Postnormal network futures: A rejoinder to Ziauddin Sardar

Sardar's “Welcome to Postnormal Times” describes the chaotic, contradictory and uncertain climate today, and analyses the failure of progress, modernisation or efficiency to provide ethical, political or even trustworthy economic solutions to the instability of the present. Missing in his analysis is the role of knowledge, especially as it is migrating from individuals to technical networks. This paper argues that recent developments in the networking of knowledge point towards a new constellation in which networks are emerging as major powers alongside the nation and the market, the two pillars of global political economy in the 20th and early 21st century. It responds to Sardar's challenge to imagine the future by imagining the political consequences of recognising non-human agencies as political actors.     

Postformal priorities for postnormal times: A rejoinder to Ziauddin Sardar

This essay is a postformal rejoinder to Ziauddin Sardar's Welcome to Postnormal Times. I have no quarrel with Sardar's conclusion that these times are postnormal, nor do I disagree with many of his observations, but our standpoints regarding implications are somewhat contradictory. Paradoxically, rather than jump into an old paradigm form of debate with Sardar's interpretations of postnormalcy, this rejoinder is a playful postformal response. I celebrate our complementary views as expressions of the complex truths of multiperspectivality. First I question the meaning of normal and postnormal in the context of such notions as “the pathology of normalcy.” Secondly I begin to explore the postnormal circumstances from a postformal perspective. This involves discussion of notions of progress, development, evolution and co-evolution from different points of view as an opener to coming to terms with complexity. I then explore how concepts such as complexity and paradox can be understood as paths to wisdom; how active imagination can be engaged in the service of life; and how engaged imagination can unfold new normative narratives of alternative futures. Such imaginaries of hope are vital for the wellbeing of young people. The essay closes with a call to embrace the richness of complexity and play with—rather than fear—the paradox of planetary pluralism.     

Green accounting and green eyeshades twenty years later rejoinder to critics

The articles in this compendium exhibit synergy.     

Equilibrium leadership in tax competition models with capital ownership: a rejoinder

This paper reconciles two opposite results in the tax competition literature. Kempf and Rota-Graziosi (J Public Econ 94(9–10):768–776, 2010) and Hindriks and Nishimura (J Public Econ 121:66–68, 2015) have shown that the two Stackelberg outcomes prevail as the subgame perfect equilibria when capital is entirely owned by nonresidents. However, Ogawa (Int Tax Public Finance 20(3):474–484, 2013) has shown that the simultaneous-move outcome prevails when capital is entirely owned by residents. We develop a model in which capital ownership can vary freely between these two polar cases. We show that there exists a unique degree of residential capital ownership such that the equilibrium switches from the Stackelberg to the simultaneous-move outcomes. The chance for the simultaneous-move outcome to prevail increases with the extent of production asymmetry between regions. Partial ownership also induces a novel effect of tax leadership that we call the preference reversion effect.     

内忧外患中找出路

金融资产管理公司运作的实际效果如何,不仅取决于资产管理公司自身是否努力,在很大程度上还取决于资产管理公司面临的法律环境是否完善、政策支持是否有力、社会信用秩序是否规范等许多外部环境因素.而在我国,由于不良资产处置是一项新事物,各方面都缺乏相关的经验和准备,这使得资产管理公司在三年多的运作过程中,遇到了相关法律和政策不配套、社会信用秩序混乱等诸多困难和障碍,从而影响了资产管理公司的运作效率和作用的充分发挥.     

On A Surplus Process Under A Periodic Environment

Abstract

The problem of modeling claims occurring in periodic random environments is discussed in this paper. In the classical approach of risk theory, the occurrence of claims is modeled by counting processes that do not account for claims following a periodic pattern. The author discusses how the use of the classical approach to model a periodic portfolio might lead to the miscalculation of important risk indices, namely the associated ruin probability.

He presents a periodic model, in terms of nonhomogeneous Poisson processes, that has potential practical applications. The discussion is based on some properties of the modeled periodic intensities. Existing simulation techniques are adapted to this periodic model, which provides a practical way to evaluate ruin probabilities.     

和谐BDA 绿色中国园

记者目前从北京市商务局了解到．2008年1—2月份,我市新批外商投资企业331家,同比增长16．1％,实际利用外商直接投资10．1亿美元,同比增长14．3％。与此同时,各区县也捷报频传,西城与海淀两个经济大区尤为引人注目。     

适应跨国投资新趋势, 积极探索采用并购方式利用外资

<正> 90年代中后期以来,外国直接投资出现了新的趋势:在全球外国直接投资总量中,跨国并购日益占据主体地位。 适应当前国际资本流动中跨国并购新趋势,积极探索和采用国际通行的并购方式吸收外资,对我国今后扩大吸收外资规模,提高利用外资质量和水平,     

A FINANCIAL PLANNING MODEL FOR A BRITISH UNIVERSITY

This paper describes a computer-based planning model using the FCS-EPS decision support system to provide a deterministic simulation of the financial flows of a British university over the period 1986–87 to 1990–91. In discussing the model's design, attention is focused upon the validity for universities of various notions of accounting surplus and deficit. Regarding the implementation of the model, the centre of concern is with sensitivity analysis. In the concluding section, the model is placed in the context of related studies in the UK and America.     

A correlation-formula

Abstract

The late Professor T. N. THIELE has pointed out, ¹ Bulletins de l'Académie Royale de Danemark, 1906 N:o 3 p. 149–152. that a given correlation may sometimes be brought to vanish by a suitable linear transformation of the coordinates. Unfortunately his indications in this respect are very brief; and as the subject is not treated by means of frequency-surfaces, but only by a consideration of the first few moments (or rather “half-invariants ” ² A kind of rational functions of the moments, see THIELE: Theory of Ohservations, London 1903, p. 24. — The same incomplete method has heen applied by C. Burrau (Meddelelser fra den antropologiske Komite p. 243–260). ) in a particular numerical case, his efforts have not resulted in establishing a correlation-formula which alone, by comparison with the observations, could prove his assertion right or wrong. I therefore propose to resume the subject, beginning with a few remarks on frequency-distributions with one single variable, and repeating, for the sake of completeness, a certain amount of known matter.     

A Tax-Tax Clientele for Inde-linked Bonds: A Comment

This comment describes the U.S. federal income tax treatment of corporate bonds that are indexed for inflation and argues that these bonds do not have a tax-tax clientele in the United States.