Juries are the one place where common citizens play an important part in the governmental process. But both the jury system and the American legal system itself have been under…

One of the first rules of investing is diversification: spreading resources\nover many types of investments in order to minimize financial risk. Mutual funds have been the diversification vehicle of choice…

How precisely has the American government practised financial statecraft? How effective have these efforts been? And how can they be made more effective? This book answers these questions.

The historic European Union Directive on Data Protection will take effect in October 1998. A key provision will prohibit transfer of personal information from Europe to other countries if they…

This volume brings together market practitioners, policymakers, development specialists, and academics from developed and emerging market countries to examine the underlying causes of the Asian financial crisis and ways of…

Focuses largely on developments within the United States and Japan but looks at those in other nations as well. This title examines two broad areas: the Japanese approach to regulating…