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Unfair Trade Practice, Free Speech, and Advertising Law

The Hidden Costs of Individualism, The Legal Times

Summary: A very brief summary of advertising philosophy.

The Issue Is Advertising Not Smoking

Summary: This article details the competing philosophies of language as well as the competing philosophies of markets and explains how legal arguments and theories base themselves – often unconsciously – upon particular philosophical assumptions. Then, the article demonstrates how to present legal arguments with a conscious use of these underlying philosophies.

Foreign Trade Law and Market Theory

Philosophy, The Law & Economics Movement, and Free Trade

Summary: This article explains the philosophical setting and rationale for free markets. Then, the article presents a sustained criticism of the prevailing economic rationale for certain forms of free trade. This article provides theoretical tools effective in presenting and countering economic evidence in litigation.

Does Economic Analysis Truly Support Free Trade?

Summary: This article discusses the economic rationale behind trade regulation and the philosophical assumptions on which this rationale is based.

Securities and Finance Law

A Policy Based Definition of Insider Trading

Summary: This article details the underlying rationale for securities markets: to provide information needed to efficiently allocate financial resources. Then, the article demonstrates how to use this underlying policy rationale in particular instances of securities litigation.

Banking Regulation, Foreign Policy and Sociological Analysis

Capital Flight & Terrorism

Summary: This article argues that any policy of war on terrorism should include an awareness of capital flight – both one of terrorism's causes and one of its tools.

Capital Flight & the U.S. Drug Culture

Summary: This article presents a provocative argument that sociological analysis – an analysis ignored by most commentators – links seemingly disparate social phenomena.

The Sociological Reasons for Capital Flight

Summary: This article argues that the policy assumptions of international financial market analysis and regulation ignore through oversimplification the sociological context of capital markets, a sociological context that is all important.

Trade Regulation and Consumer Regulation

European Communities Standardisation Policy: A New Means to Regulate Foodstuffs, 14 European Competition Law Review 46.
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Summary: Alone in the literature, this article points to the difference in regulatory policy and understanding between the United States and the European Community. The article argues that the European view contains a more realistic and authentic anthropology.

Economics of Development

Lesser Developed Countries and Natural Economic Growth

Summary: This article describes various theories of economic development and then argues that many ignore the wider sociological setting of economic activity and so are often flawed.