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Market or State: The Regulation and Practice of Bankers' Remuneration in the UK and China
by Longjie LuThis book investigates the pre-crisis practice of bankers' remuneration in the UK to provide evidence of the problems in practice. It critically analyses the regulatory initiatives implemented after the crisis and investigates the post-crisis practice to reflect the effects and problems of the regulation. The book also discusses the traditional administration of remuneration and political incentives in Chinese banks and the regulatory initiatives for reforming bankers' remuneration. It investigates the recent practices in major Chinese banks to reveal the problems of the regulatory initiatives and the impact of political incentives. It will help academics, researchers, students and practitioners develop a comprehensive understanding of the ongoing reform of bankers' remuneration in the UK and the uniqueness of banks' remuneration systems and incentive mechanisms in China. Furthermore, it provides theoretical insights into the differences between the two jurisdictions in their regulations and practices and the deep-seated reasons for the differences.
Market, Ethics and Religion: The Market and its Limitations (Ethical Economy #62)
by Niels KærgårdThis book deals with the basic question of what money can and cannot buy and offers an analysis of the limitations of the market mechanism. Few concepts are as controversial as religion and the market mechanism. Some consider religion to be in conflict with a modern rational scientific view of life, and thus as a contributory cause of harsh conflicts and a barrier to human happiness. Others consider religious beliefs as the foundation for ethics and decent behaviour. Similar, a number of neoliberal writers acclaimed the market mechanism as one of the greatest triumphs of the human mind, and saw it as the main reason why rich countries became rich. Others are extremely skeptical and stress how this mechanism has result in big multinational firms with powerfully rich owners and masses of poor low-paid workers. Researchers from various fields - economists, social scientists, theologians and philosophers - handle these questions very differently, applying different methods and different ideals. This book offers a synthesis of the different viewpoints. It deals with economists’, theologians’ and philosophers’ differing thoughts about the market and its limitations.
Market-Oriented Disinformation Research: Digital Advertising, Disinformation and Fake News on Social Media (Routledge Studies in Marketing)
by Carlos Diaz RuizMarket-Oriented Disinformation Research explores the spread of false or misleading information online through the lens of marketing theory and consumer research. It examines how the business models of digital platforms and advertising technology firms (AdTech) generate digital markets that incentivize the circulation of harmful content for profit. Rather than viewing disinformation and misinformation as accidental byproducts, the book proposes that they thrive in the current markets designed for digital advertising and influencer marketing.Readers will learn how the amplification of disinformation can be linked to social media’s business model. Examples include how social media algorithms promote addictive content, how fake news sites use ad fraud to lure in advertising revenue, and how some content creators rely on clickbait, ragebait, bots, and conspiracy theories to boost their engagement metrics.The book is a must-read for scholars in journalism, media studies, and political communication, as well as policymakers interested in the democratic governance of social media platforms. In addition, it calls for digital marketing, advertising, and brand management professionals to take responsibility for their ad spending by advocating for greater oversight over AdTech intermediaries to prevent unethical actors from monetizing the harmful content that polarizes society and undermines democratic institutions.
Marketing Ethics and Consumer Society: Practising Inclusive, Responsible and Sustainable Marketing
by Athanasia Daskalopoulou Natalia YannopoulouThis unique new text explores marketing ethics, the impact of marketing on consumers’ lives, and the wider social, cultural, and political context of marketing activities.Taking a critical approach to marketing practice, the book discusses the growing sense of responsibility within the marketing discipline and addresses issues at the interface between marketing and society. Importantly for Marketing students, it works to develop an understanding of the impacts that marketing can have on consumers’ lives and the potential that future marketers have to shape contemporary society. Chapters cover marketing and advertising ethics, critical consumption, gender and race, brand activism, sustainability and corporate social responsibility, and understanding and protecting the consumer. Case studies drawn from international contexts featuring real-life and recognisable organisations are included in every chapter to bring the theory to life, enabling students to explore the ethical dilemmas and criticisms faced by organisations and consumers in contemporary society. Chapter outlines, learning outcomes, summaries, and self-assessment questions cement learning, whilst discussion questions aim to provoke interesting conversation.A much-needed and relevant textbook that brings together all the key contemporary topics in marketing ethics, this should be core reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying modules on marketing ethics, ethical marketing and sustainability, and marketing and society.Online support materials include lecture slides and a test bank.
