Author: Gavin John AdamsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781934619087
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Letters to John Law
Author: Gavin John AdamsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781934619087
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
John Law Blythe Letters
Author: John Law BlythePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hopi Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Letters to Brigham Young from John L. Blythe.
John Law
Author: Antoin E. MurphyPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191521531
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
John Law (1671-1729) left a remarkable legacy of economic concepts from a time when economic conceptualization was very much at an embryonic stage. Yet he is best known—and generally dismissed—today as a rake, duellist, and gambler. This intellectual biography offers a new approach to Law, one that shows him to have been a significant economic theorist with a vision that he attempted to implement as policy in early-eighteenth-century Europe. Law's style, marked by a clarity and use of modern terminology, stands out starkly against the turgid prose of many of his contemporaries. His vision of a monetary and financial system was certainly one of a later age, for Law believed in an economy of banknotes and credit where specie had no role to play. Ultimately Law failed as a policy-maker, in part because of the entrenchment of the financiers and their aristocratic backers and in part because of theoretical flaws in his vision. His struggle for power took place against the background of Europe's first major stock boom and collapse. The collapse of the Mississippi System, which he had conceived, and the South Sea Bubble led to a lasting impression of Law as a failure. It is this impression that Antoin Murphy seeks to dispel.
Letters of the Law
Author: Sora Y. HanPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804795010
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
One of the hallmark features of the post–civil rights United States is the reign of colorblindness over national conversations about race and law. But how, precisely, should we understand this notion of colorblindness in the face of enduring racial hierarchy in American society? In Letters of the Law, Sora Y. Han argues that colorblindness is a foundational fantasy of law that not only informs individual and collective ideas of race, but also structures the imaginative capacities of American legal interpretation. Han develops a critique of colorblindness by deconstructing the law's central doctrines on due process, citizenship, equality, punishment and individual liberty, in order to expose how racial slavery and the ongoing struggle for abolition continue to haunt the law's reliance on the fantasy of colorblindness. Letters of the Law provides highly original readings of iconic Supreme Court cases on racial inequality—spanning Japanese internment to affirmative action, policing to prisoner rights, Jim Crow segregation to sexual freedom. Han's analysis provides readers with new perspectives on many urgent social issues of our time, including mass incarceration, educational segregation, state intrusions on privacy, and neoliberal investments in citizenship. But more importantly, Han compels readers to reconsider how the diverse legacies of civil rights reform archived in American law might be rewritten as a heterogeneous practice of black freedom struggle.
Letters to John Bull, Esq., on Lawyers and Law Reform
Author: Joshua WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reform
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Some Eighteenth Century Letters. [With References to John Law and the Mississippi Bubble. Contained in The Cornhill Magazine, No. 335, New Series, May 1924.].
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Author: Hugh Burdett Money-Coutts Baron LatymerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
John Law
Author: James BuchanPublisher: Quercus Publishing
ISBN: 9781848666085
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in 1671, he was convicted of murder in London and, after his escape from prison, fled Scotland for the mainland when Union with England brought with it a warrant for his arrest. On the continent he lurched from one money-making scheme to the next - selling insurance against losing lottery tickets in Holland, advising the Duke of Savoy - amassing a fortune of some £80,000. But for his next trick he had grander ambitions. When Louis XIV died, leaving a thoroughly bankrupt France to his five-year-old heir, Law gained the ear of the Regent, Philippe D'Orleans. In the years that followed, Law's financial wizardry transformed the fortunes of France, enriching speculators and investors across the continent, and he was made Controller-General of Finances, effectively becoming the French Prime Minister. But the fall from grace that was to follow was every bit as spectacular as his meteoric rise. John Law, by a biographer of Adam Smith and the author of Frozen Desire and Capital of the Mind, dramatises the life of one of the most inventive financiers in history, a man who was born before his time and in whose day the word millionaire came to be coined.
Letters to Severall Persons of Honour
Author: John DonnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Redneck Country...Black Letter Law
Author: John Russell SmithPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 145350852X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Criminal defense attorney J.R. Cuttler begins his Sunday with thoughts of flying his airplane around the East Texas area and later watching his Dallas Cowboys play the hated Washington Redskins. That thought is shattered in an instant when the local radio station reports the abduction and rapes of a twenty-nine-year-old woman and her twelve-year-old cousin from the local Walmart parking lot. The identity of the victims and the initial allegations as to their assailant would draw Cuttler into a capital murder case that would forever change his life and his practice of law. This small, deep East Texas town located on the Texas-Louisiana border still lives in times we would all like to forget...times most of us have fought to forget. Therefore, when two White women are allegedly abducted, beaten, raped and sodomized by an uppity young Black man, the county digresses into the mindset of Coloreds use back door. After his arrest in another jurisdiction, Lincoln Johnson is beaten beyond recognition by two deputies returning him to the local jail. It is this senseless barbarity that raises Cuttler's ire to the degree that he agrees to represent the accused. The development of pre-trial tactics, the trial, and hypnotic conclusion pits modern scientific methodology and old time trial theatrics.
Author: Alexander Hamilton