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  • 6 Feb 2025
    Susi Geiger, Katy Mason, Neil Pollock, Philip Roscoe, Annmarie Ryan, Stefan Schwarzkopf, Pascale Trompette

    Beyond the Invisible Hand: Exploring the Construction of Markets

    Markets are everywhere—in our communities, workplaces, and even our personal lives—shaping society in important and often unnoticed ways. For many, markets are viewed as the solution to society’s most pressing challenges, from improving healthcare systems to combating climate change. Yet, for something so pervasive, markets remain surprisingly underexplored in terms of how they work, evolve, […]

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  • 6 Feb 2025
    Marija Bartl

    Reimagining Prosperity in the EU

    We live in the times of profound pessimism about the future. Where have the hope and optimism go? And how is Europe, and its political leaders, trying to create new grounds for optimism? In Europe, the earlier receipt for some time was the European Green Deal. Today, it has been replaced by a “Draghi Deal”, […]

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  • 30 Jan 2025
    Johanna Mugler, Miranda Sheild Johansson, Robin Smith

    Anthropology and Tax. Ethnographies of Fiscal Relations

    Anthropology and tax might not appear to fit together at first sight. Taxation is often considered a highly technical and numerical subject, more suitable for lawyers, accountants and economists than social anthropologists,–given their expertise and focus on local and marginalized communities and socio-cultural relations. It is therefore unsurprising that within the discipline of anthropology, taxation […]

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  • 27 Jan 2025
    Michal Alberstein, Dr. Nofit Amir

    Vanishing Legal Justice: The Changing Role of Judges in an Era of Settlements and Plea Bargains

    London: Judge: I offer congratulations. No one can be more pleased than me. It’s always better that the parties settle themselves. Do you want a Tomlin order [a form for a confidential written settlement]? I don’t want to rush you into that… if the parties reach a settlement I never rush. Take all the time […]

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  • 17 Jan 2025
    Merten Reglitz

    Free Internet Access as a Human Right

    For you reading this text on the Cambridge University Press blog, life without access to the internet has probably become unthinkable. We have become dependent on it for many things we do. But online access is not just a matter of convenience or doing things faster. Rather, without the internet, there would be no Fifteen […]

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  • 9 Jan 2025
    Tom Ruys, Cedric Ryngaert, Felipe Rodríguez Silvestre

    The Cambridge Handbook of Secondary Sanctions and International Law

    The ascendance of secondary sanctions We live in an age of economic sanctions, of powerful states imposing restrictions on commercial and financial transactions with other states (and non-state actors) to achieve political goals. In particular, states that control key nodes in the global financial, economic and technological network can leverage global economic interdependence and wield […]

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  • 2 Jan 2025
    Zachary S. Price

    Constitutional Symmetry:  Judging in a Divided Republic

    The United States is divided over politics, and each major political coalition advances a distinct constitutional vision that aligns with its policy goals. Conservatives interpret the Constitution to protect religion, limit gun control, and obstruct federal administrative governance while allowing state-level regulation of moral questions like abortion. Progressives see a mirror-image constitution that advances social […]

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  • 20 Dec 2024
    Luca Belli

    Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries: A Global South Perspective

    In a world largely shaped by Silicon Valley tech giants, the BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, now expanding to new members —are emerging as influential players in the realm of digital policy and innovation. With 40% of the world’s population and a quarter of global GDP, the BRICS nations command substantial resources, […]

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