Marketing Global Justice: The Political Economy of International Criminal Law (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law #151)
by Christine Schwöbel-PatelMarketing Global Justice is a critical study of efforts to 'sell' global justice. The book offers a new reading of the rise of international criminal law as the dominant institutional expression of global justice, linking it to the rise of branding. The political economy analysis employed highlights that a global elite benefit from marketised global justice whilst those who tend to be the 'faces' of global injustice - particularly victims of conflict - are instrumentalised and ultimately commodified. The book is an invitation to critically consider the predominance of market values in global justice, suggesting an 'occupying' of global justice as an avenue for drawing out social values.
Marketing That Matters: 10 Practices to Profit Your Business and Change the World
by Chip Conley Eric Friedenwald-FishmanAward-winning marketers Chip Conley and Eric Friedenwald-Fishman prove that "marketing" is not a dirty word - it is key to advancing both the value and values of any business.
Marketing and the Common Good: Essays from Notre Dame on Societal Impact
by Jr. Patrick E. Murphy John F. SherryMarketing is among the most powerful cultural forces at work in the contemporary world, affecting not merely consumer behaviour, but almost every aspect of human behaviour. While the potential for marketing both to promote and threaten societal well-being has been a perennial focus of inquiry, the current global intellectual and political climate has lent this topic extra gravitas. Through original research and scholarship from the influential Mendoza School of Business, this book looks at marketing’s ramifications far beyond simple economic exchange. It addresses four major topic areas: societal aspects of marketing and consumption; the social and ethical thought; sustainability; and public policy issues, in order to explore the wider relationship of marketing within the ethical and moral economy and its implications for the common good. By bringing together the wide-ranging and interdisciplinary contributions, it provides a uniquely comprehensive and challenging exploration of some of the most pressing themes for business and society today.
Marketing for Attorneys and Law Firms
by William WinstonMarketing for Attorneys and Law Firms presents timely topics which are well-researched and written by a fine array of authors from around the country. As attorneys are becoming more interested in marketing and how it can benefit their practices, this book is an important tool. It aids attorneys as they evaluate and improve old marketing strategies and create new marketing strategies where such advertising was neglected. It is an ideal readings text for today’s attorney and legal consultants who wish to obtain a better insight into select aspects of marketing the law firm.This is the only readings book that focuses on these areas: applications of marketing planning, attorney selection by consumers, and client and provider attitudes toward legal services. Part Two thoroughly examines various aspects of how clients select and evaluate the performance of legal services. Today’s attorneys must first fully understand what their clients perceive about their services before jumping into marketing their services. This section provides insight that most attorneys would normally not investigate and lays the groundwork for the development of marketing programs. Part Three addresses the wide use of legal advertising, and again provides insight into what clients and attorneys think and perceive about various forms of advertising the law firm. This provides a base from which attorneys who are planning to advertise may be able to prevent failure and promote a greater level of success for the advertising program.Applied mainly to private legal practices and clinics, some of the specific topics covered in the three sections include consumers’perceptions of attorneys and legal advertising; attorneys’perceptions of marketing and advertising; perceived risk in selecting an attorney and how consumers actually select attorneys; customer/client service attributes for attorneys; measuring the effectiveness of legal advertising; market planning and strategies for today’s legal practice; promoting the legal practice; and developing referral and networking systems in legal practice.For attorneys in private practice, law firm libraries and administrators, law professors who specialize in practice development, consultants who concentrate in legal practice marketing, law school libraries, and marketing professors and consultants who teach or consult in the professional service sectors should read this invaluable reference book.
Marketing for Social Change: How to Turn Purpose into Business and Social Impact
by Kian BakhtiariBusiness as usual is not an option anymore. We need a new way of doing things and brands can no longer afford to stay silent on important social and environmental issues.With more consumer and legal scrutiny than ever before, brands need to work hard to ensure they embrace purpose in a long-term, sustainable and authentic way in order to actually create the social change they say they support. This is where Marketing for Social Change comes in. A deeply practical guide on how brands can take meaningful action whilst avoiding backlash, it outlines clear steps to building authentic purpose into the heart of business strategy. This book explores not only how you can find and define your brand's purpose but how you ensure that your purpose becomes an embedded part of your business rather than a mere PR stunt.By using real-world examples across a spectrum of issues such as The Body Shop's stance on animal testing to Nike's work with Colin Kaepernick, this book offers a guide of how marketers can create positive social change through creativity and action, regardless of the sort of company they work for, and how creating this positive change is beneficial for both society and business.
