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\"While the shockingly high prices of prescription drugs continue to dominate the news, the strategies used by pharmaceutical companies to prevent generic competition are poorly understood, even by the lawmakers responsible for regulating them. In this groundbreaking work, Robin Feldman and Evan Frondorf illuminate the inner workings of the pharmaceutical market and show how drug companies twist health policy to achieve goals contrary to the public interest. In highly engaging prose, they offer specific examples of how generic competition has been stifled for years, with costs climbing into the billions and everyday consumers paying the price. Drug Wars is a guide to the current landscape, a roadmap for reform, and a warning of what is to come. It should be read by policymakers, academics, patients, and anyone else concerned with the soaring costs of prescription drugs\"-- Provided by publisher.

\"Is the United States 'the land of equal opportunity' or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? And if the processes that transmit economic status from parent to child are unfair, could public policy address the problem? The book provides new answers to these questions by leading economists, sociologists, biologists, behavioral geneticists, and philosophers. New estimates show that intergenerational inequality in the United States is far greater than was previously thought. Moreover, while the inheritance of wealth and the better schooling typically enjoyed by the children of the well-to-do contribute to this process, these two standard explanations fail to explain the extent of intergenerational status transmission. The genetic inheritance of IQ is even less important. Instead, parent-offspring similarities in personality and behavior may play an important role. Race contributes to the process, and the intergenerational mobility patterns of African Americans and European Americans differ substantially.\" (author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) Content: Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, Melissa Osborne Groves: Introduction (1-22); Greg Duncan, Ariel Kahl, Susan E. Mayer, Robin Tepper, Monique R. Payne: The apple does not fall far from the tree (23-79); Bhashkar Mazumder: The apple falls even closer to the tree than we thought - new and revised estimates of the intergenerational inheritance of earnings (80-99); David J. Harding, Christopher Jencks, Leonard M. Lopoo, Susan E. Mayer: The changing effect of family background on the incomes of American adults (100-144); Anders Björklund, Markus Jäntti, Gary Solon: Influences of nature and nurture on earnings variation - a report on a study of various sibling types in Sweden (145-164); Tom Hertz: Rags, riches, and race - the intergenerational economic mobility of black and white families in the United States (165-191); John C. Loehlin: Resemblance in personality and attitudes between parents and their children - genetic and environmental contributions (192-207); Melissa Osborne Groves: Personality and the intergenerational transmission of economic status (208-231); Marcus W. Feldman, Shuzhuo Li, Nan Li, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Xiaoyi Jin: Son preference, marriage, and intergenerational transfer in rural China (232-255); Adam Swift: Justice, luck, and the family - the intergenerational transmission of economic advantage from a normative perspective Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: deskriptive Studie. (256-276).

Imagining New Legalities reminds us that examining the right to privacy and the public/private distinction is an important way of mapping the forms and limits of power that can legitimately be exercised by collective bodies over individuals and by governments over their citizens. This book does not seek to provide a comprehensive overview of threats to privacy and rejoinders to them. Instead it considers several different conceptions of privacy and provides examples of legal inventiveness in confronting some contemporary challenges to the public/private distinction. It provides a context for that consideration by surveying the meanings of privacy in three domains--the first, involving intimacy and intimate relations; the second, implicating criminal procedure, in particular, the 4th amendment; and the third, addressing control of information in the digital age. The first two provide examples of what are taken to be classic breaches of the public/private distinction, namely instances when government intrudes in an area claimed to be private. The third has to do with voluntary circulation of information and the question of who gets to control what happens to and with that information.