Can The Law Go Upstream?
Roger Magnusson, Lawrence O. Gostin, and David Studdert recently posted their paper, “Can Law Improve Prevention and Treatment of Cancer?” on SSRN: The December 2011 issue of Public Health (the...
View ArticleThe Deep Capture of Financial Institutions
Lawrence G. Baxter, at Duke Law School, recently wrote an excellent situationist article, titled “Capture in Financial Regulation: Can We Redirect It Toward the Common Good?” (forthcoming in 21 Cornell...
View ArticleThe Situational Effects of Food Advertising
Pierre Chandonm and Brian Wansink recently posted their paper “Is Food Marketing Making Us Fat? A Multi-Disciplinary Review” on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. Whereas everyone recognizes that increasing...
View ArticleHow Deceptive Advertising Preys Upon Our Minds
In my Business Organizations course this semester, we have been spending some time thinking about the collection and use of consumer data by corporations. We have looked at the types of information...
View ArticleResisting Materialism
From the Center for a New American Dream (centernewdream) at http://www.newdream.org: Psychologist Tim Kasser discusses how America’s culture of consumerism undermines our well-being. When people buy...
View ArticleThe Economic Situation of the Middle Class
From Harvard Gazzette: The American middle class has been battered by the loss of well-paying jobs for the 70 percent of the workforce without a college degree and failed by would-be protectors in...
View ArticleCorporations, Cars, the U.S.A., and Us
Benjamin Levin just posted his excellent article “Made in the USA: Corporate Responsibility and Collective Identity in the American Automotive Industry” (forthcoming Boston College Law Review, Vol. 53,...
View ArticleThe Situation of Chicago School “Law and Economics”
From Business Week (an article, by Peter Coy, including several quotations from Situationist Editor, Jon Hanson): Q: How many Chicago School economists does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. If...
View ArticleThe Situation of State Judiciaries
From The Anerican Scholar: The hearing room of the Wisconsin Supreme Court could be a Beaux-Arts museum, exhibiting images of justice as idealized in America for centuries: ornate, dignified, above...
View ArticleThe Situation of Money-Based Happiness
An excerpt from a recent, terrific New York Times piece by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton: The notion that money can’t buy happiness has been around a long time — even before yoga came into vogue....
View ArticleThe Deeply Captured Situation of “Defensive Medicine”
Sidney Shapiro, Thomas Owen McGarity, Nicholas Vidargas, and James Goodwin, have recently published their White Paper, titled “The Truth About Torts: Defensive Medicine and the Unsupported Case for...
View ArticleCitizens United Primer
Related Situationist posts: The State of Shareholder Power in the Situation of Citizens United The Frontline of Citizens United The Situation of State Judiciaries The Situation of Judicial Methods -...
View ArticleCitizens United Cartography
From NPR: Explore political ad spending through creative cartography. This animated map shows where superPACs and other outside groups spent their money — over a six-month period during the general...
View ArticleThe Deeply Captured Situation of Sugar
Mother Jones has a superb new article on the deeply captured situation of sugar. It begins as follows: ON A BRISK SPRING Tuesday in 1976, a pair of executives from the Sugar Association stepped up to...
View ArticleMarion Nestle on The Situation of Our Food
Related Situationist posts: Dr. David Kessler Waxes Situationist The Situation of our Food – Part I The Situation of Our Food – Part II The Situation of Our Food – Part III The Situation of our Food –...
View ArticleMichael Pollan on the Political Situation of Food
Host Harry Kreisler welcomes writer Michael Pollan for a discussion of the agricultural industrial complex that dominates consumer choices about what to eat. He explores the origins, evolution and...
View ArticleThe Situation of How We Became Fat – Part 1
From Introduction of BBC’s Remarkable Three-Part Series “The Men Who Made Us Fat”: Around the world, obesity levels are rising. More people are now overweight than undernourished. Two thirds of...
View ArticleThe Situation of How We Became Fat – Part 2
Part 2 of the BBC’s Remarkable Three-Part Series “The Men Who Made Us Fat”: Jacques Peretti investigates how the concept of ‘supersizing’ changed our eating habits forever. How did we – once a nation...
View ArticleThe Situation of How We Became Fat – Part 3
Part 3 of the BBC’s Remarkable Three-Part Series “The Men Who Made Us Fat”: Jacques Peretti examines assumptions about what is and is not healthy. He also looks at how product marketing can seduce...
View ArticleHelpful Summary of Wealth Inequality in U.S.
From Politizane: Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is...
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