Marketing für Kanzleien und Wirtschaftsprüfer: Ein Praxishandbuch für Anwalts-, Steuerkanzleien und Wirtschaftsprüfungsunternehmen
by Claudia SchieblonMarketing, Business Development und Public Relations sind unerlässlicher Bestandteil der Unternehmensführung in Kanzleien und WP-Gesellschaften. Neben traditionellen Marketinginstrumenten beschreiten Kanzleien heute viele neue Wege, um im Wettbewerb um Marktposition, Mandanten und Personal bestehen zu können. Dieses Handbuch greift die für Wirtschaftskanzleien wichtigsten Marketing- und Geschäftsentwicklungsthemen auf und bietet Fachwissen wie auch Benchmark für die Protagonisten dieser Branchen. Die Autoren sind durchweg erfahrene Praktiker des Kanzleimarketings und Kenner der Branche.Für die 4. Auflage wurde das Buch vollständig überarbeitet und mit aktuellen Themen ergänzt.
Marketing für Kommunalverwaltung und Kommunalpolitik
by Thomas Breyer-MayländerThomas Breyer-Mayländer zeigt in diesem essential, wie Probleme sowohl bei der Rekrutierung von Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten für unterschiedliche Ämter als auch bei der Akquisition von Nachwuchskräften in Kommunalverwaltungen mithilfe einer klaren inhaltlichen Botschaft in Verbindung mit gezielten Kommunikations- und Partizipationsmaßnahmen reduziert werden können. Dabei kommt es neben einer gezielten Planung von PR- und Werbemaßnahmen auch auf die kreative Erschließung und Nutzung eigener, kommunaler Kommunikationskanäle an. Der Autor verdeutlicht, dass neben den Kommunikationsmaßnahmen auch aktivierende Formate der Beteiligung die gegenseitige Wahrnehmung von Bürgerinnen und Bürgern sowie Kommune/Kommunalpolitik verändern. Neben Partizipation geht es um Involvement, Identifikation und Commitment im Sinne einer selbstlosen Aktivität für das kommunale Gemeinwohl.
Marketing to the Poor: Creating Value
by Ramendra Singh and Tahir A. WaniThis book looks at markets in low-income economies and how they require fundamentally different marketing systems and strategies. Analyzing the sociocultural characteristics of these markets, it offers solutions for businesses to overcome spatial, institutional, and financial challenges while working in these contexts. Markets for the poor are characterized by resource scarcity, weak institutions, and low literary rates, as well as a strong presence of cultural and community ties. This book provides an understanding of these marketplaces, including the consumer’s wants and aspirations, the relationship of the individual within the social milieu, and their unique cultural contexts. It provides strategies for businesses to develop a bottom-up knowledge of global markets and incorporates practices which are inclusive and sustainable. It also explores the links between human development, entrepreneurship, and marketing which are especially relevant in the pandemic-hit global economy. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of marketing, business studies, business administration, rural management, marketing management, economics, and development studies.
Marketing und Business Development in Kanzleien
by Claudia SchieblonMarketing, Business Development und Public Relations sind unerlässlicher Bestandteil der Unternehmensführung in Wirtschaftskanzleien. Neben traditionellen Marketinginstrumenten beschreiten Kanzleien viele innovative Wege um im Wettbewerb um Marktposition, Mandanten und Personal zu bestehen. Dieses Handbuch greift die für Wirtschaftskanzleien aktuell wichtigsten Marketing- und Geschäftsentwicklungsthemen auf und bietet sehr praxisnahes Fachwissen für die Branchen. Die Autoren sind erfahrene Experten des Kanzleimarketings und Kenner der Branche. Für die 5. Auflage wurde das Buch vollständig aktualisiert und mit aktuellen Themen ergänzt.
