古希腊建筑装饰艺术在现代人居环境中的应用

古希腊艺术代表着人类童年时期的优秀成果,其永久魅力与其未成熟的社会条件密切相关。为了更好地揭示、诠释、汲取古希腊艺术的真谛,创造更美的现代人的生活乐园,文章从装饰题材,多元性材料技术、艺术风格三个方面,探究了古希腊建筑装饰艺术及其在现代人居环境中的应用。     

International Trade, OECD Membership, and Religion

Transaction costs in trade gravity equation are proxied by the distance that separates two trading partners, under the assumption that the distance elasticity is the same across all trading partners. We show that distance elasticity, however, critically depends on whether trading partners are industrial countries (i.e., members of the OECD) or share same religion. These heterogeneities are both statistically and economically significant. For instance, expected trade flows are the largest when an OECD member trades with a non-member and both are non-religious. Expected trade flows fall as much as by 62.9% between two non-religious, non-OECD members. Expected bilateral trade drops by 48.1% when both countries in the pair are OECD members while one is Christian and the other is Islamic. Both religion and OECD membership significantly affect the typical transaction costs implied by the gravity equation. JEL Classification Number: F13     

古希腊文学中人文精神对和谐社会构建作用研究

古希腊文明是西方文化的源头,是世界文化史上永恒的丰碑,古希腊文学突出地表现了古希腊人对宇宙、自然与人生的理解与思考,其中蕴涵着他们较为原始的精神、心理、情感和文化的内容.追求世俗自由,实现自己的价值与尊 严成为其文学精神的主要特征,这种以世俗个体自由为重心的人文精神,就是古希腊文化的根本精神,也是中国构建以 人为本的和谐社会的出发点.研究分析古希腊文学中的人文精神,将对中国现代和谐社会的建构起积极的作用.     

《神曲》中的两希文化对立与融合

但丁的《神曲》既浸透了宗教意识,又饱含了生命的热情。翻开《神曲》,我们可以看出,面对两希文化各有千秋的局面,但丁显得十分热切,但又带点茫然。但丁的《神曲》为两希文化的融合作出了一次伟大的尝试。从《神曲》中所反映出来的两希文化对立和融合出发,深入探讨了两种不同文化对作品的影响。     

The Macroeconomic Consequences of Mixing Sunnis and Shias: A Bayesian Errors-in-Variables Approach

How damaging is the Sunni/Shia split to the economies of Islamic countries? Is it better to be one or the other? Or is it better to have an even balance between the two? Answering these questions is complicated by the fact that the data are often missing or imprecisely measured. We employ the technique of Bayesian data augmentation to circumvent these two problems, and find that properly controlling for these features in the data leads to drastically different conclusions than what is found using ordinary least squares. We find that there is nothing in the differential nature of Sunni or Shia Islam to make one more economically prosperous than the other. Nor do we find any support for the popular hypothesis that Sunnis and Shias cannot mix.     

论云南少数民族服饰的丰富内涵

文章着重从云南少数民族服饰在历史变迁中的实用价值、宗教信仰、审美情趣、民族性格、民族心理、等级差别、财产观念以及对历史的传承和变异多个方面,分析云南少数民族服饰的丰富内涵,为现代服装的设计提供新的思路。     

State privatization and the unrelenting expansion of neoliberalism: The case of the Greek financial crisis

The existing literature has identified two waves of reforms within the neoliberal agenda of state privatization, deregulation and new public management. This study examines what we call the third wave of neoliberal reforms of governmentality, in which members of central governments and public servants increasingly come to think and behave like business entrepreneurs. We address the matter through the lens of crises theoretically capable of undermining neoliberalism's legitimacy. Specifically, we aim to better understand the manufacturing of consent to the neoliberal agenda of state privatization. We study the falsification of Greek public accounts as revealed in 2010, relying on empirical material, such as journalistic statements and reports from international institutions. Our analysis indicates that, although the Greek crisis provided an opportunity to question key aspects of contemporary state management, including the practice by governments of creative finance, the main problematizing trajectories articulated in both the media and political arenas did not destabilize but consolidated neoliberalism. In particular, we illustrate how discursive activity favors the emergence of a collective interpretation of crises that perpetuates the hold of neoliberalism over the social and political realms. In the discussion, we reflect on the consequences that this has for democratic processes.     

Foreign direct investment: the role of institutional and cultural determinants

Using panel data for 29 source and 65 host countries in the period 1995–2009, we examine the determinants of bilateral FDI stocks, focusing on institutional and cultural factors. The results reveal that institutional and cultural distance is important and that FDI has a predominantly regional aspect. FDI to developing countries is positively affected by better institutions in the host country, while foreign investors prefer to invest in developed countries that are more corrupt and politically unstable compared to home. The results indicate that foreign investors prefer to invest in countries with less diverse societies than their own.     

平遥古城旅游企业竞合关系研究

平遥古城是世界文化遗产旅游地,旅游企业的个体经营行为和彼此之间的竞争合作关系都会对古城旅游发展和遗产保护带来重要的影响。通过抽样问卷调查和数据处理,从古城内旅游企业竞争对手、竞争关系及竞争方式等方面分析了旅游企业的竞争状况;从旅游企业的合作特点和方式等方面分析了企业间的合作关系,认为平遥古城的旅游企业的竞合关系特点已具备了产业集群的特征,通过企业间合作性竞争,世界文化遗产的“公地悲剧”可以避免。