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Full-Text Articles in Law
Book Review, Eric Heinze
Book Review, Eric Heinze
Prof. Eric Heinze, Queen Mary University of London
Book Review: Randall Baldwin Clark, "The Law Most Beautiful and Best: Medical Argument and Magical Rhetoric in Plato’s Laws", Lexington Books, 2004 (pp. 178 + xiv) Randall Clark has distinguished himself among a growing number of scholars taking a new look at theories of law in ancient Greek texts. The review examines a number of original features of Clark’s approach, and shows how the book sheds new light on important themes in Plato’s Republic and Laws.
The Disadvantages Of Immigration Restriction As A Policy To Improve Income Distribution, Howard F. Chang
The Disadvantages Of Immigration Restriction As A Policy To Improve Income Distribution, Howard F. Chang
All Faculty Scholarship
In this Article, I argue that tax and transfer policies are more efficient than immigration restrictions as instruments for raising the after tax incomes of the least skilled native workers. Policies to protect these native workers frol1'l immigrant competition in the labor market do no better at promoting distributive justice and are likely to impose a greater economic burden on natives in the country of immigration than the tax alternative. These immigration restrictions are especially costly given the disproportionate burden that they place on households with working women, which discourages fel1'wle participation in the labor force. This burden runs contrary …
Pragmatic Idealism And The Scholarship Of Mel Durchslag, William P. Marshall
Pragmatic Idealism And The Scholarship Of Mel Durchslag, William P. Marshall
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Unprofitable Lending: Modern Credit Regulation And The Lost Theory Of Usury, Brian M. Mccall
Unprofitable Lending: Modern Credit Regulation And The Lost Theory Of Usury, Brian M. Mccall
Brian M McCall
With almost daily news stories about the crisis in our credit markets, it seems inevitable that a new political and academic debate about credit regulation is commencing. With Americans paying billions of dollars in finance charges every year and some loosing their homes, it is time to ask fundamental questions about the liberality of credit supply and terms. Rather than readjusting usury limits or tinkering with disclosure requirements, it is time to reassess America’s philosophy of lending. Although the current socio-economic belief that more credit is better has held dominance for several centuries, history offers an alternative theory. Surprisingly, a …