Third Wave Capitalism: How Money, Power, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest Have Imperiled the American Dream / Unprecedented: Can Civilization Survive the CO2 Crisis? / The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community / People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy / A Harvey Cox Reader / The Full Serverity of Compassion: The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai / Suddenly, the Sight of War: Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940sThird Wave Capitalism: How Money, Power, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest Have Imperiled the American Dream / Unprecedented: Can Civilization Survive the CO2 Crisis? / The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community / People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy / A Harvey Cox Reader / The Full Serverity of Compassion: The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai / Suddenly, the Sight of War: Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940sThird Wave Capitalism: How Money, Power, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest Have Imperiled the American Dream / Unprecedented: Can Civilization Survive the CO2 Crisis? / The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community / People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy / A Harvey Cox Reader / The Full Serverity of Compassion: The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai / Suddenly, the Sight of War: Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s

Tikkun ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 73-73
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Hebrew Poetry ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Community People

Breakthrough: Wendy and Lucy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Dawn Hall
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Independent Film ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Disaster Victims ◽  
Women’S Representation ◽  
Political Statement

This chapter is a close reading of Wendy and Lucy, a film loosely based on the depictions of disaster victims and the perceived governmental failing to provide and protect those affected by Hurricane Katrina. It is Reichardt’s political statement about being homeless and female in America. Highlighting distribution details, the chapter explores the necessity of a micro-budget that dictate and contribute to many independent filmmakers’ aesthetics. The chapter discusses her use of “slow cinema,” ecofeminism, and the rejection of a capitalistic and patriarchal “American Dream.” Reichardt highlights the overlooked or marginalized in America: women, the working classes, and the poverty stricken. Influenced by the Italian Neorealists of the 1940s, the film addresses current issues of poverty juxtaposed with consumerism in America. Finally building on work of Anita Harris and Sherry Ortner’s analysis of lower class women’s representation in independent film, the chapter situates Wendy and Lucy in relation to post-feminist and third wave feminist concerns.

scholarly journals Why Judges Support Civil Legal Aid

Daedalus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 148 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-176
Author(s):  
Fern A. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Court System ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Work Lives ◽  
The People ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Effective Administration

To fulfill their role as neutral deciders in an adversarial legal system, judges need lawyers. Unrepresented litigants tax the court system and burden the people who work in it. Judges around the country, of all political stripes, are resolute in their support of civil legal aid. Judges support civil legal aid because they value equal justice and the protection of the disadvantaged. They support legal aid because it assists in the efficient and effective administration of the courts they run. They also support legal aid out of self-interest, because it makes their work lives less threatened and more effective.

scholarly journals Why Big Business Should Support Legal Aid

Daedalus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 148 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-159
Author(s):  
Kenneth C. Frazier
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
First Line ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
American Society

Corporations are part of the fabric of society. As members of American society-often, very powerful and influential ones-corporations have a deep interest in the health of the nation's democracy, a mainstay of which is the system of justice writ large. The concept of justice for all is so important to this democracy that the founders placed it in the Constitution's first line. But the system is not perfect. Attaining equal justice for all citizens and governing by the rule of law too often are merely aspirations. Corporations have a stake in ensuring that their disputes with others are resolved fairly, in a legal system that is viewed as treating all litigants equally under the law, regardless of size, wealth, or power. Corporate engagement in strengthening legal services in the United States is, in this way, an expression of corporate self-interest.

Responsible gambling:The need for collaborative government, industry, community and consumer involvement

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 307-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Blaszczynski
Keyword(s):  
Responsible Gambling ◽  
Consumer Involvement ◽  
Harm Minimization ◽  
Harm Minimisation ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Gambling Expenditure ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
Industry Community

Abstract. Background: Tensions exist with various stakeholders facing competing interests in providing legal land-based and online regulated gambling products. Threats to revenue/taxation occur in response to harm minimisation and responsible gambling policies. Setting aside the concept of total prohibition, the objectives of responsible gambling are to encourage and/or restrict an individual’s gambling expenditure in terms of money and time to personally affordable limits. Stakeholder responsibilities: Governments craft the gambling environment through legislation, monitor compliance with regulatory requirements, and receive taxation revenue as a proportion of expenditure. Industry operators on the other hand, compete across market sectors through marketing and advertising, and through the development of commercially innovative products, reaping substantial financial rewards. Concurrently, governments are driven to respond to community pressures to minimize the range of negative gambling-related social, personal and economic harms and costs. Industry operators are exposed to the same pressures but additionally overlaid with the self-interest of avoiding the imposition of more stringent restrictive policies. Cooperation of stakeholders: The resulting tension between taxation revenue and profit making, harm minimization, and social impacts creates a climate of conflict between all involved parties. Data-driven policies become compromised by unsubstantiated claims of, and counter claims against, the nature and extent of gambling-related harms, effectiveness of policy strategies, with allegations of bias and influence associated with researchers supported by industry and government research funding sources. Conclusion: To effectively advance policies, it is argued that it is imperative that all parties collaborate in a cooperative manner to achieve the objectives of responsible gambling and harm minimization. This extends to and includes more transparent funding for researchers from both government and industry. Continued reliance on data collected from analogue populations or volunteers participating in simulated gambling tasks will not provide data capable of valid and reliable extrapolation to real gamblers in real venues risking their own funds. Failure to adhere to principles of corporate responsibility and consumer protection by both governments and industry will challenge the social licence to offer gambling products. Appropriate and transparent safeguards learnt from the tobacco and alcohol field, it is argued, can guide the conduct of gambling research.

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