Consumption and Social Welfare: Living Standards and their Distribution in the United States
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    Daniel T. Slesnick
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    The most widely-cited social welfare statistics in the United States are based on tabulations on family income. The picture that emerges is cause for concern; median family income has hardly changed over the past 25 years while inequality has increased and poverty remained persistently high. Yet, consumption-based statistics as employed in this work yield rigorous and quite different estimates of real individual and social welfare. Closely linked to economic theory, Professor Slesnick's examination of standards of living, inequality, and poverty reveal that the standard of U.S. living has grown significantly while inequality and poverty have decreased to relatively low levels. His assessment is drawn from extended period data in order to chart long-run trends.
    Daniel T. Slesnick, Consumption and Social Welfare: Living Standards and Their Distribution in the United States.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
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      Daniel T. Slesnick, Consumption and Social Welfare: Living Standards and Their Distribution in the United States.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
      Sondra G. Beverly
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      Title: Daniel T. Slesnick, Consumption and Social Welfare: Living Standards and Their Distribution in the United States.(Book Review)
      Author: Sondra G. Beverly
      Publication: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare (Refereed)
      Date: December 1, 2002
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      The Politics of Jurisprudence: A Critical Introduction to Legal Philosophy
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      The Politics of Jurisprudence: A Critical Introduction to Legal Philosophy
      Roger Cotterrell
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      4 out of 5 stars A sociological approach to jurisprudence.......2000-06-18

      This book is excellent. Unlike general texts of jurisprudence, which tend to divide matters up into distinct, abstract schools of thought, like "positivism", "natural law", "critical legal studies", and so forth, Cotterrell takes the view that many of the changes in legal doctrine arise from the social context in which it is most used - the very practical concerns of the legal profession itself. This view that the `politics' of the profession influences legal doctrine seems obvious, but from my reading, Cotterrell is one of the very few to take this approach to jurisprudence in a systematic way. Jurisprudence tends to be portrayed as timeless and somehow floating free of society. Cotterrell's view is that jurists' conceptions of law changed as the uses of law by the broader society changed. So, for instance, when statute law - law issued by the legislature - became the dominant form of law, positivism (the philosophical position that all law issues from a sovereign and is enforced by sanction) was embraced by the profession. Similarly, when the defects of positivism became clear in society, there was a shift back to "common law" thinking (one might say "community based conceptions of law").

      Cotterrell is involved in the sociology of law movement, the study of law in society and its effects on society. So this book fits neatly into his oeuvre. I think he makes a very persuasive argument that jurisprudence is affected by the deeper currents of society. It's a shame this book isn't treated more seriously by mainstream commentators. A book which would complement a reading of Cotterrell's book is Robert Summer and Patrick Atiyah's text "Form and Substance in Anglo-American Law: A Comparative Study in Legal Reasoning, Legal Theory and Legal Institutions", which shows how different political, social, and institutional differences determine what arguments are considered effective, or persuasive in the American and English legal systems.

      In each chapter, Cotterrell covers two figures - thus, in one chapter he deals with HLA Hart and Hans Kelsen, in another, Ronald Dworkin and Karl Llewellyn. It is a shame he covers so few personalities in the jurisprudential world. In a way, it is also quite limiting.

      From this description, one should also note that Cotterrell's book is `derivative', in the sense that it is more a primer about the thought of major figures in jurisprudence, than about a unified theory of law. For that, one has to turn to Cotterrell's other book, "Law's Community: Legal Theory in Sociological Perspective" - but even that is a bit derivative.

      A neat feature of Cotterrell's book is the "further reading" section at the end, so if you are really keen on what you have read, you can go off and read more on the subject. If I have one complaint, it is the way he uses the social sciences' method of citation - ie., a short reference to the author, date of publication, and page - leaving you to flip back to the end of the book where all the books used are listed. Being a law student, I like to have the references in front of me, as footnotes, at the bottom of the page.

      But this shouldn't stop you from reading this outstanding book. I give this book four stars, because it represents a real break from the books on jurisprudence that have killed off generations of law students' interest in the subject.
      The Politics of Jurisprudence: A Critical Introduction to Legal Philosophy
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        Roger Cotterrell
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            Rich land, poor land;: A study of waste in the natural resources of America
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                                            5 out of 5 stars Spoken words to help the written.......2005-06-21

                                            For anyone remotely interested in McLuhan, I recommend this book for the following reasons.
                                            It is a much easier read than most of McLuhan's work, as it is a collection of interviews and speeches which are necessarily more concise, and were for me much more involving.
                                            It gives an insight into McLuhan's theories which can be quite puzzling and abstruse at first. In his speeches and essays, he repeats his same themes in a variety of manners, which help to give the reader a better understanding of the theories.
                                            It's no McLuhan for Idiots (I'm not sure if there is such a thing, based on the nature of his works), but it is definitely a very useful and enjoyable companion book.

                                            5 out of 5 stars McLuhan Redux, Or: How Culture Theory Used to Be Done.......2004-08-21

                                            Marshall McLuhan was one of the very, very few high intellects that American civilization has been able to produce. Like ancient Rome, we are a land of lawyers and soldiers, engineers and historians, and so have little tolerance for the philosophically inclined traditions of the European continent. America, consequently, has no intellectual tradition properly speaking, but rather, has produced a rare collection of strange and isolated geniuses, like Lewis Mumford or Joseph Campbell or William Irwin Thompson. McLuhan was one of these great geniuses, and like those others, his work is difficult to approach for the first-timer. The Gutenberg Galaxy and Understanding Media, his two great classics, are not easy reading and do not make good introductions to his overall worldview. But, here at last, Stephanie McLuhan has done for MIT Press what Gingko Press out in San Francisco has been unable to do with their repackagings of his classics as critical editions: namely, to produce an excellent, accessible introduction to the writings of McLuhan for those unacquainted with his ideas.
                                            The book is a collection of lectures and interviews arranged chronologically, and so allows the reader to get a sense for the development of McLuhan's ideas as they occurred to him. Also, the lecture and interview formats traditionally manage to capture the ideas of a thinker at his most relaxed and informal mode, thereby streamlining the writing so that the ideas are not occluded by stylistic concerns. The result, in Stephanie McLuhan's and David Staines's case, is a highly readable "McLuhan for Complete Idiots."
                                            One of the major advantages of the book for McLuhophiles as opposed to first-timers is that the material has hitherto been unpublished. This is stuff from the Archives, and so the McLuhan addict may find some material that will surprise him. But then, no matter how many times you've read him, McLuhan never fails to surprise, so brilliant and witty were his aphorisms. And if we find him in this volume predicting future modes of media like the Internet, then we should not be surprised at his prescience, for he is more relevant now than he was back in the sixties. And no one has ever quite been able to philosophize about media as convincingly or with as much depth as he. For all their eloquence, neither Neil Postman nor Walter Ong ever seemed to have his kind of panoramic perspective on the evolution of culture.
                                            One of McLuhan's favorite sayings was that we're always looking in the rearview mirror as we move forward, and so never quite live in the present environment, which remains elusively invisible to all but the artists among us. Now that we look back in the rearview mirror once again, this time to glance back at McLuhan's prophecies, it is becoming evident that he knew more about our future than we know about our present, and so, his work continues to remain relevant. This was how it was done in the old days, when great generalist intellectuals were still allowed to flourish before the University system was redesigned during the sixties to filter them out. There are no more great generalist intellectuals left, and we have largely the universities to thank for this thievery of the Big Picture. This volume provides us with concrete evidence that it was once done this way, with fortitude and style. Once.
                                            --John David Ebert
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