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A review essay on a book by Rick Tilman, The Intellectual Legacy of Thorstein Veblen: Unresolved Issues (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996). This text investigates several controversial aspects of Veblen's theories, including the consistency of his notion of evolution, the categorization of Veblen's & John Dewey's theories under Progressive era thought, & his influence on New Deal philosophy & practice. Tilman's work in Veblen's notion of aesthetics & his biographical introduction, an iconoclastic revision of Joseph Dorfman's Thorstein Veblen and His America (1934) that emphasizes the significance of Veblen's intellectual contributions, are commended; however, Tilman's assertion that Dorfman's Jewish background impeded his biographical representation of Veblen is questioned. Moreover, Tilman's investigation of Veblen's hypothetical acceptance of New Deal legislation & contention that Veblen's prioritization of the relationships between ceremony & technology established him as sui generis are problematized. Tilman's text & John Wenzler's Transcendental Economics: The Quest to Unify Economic and Moral Law in Nineteenth Century American Thought are compared in conclusion. J. W. Parker

The article traces trends in Soviet economic discourse from the 1920s until perestroika. We examine the works of leading political economists of this period through the lens of debates on market exchanges under socialism—the central theoretical issue of the political economy of socialism. The discursive structure underlying the debates can be traced back to the writing of the first Soviet textbook on political economy, personally supervised by Joseph Stalin. Our purpose is to assess the impact of this textbook on subsequent discussions of the role of commodity production and market exchanges in a socialist economy. The story suggests that Soviet economic discourse was neither homogeneous nor stable. Rather, it consisted of several subdiscourses of different levels of authoritativeness allowing for a certain stable core as an attribute of any authoritative discourse, as well as for more flexible elements that adjusted the structure to new political and ideological challenges.

Since UNRWA preemptively disclosed Israel's claim to have evidence that 12 UNRWA employees participated in the 7 October 2023 attacks, at least 16 donor states and the European Union, which collectively supply the vast majority of the Agency's budget, have suspended their contributions. This poses an existential threat to UNRWA, the largest provider of humanitarian assistance in Gaza. This post explains how the current episode displays the unsatisfactory sui generis status of UNRWA's Palestinian staff, and forms part of an ongoing and largely successful attempt to position UNRWA as a compromised, sui generis UN organisation which constitutes an outlier in the law and practice of the United Nations.

AbstractThe sui generis database right is an intellectual property right created in the European Union to stimulate investment in the curation of databases. Since its inception, communities engaged in research and development efforts have questioned its potential to incentivise database production, and posit that it stifles productive downstream uses of existing datasets. European courts have restricted the right's ambit through a restrictive interpretation of the circumstances in which it applies, which we argue, enables downstream use of biological databases. Nonetheless, residual ambiguities about potential infringement of the right exist. The prospect of unintentional infringement can frustrate downstream innovation. These ambiguities are compounded because the criteria that determine whether or not the right applies are reliant on information that is not available to the prospective downstream users of public datasets. Repealing the sui generis database right is recommended. Legislatures are advised to refrain from the implementation of broad novel intellectual property rights in the future, without first adopting safeguards that mitigate the potential for such rights to frustrate the reuse of available intangibles to the detriment of pro-social innovation.

Explores the problematic invitation to federal citizenship in Canada for aboriginal peoples. Focus is on the deficits of such an offering for the constitutional rights of aboriginal peoples, which is characterized by sui generis & treaty citizenship. Informed by aboriginal & intercultural perspectives, the article argues that the offerings of statutory citizenship for aboriginal peoples inverts rather than respects the constitutional relationship. It looks at how the Supreme Court of Canada has located & structured sui generis aboriginal orders, the concepts of sui generis citizenship, treaty federalism, & constitutional supremacy as compared with the idea of federal citizenship, concluding that such 'invitations' to Canadian citizenship are inconsistent with & infringe on the constitutional rights of aboriginal peoples. By understanding the prismatic nature of Canadian federalism in a postcolonial context, this article aims at reconceptualizing Canadian citizenship in terms of ecological belonging, fundamental rights, & respect for human diversity & creativity. 71 References. Adapted from the source document.

В представленной статье с целью решения проблемы выбора способа расширения правовой охраны баз данных определена правовая природа права sui generis как права интеллектуальной собственности. Подтверждается необходимость его введения в законодательство Украины как независимого и самостоятельного института права интеллектуальной собственности. В кач Оптимальным способом имплементации прав sui generis обосновывается его регулирование отдельной главой книги 4 Гражданского Кодекса Украины. ; The present article is aimed at solving the problem as for the choice of the legal security extention method. The legal nature of the sui generis right as an intellectual property right is defined. The necessity of its application into the Ukrainian legislature as an independent and self-sufficient institute for intellectual property right is substantiated. It is grounded that the optimal method of implementing the sui generis right is its legal regulation by the separate Chapter of the Book 4 of the Civil Code of Ukraine