Bruno S. Frey suggests nine Proposals to refine future democratic processes. This paper unifies subsets of Frey’s Proposals. In doing so, certain Proposals are further supported while others are challenged. In addition, I suggest that our increased global reliance as well as advances in technology should force further changes to our democratic institutions.

‘Future Designers’ is an interactive and participative crash course that aims to introduce to children the concepts and practice of ‘creativity’, ‘design’, and ‘design thinking’. The course targets multiple learning styles and intelligences, combining various learning approaches and tools. The full course lasts 4-5 hours and can be delivered in a single or two sessions. Up to now, five pilot st...

The quality and the quantity of contextual information found in the descriptive metadata associated with digital representations of cultural objects are frequently inadequate for assuring that users will understand the nature of both the original object that has been digitally preserved, and the digital representation itself. This paper proposes and defines a framework for ensuring that relevan...

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(2001). The aims and objectives of the Monitoring the Future study and progress toward fulfilling them as of 2001.

The bad news principle states that only the expected severity of future bad news matters for the decision whether to invest today, good news should not matter at all. This paper tests this prediction using firm level expectation data.  2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.

A stricter merger control policy increases the expectation of future price competition. In response, firms increase product differentiation to sustain higher prices. Failing to account for such policy-variant prices may lead to overestimation of the increase in consumer surplus due to the stricter merger policy, rendering the policy analysis subject to the Lucas Critique. D 2004 Elsevier B.V. A...

Nerve fibers produce several non-electrical signals on excitation. Recent findings on such non-electrical signals are discussed, in the hope that some of them might give us clues to molecular events underlying the excitation process. At present this expectation is not fulfilled, but progress is being made which allows one to look optimistically at future developments.

A stricter merger control policy increases the expectation of future price competition. In response, firms increase product differentiation to sustain higher prices. Failing to account for such policy-variant prices may lead to overestimation of the increase in consumer surplus due to the stricter merger policy, rendering the policy analysis subject to the Lucas Critique. D 2004 Elsevier B.V. A...