VOLUME 3(2) • 2008
NEWS AS BIASED ENTERTAINMENT, FACTION, AND SUPERMARKET TABLOIDS
ABSTRACT. Bianco asserts that news organizations need to be more careful about putting children on camera to recount the horrors they have seen. Schumann observes that images have the unique property of forcing the viewer to generate descriptions. Smith states that the tabloidization of the media re..
HOW DOES THE IDEA OF COGNITIVE TECHNOLOGIES RELATE TO MATHEMATICS EDUCATION?
ABSTRACT. Sterelny and Griffiths contend that the human behavioral repertoire is not an aggregation of independent units. Anderson et al. think that information-processing theories do not posit a simple one-to-one mapping between individual rules or knowledge components and individual bits of behavi..
CYBERNEWS AND HYPERREALITY
ABSTRACT. Casey contends that in the world of TV news, viewers only see the product of journalism, never its process. Brown claims that it is the televisual which has reduced the apparent gap between "news" and "fiction" in its generic cross-dressing. Black notices that belief in television's influe..
MATHEMATICS EDUCATION, NEURONAL DYNAMICS, AND COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
ABSTRACT. According to Pea, a cognitive technology is any medium that helps transcend the limitations of the mind in thinking, learning, and problem-solving activities. Stephan et al. hold that functional specialization assumes a local specialization for certain aspects of information processing. Ta..
REGULATING CONTRACTS AND INTERCONNECTED MARKETS
ABSTRACT. Hatzis writes that the pursuit of social justice by legislative bodies and not by courts is more efficient, more comprehensive, democratic and impartial. Wiener Katz considers the major doctrinal rules of contract formation and interpretation, and the incentives such rules provide for pre-..
STATE PUNISHMENT, SOCIAL CONTROL, AND CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
ABSTRACT. Sparks explores the question of how the penal realm intersects with the cultural and the political, and of what we mean by each of those terms when we use them together. Andrews and Bonta hold that treatment be delivered in a style and mode that is consistent with the ability and learning ..
IS CONTRACT LAW THE RIGHT VEHICLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE?
ABSTRACT. Schwartz and Scott defend applying the welfare maximization norm to the contracts of sophisticated actors, describe commercial parties' first order preference. On Caruso's reading, many transactions take place within loose regulatory schemes provided by international networks of public age..
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW
ABSTRACT. Lawrence holds that because trade creates winners and losers, there is always political pressure to disrupt trade even though its effect on the economy is positive. Fadiga and Fadiga-Stewart develop a conceptual analysis based on an asymmetric deterrence game with incomplete information to..
LEGAL COHERENCE, IMPRISONMENT, AND FREEDOM
ABSTRACT. Hannah-Moffat argues that risk knowledges are fluid and flexible and capable of supporting a range of penal strategies. Ruddell examines three factors that may be related to the use of imprisonment in a society, after controlling for indicators of economic stress, violent crime, and modern..
INCENTIVES FOR RISK-TAKING IN BANKING AND THE REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT
ABSTRACT. Gruben et al. test the links between depositor discipline and the predisposition of banks to break towards risky behavior in periods associated with bank liberalization or privatization. Foster asserts that central banks have typically employed national accounting and financial reporting s..
MARKET RISK AND BANK CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS
ABSTRACT. Hirtle examines the relationship between the amount of information disclosed by bank holding companies (BHCs) and their subsequent risk profile and performance. Hänsel and Krahnen suggest that credit securitization goes hand-in-hand with an increase in the risk appetite of the issuing bank..
THE AGGREGATE EFFECT OF DEVALUATION EXPECTATIONS ON BANKS' RISK-TAKING
ABSTRACT. Foster notes that IAS is designed to provide a level playing field for the raising of cheaper corporate financing in the international capital markets. Kinnunen and Vehviläinen remark that the bank risk-taking suffers from the same econometric problems as exchange rate economics in general..