In other words, is the hypothesis that globalisation increases economic efficiency to the detriment of cohesion and equality supported by the data? Here are the key results. The analysis leads to three main findings. First, with the exception of financial liberalisation we find that all our “...
I truly hope that more Korean people will get to see you in the media, find you approachable, and maybe one day even come to affectionately refer to you as ‘철헌 쌤’ (ssam; a colloquial word meaning ‘teacher’ in Korean, similar to ‘sensei’ in Japanese). Sir, I hope you ...
This group of students are candidates for the national university admission exam, which is considered as a key channel for upward social mobility for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The timing of the school closure is particularly important for this group of students, as it occurred during ...
another person's perspective (e.g., “the man took her perspective,”“I embraced her view”; the italics here were not in the original materials but serve to emphasize the word associated with perspective-taking); in the baseline condition, none of the words related to perspective-taking. ...
and fruitlessly denying the problems each pointed out in his broader work does not help at all. Smith wrote when, fresh from the collapse of European Feudalism, land served as the key to wealth of any kind, and still viewed as an unlimited resource for the grabbing. The vast inequities th...
“Regulation” is a dirty word to the proponents of free markets; but free markets are failing us, and it’s time we admitted that, and shaped them to our needs. A global-local economy Globalisation is inevitable – and in many ways beneficial; but ironically the same technologies that ...
I wasn't using the word theft in the legal sense, only in the moral sense. For your other examples, if you believe imprisoning someone for a crime is inherently wrong, then hiring government to do it would be just as wrong. The justification for it isn't some special right of...
Our “oneness” as a nation is tenuous. Compromise, a disparaged word in this hyperpartisan age, is shown byAmerican Nationsto be a unifying force. Our differences will remain. Our nation’s future will be determined by our willingness to either fight about them or live with them. ...
Meanwhile, the development of the YREB region has been facing several challenges and problems that need to be solved urgently; for example, the severe ecological environment, the bottleneck restriction of the Yangtze River waterways, and the serious problem of unbalanced regional development (NDRC, ...
Surely if word had leaked out in the 1950s of Krugman’s idyllic youth that there was some faraway sheikdom of unimaginable wealth, it would not have mattered to Paul. So why does it matter if that sheikdom is located not in the sands along the Persian Gulf but hard by Long Island So...