This popular text effectively combines a traditional case focus with clear and concise coverage of a wide range of up-to-date topics. Since most students will become businesspersons, the material is presented from the perspective of the professional non-lawyer. This book offers the opportunity to learn key points of the law from the standpoint of ...
The contributors to this review examine: the existence and severity of the toxic harms and liability problem; the erosion of a clear tort legal system to settle disputes; and whether a clearly defined system of property rights could be developed to reduce the dangers from toxic substances.
Despite agreement that an absence of well-defined and consistently-enforced property rights results in the exploitation of air, water, and other natural resources, there is still widespread disagreement about many aspects of America's property rights paradigm. The prominent contributors to this volume explore numerous theoretical and empirical ...
The Study Guide includes chapter outlines, fill-in-the-blank vocabulary questions, true/false questions, and multiple-choice questions to aid students in studying.
This text is designed for instructors teaching a legal environment course that emphasizes a managerial approach. Legal fundamentals and managerial implications of the law are stressed. This third edition includes a new chapter on Debtor-Creditor Relations. Ethics is covered throughout and Manager's Ethical Dilemmas are found in every chapter. ...
Was the so-called "Reagan Revolution" a disappointment regarding the federal systems of special-interest regulation? Many of that administration's friends as well as its opponents think so. But under what criteria? To what extent? And why? When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, the popular belief was that the size of government would be cut and ...
This book pulls back the wrappings that cloak U.S. agriculture and explains how and why politics has affected the traditional stewardship role played by agriculture.
Setting the record straight about the institution of academic tenure, this book elucidates its history, legal status, and common misunderstandings. Meiners argues that the original aim of tenure -- to ensure academic freedom and integrity -- can still be achieved and that the belief by many professors that tenure is a guarantee of lifelong ...
While most studies of environmental policy paint a picture of improvement through government initiatives, these essays argue the contrary. Pointing to Cleveland's burning river, the death of Lake Erie, smog in Los Angeles, and Love Canal, the contributors demonstrate that command-and-control regulation of the environment has not delivered the ...
The contributors to this review examine: the existence and severity of the toxic harms and liability problem; the erosion of a clear tort legal system to settle disputes; and whether a clearly defined system of property rights could be developed to reduce the dangers from toxic substances.
Succeed in the course with this Study Guide for THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS, filled with chapter outlines, fill-in-the-blank, vocabulary, true/false, and multiple-choice questions.
Many Americans today view the government as the savior of the environment. When it comes to protecting land, fish, and wildlife, the common response is to let government do it. The contributors to Government Versus the Environment encourage us to consider government in a different light by looking at clear instances of public programs that foster ...
Politically portrayed as valiant family farms scratching out a living in the Jeffersonian mode, agriculture is instead the most regulated and subsidized sector of the industrial economy, deeply intertwined in environmental policies. This work pulls back the wrappings that cloak US agriculture and explains how and why politics has affected the ...
The authors provide a well-equipped team to address the complex legal and economic issues involved in environmental issues. The editors have selected an outstanding panel of like-minded specialists to provide both perspective and depth to their search for 'what works' rather than what merely sounds concerned.
Written by specialists in law and economics, this book studies the role of liability rules in an effort to illustrate the possible consequences of statutory tampering with them. The contributors explain how statutory and common law liability rules evolved, how they work in current practice, and how changes in rules can alter economic outcomes in ...
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