Believing in employment discrimination: The case of Forrest Mims,Scientific American,and title VII protection

This article reviews the law regarding Title VII employment discrimination protection from religious discrimination. The issues surrounding the principal legal protection in this regard are explored in the context of a recent controversial case in which an author, Forrest Mims, was not hired as a regular contributor forScientific American magazine, ostensibly because of his belief in the theory of creation over the theory of evolution. The definition of what constitutes a protected religious belief or practice is seen to have expanded over time. However, a belief in creationism is not necessarily seen as being tantamount to a religious belief under present legal interpretation of Title VII. The implications of this finding for future needed Title VII revision are discussed.     

Rent, risk, and replication: Preference adaptation in winner-take-all markets

We study the evolution of an economy where agents who are heterogeneous with respect to risk attitudes can either earn a certain income or enter a risky rent-seeking contest. We assume that agents behave rationally given their preferences, but that the population distribution of preferences evolves over time in response to material payoffs. We show that, in particular, initial distributions with full support converge to stationary states where all types are still present. Although rents are perfectly dissipated in material terms at a steady state, efficiency is greater than if everybody had been risk neutral, since risk lovers specialize in rent seeking.     

Differential reporting in Germany - A historical analysis

Based on a contingent perspective of accounting change, this paper reviews the historical development of differential reporting in Germany, by drawing on primary and secondary sources. The main objective of the paper is to shed light on the driving forces and main influential parameters that have shaped the existing differential reporting framework. This historical approach supplies interesting insights for the current discussion on differential reporting in Germany produced by the EU Regulation on the application of International Accounting Standards.     

窄岭金矿剪切带基本特征与发展演化模式

河北丰宁窄岭金矿,可以区分3幕Ⅰ级韧性剪切带,1幕Ⅱ级脆韧性剪切带和1幕Ⅲ级脆性剪切带。伴随不同的剪切变形变质作用,分别有花岗岩(红旗菅子群花岗片麻岩)→闪长岩(变闪长岩)→正长斑岩→含金石英脉的侵位。而金矿则是这种多期多阶段构造—岩浆复杂演化使金逐步富集的最终产物。     

融资制度变革的内在逻辑和次序安排

本文主要目的在于探讨我国当前金融制度的问题,并尝试探讨融资制度变迁的内在逻辑和次序安排,希望以此作为政策制定之参考。本文认为,国有经济改革、非公有经济发展以及农村经济发展等使国家改革现行融资制度的动力很足,但与此对应,各有关主体对改革现行融资制度的动力明显不足,提高融资制度效率的关键在于所有制和竞争力上。文章还在国有商业银行股份制改造、农村金融制度、非正规金融、监管和利率等方面提出了相应的建议。     

基于技术形成机理的自主创新决策模型研究

技术的形成是企业在特定时期将最新的创新思想和前沿知识相结合,并实现产业化的过程,它受到企业内部和外部多种因素的影响和制约。根据技术的形成机理,技术自主创新包括知识技术化、技术产品化和产品市场化等三个决策维度,并在每个决策维度运用相应的寻优原则进行评价与选择,形成了知识技术化决策模式、技术产品化决策模式和产品市场化决策模式,从而构建基于技术形成机理的企业技术自主创新的决策模型。     

日本专利代理人制度的最新发展及对我国的启示

专利代理人制度是整个专利法律制度的核心。日本的专利代理人制度自1889年创设以来已有115年的历史,前后经历了萌芽时期、发展时期、完善时期和成熟期四个阶段,迄今为止已形成了包含专利代理人考试制度、实务修习制度、专利业务法人制度、专利代理人协会制度和学校教育制度等在内的较为完善的专利代理人制度。纵观日本专利代理人制度,其立法的精细化程度、专利代理人协会对知识产权法律制度革新的参与与推动作用、中小企业专利代理援助制度以及专利代理人学校教育制度等方面对完善我国专利代理人立法和推动创新型国家建设均有极为重要的借鉴意义。     

知识溢出与高新技术产业集群的演化——以上海市张江高科园区IC产业集群为例

国内外的一些研究表明,知识溢出与高新技术产业集群的形成和发展有着密切的关系。产业集群总是处于一个动态的变化过程中,知识溢出在各个过程中所起的作用是不一样的。文章结合高新技术产业集群的生命周期理论,探讨了知识溢出对高新技术产业集群演化的影响,最后结合上海张江IC产业集群的案例加以说明。     

我国对外开放战略的跨越式发展--从特区建设到“一带一路”

中国改革开放从特区建设到“一带一路”的实施推进,经历了设立经济特区、进一步开放沿海城市、沿江沿边和内陆省份开放、加入WTO和“一带一路”五个阶段,并表现出鲜明的特点。我国对外开放战略,具有渐进性、阶段性和互利性,对“一带一路”战略的有效实施有着重要的作用。     

不同动态理论视角下产业组织空间群聚机制的解释

产业组织群聚是产业组织演化的一个宏观空间特征,是一个典型的具有群聚性的网络动态过程。建立在不同的理论流派基础上对此作出了不同侧面的解释。但基于复杂系统网络演化理论基础上的解释尚很少。本文首先对产业组织群聚的不同经济流派做出比较,在此基础上,探讨网络演化的复杂性和无标度性。论证具有无标度特性的网络所内含的群聚性(Clustering)可以用来解释产业组织群聚特征,从而可扩展已有的产业组织群聚理论解释。