DOCSLIB.ORG

The Growing Role of the Americas in the Global Economy

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
The Growing Role of the Americas in the Global Economy Texas A&M International University A.R. Sanchez, Jr. School of Business Center for the Study of Western Hemispheric Trade In partnership with Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas Facultad de Comercio, Administración y Ciencias Sociales 18th Annual Western Hemispheric Trade Conference The Growing Role of the Americas in the Global Economy Conference Proceedings April 24-25, 2014 Laredo, TX, USA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN HEMISPHERIC TRADE The Center for the Study of Western Hemispheric Trade at Texas A&M International University is a public service institute founded to study globalization with special emphasis on the Western Hemisphere. The Center is a part of the A.R. Sanchez, Jr. School of Business, and it supports the college as well as the entire Texas A&M International University community with its various programs. The Center seeks to increase awareness and knowledge about the Western Hemispheric countries and their economical, political and social interactions. The Center highlights Texas A&M International University and the City of Laredo and promotes education. History Since its inception in 1993, the Center has become a valuable resource for joint research and faculty and student exchanges. The Center is a key location for educational entities, businesses and governments to turn to for up to date and relevant information on the Western Hemisphere. The Center provides a forum for international discussion and debate for representatives from countries in the Western Hemisphere regarding issues that affect trade and other economic relations within the Hemisphere. Through its alliance with educational entities, businesses and governments throughout the Hemisphere, the Center offers practical and targeted lectures imparted by visiting faculty, professionals, society leaders and scholars. Focus The Center's research focuses on subjects that affect Western Hemispheric Trade, including trade agreements, tariffs, customs, regional and national economies, politics, business development, finance, the environment and culture. The Center's publication, The International Trade Journal (ITJ), is now under the auspices of the International Trade Institute and is a refereed interdisciplinary journal published for the enhancement of research in international trade. Its editorial objective is to provide a forum for the scholarly exchange of research findings in, and significant empirical, conceptual, or theoretical contributions to the field. Mission Consistent with the mission of Texas A&M International University and its A. R. Sanchez, Jr. School of Business, the Center for the Study of Western Hemispheric Trade will conduct and promote research on globalization and related topics, with special emphasis on Western Hemisphere, increase awareness and knowledge about the Western Hemispheric countries and their economic, political, cultural and social institutions and development dynamics, and spotlight Texas A&M International University as a key resource of information, research, training and conferences focusing on the Western Hemisphere. CONTENTS Welcome ........................................................................................................................................................................... 1 R. Stephen Sears SESSION I: NORTH AMERICAN INTEGRATION North American Economic Integration: Retrospective and Prospective ................................................... 3 Joseph A. McKinney Untangling the Shrouded Cost of NAFTA: The Immigration Mess ......................................................... 19 Vijay Vemuri and Shahid Siddiqi Naturalization of the Gender Order(s) in Organizations: Contrasting the United States and Mexico ................................................................................................................................................ 20 Leonel Prieto and Homero Aguirre-Milling SESSION II: EVENTOS ECONOMICOS EN NUEVO LAREDO El Emprendimiento: Motivación Empresarial en la Cuidad de Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas .............................................................................................................................................................. 21 Ma. De Jesús Ponce Díaz, Liliana Marlene Arriaga Huerta, and Roberto Arreola Rivera Mercados de Trabajo y Migración en Nuevo Laredo ..................................................................................... 33 Gabriela Ortega Cervantes and Jesús Cerda Cruz Percepción Empresarial de las Tecnologías de la Nube en Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, México: Un Estudio Exploratorio ......................................................................................................................... 34 Ramón Ventura Roque Hernández, Salvador Mota Martínez, Rodolfo González Morales, and Alfredo Garza Cruz SESSION III: COMERCIO E INTEGRACION DE LAS AMERICAS Relanzamiento del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN) para Impulsar la Captación Positiva de la Inversión Extranjera Directa en México .............................. 