Stanford University: 1318 books
Victims' Rights and Victims' Wrongs
Comparative Liability in Criminal Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
"Don't blame the victim" is a cornerstone maxim of Anglo-American jurisprudence, but should the law generally ignore a victim's behavior in determining a defendant's liability? Victims' Rights and Victims' Wrongs criticizes the current criminal law approach and outlines a more fair, coherent,...
Tackling Wicked Problems in Complex Ecologies
The Role of Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Tackling Wicked Problems in Complex Ecologies is a call to action, focusing on the role that evaluators can play in addressing social and economic problems. Evaluation extends beyond theories and methods, encompassing a range of proven approaches for addressing ecological complexities that drive inequities...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
The new millennium has brought with it an ever-expanding range of threats to global security: from cyber attacks to blue-water piracy to provocative missile tests. Now, more than ever then, national security and prosperity depend on the safekeeping of a global system of mutually supporting networks...
by Zaryab Iqbal, Harvey Starr
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
State failure is seen as one of the significant threats to regional and international stability in the current international system. State Failure in the Modern World presents a comprehensive, systematic, and empirically rigorous analysis of the full range of the state failure process in the post-World...
The Social Roots of Risk
Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
The first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that catastrophic events can have on developing countries, while 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina showed that first world nations remain vulnerable....
Courting Science
Securing the Foundation for a Second American Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
In Courting Science, Damon Coletta offers a novel explanation for the decline of American leadership in world affairs. Whether the American Century ends sooner rather than later may depend on America's capacity for self-reflection and, ultimately, self-restraint when it comes to science, technology,...
Sunbelt Justice
Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
In the late 20th century, the United States experienced an incarceration explosion. Over the course of twenty years, the imprisonment rate quadrupled, and today more than than 1.5 million people are held in state and federal prisons. Arizona's Department of Corrections came of age just as this shift...
Chinese Money in Global Context
Historic Junctures Between 600 BCE and 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic Junctures Between 600 BCE and 2012 offers a groundbreaking interpretation of the Chinese monetary system, charting its evolution by examining key moments in history and placing them in international perspective. Expertly navigating primary sources in multiple...
Hive Mind
How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Over the last few decades, economists and psychologists have quietly documented the many ways in which a person's IQ matters. But, research suggests that a nation's IQ matters so much more.
As Garett Jones argues in Hive Mind, modest differences in national IQ can explain most cross-country...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Competition and the State analyzes the role of the state across a number of dimensions as it relates to competition law and policy across a number of dimensions. This book re-conceptualizes the interaction between competition law and government activities in light of the profound transformation of...
Homer Economicus
The Simpsons and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
In Homer Economicus a cast of lively contributors takes a field trip to Springfield, where the Simpsons reveal that economics is everywhere. By exploring the hometown of television's first family, this book provides readers with the economic tools and insights to guide them at work, at home, and at...
Lifecycle Events and Their Consequences
Job Loss, Family Change, and Declines in Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
In Lifecycle Events and Their Consequences: Job Loss, Family Change, and Declines in Health, editors Kenneth A. Couch, Mary C. Daly, and Julie Zissimopoulos bring together leading scholars to study the impact of unexpected life course events on economic welfare. The contributions in this volume explore...
by Eric G. Flamholtz, Yvonne Randle
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Building Family Business Champions provides a theoretically sound and practical framework for understanding the challenges that family businesses face. Drawing on three decades of consulting with more than 250 companies, their own experience running a family-owned firm, and sound research, Eric G....
by Thomas J. Miceli
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Master teacher Thomas J. Miceli provides an introduction to law and economics that reveals how economic principles can explain the structure of the law and make it more efficient.
The third edition of this seminal textbook is thoroughly updated to include recent cases and the latest scholarship,...