overburdened state budget, unless it is managed by a strategic planning process. The book deals, moreover, with the new emergence of a nonprofit private sector that feeds a kind of…
Examining the concept of corporate social responsibility in the context of globalization, this text focuses on different legal perspectives in tackling the challenges that arise.
Reconsiders the central purpose of social regulation-the abatement or control of risks to society. Recounts the experiences of pioneering agencies that have confronted the risk-control challenge directly, developing operational capacities for specifying risk concentrations, prob…