46 José Gerardo Rodríguez Herrera and Fernando Hernández Contreras America Latina Como Oportunidad / Latin America as an Opportunity .......................................... 47 Naui Patoni Comercio que Existe Entre Brasil Y México / Trade Between Brazil and Mexico ........................... 48 Yeseyra Azeneth Mendoza Martínez and Raquel Espinosa Hernández Integración Económica: La Unificación de América, ¿Lejana Realidad o Simple Fantasía? .................................................................................................................................................... 50 Juan José Gómez Martínez and Armando Rene Valle Alemán Análisis del Comercio Bilateral Potencial entre México y Brasil / Analysis of Potentional Bilateral Trade between Mexico and Brazil .................................................................... 51 Sandra Patricia Cantú Coello SESSION IV: MAQUILADORAS Y PEQUEÑAS Y MEDIANAS EMPRESAS Dumping del Calzado en Mexico .............................................................................................................. 52 Brenda Elizabeth Jaimes Figueroa, Sergio Eder Ortega Espinoza, and Ana Mireya Lopez Gonzalez El E-Commerce como Motor de Crecimiento de las Pymes en la Región Noreste de México; Nuevo Laredo ........................................................................................................................... 53 José Enrique Rodríguez Rangel El Cambio Cultural en las Empresas Automotrices: Implementacion de Lean Manufacturing Tools ............................................................................................................................... 54 Esmeralda Roldán Zumarán Ventaja Competitiva para México en el Sector Maquilador .................................................................. 55 David Acosta Nevares, Angélica Iruegas, and Roberto González Ortiz Emprendedores y Pequenas Empresas: Superando Obstaculos para Sobrevivir y Crecer/ Entrepreneurs and Small Business: Overcoming Obstacles to Survive and Grow ..................................................................................................................................... 56 Martha Faviola Gerardo Roblero La Importancia de la Industria Maquiladora en Mexico para el Impulso Competitivo ............................................................................................................................................... 57 Melania Guadalupe Villalobos Gaymard SESSION V: MANEJO DE PERSONAL Y LIDERAZGO I Liderazgo y Eficiencia Como Afecta un Lider el Resultado de su Equipo ......................................... 58 Sandra Guerrero Flores and Juan Felipe Grimaldo Perez Naturaleza e Importancia del Comportamiento Organizacional ......................................................... 59 Yahir Hernández Pimentel and Fernando Hernández Contreras La Ética en los Negocios: Un Enfoque de Administración de Acuerdo a Stakeholder .................... 60 Dania Yolanda Zarate Alcántara El Impacto de la Cultura Organizacional en el Éxito de la Empresa ................................................... 61 Manuel Chapa Barrera SESSION VI: ISSUES IN TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT I Impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on Trade and Development ............................................................................................................................................ 62 Joseph S. Mollick The Challenges of Inequality in Access to Telecommunication Services in Mexico, as a Critical Infrastructure for Social Development ............................................................................ 63 Cristina Casanueva-Reguart and Erik Bacilio Avila Why Do Microenterprises Remain Informal? ......................................................................................... 65 George R.G. Clarke and YoungJun Kim SESSION VII: DEMOCRACY, COMPETITIVENESS AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE Democracy and International Competitiveness of Nations-An Empirical Inquiry ........................... 82 A. N. M. Waheeduzzaman Globalization vs. Triple Bottom Line ....................................................................................................... 83 Mohan Rao A Behavioral Finance Discourse: Bond Spreads and a Reference Point Bias .................................... 84 Armand Picou Changing Casual Relationships Between China and U.S. Stock Markets ............................................ 95 Jim Lee SESSION VIII: REFORMAS ECONOMÍCAS EN MÉXICO Perspectivas de la Economía Mundial y Su Impacto
Load more

Recommended publications
  • REMAKING of JEWISH SOCIALITY in CONTEMPORARY POLAND: HAUNTING LEGACIES, GLOBAL CONNECTIONS. a Thesis Submitted to the University
