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Understanding media production: a rejoinder to Murdock and Golding
This article is a rejoinder to Murdock and Golding’s response to my critique of the political economy of communications (PEC) analysis of media production (see Author 2015). This article sets this exchange in the context of a broader debate in recent editions of Media, Culture & Society (Garnham 2016, Fuchs, 2016) about the value of PEC. Much of this debate stems from Garnham’s (2011) critical review of 40 years of PEC research
Dreading the whirlwind intertextuality and the use of the Old Testament in Revelation / Jon Paulien.
Book Review
This review of The Supreme Court on Trial by Charles Hyneman, questions why the work’s tackling the age-old issues of the source of judicial review and its constitutionality is particularly novel or unique from other such examinations. Issue is also taken with Brown v. Board of Educaion\u27s dominance of such discussion and the book’s poor treatment of the desegregation cases
Critiques of the Limits of Freedom of Contract: A Rejoinder
This rejoinder to the foregoing critiques of the author\u27s book, The Limits of Freedom of Contract, focuses on several themes: a) what range of contractually-related issues do courts possess the requisite institutional competence to address? b) whether problematic normative issues in contract law are amenable to rational analysis and at least provisional resolution, or are inherently indeterminate, contingent, and political? c) what the value of individual autonomy implies in terms of the type of transactions parties should be permitted to engage in? d) whether an internal rather than consequentialist theory of contract law is conceivable? and e) whether autonomy values are inconsistent with welfare values in women\u27s participation in market activities
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