Suchergebnisse

It takes two to tango (bicameralism) -- Big states, little say (the senate) -- Delete! (presidential veto) -- Majority rules--except when it doesn't (supermajority rules) -- How to cherry-pick voters (gerrymandering) -- Taxation without representation (the District of Columbia) -- "I'll just do it myself!: : "oh, no, you won't" (direct democracy) -- Who can vote? How do you know? (voting rights) -- Who gets to represent you? (restrictions on running for congress) -- Who gets a shot at the oval office? (restrictions on running for president) -- Time's up! (presidential term limits) -- The college with no courses or credits (the electoral college) -- Knock, knock. is anybody there? (continuity in government) -- Is there a leader in the room? (presidential succession) -- The duck's in charge. January 20 (inauguration day) -- At war (emergency powers) -- At war with bugs (habeas corpus) -- We can change it, right? (amending the constitution) -- Grading the constitution -- Now what?

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Diversity -- 2 Promoting Diversity in the Public Schools (Or, To What Extent Does the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment Hinder the Establishment of More Genuinely Multicultural Schools?) -- 3 ''Getting Religion'': Religion, Diversity, and Community in Public and Private Schools -- 4 Identifying the Jewish Lawyer: Reflections on the Construction of Professional Identity -- 5 National Loyalty, Communalism, and the Professional Identity of Lawyers -- 6 The Confrontation of Religious Faith and Civil Religion: Catholics Becoming Justices -- 7 Abstinence and Exclusion: What Does Liberalism Demand of the Religiously Oriented (Would-Be) Judge? -- 8 Is Liberal Nationalism an Oxymoron? An Essay for Judith Shklar -- 9 ''Culture,'' ''Religion,'' and the Law, with Rachel Levinson -- Bibliography -- Index

This book addresses the vital importance of reshoring US manufacturing capability to ensure economic and military security and then discusses the proven methods that the United States used to gain manufacturing supremacy in the first place. The vital takeaway is: If the job can be made sufficiently productive, the per-unit labor cost ceases to be relevant which means a business can pay high wages, realize high profits, and deliver low prices simultaneously. The contest is then not between high wages and cheap labor, but between efficiency and inefficiency and, when automation is involved, machine against machine. Readers will be able to put these principles to work very quickly to achieve tangible results. The relatively low Federal minimum wage has meanwhile become a major issue, but inflation skyrocketed in the second quarter of 2022 when higher wages, and higher demand for goods and services, were not matched with higher productivity. The book addresses the relationship between the money supply and the velocity of money to prices, wages, and productivity. A manufacturing resurgence in the United States will not only increase our standard of living enormously but generate taxable economic activity that will help pay down rather than increase the Federal debt. Higher productivity also delivers a greater supply of goods to accompany higher wages, and thus works against inflation. This can prevent looming recessions and disruptions.

Globalization has profoundly shaped the world we live in, yet its rise was neither inevitable nor planned. It is also one of the most contentious issues of our time. While it may have made goods less expensive, it has also sent massive flows of money across borders and shaken the global balance of power. Outside the Box offers a fresh and lively history of globalization, showing how it has evolved over two centuries in response to changes in demographics, technology, and consumer tastes. Marc Levinson, the acclaimed author of The Box, tells the story of globalization through the people who eliminated barriers and pursued new ways of doing business. He shows how the nature of globalization changed dramatically in the 1980s with the creation of long-distance value chains. This new type of economic relationship shifted manufacturing to Asia, destroying millions of jobs and devastating industrial centers in North America, Europe, and Japan. Levinson describes how improvements in transportation, communications, and computing made international value chains possible, but how globalization was taken too far because of large government subsidies and the systematic misjudgment of risk by businesses. As companies began to account properly for the risks of globalization, cross-border investment fell sharply and foreign trade lagged long before Donald Trump became president and the coronavirus disrupted business around the world. In Outside the Box, Levinson explains that globalization is entering a new era in which moving stuff will matter much less than moving services, information, and ideas.

"Marc Levinson offers a brief history of globalization through the stories of the fascinating people and companies that built global supply chains. In Small World he will follow the thread of the balance between people in the private sector pursuing new ways to make goods and do business and governments eliminating barriers. These two spheres-the private sector and government-did not go global in tandem, and many developments in one sphere were far more impactful in the other than imagined at the time. The book will narrate the development of global supply chains in response to trends in both, telling stories ranging from a Prussian-born trader in New Jersey in the 1760s who dreamed of buidling a vertically-integrated metals empire, to new megaships too big to call on most of the world's ports leaving half empty, as globalization entered a new stage in its history around 2006. Bringing the story up to the present, Levinson engagingly illustrates how we're not experiencing the end of globalization, only its transformation. As one type of globalization is declining, a new one is on the rise."

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Coming Together -- 1 Global Dreams -- 2 The First Globalization -- 3 Retreat -- 4 North and South -- Part II. One World -- 5 The Container Revolution -- 6 Hot Money -- 7 Kindling -- 8 "A Giant Sucking Sound" -- Part III. Tales of Excess -- 9 Dentist Ships -- 10 Hand on the Scale -- 11 The China Price -- 12 Capturing Value -- Part IV. Global Fears -- 13 Giants Afloat -- 14 Risks Unmeasured -- 15 The Crisis in Global Finance -- 16 Backlash -- Part V. The Fourth Globalization -- 17 Red Tide -- 18 Food Miles -- 19 Broken Chains -- 20 The Next Wave -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A NOTE ON THE TYPE

"This fully updated and revised sixth edition of the Guide to financial markets provides a clear explanation of the different markets. It goes well beyond stocks and bonds to explain the purposes and uses of equity futures and options, securitised instruments, and innovations such as the credit derivatives that can help manage risk but can also prove toxic when not used carefully"...Cover page 4

ch. 1. Forerunners and foundation builders : origins of a Western critical social theory tradition / Bradley A.U. Levinson. [et al.] -- ch. 2. Education and hegemony : the influence of Antonio Gramsci / Jacob P.K. Gross -- ch. 3. The double-edge of reason : Jurgen Habermas and the Frankfurt School / Christopher Hanks -- ch. 4. Symbolic domination and the reproduction of inequality : Pierre Bourdieu and practice theory / Bradley A.U. Levinson -- ch. 5. Knowledge, power, and care of the self : the many faces of Michel Foucault in education research / Dini Metro-Roland -- ch. 6. Feminisms : embodying the critical / Julia Heimer Dadds -- ch. 7. Critical race theory and education : mapping a legacy of activism and scholarship / Kafi D. Kumasi -- ch. 8. Friendly critiques and fellow travelers : questioning and expanding the critical social theory canon / Bradley A.U. Levinson, Jacob P.K. Gross, and Christopher Hanks.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments to the Second Edition -- Chapter 1 The World the Box Made -- Chapter 2 Gridlock on the Docks -- Chapter 3 The Trucker -- Chapter 4 The System -- Chapter 5 The Battle for New York's Port -- Chapter 6 Union Disunion -- Chapter 7 Setting the Standard -- Chapter 8 Takeoff -- Chapter 9 Vietnam -- Chapter 10 Ports in a Storm -- Chapter 11 Boom and Bust -- Chapter 12 The Bigness Complex -- Chapter 13 The Shippers' Revenge -- Chapter 14 Just in Time -- Chapter 15 Adding Value -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The book focuses on the revival of "nullificationist," or even "secessionist," arguments, both in the United States and abroad, relative to the authority of national institutions, including courts, over dissenting subnational units or groups of individual citizens.