Fossil fuels propelled industries and nations into the modern age and continue to powerfully influence economies and politics today. As Energy Capitals demonstrates, the discovery and exploitation of fossil fuels has proven to be a mixed blessing in many of the cities and regions where it has...

For most of America's history, the death penalty has been rooted in a materialistic conception of the world—human beings are engaged in a physical survival of the fittest and must be restrained. This base worldview, however, has often conflicted with counter considerations, like justice and...

The principle of “Creating Shared Value” (CSV) introduced in a January 2011 Harvard Business Review article by Professor Michael Porter and Mark Kramer asserts that by addressing actual social needs a company can achieve superior profits and do unequivocal social good. Porter and Kramer...

Scholars have long sought to understand both the occurrence and law of torts by reducing these subjects to their working parts. This reductionism has led to a confusing array of tort rules and exceptions as well as conflicting theoretical assertions. The tort system, moreover, has been an...

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Fossil fuels propelled industries and nations into the modern age and continue to powerfully influence economies and politics today. As Energy Capitals demonstrates, the discovery and exploitation of fossil fuels has proven to be a mixed blessing in many of the cities and regions where it has...