Browsing HLS Scholarly Articles by Title
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Why Measure Inequality
(Springer Verlag, 2005)A large body of literature is devoted to the measurement of income inequality, yet little attention is given to the question, Why measure inequality? However, the reasons for measurement bear importantly on whether and how ... -
Why Not Privacy By Default?
(2013)We live in a Track-Me world, one from which opting out is often not possible. Firms collect reams of data about all of us, quietly tracking our mobile devices, our web surfing, and our email for marketing, pricing, product ... -
Why Power Companies Build Nuclear Reactors on Fault Lines: The Case of Japan
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2012)On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 38-meter tsunami destroyed Tokyo Electric's Fukushima nuclear power complex. The disaster was not a high-damage, low-probability event. It was a high-damage, high-probability ... -
Why R&D Should Be Allocated To Subpart F and GILTI
(Tax Analysts, 2020-06-23)In this article, the authors critically appraise the government’s proposal not to allocate research and development deductions to subpart F inclusions and global intangible low-taxed income for foreign tax credit limitation ... -
Why So Many Lawyers? Are They Good or Bad?
(Fordham Law Review, 1992)In this essay, Dean Clark examines the popular notion that the United States has too many lawyers and that this abundance burdens the nation. While acknowledging the great growth of law and lawyers in recent decades, Dean ... -
Why the Google Books Settlement is Procompetitive
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2010)Although the Google Books Settlement has been criticized as anticompetitive, I conclude that this critique is mistaken. For out-of-copyright books, the settlement procompetitively expands output by clarifying which books ... -
Why the Legal System Is Less Efficient than the Income Tax in Redistributing Income
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Why the Percentage Method?
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Why They Hate Us: The Role of Social Dynamics
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Why Voting
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The Wicked Problem of Rethinking Negotiation Teaching
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Wikileaks and the Protect-IP Act: A New Public-Private Threat to the Internet Commons
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2011)The WikiLeaks affair and proposed copyright bills introduced in the Senate are evidence of a new, extralegal path of attack aimed at preventing access and disrupting the payment systems and advertising of targeted sites. ... -
Will the U.S. get an Internet "kill switch"?
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Willingness to Pay versus Welfare
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2007)Economists often analyze questions of law and policy by reference to the criterion of private willingness to pay (WTP), with the belief that people’s WTP for a good is an accurate proxy for the welfare that they would ... -
Windsor and Brown: Marriage Equality and Racial Equality
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2013)In his second inaugural address in January 2013, President Barack Obama associated the struggle for gay equality with that for racial equality by conjoining, alliteratively, Stonewall with Selma (along with Seneca Falls). ... -
The Work of Re-Membering: After Genocide and Mass Atrocity
(1999)First, this article explores the role of international criminal trails and truth commissions in resisting narratives of collective guilt and producing a different sort of collective memory, helping the society-and the ... -
Working Borders: Linking Debates About Insourcing and Outsourcing of Capital and Labor
(University of Texas School of Law, 2005)On February 10 and 11, 2005, the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice held its inaugural conference, "Working Borders: Linking Debates About Insourcing and Outsourcing of Capital and Labor." The ... -
The World vs. the United States and China? The Complex Climate Change Incentives of the Leading Greenhouse Gas Emitters
(2015-01-21)It is generally agreed that the world would be better off with an international agreement to control greenhouse gas emissions. But it is not entirely clear that the leading emitters—the United States and China—would be ... -
The World vs. the United States and China? The Complex Climate Incentives of the Leading Greenhouse Gas Emitters
(University of California, 2008)It is increasingly clear that the world would be better off with an international agreement to control greenhouse gas emissions. What remains poorly understood is that the likely costs and benefits of emissions controls ...