    REMAKING OF JEWISH SOCIALITY IN CONTEMPORARY POLAND: HAUNTING LEGACIES, GLOBAL CONNECTIONS. A thesis submitted to The University of Manchester for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in the Faculty of Humanities. 2013 JAN LORENZ SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES List of contents Abstract 3 Declaration 4 Copyright statement 4 Acknowledgements 5 PART I Chapter 1 Introduction 7 Chapter 2 Framing the research. Methodology and visual media 38 Chapter 3 Film and ethnography 54 PART II Chapter 4 The haunting 73 Chapter 5 Belonging 111 Chapter 6 Gmina 151 Chapter 7 Interzone 172 Chapter 8 Becoming 203 Chapter 9 Conclusions 222 Bibliography 230 Word count: 87 797 2 Abstract The University of Manchester Jan Lorenz PhD in Social Anthropology with Visual Media “Remaking Jewish sociality in contemporary Poland: haunting legacies, global connections.” 2013 The Holocaust and post-war anti-Semitism-propelled migration changed the face of Poland, a country that for centuries has been the heartland of the Jewish diaspora. Remnants of the Polish Jewry that did not emigrate, regardless of whether they considered themselves Poles, Poles of Jewish descent or Polish Jews, often felt fearful about speaking of their ancestry, let alone acting upon it. Jewish organizations and social life did not disappear, but religious congregations in particular gradually diminished in number and activity. Post-socialist Poland has become an arena of profound transformation of Jewish communal life, fostered by stakeholders with distinct agendas and resources: empowered and politically emancipated Jewish Religious Communities, now-marginalized secular organizations of the communist era, a nascent generation of Polish Jewish activists and volunteers, and transnational Jewish non-governmental organizations.
    [Show full text]
  • Ritual Year 8 Migrations
    Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences — SIEF Working Group on The Ritual Year Edited by Dobrinka Parusheva and Lina Gergova Sofia • 2014 THE RITUAL YEAR 8 MIGRATIONS The Yearbook of the SIEF Working Group on The Ritual Year Sofia, IEFSEM-BAS, 2014 Peer reviewed articles based on the presentations of the conference in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 26-29 June 2012 General Editor: Emily Lyle Editors for this issue: Dobrinka Parusheva and Lina Gergova Language editors: Jenny Butler, Molly Carter, Cozette Griffin-Kremer, John Helsloot, Emily Lyle, Neill Martin, Nancy McEntire, David Stanley, Elizabeth Warner Design and layout: Yana Gergova Advisory board: Maria Teresa Agozzino, Marion Bowman, Jenny Butler, Molly Carter, Kinga Gáspár, Evy Håland, Aado Lintrop, Neill Martin, Lina Midholm, Tatiana Minniyakhmetova, David Stanley, Elizabeth Warner The Yearbook is established in 2011 by merging former periodicals dedicated to the study of the Ritual Year: Proceedings of the (5 volumes in 2005–2011). Published by the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ISSN 2228-1347 © Authors © Dobrinka Parusheva & Lina Gergova, editors © Yana Gergova, design and layout © SIEF Working Group on The Ritual Year © IEFSEM-BAS CONTENTS Foreword 9 THE SEED-STORE OF THE YEAR Emily Lyle 15 MODERN SPORTS AWARDS CEREMONIES – A GENEALOGICAL ANALYSIS Grigor Har. Grigorov 27 THE RITUAL OF CHANGE IN A REMOTE AREA: CONTEMPORARY ARTS AND THE RENEWAL OF A
    [Show full text]
  • THE FUTURE of the JEWISH COMMUNITY in AMERICA.Pdf
    THE FUTURE OF THE «TASK FORCE REPORT THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE TASK FORCE ON THE FUTURE OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN AMERICA MEMBERS LOUIS STERN, Chairman - Former President of the RABBI MARTIN S. ROZENBERG - The Com• Jewish Welfare Board and the Council of Jewish munity Synagogue, Sands Point, New York Federations and Welfare Funds MARSHALL SKLARE - Professor of American DAVID SI DORSKY, Consultant - Professor of Jewish Studies, Brandeis University Philosophy, Columbia University JOHN SLAWSON - Executive Vice President *RABBI JACOB B. AGUS - Congregation Beth El, Emeritus, American Jewish Committee Baltimore JAMES SLEEPER - Cambridge, Massachusetts ROBERT ALTER - Professor of Comparative Litera• SANFORD SOLENDER - Executive Vice President, ture, University of California at Berkeley Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York SHRAGA ARIAN - Superintendent, Board of Jewish City Education, Chicago HARRY STARR - President, Lucius N. Littauer WILLIAM AVRUNIN - Executive Vice President, Foundation Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit ISAAC TOUBIN - Executive Vice President, Ameri• MAX W. BAY, M.D. - Co-Chairman of the Western can Association for Jewish Education Regional Council of the American Jewish SIDNEY Z. VINCENT - Executive Director, Jewish Committee Community Federation of Cleveland PHILIP BERNSTEIN - Executive Vice President, MAYNARD I. WISHNER - Chairman, Jewish Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds Communal Affairs Commission of the American LUCY S. DAWIDOWICZ-Associate Professor of Jewish Committee Social History, Yeshiva University JOSEF HAYIM YERUSHALMI - Professor of RABBI IRA EISENSTEIN - President of the Recon• Jewish History, Harvard University struction's! Rabbinical College GEORGE M. ZELTZER - Detroit DANIEL J. ELAZAR - Director of the Center for LOUIS I. ZORENSKY - President of the Jewish the Study of Federalism, Temple University Federation of St.
