所有权安排、会计监督博弈

根据委托代理理论,由于交易费用与信息不对称,会计信息产权通过公司内部所有者监管、激励机制的所有权博弈安排,可以借以内部化会计信息的外部性。但博弈的均衡结果仍存在“公共领域”,在此基础上,构建了会计监管的博弈模型,并进行分析。     

"新儒学"、"后新儒学"、"现代"与"后现代"——最近十余年来的省察与思考之一斑

本文将对比于"新儒学"与"后新儒学","现代"与"后现代",对近十年来的思考发展做一省察。首先,针对的是一九九四以前的一些思想生命史的回顾,而归结于《麦迪逊手记——后新儒学的怀想》。之后,对于"新儒学"与"后新儒学"的对比区分,提出梗概。再者,随着世代的变迁,后现代的存在处境与现代及前现代并不相同,连带地,后新儒学有着新的转折、回返、承继、批判与发展。相对而言,这是由"以心控身"转而"身心一如","内圣外王"转而"外王内圣"的发展。凡此种种,又紧密关联到"存有的连续观"与"存有的断裂观"的对比。在这样的张力中,有一可能的新视点,对于存有论、知识论、实践哲学诸层面展开新的论述,进而有助于人类文明多元互动与交谈之可能。     

理解·友谊·信赖——"笹川杯"日本知识大赛剪影

秋日的浙江工商大学阳光明媚,窗明几净的学生活动中心正在举行一场别具一格的大赛--华东地区第三届"笹川杯"日本知识大赛.……     

Silicon Valley,disruption, and the end of uncertainty

ABSTRACT

This paper reflects on the relationship between high-tech disruption narratives and uncertainty. My main argument is that an economic sociology of the future is incomplete without addressing the ‘demonic’ or rather eschatological elements apparent in the promissory twin rhetoric of disruption and inevitability that a number of contemporary technology firms employ. The conjuring up of liberatory high-tech futures implicates a political-philosophical perspective of the end game. It utilizes at once the productive power of uncertainty to create visions of ‘absolute riches’ and societal gain but at the same time narrows these futures down to one inevitable alternative to the status quo. Through the examples of two Silicon Valley disruptor firms, I argue that these eschatological narratives need to be opened to social scientific critique in order to examine their potential societal consequences above and beyond the narrow geographic confines of ‘the Valley.’     

南宋词人沈端节吕胜己赵磻老生平考略

南宋词人沈端节有《克斋词》,吕胜己有《渭川居士词》,赵老有《拙庵词》,然生平事迹一向无考,本文勾沉载籍,分别考述其生平行事。     

Chemistry,Green Chemistry,and the Instrumental Valuation of Sustainability

Using the Public Value Mapping framework, I address the values successes and failures of chemistry as compared to the emerging field of green chemistry, in which the promoters attempt to incorporate new and expanded values, such as health, safety, and environmental sustainability, to the processes of prioritizing and conducting chemistry research. I document how such values are becoming increasingly “public.” Moreover, analysis of the relations among the multiple values associated with green chemistry displays a greater internal coherence and logic than for conventional chemistry. Although traditional chemistry research has successfully contributed to both economic and values gains, there have been public values failures due to imperfect values articulations, failure to take a longer-term view, and inertia within a system that places too much emphasis on “science values.” Green chemistry, if implemented effectively, has potential to remedy these failures.     

Nominees,winners, and losers

The paper tries to convey the idea that choosing a winner among a group of nominees or short-listed candidates may hurt those who bestow prizes, those who are selected, as well as those who base their own choices on the ranking. We base our observations on examples of contests (movies, literature, and music) in which winners often turn out not to be better than nominees. Our suggestion is therefore to select, say five candidates, and not to rank them, but reward all nominees equally.     

Arts,Entrepreneurship, and Innovation

There is growing interest in the relationships between the arts, entrepreneurship and innovation. Nevertheless, the concepts of arts, entrepreneurship, and innovation, and the overlaps between, lack specificity, especially in terms of how each supports the other. This article proposes a definition of art entrepreneurship both as a concept and a field of study. The definition proposed helped target articles to be included in the special issue that this article also describes, which focus on relationships between arts, entrepreneurship and innovation for workers, firms, and industry.

     

Languages,Genes, and Cultures

This paper examines three situations in which distances between languages, genes, and cultures matter. The first is concerned with the determinants that govern the learning of foreign languages. One of these is the difficulty of the foreign language, represented by the distance between the native and the foreign language. The second case deals with the formation and breaking-up of nations. Here, it is suggested that genetic distances between regions with diversified populations (such as between the Basque country and the rest of Spain) need to be compensated by more generous transfer systems if the nation wants to avoid secession-prone behavior. The last case looks at a very popular cultural event, the Eurovision Song Contest, in which nations are represented by singers who are ranked by an international jury that consists of citizens chosen in each participating country. It is shown that what is often considered as logrolling in voting behavior is rather generated by voting for culturally and linguistically close neighbors.