Bloodtaking and peacemaking [[electronic resource] ] : feud, law, and society in Saga Iceland / / William Ian Miller

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784616703321
• Autore: Miller William Ian <1946->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1990
• ISBN: 1-282-08992-7; 0-226-52682-8; 9786612089923
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (407 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.094912; 306.2/5/09491209021
• Soggetti: Customary law - Iceland; Kinship (Law) - Iceland; Sagas
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Spelling -- Prologue -- 1. Introduction: The Institutional Setting and the Ranks of Persons -- 2. Making Sense of the Sources -- 3. Some Aspects of the Economy: The Problem of Negotiating and Classifying Exchanges -- 4. Householding Patterns -- 5. The Bonds of Kinship -- 6. Feud, Vengeance, and the Disputing Process -- 7. Law and Legal Process -- 8. Peacemaking and Arbitration -- Concluding Observations -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Dubbed by the New York Times as "one of the most sought-after legal academics in the county," William Ian Miller presents the arcane worlds of the Old Norse studies in a way sure to attract the interest of a wide range of readers. Bloodtaking and Peacemaking delves beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering impulses. Miller's unique and engaging readings of ancient Iceland's sagas and extensive legal code reconstruct and illuminate the society that produced them. People in the saga world negotiated a maze of violent possibility, with strategies that frequently put life and limb in the balance. But there was a ; paradox in striking the balance-one could not get even without going one better. Miller shows how blood vengeance, law, and peacemaking were inextricably bound together in the feuding process. This book offers fascinating insights into the politics of a stateless society, its methods of social control, and the role that a uniquely sophisticated and self-conscious law played in the construction of Icelandic society. "Illuminating."-Rory McTurk, Times Literary Supplement "An impressive achievement in ethnohistory; it is an amalgam of historical research with legal and anthropological interpretation. What is more, and rarer, is that it is a pleasure to read due to the inclusion of narrative case material from the sagas themselves."-Dan Bauer, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Caribbean drug trafficking : return of the Caribbean connection : hearing before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, May 9, 2000

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910689437003321
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (iii, 47 p.)
• Soggetti: Drug traffic - Caribbean Area; Drug control - Caribbean Area; Drug control - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Priority Rule Violations and Perverse Banking Behaviors : Theoretical Analysis and Implications of the 1990s Japanese Loan Markets / / by Hiroyuki Seshimo, Fukuju Yamazaki

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910255037903321
• Autore: Seshimo Hiroyuki
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017
• ISBN: 981-10-5852-0
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2017.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XI, 80 p. 4 illus. in color.)
• Collana: Development Bank of Japan Research Series, , 2367-0967
• Disciplina: 332.10952
• Soggetti: Banks and banking; Financial crises; Banking; Financial Crises
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: 1 Introduction -- 2 Examples of APR violation in Japan in the 1990s -- 3 Fundamental Structure of our Model and the Result in the Case with No APR Violations -- 4 Economic Analysis of Excess Additional Credit (Loan Evergreening) -- 5 Empirical Evidence -- 6 DIP Finance, Optimal Priority Rule, and Implications for Japanese Legal Reforms -- 7 Concluding Remarks.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book theoretically and empirically explores why Japanese banks engaged in seemingly contradictory behaviors in the 1990s, namely, the credit crunch and evergreening, i.e., inefficient additional lending. A credit crunch occurs when banks are unwilling to finance good and efficient projects. Evergreening implies that banks reluctantly lend additional money to poorly performing and financially vulnerable firms. The authors hypothesize that these practices stemmed from violation of the absolute priority rule (APR) by creditors, thus making it possible to explain this seemingly contradictory banking behavior in a consistent way. In Japan, the APR has often been violated legally by courts and some governmental acts. Examples from the 1990s involve legal abuse in the form of short-term tenancy protection (tanki chinshaku ken) and political intervention in the liquidation of Housing ; Loan Companies, or Ju-sen. The Supreme Court of Japan has issued critical decisions leading to serious violations of APR in the early 1990s. Evidence provided here supports theoretical results. Empirical testing for a significant difference in banking behavior before and after the Court decision using data from Japanese firms in the 1980s and 1990s found that theoretical arguments were empirically supportable in the last half of the 1980s and through the 1990s. Finally, based on their analysis, from the theoretical point of view the authors consider the optimal legal scheme to achieve the best assessment of initial and additional lending in light of the legal reform of the 2000s. .