Immorality

This book addresses the question not how immoral the ancient Romans were but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immorality.

This book examines how legal systems and mechanisms give shape to the capitalist economic system. In this regard, it focuses on the most important of these systems, such as monetary and financial law, company law, fiscality, contract and labour law. Further, the book provides a thorough analysis of the underlying ethical values of said legal systems and mechanisms. It also gives an overview of several potentially devastating related effects, such as poverty, the increasing polarisation between rich and poor, climate change, and mounting debts at both the public and private level. The book concludes by presenting proposals for change. Given its critical analysis of legal systems and mechanisms in connection with the value choices dictated by economic ideologies, the book will be of particular interest to legal and economic academics, researchers and students, but also to policymakers, and, more generally, to anyone with a genuine concern for how the socio-economic order will evolve.

London wird von einer unheimlichen Einbruchsserie heimgesucht. Der vermeintliche Täter kann die Verbrechen jedoch nicht begangen haben – denn er ist bereits tot. Hier hilft nur der Spürsinn des genialen Ermittlerduos Newbury und Hobbes. Das dritte Abenteuer des Ermittlerduos der Krone, Sir Maurice Newbury und Veronica Hobbes, führt den Leser in ein düsteres, magisches London…