Foreword: Recovering the Common Good

FOREWORD Embracing Administrative Common Law

This Foreword begins with the descriptive claim that much of administrative law is really administrative common law: doctrines and requirements that are largely judicially created, as opposed to those specified by Congress, the President, or individual agencies. Although governing statutes exert some constraining force on judicial creativity, the primary basis of these judge-fashioned doctrines...

Recovering the Good Component of the Hilbert Scheme

We give an explicit construction, for a flat map X → S of algebraic spaces, of an ideal in the n’th symmetric product of X over S. Blowing up this ideal is then shown to be isomorphic to the schematic closure in the Hilbert scheme of length n subschemes of the locus of n distinct points. This generalises Haiman’s corresponding result ([13]) for the affine complex plane. However, our constructio...

Cooperation and the common good.

In this paper, we draw the attention of biologists to a result from the economic literature, which suggests that when individuals are engaged in a communal activity of benefit to all, selection may favour cooperative sharing of resources even among non-relatives. Provided that group members all invest some resources in the public good, they should refrain from conflict over the division of thes...

Recovering the Good Earth: China’s Growing Organic Market

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