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Fines and monetary damages account for the majority of legal sanctions across the whole spectrum of legal governance. Money is, in key respects, the primary tool law has to achieve compliance. Yet money has largely been ignored by social analyses of law, and especially by social theory.

The Currency of Justice examines the differing rationalities, aims and assumptions built into money's deployment in diverse legal fields and sanctions. This raises major questions about the extent to which money appears as an abstract universal or whether it takes on more particular meanings...

Air transport service has become an indispensable source of long distance transport for businesses and leisure travelers and for high-value-low-volume products. The significance of this transport service as a driver of economic growth is made abundantly apparent when examining the interdependence of business and air transport growth in Asia. Given the key role this region plays as a contributor to growth in the global airline transport service sector and the distinctive features of the aviation market observed, it is important to understand the economics of this sector in Asia. This volume...

Our world is confronted by a number of crises - global warming, entrenched
poverty and military conflicts such as the war on terror. While these crises
appear disconnected, this study examines how they are both interrelated and
dominate our experiences of modernity. As these crises are often aggravated
by the very solutions proposed to solve them, this experience of modernity
can be described as pathological. Pathological modernity is driven by a
frontier disposition that encloses and commodifies non-commercial spaces
(or commons), and creates a crisis of scarcity. This commodification...