Marketingrecht: Rechtsrahmen Eines Marketingmanagements
by Thomas Zerres Christopher ZerresDieses Buch legt eine umfassende Gesamtdarstellung des Marketingrechts vor und sensibilisiert für mögliche Rechtsprobleme im Marketing. Verantwortliche im Marketingmanagement, die Entscheidungen oft auch schnell treffen müssen, werden hier mit den Grundlagen rechtlicher Rahmenbedingungen vertraut gemacht. Der marketingspezifische Aufbau und die Entscheidungsorientierung gewährleisten dem Marketingmanagement als Hauptzielgruppe einen hohen Praxisnutzen. Der Leser erhält wertvolle Hinweise, wie er im Marketing effektiver und zielgerichteter mit der Rechtsabteilung oder externen Rechtsberatern kommunizieren kann.Der Inhalt• Rechtsrelevante Marketingentscheidungstatbestände• Rechtsrahmen der Marktforschung• Rechtsrahmen der Leistungspolitik• Rechtsrahmen der Preis- und Konditionenpolitik• Rechtsrahmen der Distributionspolitik• Rechtsrahmen der Kommunikationspolitik• Rechtsrahmen der PersonalpolitikDie AutorenProf. Dr. Thomas Zerres ist Professor für Zivil- und Wirtschaftsrecht an der Hochschule Konstanz für Wirtschaft Technik und Gestaltung (HTWG).Prof. Dr. Christopher Zerres ist Professor für Marketing an der Hochschule Offenburg.
Marketisation, Ethics and Healthcare: Policy, Practice and Moral Formation (Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society)
by Andrew Papanikitas Therese Feiler Joshua HordernHow does the market affect and redefine healthcare? The marketisation of Western healthcare systems has now proceeded well into its fourth decade. But the nature and meaning of the phenomenon has become increasingly opaque amidst changing discourses, policies and institutional structures. Moreover, ethics has become focussed on dealing with individual, clinical decisions and neglectful of the political economy which shapes healthcare. This interdisciplinary volume approaches marketisation by exploring the debates underlying the contemporary situation and by introducing reconstructive and reparative discourses. The first part explores contrary interpretations of ‘marketisation’ on a systemic level, with a view to organisational-ethical formation and the role of healthcare ethics. The second part presents the marketisation of healthcare at the level of policy-making, discusses the ethical ramifications of specific marketisation measures and considers the possibility of reconciling market forces with a covenantal understanding of healthcare. The final part examines healthcare workers’ and ethicists’ personal moral standing in a marketised healthcare system, with a view to preserving and enriching virtue, empathy and compassion. Chapters 4 and 7 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina
by Vincanne AdamsMarkets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration of the privatization of vital social services under market-driven governance. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, public agencies subcontracted disaster relief to private companies that turned the humanitarian work of recovery into lucrative business. These enterprises profited from the very suffering that they failed to ameliorate, producing a second-order disaster that exacerbated inequalities based on race and class and leaving residents to rebuild almost entirely on their own. Filled with the often desperate voices of residents who returned to New Orleans, Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith describes the human toll of disaster capitalism and the affect economy it has produced. While for-profit companies delayed delivery of federal resources to returning residents, faith-based and nonprofit groups stepped in to rebuild, compelled by the moral pull of charity and the emotional rewards of volunteer labor. Adams traces the success of charity efforts, even while noting an irony of neoliberalism, which encourages the very same for-profit companies to exploit these charities as another market opportunity. In so doing, the companies profit not once but twice on disaster.
Markets without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests
by Jason F. Brennan Peter JaworskiMay you sell your vote? May you sell your kidney? May gay men pay surrogates to bear them children? May spouses pay each other to watch the kids, do the dishes, or have sex? Should we allow the rich to genetically engineer gifted, beautiful children? Should we allow betting markets on terrorist attacks and natural disasters? Most people shudder at the thought. To put some goods and services for sale offends human dignity. If everything is commodified, then nothing is sacred. The market corrodes our character. Or so most people say. In Markets without Limits, Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski give markets a fair hearing. The market does not introduce wrongness where there was not any previously. Thus, the authors claim, the question of what rightfully may be bought and sold has a simple answer: if you may do it for free, you may do it for money. Contrary to the conservative consensus, they claim there are no inherent limits to what can be bought and sold, but only restrictions on how we buy and sell.
Markets without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests
by Jason F. Brennan Peter JaworskiMay you sell your spare kidney? May gay men pay surrogates to bear them children? Should we allow betting markets on terrorist attacks and natural disasters? May spouses pay each other to do the dishes, watch the kids, or have sex? Should we allow the rich to genetically engineer gifted, beautiful children? May you ever sell your vote? Most people—and many philosophers—shudder at these questions. To put some goods and services for sale offends human dignity. If everything is commodified, then nothing is sacred. The market corrodes our character. In this expanded second edition of Markets without Limits, Jason Brennan and Peter M. Jaworski say it is now past time to give markets a fair hearing. The market does not, the authors claim, introduce wrongness where there was not any previously. Thus, the question of what rightfully may be bought and sold has a simple answer: if you may do it for free, you may do it for money. Contrary to the conservative consensus, Brennan and Jaworski claim there are no inherent limits to what can be bought and sold, but only restrictions on how we buy and sell. Key Updates and Revisions to the Second Edition: Includes revised introductory chapters to further clarify what’s at stake in the commodification debate. Provides easier-to-follow chapters on semiotic objections, stronger analyses of these objections, and more evidence of these objections’ widespread pervasiveness. Offers cogent responses to several recent papers that have raised counterexamples to the authors’ thesis. Includes new empirical evidence on the ways markets sometimes crowd in virtue and altruism. Analyzes the topics of blackmail and "associative" objections to markets. Includes new material on issues surrounding exploitation and coercion, selling citizenship, residency rights, and arguments about "dignity" as objections to markets.
