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Mobbing In The Workplace And Individualism: Antibullying Legislation In The United States, Europe And Canada, M. Neil Browne, Mary Allison Smith
Mobbing In The Workplace And Individualism: Antibullying Legislation In The United States, Europe And Canada, M. Neil Browne, Mary Allison Smith
Economics Faculty Publications
“Mobbing” refers to systematic behavior directed toward an employee over a long period of time that results in serious harm to the victim. Legislative responses to mobbing behavior in Sweden, France, Canada, and Belgium have responded in various ways to alleviate the conditions that create the psychological harm caused by this workplace phenomenon. The more muted response in the United States is linked to the individualistic assumptions prevalent in American culture that place responsibility for harmful conditions frequently on the choices of the person experiencing the harm.
Putting Expert Testimony In Its Epistemological Place: What Predictions Of Dangerousness In Court Can Teach Us, M. Neil Browne, Ronda R. Harrison-Spoerl
Putting Expert Testimony In Its Epistemological Place: What Predictions Of Dangerousness In Court Can Teach Us, M. Neil Browne, Ronda R. Harrison-Spoerl
Economics Faculty Publications
Judges and juries must make momentous and intricate decisions. The temptation is overwhelming for the court to request assistance from those who claim to know facts, interpretations, and explanatory models that promise to make those decisions more accurate.1 As long as some of us know more than others about specific probative matters, courts will certainly seek to know what those experts know or, to anticipate, what they claim to know. But how can courts optimize their consumption of this expertise?
Impact Of Market Ideology On Transnational Contract Law, M. Neil Browne, Jennifer Coon
Impact Of Market Ideology On Transnational Contract Law, M. Neil Browne, Jennifer Coon
Economics Faculty Publications
As world trade expands to the remotest of venues, commercial laws that encompass transnational jurisdictions become increasingly important. The appropriateness of these laws rely, inter alia, on the strength of the assumptive base supporting such transnational laws of commerce. As this article explains, transnational contract law'is not the product of the Immaculate Conception; it is the anachronistic progeny of certain European laws that emerged during the Industrial Revolution. As such, transnational contract law inherits many of the characteristics of its progenitors. Those characteristics, however, become awkward when viewed through a contemporary institutional context that diverges from the prevailing social arrangements …
Taxation Causes Kentucky To Lag Tennessee In Growth, Stephen E. Lile
Taxation Causes Kentucky To Lag Tennessee In Growth, Stephen E. Lile
Economics Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Concealment Of Information In Consumer Transactions In The U.S., Sweden, And China: A Window To The Relationship Between Individualism And Regulation, M. Neil Browne, Justin Rex, Curtis Bunner
Concealment Of Information In Consumer Transactions In The U.S., Sweden, And China: A Window To The Relationship Between Individualism And Regulation, M. Neil Browne, Justin Rex, Curtis Bunner
Economics Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.