Habits,Self-Control and Social Conventions: The Role of Global Media and Corporations

There has been an intellectual debate at least since the 1960s in business ethics on the role of the media in relation to consumer choice driven by either habits or rationality. If consumers are totally rational, then the global media and global corporations provide just information and knowledge. If consumers are influenced by habit then large corporations and global media can greatly influence consumer choice and create problems of self-control (Ainslie, 1992, Pico Economics: The Strategic Interaction of Successive Motivational States Within the Person, Cambridge University press, Cambridge). In this article, we provide a synthesis and integrated approach to this continuing debate. We provide a more institutional approach to consumer choice based on social conventions, rather than just on individual habits and lapses in self-control.     

10kV变电站的电力施工技术浅探

简介变电站的设计以及结合实际,简要的探析了10kV变电站的电力施工技术。     

知识观演进视野中教育评价理论的嬗变

知识观的演进和发展同教育评价的联系密切。在知识观演进过程中，实证主义知识观、人文主义知识观、女性主义知识观、后现代主义知识观对教育评价理论有着深远的影响，在教育评价的实践过程中，教育评价的关注点已从注重知识结果的终结性评价转移到注重知识过程中的形成性评价，教育评价的范围也在不断扩大。     

对我国职业教育的再认识(二)

<正>一、关于职业教育的举办、管理和实施的各个主体以及它们之间的关系,即靠谁来办职业教育,核心是管理体制和办学体的问题具体来说,就是在中国国情下如何能够最优化地处理好几个关系:一是政府、学校(培训机构)和企业、事业单位这几个主体各自的角色定位;二     

Women and Globalization: Ethical Dimensions of Knowledge Transfer in Global Organizations

The topic of women and globalization raises fundamental questions on the impact of globalization on women, ethnic minorities and other socio-demographically under-represented actors in global organizations. This article seeks to integrate theories of procedural justice, psychological contracts, motivation and psychological ownership in knowledge transfer in global organizations, and the implications for women, and other under-represented actors. Our analysis concurs with current research on the need for a relativist perspective in business ethics research and one that encompasses the critical processes of exchange from a cognitive perspective. Our contribution is to show that globalization is a complex process, that has different impacts on actors, an impact that can vary widely depending on, whether the actors are in a dominant situation, or as in the case of women and ethnic minorities, in a relatively socio-demographic and geo-politically under represented situation.     

国际海事欺诈现状分析及防范

<正>一、国际海事欺诈概论国际海事欺诈由来以久,它与海洋冒险活动、海上运输和国际贸易相伴相随, 几乎同样古老。随着国际贸易及航运业的迅猛发展,国际海事欺诈也日益蔓延与猖獗。尤其是70年代初期以来,国际海事欺     

Stock Prices and Inflation: New Evidence from the Pacific-Basin Countries

This paper investigates the statistical relationship between stock prices and inflation in nine countries in the Pacific-Basin. On balance, regression analysis on the nine markets shows negative relationships between stock returns in real terms and inflation in the short run, while co-integration tests on the same markets display a positive relationship between the same variables over the long run. The time path of the response of stock prices plotted against corresponding changes in consumer price indices validates this dichotomy in time-related response patterns of stock prices to inflation; namely, a blip of negative responses at the beginning changes to a positive response over a longer period of time. Stock prices in Asia, like those in the U.S. and Europe, appear to reflect a time-varying memory associated with inflation shocks that make stock portfolios a reasonably good hedge against inflation in the long run.     

Investment,interest rate rules,and equilibrium determinacy

Summary. By adding endogenous investment to a flexible-price, money-in-the-utility-function model, this paper studies the role that physical capital plays in stabilizing the real side of the economy when the monetary authority follows interest-rate feedback rules. We show that with inelastic labor supply equilibrium uniqueness is ensured under both active and passive monetary policies. For the case where money affects both preferences and technology, the uniqueness result remains true under active monetary policy. With endogenous labor supply, the uniqueness result holds again regardless of the stance of monetary policies for the case with separable leisure, but indeterminacy remains likely under both active and passive monetary policies when leisure is nonseparable.Received: 19 December 2001, Revised: 12 May 2003, JEL Classification Numbers: E52, O42.We are grateful to Jess Benhabib and an anonymous referee for helpful comments and suggestions. Correspondence to: C.K. Yip