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  title info:
    title: Rules for a flat world
    sub title: why humans invented law and how to reinvent it for a complex global economy
  name:
    name part: Hadfield, Gillian K. (Gillian Kereldena)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: EBSCOhost
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 396 pages)
  abstract: " If you want a simple representation of the twentieth-century economy, picture a large corporation as a box. To do the same for today's economy, though, we need to blow up that box and reassemble the pieces into a network. The network is global, stretching across the planet untethered to political and legal boundaries. This is the economy of the twenty-first century, characterized by ever-expanding global supply chains and communication systems. In 2005, Thomas Friedman reduced this phenomenon to one phrase, the title of his massively successful book: The World is Flat. Of course, the phrase is misleading. The world may be getting flatter in some places, but there are still many factors that tilt the odds in favor of some locations over others. Law and economics professor Gillian Hadfield picks up where Friedman's book left off, by peeling back the technological layer to look at what lies beneath-our legal infrastructure-and argues that the outdated legal system is, in fact, largely responsible for our still-slanted world. Put simply, the law and legal methods on which we currently rely have failed to evolve along with technology. Hadfield argues that not only are these systems too slow, costly, and localized to support economic complexity, they also fail to address looming challenges such as global warming, poverty, and oppression in developing countries. The answer, however, is not the one critics usually reach for-to have less of it. Through a sweeping review of law and the world economy over thousands of years, Hadfield makes the case for building a legal environment that does more of what we need it to do and less of what we don't. Hadfield offers, in engaging and accessible prose, a model for a more market- and globally-oriented legal system. Combining an impressive grasp of economic globalization with an ambitious re-envisioning of our global legal system, Rules for a Flat World will transform our understanding of how to best achieve a more sustainable and v…
  abstract: "The law and legal methods on which we currently rely have failed to evolve along with technology. In Rules for a Flat World, Gillian Hadfield shows us that law provides critical infrastructure for the cooperation and collaboration on which economic growth is built. Recognizing the importance of this infrastructure, along with the insufficiencies of the current system, is the first step to building a legal environment that does more of what we need it to do and less of what we don't"--
  table of contents: Preface -- Chapter 1: Rethinking what we mean by law -- Chapter 2: The invention of law -- Chapter 3: Law and the dancing landscape -- Chapter 4: The birth of modern legal infrastructure -- Chapter 5: Building a stable platform for complexity -- Chapter 6: The flat world -- Chapter 7: The limits of complexity and the cost of law -- Chapter 8: Problem-solving through markets -- Chapter 9: Markets for lawyers -- Chapter 10: Markets for rules -- Chapter 11: Life in the BoP -- Chapter 12: Building law for the BoP -- Chapter 13: Global markets for BoP legal infrastructure -- Conclusion.
  note: Gillian K. Hadfield.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Law and economics
  subject:
    topic: Technology and law
  subject:
    topic: Globalization
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Law reform
  subject:
    topic: Law
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General
  subject:
    topic: LAW / Legal Profession
  subject:
    topic: Globalization
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Law and economics
  subject:
    topic: Law
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Law reform
  subject:
    topic: Technology and law
  subject:
    topic: LAW / Essays
  subject:
    topic: LAW / General Practice
  subject:
    topic: LAW / Jurisprudence
  subject:
    topic: LAW / Paralegals & Paralegalism
  subject:
    topic: LAW / Practical Guides
  subject:
    topic: LAW / Reference
  classification: K487.E3 H33 2017eb
  classification: 340/.115
  classification: POL033000 BUS069000 LAW061000
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    title info:
      title: Rules for a flat world
    name:
      name part: Hadfield, Gillian K. (Gillian Kereldena).
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
    identifier: (DLC) 2016022372
    identifier: (OCoLC)945231104
  identifier: 9780199916535
  identifier: 0199916535
  identifier: 9780190613693
  identifier: 0190613696
  identifier: 9780199916528 (hardback)
  identifier: 2016023437
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160519
    record change date: 20191219080710.0
    record identifier: in00003919636
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng