The book concludes that in a global economy the burden-some regulations of foreign countries deserve attention, but increasingly so do the burdens that American adversarial legalism imposes on this country and sometimes on others. Ideas and prospects for correcting the problem are discussed throughout. ...

Bovard offers a smashing condemnation of American trade policy and exposes the corrupt core of protectionism and the absurdity of Congress making trade more "fair" by making it less free". . . . (shows) how arbitrary and ultimately counterproductive and restrictive our trade practices are".--The Wall Street Journal. ...

Bovard offers a smashing condemnation of American trade policy and exposes the corrupt core of protectionism and the absurdity of Congress making trade more "fair" by making it less free". . . . (shows) how arbitrary and ultimately counterproductive and restrictive our trade practices are".--The Wall Street Journal. ...

In March 1987 a radical coalition of queer activists converged on Wall Street -- their target, 'Business, Big Business, Business as Usual!!!' It was Act Up's first demonstration. In November 1999 a radical coalition of environmental, labor, anarchist, queer, and human rights activists converged in Seattle -- their target was similar, a system of global capitalism. Between 1987 and 1999 a new project in activism had emerged unshackled from past ...

Few scientific topics since the theory of biological evolution have inspired as much controversy as artificial intelligence has. Even now, fifty years after the term first made its appearance in academic journals, many philosophers and more than a few prominent scientists and software programmers dismiss the pursuit of thinking machines as the modern-day equivalent of medieval alchemists' hunt for the philosopher's stone-a pursuit based more on ...

This work aims to analyze the impact of both the increased structural transfers and the more decentralized regional policy process through the partnership principle, which were the two main features of the 1988 European regional policy reform. ...

In "Restoring Fiscal Sanity," scholars with high-level government experience provide an overview of the countrys likely medium- and long-term spending needs and the resources available to pay for them. They propose three alternative fiscal paths that are more responsible than the current path.
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Edward Lincoln analyzes why, in spite of a decade of economic stagnation, deregulation and other aspects of systemic economic reform have proceeded so sluggishly in Japan. ...

This volume contains detailed analyses of how the Internet revolution could bring economic benefits -- primarily improved productivity and higher quality -- in the eight sectors of the U.S. economy that collectively account for over 70 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP): automobile manufacturing and sales, non-auto manufacturing, higher education and private-sector training, financial services, government, health care, retailing, and ...

1. The OECD Revised Recommendation of May 1997, which contains a list of agreed preventive and repressive measures.<BR>2. The binding criminal law Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions of December 1997, which focuses on the criminalization issue.<BR>This book reviews the United States' laws and rules implementing the convention, as well as their enforcement. The book ...