VOLUME 3(3) • 2008
NEW MEDIA VERSUS NEWS MEDIA
ABSTRACT. Johnson-Cartee explains that in order for news narratives to be effective or understandable, news reporters believe that the audience must somehow relate to the story (the audience must identify with the players in the narrative). Bird says that tabloid news – stories that merit a column o..
PSYCHOLOGY, CATEGORY THEORY, AND MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURALISM
ABSTRACT. Bernays maintains that an axiom system is regarded not as a system of statements about a subject matter but as a system of conditions for what might be called a relational structure. Goodstein observes that when we contrast formal mathematics with intuitive mathematics we are not contrasti..
THE DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION OF THE NEWS GENRE
ABSTRACT. According to Tuchman, hard news deal with unscheduled or pre-scheduled events and their publication is seen as urgent. Kopper et al. write that online journalism is a new and fast-evolving branch of journalism, with academic research about it lagging far behind. Jenkins contends that conve..
CATEGORICAL FOUNDATIONS AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MATHEMATICS
ABSTRACT. According to Feferman, categorical notions of arrows cannot be logically prior to set-theoretic accounts of objects. Dummett argues that the term “structuralism” ought to only be applied to structuralism at the abstract level. Lucas argues that we can see how we might have almost expected ..
CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY OF JURIDICAL PERSONS
ABSTRACT. Diprose compares Nietzsche’s and Arendt’s critiques of the juridical concept of responsibility (that emphasizes duty and blame) with the aim of deriving an account of responsibility appropriate for our time, and examines shared ground in their radical approaches to responsibility. Molier a..
THE IMPERFECT USE OF LUSTRATION AS A TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE MEASURE
ABSTRACT. Williams and Fowler examine how lustration has been handled in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, testing three frameworks that have been developed to account for why and how emerging democracies deal with their non-democratic past. Horne writes that lustration laws, within the histor..
JURIDICAL RESPONSIBILITY, PRACTICAL REASONING, AND CRIMINAL LAW DISCOURSE
ABSTRACT. Hattori examines the contradiction between the apparent assignment of responsibility and its reality in sovereign loans to states since the 1970s: the process of this assignment can be best described as the result of the gradual institutionalization of the juridical construction of knowled..
EXTERNAL INFLATIONARY SHOCKS AND DISCRETIONARY FISCAL POLICIES
ABSTRACT. Ang and Piazessi construct the measures of real activity and inflation as the first principal component of a large set of candidate macroeconomic series, to avoid relying on specific macro series. Obstfeld claims that the limited pass-through of exchange rate changes to consumer import pri..
MONETARY-FISCAL POLICY INTERACTIONS AND STRUCTURAL SHOCKS
ABSTRACT. Chari and Kehoe argue that macroeconomists have been profitably applying the basic tools of general equilibrium theory, computational techniques, and a deep understanding of key features of the data to a wide area of phenomena outside of narrowly defined macroeconomics. Grimm and Reid writ..
EXPLAINING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE NEW EUROPE
ABSTRACT. Cass remarks that international trade is undergoing a transformation commonly referred to as “constitutionalization”. Cho points out that a norm should be the operating code for the global trading system, and a norm-building itself regarded as a collective, communal remedy with which to ma..
THE ROLE PLAYED BY THE CONTROL ENVIRONMENT FOR THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE INTERNAL CONTROL SYSTEM
ABSTRACT. HKI of CPA contends that companies that do not have an internal audit function should review the need for one on an annual basis. PCAOB maintains that when assessing a company’s anti-fraud programs and controls, the auditor should evaluate whether the company has appropriately addressed th..
PRODUCT MARKET REGULATION AND MARKET MECHANISM CHOICE
ABSTRACT. Dostie and Sahn estimate a model of labor market dynamics among individuals in Romania using panel data for three years, 1994 to 1996, in order to gain insight into the functioning of the labor market and how workers are coping during this period of economic liberalization and transformati..