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South African criminal law has accepted that it is only fair to
punish those who - if they do wrong - are responsible for doing
wrong. Responsibility - that the accused must be blameworthy -
finds expression in several specific requirements of South African
criminal law: voluntariness, fault, and, in particular, capacity,
into which the `insanity' defence falls. The Responsible Mind in
South African Criminal Law critically analyses these requirements,
and includes an empirical component in this analysis. The book also
identifies and critically analyses the underlying model of
responsibility adopted in our law and considers the alternatives.
The conclusion from the empirical component and critical analysis
is that the specific requirements are unclear and even incoherent,
and that this is a function of the underlying model of
responsibility, which identifies random capricious and arbitrary
conduct as responsible conduct. Alternative models of
responsibility are discussed, and a `compatibilist' model of reason
sensitivity is selected as a better foundation for criminal
responsibility. The Responsible Mind in South African Criminal Law
discusses the implications of adopting this model for the various
specific requirements of South African criminal law and proposes
appropriate modifications. Ultimately a new model of criminal
responsibility and a revised set of specific requirements are
proposed, together with a proposed new statutory test for
responsibility.
This introductory survey covers all aspects of the period when
Britain was transformed into an industrial, urban society, with
political power in the hands of the middle class.
This seventh edition of 'Grant and Temperley' has been
comprehensively revised and rewritten by the distinguished
historian Agatha Ramm. Its coverage has been greatly extended , and
it now appears in two volume. This, volume one, covers the
nineteenth century 1789-1905 and the second the period 1905-1970.
As editor of The Economist, Walter Bagehot offered astute
commentary on the financial issues of his day and his name lives on
in an eponymous weekly column. During the upheavals of 2007-9, the
chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of this Victorian icon
on the tip of his tongue. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the
Treasury bill and author of Lombard Street, Bagehot prescribed the
doctrines that-decades later-inspired the radical responses to the
financial crises.
This seventh edition of 'Grant and Temperley' has been
comprehensively revised and rewritten by the distinguished
historian Agatha Ramm. Its coverage has been greatly extended , and
it now appears in two volume. This, volume one, covers the
nineteenth century 1789-1905 and the second the period 1905-1970.
This introductory survey covers all aspects of the period when
Britain was transformed into an industrial, urban society, with
political power in the hands of the middle class.
During the upheavals of 2007-9, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the
Federal Reserve, had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his
tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the
Treasury bill and author of Lombard Street, Bagehot prescribed the
doctrines that-decades later-inspired the radical responses to the
world's worst financial crises. In James Grant's colourful and
groundbreaking biography, Bagehot appears as both an ornament to
his own age and a muse to our own. Brilliant and precocious, he was
influential in political circles, making high-profile friends,
including William Gladstone-and enemies in Lord Overstone and
Benjamin Disraeli. As an essayist on wide-ranging topics, he won
the admiration of Matthew Arnold and Woodrow Wilson. He was also a
misogynist, and while he opposed slavery, he misjudged Abraham
Lincoln and the Civil War. As editor of the Economist, he offered
astute commentary on the financial issues of his day and his name
lives on in an eponymous weekly column.
The 1980s witnessed a lemming-like rush into the sea of debt on the
part of the American industrial and financial communities, with
consequences we are only beginning to appreciate. But the
speculative frenzy of the eighties didn't just happen. It was the
culmination of a long cycle of slow relaxation of credit
practices--the subject of James Grant's brilliant, clear-eyed
history of American finance. Two long-running trends converged in
the 1980s to create one of our greatest speculative booms: the
democratization of credit and the socialization of risk. At the
turn of the century, it was almost impossible for the average
working person to get a loan. In the 1980s, it was almost
impossible to refuse one. As the pace of lending grew, the
government undertook to bear more and more of the creditors'
risk--a pattern, begun in the Progressive era, which reached full
flower in the "conservative" administration of Ronald Reagan. Based
on original scholarship as well as firsthand observation, Grant's
book puts our recent love affair with debt in an entirely fresh,
often chilling, perspective. The result is required--and wickedly
entertaining--reading for everyone who wants or needs to understand
how the world really works.
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