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Historically, the Christian tradition has played an influential
role in Western economic thought concerning the regulation of
markets, but, with the fracturing of the Christian tradition
following the Reformation, the decline of Christian influence in
academia, and the increasing specialization of economic analysis,
that influence has become increasingly opaque. This volume brings
together an interdisciplinary team of prominent academic experts on
market regulation from four different continents and various faith
traditions to reconsider the impact of Christianity on market
regulation. Drawing on law, economics, history, theology,
philosophy, and political theory, the authors consider both general
questions of market regulation and particular regulatory fields
such as bankruptcy, corporate law, and antitrust from a Christian
perspective.
Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other
high-profile cases have sparked passionate disagreement about the
proper role of corporations in American democracy. Partisans on
both sides have made bold claims, often with little basis in
historical facts. Bringing together leading scholars of history,
law, and political science, Corporations and American Democracy
provides the historical and intellectual grounding necessary to put
today's corporate policy debates in proper context. From the
nation's founding to the present, Americans have regarded
corporations with ambivalence-embracing their potential to
revolutionize economic life and yet remaining wary of their
capacity to undermine democratic institutions. Although
corporations were originally created to give businesses and other
associations special legal rights and privileges, historically they
were denied many of the constitutional protections afforded
flesh-and-blood citizens. This comprehensive volume covers a range
of topics, including the origins of corporations in English and
American law, the historical shift from special charters to general
incorporation, the increased variety of corporations that this
shift made possible, and the roots of modern corporate regulation
in the Progressive Era and New Deal. It also covers the evolution
of judicial views of corporate rights, particularly since
corporations have become the form of choice for an increasing
variety of nonbusiness organizations, including political advocacy
groups. Ironically, in today's global economy the decline of large,
vertically integrated corporations-the type of corporation that
past reform movements fought so hard to regulate-poses some of the
newest challenges to effective government oversight of the economy.
Drawing on history, economics, politics, and law, Fox and Crane's
Antitrust Stories provide a glimpse behind the texts of well-known
legal opinions into the larger-than-life personalities and
struggles of their antagonists and protagonists. Cases have been
selected to provide a historical sampling of different eras of
antitrust enforcement. They range from Standard Oil at the founding
of U.S. antitrust to Microsoft in the new economy. This title is an
invaluable supplement to any antitrust casebook, and the inclusion
of cases with international aspects, including GE/Honeywell,
Empagran, and Alcoa, makes it useful for courses on comparative or
international competition policy. It is also useful as an assigned
text for an undergraduate course in economic history or business
regulation.
7 Books That Rocked the Church, by Daniel Crane, explores
controversial books throughout history that the Christian church
has famously disavowed-and asks the question why? Engagingly
written and thoughtfully researched, this book explores what the
"fuss" was all about with books ranging in date from the second
century after Christ to more contemporary authors. Books by Karl
Marx, Charles Darwin, Galileo Galilei, and many others profoundly
upset the church by calling into question foundational Christian
doctrines or beliefs. Most of the books discussed here were banned
at some time by Christian authorities. The author's aim is to
challenge Christians to respond critically but open-mindedly to
books that oppose a Christian worldview. Readers of 7 Books That
Rocked the Church will come away better equipped to answer the
charge that the church is intolerant of competing ideas. They will
also develop the ability to interact with new and possibly
dangerous ideas that comport with Jesus' admonition to be wise as
serpents but gentle as doves. This book also includes discussion
questions for further study. 1. Valentinus the Gnostic: Who Doesn't
Love a Conspiracy Theory? (Think The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown) 2.
Galileo Galilei: A Scandal of Religion, Science, and Politics 3.
Voltaire's Candide, Enlightenment Rationalism, and the Church's
Thin Skin 4. Darwin's Origin of Species: The Many Faces of
Evolutionary Theory 5. Marx's Communist Manifesto: The Red Bull of
the Masses 6. Sigmund Freud's Ego 7. Joseph Campbell: Christianity
as an (Almost) Enlightened Myth (A book that strongly influenced
George Lucas's Star Wars films)
The casebook welcomes on board Daniel A. Crane, University of
Michigan. The Fox/Crane casebook is rich with political economy,
economics, global perspective, and in general the analytics of
solving contemporary antitrust problems in the United States and
the world. Useful in a 3 or 4-credit course and as a desk book, the
volume features the contemporary debates about big data platforms
and their antitrust accountability, all of the landmark U.S.
antitrust cases, the debate about goals, the effects of new
technologies, and references to converging and diverging European,
South African and other jurisprudence. It provides a clear
presentation of the tools for analysis, examining assumptions that
may influence outcomes. The work is unique in its probing questions
that explore the line between hard competition and abuse of power,
and its problem sets for analysis and debate.
This up-to-date second edition spans the globe, presenting examples
of competition law and analysis from six continents, nationally,
regionally and internationally. The book covers competition law and
analysis from six continents, presenting materials in a manner that
the student (or scholar or practitioner) can understand the roots
of the law as well as the roots of divergences among jurisdictions.
It covers developed and developing countries, private firm and
state restraints, and domestic and global restraints. For
cross-border restraints, it covers issues of extraterritoriality,
efforts at cooperation and convergence, and theories of global
governance.The book covers all of the substantive categories:
cartels, other competitor agreements, mergers, vertical agreements,
and mergers; and new economy, high tech, and intellectual property
issues. Jurisdictions featured include the European Union, China,
and South Africa. "This volume is a majestic survey of an issue
whose time has truly come. It will not only be a building block in
the enterprise of aligning global markets and national antitrust;
it is a veritable world tour of the rules and practices that
already propel that world further and map out its future
direction." -David Lewis, Executive Director, Corruption Watch,
Johannesburg, and Inaugural Chairperson of the South African
Competition Tribunal
The Institutional Structure of Antitrust Enforcement, by Daniel A.
Crane provides a comprehensive and succinct treatment of the
history, structure, and behavior of the various U.S. institutions
that enforce antitrust laws, such as the Department of Justice and
the Federal Trade Commission. It addresses the relationship between
corporate regulation and antitrust, the uniquely American approach
of having two federal antitrust agencies, antitrust federalism, and
the predominance of private enforcement over public enforcement. It
also draws comparisons with the structure of institutional
enforcement outside the United States in the European Union and in
other parts of the world, and it considers the possibility of
creating international antitrust institutions through the World
Trade Organization or other treaty mechanisms. The book derives its
topics from historical, economic, political, and theoretical
perspectives.
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