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This book identifies and analyzes the various ways in which office automation will have an impact on the future of clerical employment in the banking and insurance industries over the period 1985-2000. By focusing on how office automation could affect both aggregate levels of clerical employment and the nature of clerical tasks, the book offers readers a rich and detailed basis for their thinking and action concerning office automation. It also presents a newly developed forecasting method that can be used by analysts and researchers to investigate in detail the potential effects that rapidly changing technologies could have on work and workers.
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Interest rate swaps--used globally by both corporate finance departments and investment firms to control interest payments, manage debt, and enhance investment portfolios--constitute a growing 1.9 trillion market. Now, financial personnel, swap traders, corporate treasurers, and professional cash managers can turn to this clear, authoritative guide to master all the methodologies used in the international swap market. Written for anyone whose work is touched by swap market activity, the guide uses diagramming techniques to first explain what swaps are, and how and why they are traded. It then addresses more sophisticated financial transactions, such as rate setting, analysis of swap desks, market-to-market, speculating, and financial statements. Readers will find detailed coverage of more than two dozen derivative products, including spreadlocks, swaptions, caps, and flows, and learn how swap trading works in foreign currencies and interest rates. Critical light is also shed on questions regulators are currently raising about the security and future of the swaps markets.
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Me thinks some reviewers protest too much.......2004-07-11
This book has been damned for being too simplistic, therefore consign it to the trash cart, or so we are expected to do. But given the relative novelty of these financial products simplicity in the best sense of word could be seen as a virtue in any work dealing with this topic. So, why the evident annoyance from some. Could it be that this work dissolves some of the mystery involved, and threatens some closed shop in these markets ?
Outdated and Shallow.......1999-09-02
The book easily shows its age in its focus on standards and issues which have long ago fallen by the wayside in this dynamic market. Far worse is that the book is preciously short on quantitative and analytic methods, and long on third-grade-teacher types of admonishments. I read the whole book becasue I paid for it, there are better, more up-to-date volumes out there. Could possibly be re-named "Swaps for English Majors", although, English majors as a group might correctly be upset at this association.
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Irreverent, provocative, and engaging, Desperately Seeking Certainty attacks the current legal vogue for grand unified theories of constitutional interpretation. On both the Right and the Left, prominent legal scholars are attempting to build all of constitutional law from a single foundational idea. Dan Farber and Suzanna Sherry find that in the end no single, all-encompassing theory can successfully guide judges or provide definitive or even sensible answers to every constitutional question. Their book brilliantly reveals how problematic foundationalism is and shows how the pragmatic, multifaceted common law methods already used by the Court provide a far better means of reaching sound decisions and controlling judicial discretion than do any of the grand theories.
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trivial leftist pap.......2006-09-22
The authors immediately reveal their agenda when they state 8 propositions that they think "most Americans, including most Lawyers, would endorse..." At least two of these eight would be rejected out of hand by originalists and political conservative citizens.
The authors' bias is obvious -- they believe that any solution which would unravel the welfare state, or reduce the size and regulatory power of the federal government, is automatically absurd. Thus they quickly dismiss as impractical the only solution -- Originalism -- that would return the court to being a true judicial body rather than a "super-legislature".
Faulty.......2005-12-17
I should say first that I thoroughly enjoyed the book, simply because I wasn't familiar with many of the names within. And I enjoyed the issues the book raises, and critiquing what I thought were rather substantial fractures in its logical base.
Before I get to that though, a quick exposition. The book is set up to debunk the idea of constitutional grand theory. Along these lines, six scholars are selected, a mix of both the left and right: Robert Bork, Antonin Scalia, Richard Epstein, Bruce Ackerman, Akhil Amar, and Ronald Dworkin. Each scholar gets a chapter espousing his particular philosophy, no sooner presented as subjected to critiques. Little of this is original to the authors: rather they borrow from many others in developing their criticisms. And it is in this that the book is most interesting: it serves as an informative and easily read primer for modern constitutional law. You will (at least I did) find certain critiques more persuasive than others, largely because of your political beliefs.