Markets, Constitutions, and Inequality (Critical Studies in Jurisprudence)
by Anna Chadwick, Eleonora Lozano-Rodríguez, Andrés Palacios-Lleras, and Javier SolanaThis interdisciplinary collection examines the significance of constitutions in setting the terms and conditions upon which market economies operate. With some important exceptions, most notably from the tradition of Latin American constitutionalism, scholarship on constitutional law has paid negligible attention to questions of how constitutions relate to economic phenomena. A considerable body of literature has debated the due limits of the exercise of executive and legislative power, and discussions about legitimacy, democracy, and the adjudication of rights (civil and political, and socioeconomic) abound, yet scant attention has been paid by constitutional lawyers to the ways in which constitutions may protect and empower economic actors, and to how constitutions might influence the regulation and governance of specific markets. The contributors to this collection mobilize insights from other disciplines – including economic theory, history, and sociology – and consider the relationship between constitutional frameworks and bodies of law – including property law, criminal law, tax law, financial regulation, and human rights law – to advance understanding of how constitutions relate to markets and to the political economy. This book’s analysis of the role constitutions play in shaping markets will appeal to scholars and students in law, economics, history, politics, and sociology.
Markets, Ethics, and Business Ethics
by Steve ScaletMarkets, Ethics, and Business Ethics provides an introductory discussion on basic, challenging concepts of business ethics: markets, property rights, law, and corporations.This title presents a balance of institutional perspectives and the concrete decisions people make within those institutions. The text studies the rules and incentives of a business system as well as the ethical decisions that people confront within their roles as consumers, investors, managers, owners, employees, and citizens.
Markets, Ethics, and Business Ethics (2nd Edition)
by Steven Scalet<p>This book introduces a study of ethics and values to develop a deeper understanding of markets, business, and economic life. Its distinctive feature is its thorough integration across personal and institutional perspectives; across applied ethics and political philosophy; and across philosophy, business, and economics. <p>Part 1 studies markets, property rights, and law, and introduces normative theories with many applications. Part 2 examines the purpose of corporations and their responsibilities. Parts 3 and 4 analyze business and economic life through the ethics and values of welfare and efficiency, liberty, rights, equality, desert, personal character, community, and the common good. <p>This second edition maintains the strengths of the first edition—short, digestible chapters and engaging writing that explains challenging ideas clearly. The material is user-friendly, with an emphasis on a strong theoretical core. Easily adaptable to the instructor’s teaching, the chapters are separable and can be shaped to the interests of the instructor with suggested course outlines and flexible application to case studies. This text is designed both for coursework in business ethics, as well as interdisciplinary programs in philosophy, politics, economics, and law. This second edition: <p> <li>revises presentation of eight normative theories, with increased emphasis on linksto business and economic life <li>incorporates recent scholarship on shareholder/stakeholder debates about the purpose of corporations, bringing this important topic up to date <li>includes a new, streamlined preface that provides a quick overview of the book before smoothly guiding the reader to the first chapter <li>uses updated examples and applications <li>revamps a useful appendix, including enhancing the popular primer on ethics <li>includes Key Terms, Discussion Questions, Biographies, and Lists of Further Readings at the end of each chapter <li>includes a new ending chapter on the value of an ethical life
Markets, Morals, and Religion
by Peter L. Berger Jonathan B. ImberThe examination of the relationship of economic activity to other important aspects of human life and social behavior has inspired some of the most interesting and provocative social-scientific research in the past one hundred years. This book of original essays by leading thinkers across many disciplines offers new insights into enduring questions about how modern and modernizing market economies are both shaped by and shapers of morality, values, and religion.Part 1, "Markets and Morals," offers eight contributors who provide analyses of the various ways in which the market operates in relation to morality. An empirical presentation of moral values and market attitudes is given. Other essays take aim at how markets serve and disserve moral