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    Free trade and social dumping: lessons from the regulation of U.S. interstate commerce. by Bruce Elmslie ‚ William Milberg As free-trade agreements spread around the globe‚ and encompass more developing countries‚ the pressure to reduce health‚ safety‚ and environmental as well as wage standards will grow more intense. The authors look to America’s own history of interstate trade to provide a guide that might help us maintain standards around the world. The recent political battles in the

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    larger than the yearly gross domestic products of 36 sovereign nations combined. Contributors to Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism‚ a collection of essays from historians and sociologists‚ hope to show that this five-and-dime Leviathan has plunged us into a new hyper-retail dystopia in which big-box colossi stalk the globe‚ muscling aside anti-sprawl ordinances and fair-labor standards. And indeed‚ evidence suggests that an enterprise of Wal-Mart’s scale does create its own economic

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    affordable paperback editions of classics—the Tao Te Ching‚ The War of the Worlds‚Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea‚ among others‚ all cheaper than most magazines and eminently more deserving of your reading time and attention. I finally landed that leviathan of a novel‚ Moby-Dick‚ and was set back only five bucks (all Dover editions). Actually‚ it was an investment. Voyaging with Ahab and crew is worth your time. I shall sail with them again one day soon. For those who claim little time to read‚ I counter

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    "Terror is nought but prompt‚ severe‚ inflexible justice; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is less a particular principle than a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to the most pressing needs of the fatherland."Maximillien Marie Isidore de Robespierre Address‚ National Convention‚ 1794 Louis XIV "L’état‚ c’est moi" - "I am the state". Demonstrates his ABSOLUTIST POWER and his belief in divine right of kings. Henry IV "Paris is worth a mass". He converted from

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    POSTITIVE LAW: STATUTORY MAN-MADE LAW‚ AS COMPARED TO "NATURAL LAW‚" WHICH IS PURPORTEDLY BASED ON UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED MORAL PRINCIPLES‚ "GOD’S LAW‚" AND/OR DERIVED FROM NATURE AND REASON. THE TERM "POSITIVE LAW" WAS FIRST USED BY THOMAS HOBBES IN LEVIATHAN ARISTOTLES PERSPECTIVE ON LAW IN DETAIL: Aristotle (b. 384 – d. 322 BCE)‚ was a Greek philosopher‚ logician‚ and scientist. Along with his teacher Plato‚ Aristotle is generally regarded as one of the most influential ancient thinkers in a number

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    social contract theory was discussed by Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle. Then in the middle ages‚ St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas debated the theory as well.. In the 18th century‚ the English social philosopher Thomas Hobbes‚ in Leviathan‚ stats this theory on the English society‚" Hereby it is manifests that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe‚ they are in that condition which is called war; and such war‚ as is of every man‚ against every man‚

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    .Annas‚ J. An Introduction To Platos Republic. Oxford : Oxford University Press‚ 1981. 2.Bonodeo‚ A. Corruption‚ Conflict And Power In The Works And Times Of Niccolo‚ Machiavelli. Los Angeles : University of California Press‚ 1973. 3.Hobbes‚ T. Leviathan‚ edited by Richard Tuck. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press‚ 1996. 4.Lock‚ J. Two Treatises of government. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press‚ 1967. 5.Morriss‚ P. Power : A philosophical analysis. Manchester : Manchester University Press

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    like a simple task to distinguish in todays society‚ however philosophy has took a much more intricate account of what morality is. Philosopher Immanuel Kant‚ in his Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals‚ and philosopher Thomas Hobbes‚ in his Leviathan‚ both have very different understandings on the basis of morality and the determination of what is “good”‚ “evil”‚ “right” or “wrong”. Kant believes that purely rational principles alone provide the basis for morality‚ whereas Hobbes establishes

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    References: Tom Sorell‚ ‘Hobbes’s Moral Philosophy’‚ The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes’s Leviathan‚ ed. Patricia Springborg (Cambridge‚ 2007)‚ pp. 133–5. Lapidus‚ A. (2010). The valuation of decision and individual welfare: a Humean approach. European Journal Of The History Of Economic Thought‚ 17(1)‚ 1-28. doi:10.1080/09672560903204502

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    life respecting emotions and feelings of the leaders and state authorities have been dulled and desensitized in Nepal. This can be imagined of only in the pre-state Hobbesian era when nobody respected anybody and no authority existed‚ according to Leviathan‚ to enforce order and respect to life. Moreover‚ it is also a sad reflection of deterioration in and ineffectiveness and debilitation of governance in the country. An important factor contributing to increased incidences of vehicular accidents is

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