The Past as Prologue: An Economist''s Tentative Prognosis for the New Millennium

The past millennium witnessed three intellectual revolutions, namely, the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment. A fourth such revolution, the High Tech or Information Revolution, started after the end of World War II, and is still evolving. The computerization of all sciences has now bridged the former Great Divide between the natural and social sciences. Today, it is widely believed that the 21st century will be the century of biology, and that social scientists will soon base their analytical work in the physical realities of human biology and psychology.     

中印边境自卫反击战我军政治工作经验及启示

在中印边境自卫反击战中,我军政治工作发挥了重要作用,针对当时复杂的国际环境、作战背景与战争残酷性等不利条件,我军政治工作适时采取相应对策,形成了边境自卫反击作战政治工作新特点.为打赢未来高技术条件下的边境反侵略战争,我们应借鉴中印边境反击作战政治工作经验,把政治工作全局性和时效性与快反能力相结合,把政治工作顽强性与对抗性相结合,注重对敌特、民族分裂分子的打击力度,加强政治工作方法与手段的硬件建设.     

试论举证责任的分配——兼评《最高人民法院关于民事诉讼证据的若干规定》

行为责任和结果责任是举证责任不可或缺的两个方面,2001年颁布的《最高人民法院关于民事诉讼证据的若干规定》中有关举证责任分配一般性规定存在不足,应借鉴国外成熟立法经验,在现有基础上进一步完善举证责任的一般性规则。     

略论公安院校图书馆馆藏文献数字化建设

公安图书馆馆藏文献数字化可以提高原始文献的利用率 ,可以为用户提供更方便的服务 ,可以满足用户利用文献的多种需要 ;其信息资源的组织方式主要有数据库方式 ,文件方式、主题树方式、超媒体方式 ;公安院校馆藏文献数字化建设应注意明确数字化范围 ,注意文献的版权问题 ,注意数据的标准和规范。     

FRIENDS WITH MY FUTURE SELF: LONGITUDINAL VIVIDNESS INTERVENTION REDUCES DELINQUENCY

In a field experiment, we use a novel method to test whether instilling a greater sense of vividness of the future self motivates people to act in a more future‐oriented way and reduces their delinquent involvement. We manipulate vividness of the future self by having participants, a sample of high‐school youth (N = 133), “befriend” an avatar representing their future self on a social network website. For 7 days, they reply to short messages from their future self designed to trigger thinking about that distant self. Using repeated‐measures analysis of variance (ANOVA), we find that participants who had been linked to their future self report less delinquent involvement, whereas controls did not. Furthermore, the results of a nonparametric bootstrapping procedure show that this effect is mediated by changes in vividness of the future self, such that increases in vividness lead to lower self‐reported delinquency. We conclude that vividness of the future self holds promise not only as a cognitive explanation for the failure to make informed cost–benefit trade‐offs but also for interventions aiming to reduce delinquency.     

The Crystal Curtain: A Postscript on Europe’s North-South Divide

The European Union’s sovereign debt and banking crisis has made apparent a gnawing gap between the northern and southern parts of Europe. Over the course of this past half decade, this divide has been brought into the public debate through a myriad of perspectives, from social trust to competitiveness. Yet, the governance sources of the divide are underestimated in policy practices and misrepresented in the political discourse. A governance approach can help clarify why the pursuit of convergence underpinning EU crisis-resolution mechanisms has become a contributing factor, rather than a prospective solution to the North-South gap. In doing so, governance also forms the basis for recommendations to policymakers in both halves of the continent, especially when confronted with the challenge of populist Euroscepticism.     

Preserving Curious Institutions

Reviewing the BBC 'Impartiality' review and the OFCOM report on the future of news the piece argues that impartiality remains a vital tool of maintaining standards of public service news, which in the end have to be objective. Sustaining journalism that reveals new knowledge is the problem and vital to the maintainance of democratic discussion.     

论公安行政复议决定书的制作及其相关问题

公安行政复议决定书是公安行政复议机关行使行政复议权的最重要的、有法律效力的文书.公安行政复议决定书必须依法制作,内容合法,格式规范;同时必须在法定的期限内作出,否则要负法律责任.     

论股东知情权救济制度的完善

我国公司法应建立质询权诉讼机制以弥补法律的缺失；股东知情权之诉的性质应界定为给付之诉；明确诉讼中被告的主体资格。检查人选任制度具有中立的特点；调查令方式具有方便的优势，建议引入非诉讼救济方式作为补充。