interests: Economic growth has moral consequences; the manipulation of markets exposes a moral underside; the nature of market failure has implications for understanding moral vulnerability; preference change has moral implications. In other chapters, a broad consideration of the positive moral effects of market economies is offered along with historical essays on the role that intellectuals have played in debates about the positive and negative effects of commercial life and on the ways in which the American idea of the pursuit of happiness reveals much about the morality of economic life.In Part 2, "Markets and Religion," nine contributors address both the historical and contemporary emergence of religious factors in the growth and transformation of global capitalism. Major religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are examined for their contributions to answering questions about the nature and function of economic life in light of religious ideas and ideals. Several essays present original approaches to the importance of religious values to modern forms of consumption and to the political economy of reconciliation and forgiveness in nations coming to terms with past conflict. Finally, t
Marktgerechte Erbbaurechte: Wie Kommunen über Erbbaurechte bezahlbares Wohnen ermöglichen können
by Dirk LöhrIn den letzten Jahren entwickelte sich das Wohnen in den Ballungsräumen immer mehr von einer Grundvoraussetzung menschlicher Existenz zu einem Luxusgut. Vor 100 Jahren wurde in Deutschland das Erbbaurecht auch deswegen aus der Taufe gehoben, um bezahlbares Wohnen und Eigentumsbildung zu ermöglichen sowie der Spekulation auf dem Bodenmarkt entgegenzutreten. Zwar besinnen sich heute immer mehr Kommunen auf das Erbbaurecht, durchsetzen konnte sich dieses bislang jedoch nicht. Dirk Löhr geht in diesem Buch aus ökonomischer Sicht der Frage nach, warum dem so ist. Das Buch beschreibt, wie durch die Aufteilung einer Immobilie in die beiden Assetklassen „Grund und Boden“ sowie „Gebäude“ ein wirtschaftlicher Mehrwert gegenüber Volleigentum entstehen kann. Dieser Mehrwert könnte von Kommunen für die Bezuschussung bezahlbaren Wohnens verwendet werden. Die heutzutage gängigen Erbbaurechtsmodelle sind jedoch vollkommen ungeeignet, um dieses Potenzial zu heben. Eine andere, marktgerechte Anwendung ist daher nötig, um das Erbbaurecht zur "smarten Alternative" zu Volleigentum zu machen.Mit einem Geleitwort von Micheal Fabricius.
Maroon Claims to Sovereignty in Jamaican Territory
by Stephen VasciannieThis book is concerned with the Maroons of Accompong Town in Jamaica. Especially within the last five years, these Maroons, who constitute in some measure a distinct cultural group living in the defined area of Accompong Town, have presented reinvigorated claims that they comprise, in law and in fact, an independent state within Jamaica. Under the guidance of their energetic leader, Chief Richard Currie, they have claimed all the rights and duties of a sovereign state, maintaining that they are fully entitled to enjoy these rights under the name “The Sovereign State of Accompong.” Against this background, there is scope for a review of the bases, in national and international law, of the core Maroon claim to statehood, and for the responses that may validly be offered to that claim. This publication addresses the relevant arguments, reviews the historical position of Maroons in Jamaican society and offers conclusions about the status of the Maroon claim. Most existing literature on the Maroons concentrates on Maroon status in history. This book adds to the literature by exploring the legal arguments about Maroon sovereignty in Accompong in national and international law, a topic that is yet to be fully canvassed.
Marriage Equality: From Outlaws to In-Laws (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference)
by William N. Eskridge Jr. Christopher R. RianoThe definitive history of the marriage equality debate in the United States, praised by Library Journal as "beautifully and accessibly written. . . . An essential work.&” As a legal scholar who first argued in the early 1990s for a right to gay marriage, William N. Eskridge Jr. has been on the front lines of the debate over same‑sex marriage for decades. In this book, Eskridge and his coauthor, Christopher R. Riano, offer a panoramic and definitive history of America&’s marriage equality debate. The authors explore the deeply religious, rabidly political, frequently administrative, and pervasively constitutional features of the debate and consider all angles of its dramatic history. While giving a full account of the legal and political issues, the authors never lose sight of the personal stories of the people involved, or of the central place the right to marry holds in a person&’s ability to enjoy the dignity of full citizenship. This is not a triumphalist or one‑sided book but a thoughtful history of how the nation wrestled with an important question of moral and legal equality.