    [Show full text]
  • Guy Fox New York City Childrens Map Pdf, Epub, Ebook
    GUY FOX NEW YORK CITY CHILDRENS MAP PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Kourtney Harper | 2 pages | 15 May 2008 | Guy Fox Publishing | 9781904711094 | English | London, United Kingdom Guy Fox New York City Childrens Map PDF Book The choices you make here will apply to your interaction with this service on this device. ABC News. In , Pizzagate became a pillar of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory and less U. Community messages in front of Comet Ping Pong following the shooting. Archived from the original on December 25, Retrieved December 12, Miami Herald. The Huffington Post. Washington City Paper. Eight other conspirators would later join what became known as the Gunpowder Plot. The conspiracy theory has been widely discredited and debunked. Pizzagate has received a resurgence in , mainly due to its more popular successor QAnon. Afterwards, all five men purportedly swore an oath of secrecy upon a prayer book. He also used the alias John Johnson while serving as caretaker of a cellar—located just below the House of Lords—that the plotters had leased in order to stockpile gunpowder. About this product. Views Read View source View history. Retrieved January 27, January 17, Archived from the original on December 28, There were even rumors, inspired by his diplomatic overtures to the pope, that James himself would become Catholic. WikiLeaks published his emails in November Archived from the original on December 8, New other. On December 8, , Hillary Clinton responded to the conspiracy theory, speaking about the dangers of fake news websites. Bloomberg View. It really should be Robert Catesby Day. While initially it was only spread by the far-right , it is now spread by children and teenagers on TikTok "who don't otherwise fit a right-wing conspiracy theorist mold".
    [Show full text]
  • Interdimensional Hypothesis (Ufology) - Kook Science
    Interdimensional hypothesis (Ufology) - Kook Science http://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Interdimensional_hypothesis_(Ufology) Interdimensional hypothesis (Ufology) From Kook Science The interdimensional hypothesis (IDH or IH), or extradimensional hypothesis (EDH), is a hypothesis in ufology that proposes UFOs constitute contacts with beings from other dimensions coexisting separate from but alongside our own, as compared to the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) which suggests they are beings from other worlds. The earliest example of an interdimensional hypothesis was Meade Layne's Ether Ship theory of flying saucers; later, less spiritistic hypotheses have been advanced by such persons as John Keel, Jacques Vallée, and J. Allen Hynek. Further Reading Meade Layne, et al., "The Ether Ship Mystery and Its Solution" (1950) John Keel, "UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse" (1970) J. Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallée, "The Edge of Reality: A Progress Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (1975) Jacques Vallée, "Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults" (1980) Retrieved from "http://hatch.kookscience.com/w/index.php?title=Interdimensional_hypothesis_(Ufology)& oldid=1521" Category: Ufology This page was last modified on 3 Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution October 2013, at 00:01. Share Alike unless otherwise noted. 1 of 1 4/10/2014 11:38 PM Lay Bare the Questions: Leadership Lessons from Close By Bill Hogue Encounters any of life’s most important leadership lessons happen when our sense of “normal” is challenged or disrupted. We’re forced to adapt, improvise, and invent new pathways for achieving our objectives. Where do we discover these leadership lessons? They’re not all contained between the covers Mof business bestsellers.
