Internet e-ethics in Confrontation with an Activists' Agenda: Yahoo! on Trial

A prolonged confrontation between Yahoo! Inc. and French activists who demand the removal of Nazi items from auction sites as well as restricted access to neo-Nazis sites is described and analyzed. We present the case up to the decision of Yahoo! Inc. to remove the items from yahoo.com following a French court's verdict against the firm. Using a business ethics approach, we distinguish legal, technical, philosophical and managerial issues involved in the case and their management by Yahoo! We conclude on the difficulty of governing relations with society from corporate and legal affairs departments at the headquarters level, and on the clash of two visions over the regulation of social freedom.     

合同自由原则在近代合同法中的地位及评价

合同自由原则以《法国民法典》为开端，先后被德国、英国和美国等英美法系国家立法所确立，使这一原则成为广泛而普遍的近代合同法原则。虽然近代合同法对合同自由原则从确立时起就给予了一定程度的限制，但限制并未对其构成实质性影响，合同自由原则在这一时期仍得到了充分发展，成为近代合同法鼎盛时期的代表性思想和最重要的合同法基本原则之一。     

Publication Bias in the Economic Freedom and Economic Growth Literature

Abstract.  The impact of institutions on economic performance has attracted significant attention from researchers, as well as from policy reformers. A rapidly growing area in this literature is the impact of economic freedom on economic growth. The aim of this paper was to explore publication bias in this literature by means of traditional funnel plots, meta‐significance testing, as well as by bootstrapping these meta‐significance tests. When all the available estimates are combined and averaged, there seems to be evidence of a genuine and positive economic freedom – economic growth effect. However, it is also shown that the economic freedom – economic growth literature is tainted strongly with publication bias. The existence of publication bias makes it difficult to identify the magnitude of the genuine effect of economic freedom on economic growth. The paper explores the differences between aggregate and disaggregate measures of economic freedom and shows that selection effects are stronger when aggregate measures are used.     

A comparison of aggregation methods for measures of economic freedom

Empiricists have used various editions of an economic freedom index (EFI) initially developed by Gwartney et al. (1996) [Gwartney, J., Lawson, R., Block, W., 1996. Economic Freedom of the World: 1975–1995. Fraser Institute, Vancouver.] to examine the relationship between economic freedom and other socio-economic variables, such as growth or investment. The EFI quantifies the level of particular institutional characteristics thought to promote economic freedom and aggregates them into a single index value. The aggregation procedures utilized by Gwartney and Lawson in developing their index have changed over time and other scholars have promoted alternative methods. We examine several index aggregation procedures and show that each design may have potential methodological flaws that can greatly affect the empirical findings.     

涉外合同的法律适用——兼评《民法典(草案)涉外篇》第50条

本文试从我国涉外合同法律适用的立法史出发,结合国际条约和其他国家的立法及学说,对民法典草案涉外篇第50条所涉及的两个基本原则及其缺陷进行评析,并相应地提出了几条立法建议。     

One-Sided Coverage Intervals for a Proportion Estimated from a Stratified Simple Random Sample

Using an Edgeworth expansion to speed up the asymptotics, we develop one-sided coverage intervals for a proportion based on a stratified simple random sample. To this end, we assume the values of the population units are generated from independent random variables with a common mean within each stratum. These stratum means, in turn, may either be free to vary or are assumed to be equal. The more general assumption is equivalent to a model-free randomization-based framework when finite population correction is ignored. Unlike when an Edgeworth expansion is used to construct one-sided intervals under simple random sampling, it is necessary to estimate the variance of the estimator for the population proportion when the stratum means are allowed to differ. As a result, there may be accuracy gains from replacing the normal  z -score in the Edgeworth expansion with a  t -score.     

新兴市场国家吸引跨国并购的决定因素——从市场化程度视角的解析

近年来,发展中国家外国直接投资的流入量持续增加,并且跨国并购成为越来越重要的外资主要进入模式。本文考察新兴市场发展潜力与吸引跨国并购规模的内在相关性。通过理论和实证分析证实,新兴市场的市场潜力越大,特别是其中经济自由度、市场强度、商业基础设施的发展水平越高,吸引跨国并购的能力也越强。本文的启示是新兴市场国家市场经济制度的完善及与发达国家的接轨是提高吸收外资竞争力的重要条件。     

POWER AGAINST PEOPLE: A CHRISTIAN CRITIQUE OF THE STATE

This article, based on the author's IEA web publication of the same name, challenges the widespread view that government is the best vehicle for achieving positive social change. Rather it argues that the over-mighty state has always been the chief cause of oppression, poverty and war throughout the world.     

谈网络时代的高校思想政治教育

科学地理解和把握马克思主义自由与必然的辩证关系,有利于深刻分析网络时代高校思想政治教育面临的机遇和挑战,从而针对当前存在的问题提出相应对策。     

The Content of Freedom in Resources: The Open Source Model

Today we are facing the rising of new needs for the firms, especially for the small ones; they find themselves acting in a context characterized by the great content of information technology. This paper wants to analyse some aspects tied to the use of some particular kinds of resources, such as knowledge and organizational culture. It's necessary, especially in the new economy, to add another attribute to the four set by Barney as elements able to make the resources sustainable competitive advantage sources in 1991: this attribute is freedom, essentially as freedom of reaching and using resources. This attribute, more than coming along with the four already set, can be considered in many cases as a pre-condition to the other ones in existence.The theoretical part will be completed by the reference to a particular organizational model that is based on freedom, that is the open source model; we'll try to show how freedom is not an abstract concept in business.