18 July 2101 Dr. Thomas Takagawa Department of History University Tokyo 7-chome 3-1 Hongo 113–8654 Japan Dear Takagawa, I hope this finds you very well. After the complete elimination anthropology from universities across globe, followed by utter collapse academic institutions in former United States America, I'm endlessly anxious about even future our own discipline—the history science—given i...

Bruce Wardhaugh, Competition, Effects and Predictability: Rule of Law the Economic Approach to Oxford: Hart, 2020, 272 pp, hb £70.00 Competition law scholarship tends be preoccupied with questions substance. ‘More’ or ‘less’ intervention? Contentment concern concentrated markets? Which business practices should prohibited? These are key issues significant consequences for enforcement. But subst...

This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model in which prices are sticky in the short run and flexible in the long run. Policy is evaluated by how well it raises the welfare of the representative household. Although the model has Keynesian features, its policy prescript...

right, or the power of demanding services in general, which may, or may not be commodities’ (Ibid: 35). The most advanced form of such transferable debt had no intrinsic value, typically paper, so the intrinsic value of silver or gold as money was ‘secondary’ (Ibid: 45). Gold and silver were only the most civilised of a lineage of representatives of labour, including shells and chocolate — clea...

In her article "Intermediality, Rewriting Histories and Identities in French Rap" Isabelle Marc Martínez analyzes aspects of French hip hop culture. As an example of resistant cultural manifestations, hip hop scenes all over the world develop strategies to subvert mainstream values and to replace them by new de-localized, contesting identities via intermedial and intertextual processes. In Fran...

Giorgio Vasari argued that the polyvalent term disegno in the Cinquecento should unite the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture in the Accademia del Disegno. The nature of invention, or invenzione in the united arts, was not as united; it was not the same for architecture as it was for painting. Alberti, as is well known, argued for the status of painting to be a liberal art modelled on...

Existing research on mating strategies in sociobiological theory focuses largely on long-term mating strategies, and has found differences in the behavior and preferences of men and women (see Wiederman 1993). The current study focused on short-term mating strategies by studying 1,724 hook-up advertisements from Craigslist.com for men seeking women and women seeking men to see if observed gende...

Contextualists of David Lewis’ stripe endorse the thesis that ‘know’ and its cognates are context dependent so as to heed their infallibilist intuitions while avoiding skepticism. I argue that the plausibility of infallibilism can be explained away as arising from two other intuitively known facts, i.e.: (KA) For any speaker, A, and proposition, p, if A asserts that p, then A incurs a commitmen...

ion, the logical hierarchy of the stages of universality, and indeed also there, where the relationships of domination are caused to mask themselves behind democratic procedures. The Juridical Sphere 303-305 Following the Phenomenology and the Logic, Hegel drove the cult of the course of the world the furthest in the Philosophy of Law. The medium, in which what is bad is preserved for the sake ...

Emotional experiences of music are notably difficult to describe and have resisted philosophical and psychological as well as vernacular explanation. This essay uses a new departure by taking an ethological approach to questions of musical experience—i.e., treating music as a behavior that evolved in ancestral humans because it contributed to their survival and reproductive success. In particul...