    [Show full text]
  • Download.Xsp/WMP20100280319/O/M20100319.Pdf (Last Accessed 15 April 2018)
    Milieux de mémoire in Late Modernity GESCHICHTE - ERINNERUNG – POLITIK STUDIES IN HISTORY, MEMORY AND POLITICS Herausgegeben von / Edited by Anna Wolff-Pow ska & Piotr Forecki ę Bd./Vol. 24 GESCHICHTE - ERINNERUNG – POLITIK Zuzanna Bogumił / Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper STUDIES IN HISTORY, MEMORY AND POLITICS Herausgegeben von / Edited by Anna Wolff-Pow ska & Piotr Forecki ę Bd./Vol. 24 Milieux de mémoire in Late Modernity Local Communities, Religion and Historical Politics Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Cover image: © Dariusz Bogumił This project was supported by the National Science Centre in Poland grant no. DEC-2013/09/D/HS6/02630. English translation and editing by Philip Palmer Reviewed by Marta Kurkowska-Budzan, Jagiellonian University ISSN 2191-3528 ISBN 978-3-631-67300-3 (Print) E-ISBN 978-3-653-06509-1 (E-PDF) E-ISBN 978-3-631-70830-9 (EPUB) E-ISBN 978-3-631-70831-6 (MOBI) DOI 10.3726/b15596 Open Access: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 unported license. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ © Zuzanna Bogumił / Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper, 2019 Peter Lang –Berlin ∙ Bern ∙ Bruxelles ∙ New York ∙ Oxford ∙ Warszawa ∙ Wien This publication has been peer reviewed. www.peterlang.com Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Acknowledgments Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de.
    [Show full text]
  • The Post-War Anglo-American Far Right a Special Relationship of Hate 1St Edition Download Free
    THE POST-WAR ANGLO-AMERICAN FAR RIGHT A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP OF HATE 1ST EDITION DOWNLOAD FREE Paul Jackson | 9781137396198 | | | | | The Post-War Anglo-American Far Right: A Special Relationship of Hate Archived from the original on 24 November Security is a real concern. Christianity Islam the Nation of Islam Universities. The Atlantic. Britain is heading blindly for the void. Wikipedia is an educational website and should provide a non-bias report of a group of people. Inga Bejer Engh Svein Holden. I was looking at the Membership section. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. London: Bloomsbury Academic. And for that reason, 'cultural Marxism' is not only a sad diversion from framing legitimate grievances, but also a dangerous lure [to political violence] in an increasingly unhinged moment [in world history]. Attitude polarization Cognitive dissonance Communal reinforcement Confirmation bias Locus of control Mass hysteria Paranoia Psychological projection. Political correctness is Cultural Marxism. For example, in an edition of The Klansman from some the key underpinnings of its white supremacist viewpoint stand out. User:Rjensenwould you mind taking a look at the article, W. Archived from the original on 22 July Archived from the original on 28 August The Post-War Anglo-American Far Right A Special Relationship of Hate 1st edition even gave tips on how to collate such information: pretend to be an anti-fascist, develop The Post-War Anglo-American Far Right A Special Relationship of Hate 1st edition anti-Nazi petition, and then get people to sign. Archived from the original on 6 October Johnefallis talk2 February UTC. Leslierscott talk17 January UTC.
