考古学与未来:工业文明的忧虑

在从考古学角度对玛雅、复活节岛和良渚文明崩溃回顾的基础上,文章从"报酬递减"和"最省力"原理介绍了古代文明崩溃的机制,然后对现代工业文明的发展趋势表示了忧虑.文章认为,今天的地球只不过是一个放大了的玛雅低地和复活节岛.历史教训告诉我们,环境恶化总是文明崩溃的一个前提.面对当代工业文明所面临的人口激增、环境恶化和资源枯竭的严峻形势,我们应该提倡"知足最好"而非"越多越好",避免重蹈古代文明崩溃的覆辙.     

实施科学民主管理创建安全文明校园

随着我国高校多年的连续扩招和经济社会的长足发展,高校的安全文明工作正面临着诸多新挑战,如果不能正确认识和妥善处理好这些突出问题,它将成为制约高校可持续发展的影响因素。因此,实施科学民主管理,创建安全文明校园,便成为高校的一项政治任务和头等大事。     

规则意识的社会政治依托--政治文明

规则意识的缺失并不是现在才有的,也不单单是某一领域的具体问题。培育和提高规则意识,必须依托于一定的社会政治文化环境,起关键作用的是政治文明的程度。只有政治文明的提高、民主参与的扩大、社会平等的提升,才会为培育和提高规则意识提供坚实的基础和适宜的土壤。     

论跨文化传播背景下世界商业文化传播

在世界商业文化跨地区、跨国度的传播历程中,商人是传播主体,商业精神是文化传播的灵魂,商业繁荣则是其文化传播诸多成果的外在表现.商人是社会财富的创造者,也是文明进步的推进者,中外商人所推崇的商业理论及商业信条,并由此而凝聚成的商业精神,是人类精神文化产品的重要组成部分,商业繁荣是社会稳定与民众生活水平显著提高的重要标志.世界范围内商业文化的有效传播,是推动社会和谐发展与文明进步的重要力量.     

镇江沿江亲水生态文明建设刍议

区域竞争中,城市吸引力和竞争力的提高离不开其文化底蕴的提升。镇江的文明建设不仅要融入沿江开发、长三角区域发展的大潮流,更要有自身的地域特色。从旅游、城建、人力资源、城市精神、地产品牌等方面打造镇江沿江亲水生态文明,不仅符合镇江区域文化的精神内涵,更是科学发展观的根本要求。     

论邓小平关于新时期精神文明建设的基本思路

邓小平在领导中国进行社会主义现代化建设的伟大事业中,始终把社会主义精神文明建设放在突出的地位,提出了精神文明建设的基本思路和对策．学习邓小平关于精神文明建设的重要论述,把握其思想核心,对于我们搞好社会主义精神文明建设具有重大的现实意义和长远的指导意义。     

古朝鲜文化探源

古朝鲜文化有三个来源：一是中华古老的汤谷扶桑十日神话,汤谷指朝鲜半岛东南端观日出测日景之地,也是朝鲜一词产生的人文基础。二是颛顼高阳族团文化,颛顼萨满文化、卵生神话与人工改变颅形习俗影响古朝鲜文化。三是殷商文化,殷商先起于东北并影响东北与朝鲜半岛,古辰国是商族海外属地,箕子所以“ 走之朝鲜”正与之有关。     

试论美国文化精神的起源与发展

各国历史发展和进程的不同,既有政治、经济的影响,又有文化精神的动因。美国近一百多年来经济的飞速发展和政治进步,得益于它站在巨人肩上的起点,得益于它独特的地理环境和历史条件,更得益于它丰富而充满活力的民族文化精神。美利坚民族文化精神的形成,是有一个历史过程和特殊文化起点的,欧洲大陆的民主传统、清教精神的弘扬、开国者的政治远见、林肯的伟大的解放、进步主义运动之于文化的拯救,都在不同程度上推动和促进了美     

The impact of managerial political ties on corporate governance and debt financing: Evidence from Ghana

In this study, we draw upon insights from agency theory to examine the impact of managerial political ties on cost of debt and also to explore whether corporate governance mediates this impact. We hypothesize that political ties reduce financial reporting quality, disclosure of non-financial information and board independence, and are therefore associated with higher interest rates. We also hypothesize that the negative effect of political ties on the cost of debt will be stronger if firms borrow from privately-owned banks versus government-owned banks. Using data from Ghana, we find support for our direct and moderation hypotheses; political ties are associated with high interest rates and poor corporate governance. However, we do not find evidence of mediation. Altogether, the findings reveal the dark side of political connections and highlight the cost of political embeddedness in emerging credit markets.     

Three notes on a political economy of youth

The paper seeks to makes a contribution to a recent debate in the Journal about what a political economy of youth might look like. The paper will take up aspects of Sukarieh and Tannock’s [2016. ‘On the political economy of youth: a comment.’ Journal of Youth Studies 19 (9): 1281–1289] response to the initial contributions by Côté [2014. ‘Towards a New Political Economy of Youth.’ Journal of Youth Studies 17 (4): 527–543, 2016. ‘A New Political Economy of Youth Reprised: Rejoinder to France and Threadgold.’ Journal of Youth Studies.] And France and Threadgold [2015. ‘Youth and Political Economy: Towards a Bourdieusian Approach.’ Journal of Youth Studies], and will take the form of three ‘notes’: Capitalism: From the first industrial revolution to the third industrial revolution; Youth as an artefact of governmentalised expertise; The agency/structure problem in youth studies: Foucault’s dispositif and post-human exceptionalism.

These notes will suggest that twenty-first century capitalism is globalising, is largely neo-Liberal, and is being reconfigured in profound ways by the Anthropocene, bio-genetics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT). A political economy of twenty-first century capitalism, let alone a political economy of young people, must be able to account for a capitalism that in many ways looks like the capitalism of the First and Second Industrial Revolutions, but which is at the same time profoundly different as it enters what has often been described as the Third Industrial Revolution. It is these profound emergences that pose the greatest challenges for engaging with a political economy of youth.