Previous research has examined the impact of the law on decisions made about social sexual interactions in the workplace in the context of a variety of individual difference variables including gender of the observer and sexist attitudes, as well as situational factors including legal standard and prior exposure to aggressive and submissive complainants. The current study continued this line of...

The present article presents Wang Fuzhi 王夫之 (1619-1692 C.E.)’s reading of the eighteenth chapter Zhuang-Zi 莊子 (ZZ) by looking at his entry from Zhuang-Zi-Tong 莊子通 and other key glosses Zhuang-Zi-Jie 莊子解. philosophical upshot, I aim to show, is that takes ZZ as presenting consummation “the greatest joyousness” (zhi-le 至樂) requiring getting rid joyousness one’s desideratum. Using Derek Parfit’s w...

A world-wide mosaic of large city-regions seems to be over-riding (though is not effacing entirely) an earlier core-periphery system of spatial organization. The economic dynamics of these city-regions are analyzed with particular emphasis on the ways in which they tend to generate increasing-returns effects and competitive advantages for local producers. The managerial tasks that these city-re...

Advanced welfare states are under pressure to customize services, promptly enough prevent a cascade of harms. With these goals, the Netherlands in 2015 decentralized social care services municipalities, and within municipalities neighborhood teams continuing contact with clients. The overall results have been disappointing. But experience Utrecht, Netherlands’ fourth-largest city, has strikingl...