Envy and the Islamic revival: Experimental evidence from Tunisia

I design and conduct a survey with an embedded lab-in-the-field experiment to test whether envy triggers popular support for the Islamic revival using a nationally representative sample of 600 Tunisians. Individuals exposed to high inequality may feel envious if they perceive that the success of others is granted rather than earned. Thus, envious individuals may be motivated to engage in religious and political activities to cope with their feelings. I trigger the sentiment of envy with a 2 ?×? 2 design by interacting a priming video and low stakes. I find that individuals in the envy treatment donate a larger proportion of their endowment to a politically involved religious charity, my measure of support for the Islamic revival. Overall, my experimental findings, consistent with survey data, confirm the idea that envy is an important determinant of popular support for the Islamic revival, even after controlling for religiosity.     

Usage of the concept of culture and heritage in the United Arab Emirates – an analysis of Sharjah heritage area

Under the forces of an oil-based economy and the fast paced change, nationals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other Gulf states are becoming very keen to preserve, represent and invent a distinct ‘national’ culture and heritage. Fears of ‘loss’ of identity and concerns about ‘global’ culture are powerful social forces. Heritage revival has become a significant social, cultural and political process in the UAE, the most public sign of this being the development of ‘Heritage Villages’. This analysis explores themes of heritage revival and the preservation, representation and construction of culture in the UAE with specific analysis of the Sharjah Heritage Area (SHA). It will be shown that heritage revival in the UAE is both a symbolic and practical negation of globalization. Heritage revival is also increasingly an affirmation of the fast paced development of international business and tourism in the Emirates which is the focus of economic diversification. SHA will first be examined as a museum exhibitionary complex combining museum, festival and shopping. The representation, performance, negotiation and interplay of local/global and old/new culture at the SHA will be outlined in the context of transnationalism and the oil-propelled modernization.     

儒家学说与社会主义的和解？

本文认为把社会主义传统和儒家传统结合起来的左派儒学在中国大陆最有发展前途。作者简要概述了传统的社会主义价值观以及它们如何与一些“儒学”特征结合起来，以厘清“左派儒学”的轮廓，如独立的社会和政治批评、关心弱势群体、关心基本的物质生活、和陌生人的团结、全球正义和宗教宽容等。在文章最后，作者还探讨了儒学的普遍性和走向世界的困难。     

论按照“三个代表”要求执政兴国

“三个代表”重要思想是加强和改进党的领导,保持党的先进性的行动指南,是执政兴国的根本保证。按照“三个代表”要求大力发展生产力是执政兴国的必然要求,是构建社会主义和谐社会的理性选择,是抓住战略机遇期不断推进改革开放的强大动力,只有始终不渝地贯彻“三个代表”重要思想,才能实现中华民族的伟大复兴。     

政治文化视域下的大国崛起

政治文化指一个民族在特定时期普遍奉行的一整套政治态度、信仰、情感、价值等基本取向,由一个民族的地理环境、民族主体、宗教信仰、政治经济的历史发展进程等因素形成.本文论证（葡萄牙西班牙、意大利）英国、法国、德国美国、德国日本、德国俄罗斯、中国等国家在崛起和复兴过程中,民族、宗教、历史等政治文化要素起到非常重要的作用.     

Lachmann and the wilderness: On Lachmann's radical subjectivism

Abstract

This paper deals with the question why in the 1940s and 1950s Ludwig Lachmann (1906–1990) failed to revive Austrian economics. Lake Keynes and Hayek, Lachmann pointed out that expectations, and hence knowledge, are important determinants of (cyclical fluctuations in) investment and economic activity. He thereby emphasized that the process of knowledge acquisition is indeterminate and open‐ended. This indeterminateness is difficult to reconcile with neoclassical attempts to provide economics with internally consistent microfoundations. This fundamental difference between his and the neoclassical research agenda explains Lachmann's failure to revive Austrian economics.     

Entrepreneurs: Invent a new brand name or revive an old one?

This paper discusses launching an entrepreneurial venture by acquiring a once popular brand name and reviving it. Interviews were conducted with 10 executives who acquired dormant brands and successfully relaunched them into the market. Their comments suggest that, with proper planning, an entrepreneur may be able to substantially increase his or her chances of success by reviving brands, rather than spending the enormous amount of capital required to build new brand image. Conclusions suggest that nostalgia targeting is not enough; the revived brand must be repositioned to satisfy today's customer values. Evidence also suggests licensing a revived brand name to unrelated industries may prove very profitable for the entrepreneur.     

业绩衰退企业实现反转研究综述

多年来,学术界对于企业衰退之后的反转问题进行了大量研究,也形成了丰富的研究成果。本文围绕反转的界定、反转的背景、反转的过程、反转的战略这四个方面,对有关反转研究及其成果进行了梳理,并对该领域的未来研究进行了展望。     

The Revival of Chinese Costume Culture——Contrast Between Chinese and American Costume

Costume culture is an important symbol of a nation, which reflects directly the developing condition of a nation in a particular period.The Chinese nation boasts 5000 years of history as one of the four ancient civilizations in the world, while the United States is a relatively newly born na-tion.Since China's reform and opening, the Chinese realized their great disparity with the western world. This paper demonstrates the contrast between Chinese and American costume culture, and it makes the conclusion that the Chinese nation should rejuvenate its costume culture in the new period.     

转型期农村宗族势力复兴原因探析

本文试图从主观因素和外部条件两个方面分析现代化过程中宗族势力得以抬头的原因,以期正本清源,从源头上找出原因,采取相应的措施,对农村宗族势力进行规范约束。