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Comments on Parfit
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1982-11)
The Pitfalls of International Integration: A Comment on the Bush Proposal and its Aftermath
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-01)
In January 2003, the Bush Administration proposed a new system for taxing corporate dividends, under which domestic shareholders in U.S. corporations would not be taxed on dividends they received, provided the corporation ...
Readers' Copyright
(2011-06)
This essay is part of a project intended to help reclaim copyright for readers, listeners, and viewers. A system of copyright protection makes little sense unless it is designed to encourage the use and enjoyment of the ...
Fetishizing Copies
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-03)
Our copyright laws encourage authors to create new works and communicate them to the public, because we hope that people will read the books, listen to the music, see the art, watch the films, run the software, and build ...
Social science in court
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1986-06)
This article discusses the role of social science in legal proceedings with special attention to the ethical situation of the expert psychologist asked to testify about the reliability of an eyewitness identification. It ...
From appraisal to emotion: Differences among unpleasant feelings
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1988-09)
Recent research has indicated strong relations between people's appraisals of their circumstances and their emotional states. The present study examined these relations across a range of unpleasant situations in which ...
COVID-19 and Us Tax Policy: What Needs to Change?
(2020-04)
The COVID-19 Pandemic already feels like a historical turning point akin to Word Wars I and II and the Great Depression. It may signal the end of the second period of globalization (1980-2020) and a change in the relative ...
What We Don't See When We See Copyright as Property
(2018-11-01)
For all of the rhetoric about the central place of authors in the copyright scheme, our copyright laws in fact give them little power and less money. Intermediaries own the copyrights, and are able to structure licenses ...
Who Gets the Ventilator? Disability Discrimination in COVID-19 Medical-Rationing Protocols
(2020-05-27)
The coronavirus pandemic has forced us to reckon with the possibility of having to ration life-saving medical treatments. In response, many health systems have employed protocols that explicitly de-prioritize people for ...