Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Business Law

Efficient laws have profound positive social, economic, political and welfare effects. This book develops a new approach to the formulation of efficient laws with an illustrative application to electronic fund transfer regulation in Australia. This approach can be applied to formulate efficient laws, irrespective of social, political and economic organizations of the country under study, which maximize social welfare of the country.

Having explored multifaceted issues of IPR enforcement, this book argues that IPR enforcement problem is not an actual outcome of Confucian philosophy and "to steal a book" is not an "elegant offence." This book demonstrates that counterfeiting and piracy are common inevitable consequences of inadequate economic development and a by-product of a unique set of socioeconomic crises deriving from the development of a dysfunctional institutional regime. By examining areas of compatibilities between European and Chinese cultures and analysing painful lessons from the US-China negotiations over...

This is the first book to examine individual rights from an economic perspective, collecting together leading articles in this emerging area of interest and showing the vibrant and expanding scholarship that relates them. Areas covered include

• The implications of constitutional protections of individual rights and freedoms, including freedom of speech and of the press,
• The right to bear arms,
• The right against unreasonable searches,
• The right against self-incrimination,
• The...

Credit reporting agencies collect and compile highly sensitive information on the millions of consumers in credit markets throughout the world and also increasingly across a variety of industries, such as insurance, retail and telecommunications. In this revised edition, Nicola Jentzsch provides an in-depth analysis of the economics and regulation of financial privacy and a comparative overview of credit reporting systems in the US and the 27 member states of the European Union. She offers an authoritative evaluation of the design and functioning of dual systems consisting of public credit...