But attempts to move beyond the descriptive leave the authors incoherent. They say they eschew grand theory in favor of pragmatism, apparently never recognizing that pragmatism is simply another grand theory. What a "grand theory" is is sadly never specified: my interpretation was that a grand theory is one that purports to give answers in most cases. If I am right, it's difficult to see why a grand theory could ever be undesirable, since the only alternative is a theory that gives no answers in some or all cases, which is simple arbitrariness. To say, as the authors do, simply act pragmatically, tells us nothing, unless pragmatism gives us an answer as to what the right decision is, and if pragmatism does that, it is simply another grand theory.
My own opinion is pragmatism is a hoax. To say use pragmatism tells us nothing until we have a theory of what pragmatism entails, and once we have that, we are back in the realm of grand theory. The advantage of saying "Use pragmatism" is that what pragmatism is has not been articulated, and thus can't be falsified. At least, it has not been articulated to any sufficient caliber in this book.
A more down to earth critique would focus on the shifting positions the authors use when attacking theories. They will, for instance, attack originalism on non-originalist grounds, and then when someone espouses a non-originalist theory, they will attack him on originalist grounds. Something seems unfair here.
In short, as a book advancing or dethroning a theory, the book is a failure, though an interesting one. As a description of modern constitutional theory, it's delightful and if one wants to quickly learn about the topic, I'd recommend it.
Theories of Laws and Latkes.......2004-10-20
What is the role of the Supreme Court in a democratic state? Are the Supreme Court judges 'Philosopher Kings' who make law for the whole nation? And how should the judges interpret the constitution and the laws of the United States of America?
In 'Desperately Seeking Certainty', Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry examine six Constitutional scholars (including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia), who believe they have found the answer to the last question, and thus the first two questions, as well. The six scholars all have theories of how the U.S. constitution is to be interpreted. Those include from Antonin Scalia and Robert Bork's Originalism - the belief that the US constitution has a specific meaning that can be recovered based on the historical record. Textual Analysis - the claim that the meaning of the constitution can be derived from its language. Bruce Ackerman holds that the constitution has been conceptually amended three times in US History (during Foundation, Reconstruction, and the New Deal), and that the role of the court is to preserve these changes, and particularly the heritage of the New Deal. Ronald Dworkin, philosopher as much as lawyer, holds that the Judge's role is to interpret the constitution based on the principles of liberal democracy.
Farber and Sherry hold that these theories are all misguided, because they elevate something that is important and useful to a supreme position. Originalism, Textual Analysis and individual rights all have their role when Courts interprets constitutional law, but they are not exclusive. In an ongoing joke, Farber and Sherry compare the theorist to people on a steady diet of latkes only - so much of it just isn't good for you.
Farber and Sherry hold that the practice of the Supreme Court is not as problematic as we may think it is; Just because one aspect of the American System is not democratic, it doesn't mean the whole isn't. The Supreme Court is hardly the only unelected body in the US - The Federal Reserve is equally unsupervised, and the Senate is disproportionaly representative.
Farber and Shelly hold that the theories are unworkable as a guide for judging, and they stand against 200 years of Supreme Court tradition. Furthermore, there is no indication that any of these theories enjoy, now or in the past, the support of the majority of the "We, the People of United States".
"Desperately Seeking Certainty" in an interesting and insightful, although sometimes fairly technical, book. It is a call for pragmatic jurisprudence and stressed the role of the judges "The Judges [should] be open minded, receptive to opposing views and capable of balanced judgment... these traits of character, not adherence to a grand theory, mark the difference between a principled judge and a willful one" (p. 156). We can find no refuge in grand theories of constitutional law, the authors tell us - the law, like life, is too complicated for that
Read this book!.......2002-08-02
This is a delightful book. It has a chatty, breezy, easy-to-read style (I am reminded of the style of a good review in the New York Times Book Review). It is interesting, educational, persuasively argued, and thought-provoking. After reading this book, I felt like I had learned some interesting things about some interesting people, and I wanted to know more. At times, it can be clever or funny, but not in a way that is strained or that trivializes the subject. If only more writing about legal theory were this good!
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Title: Desperately Seeking Certainty: The Misguided Quest for Constitutional Foundations.(Book Review)
Author: Steven D. Smith
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Date: June 22, 2002
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Volume: 19
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