Flipping and ex post aggregation

We show that Bayesian ex post aggregation is unstable with respect to refinements. Suppose a group of Bayesians use ex post aggregation. Since it is a joint problem, each agent's problem is captured by the same model, but probabilities and utilities may vary. If they analyze the same situation in more detail, their refined analysis should preserve their preferences among acts. However, ex post aggregation could bring about a preference reversal on the group level. Ex post aggregation thus depends on how much information is used and may keep oscillating (“flipping”) as one keeps adding more information. Received: 16 April 2002/Accepted: 27 May 2002     

On strategy-proofness and essentially single-valued cores: A converse result

In a general model of indivisible good allocation, S?nmez (1999) established that, whenever the core is nonempty for each preference profile, if an allocation rule is strategy-proof, individually rational and Pareto optimal, then the rule is a selection from the core correspondence, and the core correspondence must be essentially single-valued. This paper studies the converse claim of this result. I demonstrate that whenever the preference domain satisfies a certain condition of `richness', if the core correspondence is essentially single-valued, then any selection from the core correspondence is strategy-proof (even weakly coalition strategy-proof, in fact). In particular, on the domain of preferences in which each individual has strict preferences over his own assignments and there is no consumption externality, such an allocation rule is coalition strategy-proof. And on this domain, coalition strategy-proofness is equivalent to Maskin monotonicity, an important property in implementation theory. Received: 22 February 2000/Accepted: 22 January 2002 I am grateful to Ryo-ichi Nagahisa, Shinji Ohseto, Hiroshi Ono, Tomoichi Shinotsuka and Shigehiro Serizawa for valuable comments. And I am indebted to two anonymous referees for useful suggestions. Especially, I owe the present proof of Lemma 2 to one referee. I also thank Yukihiko Funaki, Atsushi Kajii, Mamoru Kaneko, Eiichi Miyagawa, Tatsuyoshi Saijo, Manimay Sengupta, Yves Sprumont, Yoshikatsu Tatamitani, Manabu Toda, Takashi Ui, Takehiko Yamato, Naoki Yoshihara and the participants of the seminars in Hokkaido University, Kansai University, ISER (Osaka University), Otaru University of Commerce and Tsukuba University. All errors are my own responsiblity.     

对"真理客观性"观点的辨析

哲学界通行的真理客观性观点与实践标准相矛盾,与唯物辩证法的范畴论相冲突,背离了真理定义的基本要求,不符合实践唯物主义的精神,曲解了经典作家关于客观真理的论断,其基本论据和推理过程存在严重的逻辑错误和内在矛盾,因而从根本上说是站不住脚的。     

论"从日本奇迹到日本问题"

战后创造过经济奇迹的日本 ,在 2 0世纪的最后十年陷入了极其深重的经济危机。究其原因 ,一是独特的法人相互持股制度已从多方面对日本经济的发展形成了桎梏 ;二是银行与企业融合的主办银行制度在进入 80年代后出现了一系列问题 ;三是以终身雇佣制度为核心的企业人力资源管理体制显现出严重的机制性缺陷 ;四是双向式控制的公司治理结构的负作用越来越明显 ;五是政府强干预的经济管理体制的局限性逐渐暴露出来。     

The dilemma of recognition: Administrative categories and cultural diversity

Governments around the world combat inequality by means of group-specific redistribution. Some pursue redistribution that benefits groups, but also wish to avoid accentuating or even recognizing group distinctions. This poses a dilemma that they try to resolve by adjusting the category system used to target redistribution. There are three types of adjustment: accommodation (the multicultural approach), denial (the ideal-typical liberal solution), and replacement (a compromise). In replacement the targets of redistributive policies are constructed to avoid accentuation or recognition of inconvenient group distinctions, but still allow redistribution that benefits these groups. Replacement is increasingly in demand around the world because the disadvantages of multiculturalism are becoming apparent while denial is hard to sustain in the face of group inequality. The actual effect of replacement is little researched and less understood, however. Does it resolve the dilemma of recognition? Two examples–India and Nigeria–where replacement has been tried ever since the 1950s cast doubt on its viability.     

构造地貌分析体系及相关的构造地貌标志

对理论构造地貌学的主要分支古构造地貌、新构造地貌和活动构造地貌各自的特点作了分析对比 ;总结、提出了对构造地貌研究具有普遍意义的几何分析、运动分析和动力分析的构造地貌分析体系 ;列举了相关的构造地貌标志及国内外典型实例     

浅议高校科研文化建设

文章简明地论述了关于高校科研文化建设的若干问题 :科研文化的内涵与表现层次、科研文化的社会背景、科研文化特征与功能、科研文化价值体系、科研文化构建原则以及科研文化建设等 ,旨在改变目前高校科研文化建设中的不自觉状态