The Tilted Playing Field

Author : H. Richard Uviller
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300147247
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tilted Playing Field written by H. Richard Uviller and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although evenly matched adversaries make for a more exciting athletic contest, and a level playing field is essential to a fair game, is the same true in a criminal trial? In this compelling new book, H. Richard Uviller argues that a criminal trial is not analogous to a sporting event. Prosecutors and defense attorneys are, in critical respects, different from each other, and the allocation of advantages to each must be uneven in order to be fair.In a lively exploration of the powers of the prosecutor and the prerogatives of the defense, Uviller asks where our criminal justice system is fair though unequal and where its inequalities may subvert fair results. On the one hand, he points out, the prosecutor has unmatched and virtually unreviewable discretion to choose the target of a prosecution, the charge, and to a large extent the timing of an indictment. The prosecution also is first on the scene to develop evidence and is entitled to compel the production of evidence from reluctant custodians. The lawyer for the defendant, on the other hand, enjoys virtually unrestricted license to argue contrary to his or her own sincere belief, as well as broad powers to discover evidence from the prosecutor’s file. Are these unequal advantages necessary? Are they fair? Uviller concludes that although the overall criminal justice system reflects a fair distribution of advantages and disadvantages, in certain areas the imbalance is so severe as to undermine justice. He offers realistic, carefully considered recommendations for reform in these problem areas.

Author : Lawrence P. Horowitz
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595517005
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leveling the Playing Field written by Lawrence P. Horowitz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business development transactions are an important way for private and small cap life science companies to realize value. When negotiating transaction terms, small companies confront a playing field tilted steeply to the advantage of large companies such as Pfizer, GSK, J&J, and Medtronic. Leveling the Playing Field shows how small companies can create a level playing field and achieve a transaction that fully recognizes the value of their technologies and products. Leveling the Playing Field uses auctions as a model for successful business development. Auctions are especially effective in creating power for sellers when many, wealthy bidders compete enthusiastically to acquire a singular asset, a Rembrandt painting, a uniquely situated piece of real estate, a small company's technology or product. Leveling the Playing Field guides small companies through the process of attracting large companies, transforming their interest into enthusiasm, and maintaining a high level of competition among potential buyers for as long as possible. Leveling the Playing Field draws on the authors' experiences closing more than 100 transactions ranging in size from a few million to over $2 billion as well as their serving as senior finance, R&D, and operations executives with large and small life science companies.

Author : Jessica Gavora
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tilting the Playing Field written by Jessica Gavora and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it passed Title IX of the Civil Rights Act in 1972, Congress seemed to be doing something laudable and also long overdue-prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in America's schools. But thirty years later, a law designed to guarantee equal opportunity has become the most explicit, government-enforced quota regime in America. Tilting the Playing Field is a trenchant insider's look at how one law--and its unintended consequences--has affected our view of sports, sex, and schools.

Author : Ha-Joon Chang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596917385
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad Samaritans written by Ha-Joon Chang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lucid, deeply informed, and enlivened with striking illustrations." -Noam Chomsky One economist has called Ha-Joon Chang "the most exciting thinker our profession has turned out in the past fifteen years." With Bad Samaritans, this provocative scholar bursts into the debate on globalization and economic justice. Using irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a battery of examples, Chang blasts holes in the "World Is Flat" orthodoxy of Thomas Friedman and other liberal economists who argue that only unfettered capitalism and wide-open international trade can lift struggling nations out of poverty. On the contrary, Chang shows, today's economic superpowers-from the U.S. to Britain to his native Korea-all attained prosperity by shameless protectionism and government intervention in industry. We have conveniently forgotten this fact, telling ourselves a fairy tale about the magic of free trade and-via our proxies such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization-ramming policies that suit ourselves down the throat of the developing world. Unlike typical economists who construct models of how the marketplace should work, Chang examines the past: what has actually happened. His pungently contrarian history demolishes one pillar after another of free-market mythology. We treat patents and copyrights as sacrosanct-but developed our own industries by studiously copying others' technologies. We insist that centrally planned economies stifle growth-but many developing countries had higher GDP growth before they were pressured into deregulating their economies. Both justice and common sense, Chang argues, demand that we reevaluate the policies we force on nations that are struggling to follow in our footsteps.

Author : Nicholas Hope
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804767092
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Far Across the River? written by Nicholas Hope and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-13 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gradual change has been a hallmark of the Chinese reform experience, and China's success in its sequential approach makes it unique among the former command economies. Since 1979, with the inception of the continuing era of reform, the Chinese economy has flourished. Growth has averaged nine percent a year, and China is now a trillion dollar economy. China has become a major trading power and the predominant target among developing countries for foreign direct investment. Despite all this, China remains poor and the reform process unfinished. This book takes its defining theme from Deng Xiaopeng's famous metaphor for gradual reform: “feeling the stones to cross the river.” How far has China progressed in fording the river? The experts who contributed to this volume tackle many aspects of that question, assessing Chinese progress in policy reform, priorities for further reform, and the research still needed to inform policymakers’ decisions.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Role of Nuclear Energy in Meeting Future Electricity Demands written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Hindman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210209
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Internet Trap written by Matthew Hindman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why there is no such thing as a free audience in today's attention economy The internet was supposed to fragment audiences and make media monopolies impossible. Instead, behemoths like Google and Facebook now dominate the time we spend online—and grab all the profits. This provocative and timely book sheds light on the stunning rise of the digital giants and the online struggles of nearly everyone else, and reveals what small players can do to survive in a game that is rigged against them. Challenging some of the most enduring myths of digital life, Matthew Hindman explains why net neutrality alone is no guarantee of an open internet, and demonstrates what it really takes to grow a digital audience in today's competitive online economy.

Author : Robert A. Schwartz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402075100
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Trading Desk View of Market Quality written by Robert A. Schwartz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the proceedings of a one-day conference on Market Quality, held at the Zicklin School of Business on April 30, 2002. Some of the questions addressed in this book are: How should market quality be defined, measured, monitored and improved? What is the evidence about the current state of our markets? How effective have recent innovations been? How can we better meet our investor needs?

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on International Trade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State of the U.S. Automobile Industry written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on International Trade and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paulo Penteado Neto
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467054585
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Trade Subsidy Rules and Tax and Financial Export Incentives written by Paulo Penteado Neto and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study researches interrelations between international trade subsidy rules and the use of tax and financial export incentives by developing countries. The author proclaims that developing countries should be allowed to adopt certain incentives without violating the WTO rules concerning subsidies. After a discussion about the right to development and the fair/just trade the author analyses the WTO concept of subsidy and its categories in light of the US-Foreign Sales Corporations (US-FSC) WTO case decision.