In remembrance of Robert D. Tollison

We discuss the mechanisms related to quadratic voting, from Vickrey’s counter-speculation mechanism and his second-price auction, through the family of Groves mechanisms and its most notable member, the Clarke mechanism, to the expected externality mechanism, Goeree and Zhang’s mechanism, the Groves–Ledyard mechanism, and the Hylland–Zeckhauser mechanism. We show that each mechanism that involves collective decisions has a quadratic aspect and that all of the mechanisms that we discuss are applications of the fundamental insight that for a process to be efficient, all parties involved must bear the marginal social costs of their actions.     

社会主义革命和建设时期党的农民思想政治教育的历史考察

社会主义革命和建设时期中国共产党主动顺应农村形势与任务的发展变化,很快适应了从革命党到执政党的角色转变,围绕党的中心任务开展了内容丰富的农民思想政治教育工作.该时期农民思想政治教育的理论与实践蕴涵着经验、教训,更留给我们深刻的启迪.     

高铁隧道内气动效应形成损坏痕迹特点分析

动车高速通过隧道时,运行车体推动的空气由于受到隧道壁的约束能形成能量很强的冲击气流,有时会造成一些设备设施损坏、脱落,进而危及高铁行车安全。这类事件发生后,铁路部门往往误以为是人为破坏,并以破坏案件进行上报。本文通过对特定动车行车事故的现场勘验、调查访问,分析了高铁隧道内气动效应对特殊位置设施造成损坏的过程及形成痕迹特点,准确认定了事件性质和事故发生原因,并对气动效应形成损坏痕迹和常见工具形成痕迹的区别进行了探讨。     

危害公共卫生行为的刑法防治--以《刑法修正案(十一)》的相关规定为中心

防治危害公共卫生行为的刑法规范经历了从简单到复杂、从模糊到明确的演变过程,已经比较完善;《刑法修正案(十一)》对妨害传染病防治罪的修改具有堵塞处罚漏洞、贯彻罪刑法定原则和限定处罚范围的积极意义。在司法实践中,应当正确区分妨害传染病防治罪与以危险方法危害公共安全罪,只有新型冠状病毒病原体的携带者故意不采取有效防护措施,进入医院、养老院等虚弱人群聚集场所,引起新型冠状病毒传播危险或者造成新型冠状病毒传播的,才能依照《刑法》第114条、第115条第1款的规定,以以危险方法危害公共安全罪定罪处罚,否则,充其量只能依照《刑法》第330条的规定,以妨害传染病防治罪定罪处罚。     

2005—2019年高等院校司法鉴定机构发展与展望

2005年2月28日,第十届全国人民代表大会常务委员会颁布了《关于司法鉴定管理问题的决定》,正式确立了我国司法鉴定的管理体制与设立格局,带来了我国司法鉴定的蓬勃发展。纵观全球,权威的法庭科学/司法鉴定机构或部门都与高等院校有着诸多联系,我国高校自身设立的司法鉴定机构在当前国家健全统一司法鉴定管理体制和推进公共法律服务体系建设中,借助高等院校的人才优势、设备优势以及政策优势,获得了更多的机遇,得到了长足的发展,成为了我国社会性鉴定机构的生力军。通过系统回顾了2005—2019年间,我国高校司法鉴定机构的发展现状、地位作用,并结合现实背景,对如何发挥高校司法鉴定机构核心竞争力、管理创新、技术强化等方面进行了展望。     

The Anti-Axial Age

Karl Jaspers famously characterized the period from the beginning of the eighth to the end of the third century before Christ as an “Axial Age” in which intellectual freedom and creativity blossomed as never before. This article argues that it was followed, five hundred years later, by an “Anti-Axial Age”, which devised a novel formula for intellectual and political repression. Its essence was the state’s capture of the millenial narrative, which had first been developed as religious doctrine within Zoroastrianism and Christianity. Involving the two great classical empires of Western Eurasia, Persia and Rome, and then empowering the expansion of Islam, the Anti-Axial Age left an ideological legacy that continues to haunt the contemporary world.