Author: Fred Alford
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: freedom, save, meaning, lost, rethinking
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2005-05-13
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1403968721
ISBN-13: 9781403968722
This book is aimed at those who are puzzled by the different ways in which the term "freedom" is used and abused. Based on interviews with people concerning the nature of freedom, the author compares what the people he talked with said about freedom with what Jean-Paul Sartre, Herbert Marcuse, and Iris Murdoch have to say about freedom. He concludes that the people he talked with about freedom constitute a "culture on the borderline" whose proponents are better served by learning the political and social skills necessary to carve out small spaces of freedom in a rationalized world.
Author: Scott Saul
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: freedom, sixties, making, jazz, ain
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2005-11-30
List price: $20.50
ISBN-10: 0674018532
ISBN-13: 9780674018532
In the long decade between the mid-fifties and the late sixties, jazz was changing more than its sound. The age of Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite, John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, and Charles Mingus’s The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady was a time when jazz became both newly militant and newly seductive, its example powerfully shaping the social dramas of the Civil Rights movement, the Black Power movement, and the counterculture. Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t is the first book to tell the broader story of this period in jazz--and American--history. The story’s c
Author: Harry N. Scheiber
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: freedom, modern, making, contract, state
Number of Pages: 378
Published: 1998-12
List price: $56.00
ISBN-10: 0804733708
ISBN-13: 9780804733700
The relationship of law to economic freedom has been a vital element in the history of all modern democratic societies. "Freedom of contract" is both a technical term in law, referring to private agreements and promises, and a metaphor often deployed to describe economic liberty. This volume of new essays by eminent legal historians offers fresh perspectives on freedom of contract in both senses of the term, and considers how economic freedom relates to such classic political freedoms as free speech and other Anglo-American constitutional norms. The principal focus of the essays is on broad is
Author: Freedom House Survey Team Staff
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: world, freedom
Number of Pages: 650
Published: 1994-03-22
List price: $42.50
ISBN-10: 0932088813
ISBN-13: 9780932088819
An indispensable annual survey of political rights and civil liberties from Freedom House, the nation’s leading human rights advocacy group. This year’s survey includes comprehensive coverage of each of the republics of the former Soviet Union. Well established as a standard reference, it provides political, social, and economic snapshots of every nation and territory in the world plus a country-by-country overview of the year’s significant data on life expectancy, population, and economic indicators.
Author: Freedom House
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: media, independence, survey, global, press, freedom
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 2009-01-28
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0742563081
ISBN-13: 9780742563087
Freedom House’s annual press freedom index, now covering 195 countries and territories, has tracked trends in media freedom worldwide since 1980. Freedom of the Press 2008 provides comparative rankings and examines the legal environment for the media, political pressures that influence reporting, and economic factors that affect access to information. The survey is the most authoritative assessment of media freedom around the world. Its findings are widely utilized by policymakers, scholars, press freedom advocates, journalists, and international institutions.
Author: Mark Steiner
Publisher: Dissertation.Com
Keywords: freedom, compete, contract, policy, antitrust, economics
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2007-08-20
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1581123701
ISBN-13: 9781581123708
In the field of antitrust, the freedoms to contract and compete can and do contradict. Profit-maximizing companies desire perfectly competitive input markets to minimize their costs, but want monopolistic markets for their outputs to maximize their profits. Consequently, they have strong incentives to undermine competition in their output markets. In a world without antitrust laws, many companies would thus eliminate competition by using their freedom to contract, either by entering into legally enforceable agreements which fix prices or divide up markets, or by merging and acquiring rivals to
Author: Freedom House
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: media, independence, survey, global, press, freedom
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-07-21
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 074252874X
ISBN-13: 9780742528741
The annual Freedom of the Press, which tracks trends in media freedom worldwide, appears for the first time as an expanded book. Covering 192 countries, the survey provides numerical ratings of the level of press freedom in each country. The Freedom House survey team also assesses the legal environment for the media, political pressures that influence reporting, and economic factors that affect access to information. Essays include a 25-year retrospective of press freedom and a timely analysis of the upcoming World Summits on the Information Society (2003 and 2005). Academics in several discip
