CONSUMPTION BENEFITS OF NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE GAME TRIPS ESTIMATED FROM REVEALED AND STATED PREFERENCE DEMAND DATA

This paper examines the demand for hockey game trips among metropolitan and nonmetropolitan residents of Alberta, Canada. Using data on both revealed and stated preference game‐trip behavior from a telephone survey conducted throughout Alberta, we estimate the effect of ticket prices, team quality, arena amenities, and capacity on the latent demand for National Hockey League hockey games. We find that lower ticket prices, higher team quality, and additional capacity encourage attendance. In the status quo scenario, consumer surplus per game is $50 for those who had attended hockey games and about 50% less for those who had not attended games. Exploiting the stated preference data, we develop a number of other consumer surplus estimates. We also include travel costs in the estimation of the demand function and estimate the full value of the game trip considering both ticket prices and travel costs. Sold‐out arenas in Calgary and Edmonton generate annual consumption benefits of $40 and $35 million when only ticket prices are used to calculate consumer surplus (i.e., excluding travel costs). Considering the full‐price consumer surplus for the Calgary Flames of $103 per game trip, the annual consumption benefits may be as high as $82 million. (JEL R22, L83, D61)     

Perspective‐Taking and the Attribution of Ignorance

Ignorance has been both vilified and celebrated throughout the ages. However, the social sciences have had little to say about this topic over the years. In this paper, we argue that in an age of competing and contrasting worldviews, scholarly attention to ignorance can shed light on interpersonal processes and relational dynamics that occur in encounters between subjects holding different points of view. We discuss data from two studies documenting an attribution of ignorance in social relations that serves to relegate the other's point of view to one that stands in need of education or correction. We argue that this communicative strategy enacts a semantic barrier that serves to retain the interlocutor's original point of view unscathed and unchallenged. We argue that this limits dialogical relations by eliminating the requirement for perspective‐taking in social dialogue.     

完善自我修养观——新儒学家唐君毅伦理道德观研究

被称为第二代新儒学家代表之一的唐君毅,运用圆融的形式把西方国家多位哲学家的理念援入中国传统儒道佛学之道德思想文化体系内.他的道德思想理念认为"中国儒家道德思想是以完成人格为最后目的,而不以之为任何事物之手段."他依据儒家之"天人合德"思想,透过人的道德主体观点去认识和理解"天"之超越性,使人的道德主体因此而获得"超越"的意义.唐君毅的哲思逻辑是以"天人合德"精神为基础作出"人极、皇极、太极"三极并建之理想道德文化世界的推论.当他不遗余力阐扬本土传统文化之际,亦为中国及西方文化之道德文化、文化价值、宗教信仰等作出评论与分析.唐先生能够奉献毕生精力于促进文化事业之原动力,乃是他希望能"为中国及西方之文化理想之融通建立一理论基础,并提出一文化哲学之系统".唐先生之愿望是提倡全世界人民得以分享多元文化的智慧宝库.他所希望的世界能够得享真、善、美的生活,这也是中国的儒学家、道学家和佛学家之学者们的祝愿.     

MARKET FORCES AND AIRCRAFT SAFETY AN EXTENSION

Recent work by Chalk focuses on whether market forces provide safe products via stock market reaction to unanticipated events. Chalk finds a $200 million decline in McDonnell Douglas stockholder wealth related to the 1979 DC-10 crash in Chicago. That decline far exceeds reasonable estimates of regulatory and liability costs, suggesting a market penalty for unsafe products. His results, however, do not seem consistent with the notion of efficient markets, as American Airlines maintenance procedures were quickly identified as the likely cause of the crash. This study finds no resulting shareholder wealth loss for American Airlines or McDonnell Douglas.