Wer erhält das Erbe eines Verstorbenen? Wer kann Rechte an einer Erbschaft geltend machen und wer entscheidet über deren Verteilung? Die Antworten darauf fielen in früheren Epochen und je nach Gesellschaft, Milieu und Kultur anders aus. Rechtliche, ökonomische, und soziale Normen und...

"From fragile, corporate-controlled supply chains breaking down, to millions of already hyper-exploited farmworkers risking their lives in the fields without basic personal protective equipment, the COVID-19 pandemic made it painfully obvious that US agriculture does not work. Agrarian Crisis in...

"Financialization is a set of processes which has led to a financially-driven and commodified economy with rising inequality, tax avoidance, the lack of investment in the physical and social infrastructure. Given the influence of money politics, and the secular increase in the burden of debt,...

"This book gathers and builds on research into distinct national and regional traditions in regulating innovation. It is an early attempt at a comprehensive legal history of the uneven trans-Atlantic harmonization of IP law. Authors explore harmonization as a legal mandate and a progressive...

"A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade This is a landmark study given its clear status as easily the best researched and most comprehensive book on the British slave trade to date. -David Eltis, coauthor of Atlas...

As long as insider trading has existed, people have been fixated on it. Newspapers give it front page coverage. Cult movies romanticize it. Politicians make or break careers by pillorying, enforcing, and sometimes engaging in it. But, oddly, no one seems to know what's really wrong with insider...

This paper applies ARDL and Nonlinear ARDL models to long-term inflation targeting policy mechanisms in the United States and China to assess the impact of oil price dynamics and asymmetries on inflation expectations in the two countries, as well as the difference of this impact before and after...