责任的哲学基础

责任分为“事后责任”与“事前责任”,“事后责任”是作为对某一过去行为“负责”的责任,而“事前责任”则是作为将来关心某人某事的道德性或法律性义务的责任。说一个人在事前或事后负有责任,这要涉及到哲学中的一些老话题,这些话题包括自由意志、积极和消极的责任、团结是否原则上受个人或群体契约之限制等问题。一个社会中责任的分配,是一个利己主义和利他主义相互矛盾运动的复杂变化过程。     

Max-min (σ-)additiye representation of monotone measures

In non-additive measure and integration (or fuzzy measure and integral) one tries to generalise the issues of product measure and conditional expectation from the additive theory. In the discrete case successful attempts have been made via the max-min additive representation of the monotone measure and the corresponding integrals. The present paper intends to find, for arbitrary monotone measures, a max-min additive representation and, under certain topological assumptions, a representation with σ-additive measures, thus providing a powerful tool for the theory of non-additive measure and integration. Received: December 2000; revised version: September 2001     

How robust are tests for two independent samples?

Non-parametric procedures are sometimes in use even in cases where the corresponding parametric procedure is preferable. This is mainly due to the fact that in practical applications of statistical methods too much attention is paid to any violation of the normality assumption–normal distribution is, however, primarily supposed in order to easily derive the exact distribution of the statistic used within parametric approaches.     

Les disparités salariales entre effectifs permanents et effectifs temporaires chez les jeunes,dans trois pays européens

Les auteurs étudient les disparités salariales chez les jeunes (25–40 ans) dans trois pays européens (Allemagne, France et Italie) en utilisant les statistiques de l'EU‐SILC (2010). La méthode fait appel à des régressions fondées sur la fonction d'influence recentrée et à des techniques d'estimation par repondération. Elle vise à faire apparaître le rôle des caractéristiques relatives à l'individu et au poste de travail aux différents points de la répartition des salaires. La part de l'écart qui reste inexpliquée est considérable en Italie, pour tous les centiles. En France, elle s'atténue dans le haut de la répartition. En Allemagne, elle n'est jamais significative.     

Culture,perception of reality,and the newly emerging planning paradigm

Three development decades have illustrated the strikingly varied performance of some 150 countries linked with their different cultural backgroud from which values, skills, motivation, social discipline, capability for flexible adaptation, and a sense of responsibility for the community emerge. We observe different perceptions of reality and distinct patterns of interacting with it. Increasing cross-cultural dialogue reconciling rational and intuitive approaches may lead to a more comprehensive world view conceiving socio-economic development as part of a global evolutionary process towards rising differentiation, complexity, and Intelligence at large. A holistic perspective and an awareness of the interrelatedness of all phenomena of life may be instrumental in giving way to a responsible use of scarce resources and an intelligent mode of handling both nature and human affairs in a viable balance.