    [Show full text]
  • |||FREE||| Where We Go
    WHERE WE GO FREE DOWNLOAD W. Murray | 56 pages | 02 Jul 2009 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9781409301141 | English | United Kingdom Перевод текста песни Where We Go исполнителя (группы) P!nk The Where We Go patch to the left has been reported to be Where We Go of the SWAT team. Archived from the original on August Where We Go, Senate in Delaware. Prim was arrested in New York City on a pier where she appeared to have been trying to get to the U. Bizarre conspiracy cult leaps from web to Trump rally". Our goal is the same as it has always been: to serve God Where We Go His people by doing His will to the best of our ability. Mary Ann Mendoza shared a thread that includes nearly every anti-Semitic trope of the last century. Retrieved October 17, QAnon members have been spotted at many Trump rallies, and followers liken the president to John F. In DecemberCynthia Abcug was arrested and charged in Colorado with conspiracy to commit second-degree Where We Go of one of her children who had been removed from her custody. Trump and Biden must answer critical budget questions Maya MacGuineas. Proponents of the theory read the emails and alleged they Where We Go code words for pedophilia and human trafficking. Los Angeles. In a year fraught with record-breaking fires in California, the Los Angeles Fire Department introduced the first robotic firefighting vehicle in the United States. Where We Go range of theories credit Q's posts to either a military intelligence officer, a Trump administration insider, an alternate reality game created by the puzzle organization Cicada or Trump himself.
    [Show full text]
  • Chivalric Lieux De Memoire
    Wayne State University Wayne State University Dissertations 1-1-2015 Chivalric Lieux De Memoire: Nostalgia, Communal Memory, And The urB den Of Historical Consciousness In Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur Wilkie Collins Wayne State University, Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations Recommended Citation Collins, Wilkie, "Chivalric Lieux De Memoire: Nostalgia, Communal Memory, And The urB den Of Historical Consciousness In Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur" (2015). Wayne State University Dissertations. Paper 1121. This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@WayneState. It has been accepted for inclusion in Wayne State University Dissertations by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@WayneState. CHIVALRIC LIEUX DE MEMOIRE: NOSTALGIA, COMMUNAL MEMORY, AND THE BURDEN OF HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN SIR THOMAS MALORY’S MORTE DARTHUR by WILKIE COLLINS DISSERTATION Submitted to the Graduate School of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY 2015 MAJOR: ENGLISH APPROVED BY: _________________________________________ Advisor Date _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction “Memory and History”……………………………………………………………………1 Chapter 1 “Context: Nostalgia in an Age of Anxiety”…………………………………………......12 Chapter 2 “A Community of Time: Remember the Past and We Remember
    [Show full text]
  • Conspiracy Theorists and Monological Belief Systems
    Conspiracy Theorists and Monological Belief Systems Kurtis Hagen Independent Scholar (Formally of SUNY Plattsburgh) Abstract Recent scholarship has claimed to show that conspiracy theorists are prone to simultaneously believe mutually contradictory conspiracy theories, as well as be- lieve entirely made up conspiracy theories. The authors of those studies suggest that this supports the notion that conspiracy theories operate within “monological belief systems”, in which conspiracy theorists find support for conspiratorial be- liefs in other conspiratorial beliefs, or in related generalizations, rather than in ev- idence directly relevant to the conspiracy in question. In this article, I argue that all of that is either wrong or at least misleading. Keywords: Conspiracy theories, psychology, epistemology, monological belief sys- tems 1. Introduction Focusing primarily on three articles (Wood et al. 2012, Swami et al. 2011, and Goertzel 1994), but addressing others as well, I argue that there is a trend in the social science literature on conspiracy theories that is significantly misleading (presumably1 due to bias against conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists). Specifically, I show the following: (1) The often cited claim that conspiracy the- 1 When a field of scholarship contains a number of authors (and, apparently, referees and editors as well) who reason in a rather obviously fallacious manner (or fail not notice the- se obvious fallacies) so as to unfairly malign a class of people, and there does not seem to be an analogous situation with opposite implications, it is reasonable to suspect bias may be involved. Of course, this does not by itself conclusively establish that there is bias (a very difficult thing to do in any circumstance), but the more obvious, egregious, wide- spread, and unidirectional the phenomenon is the more likely there is bias.
    [Show full text]
  • The-Counter-Feminist-Essays.Pdf
    What follows is a conceptual ecosystem masquerading as an e-book. Please share this with many humans, and encourage those to share with many more. Make it go pyramidal Illustration by Daniel Bailey What is the worst name you can call a feminist? A feminist How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb? Three. One to hold the bulb, and two to make the world revolve around it When a feminist explains feminism to you, what are they really doing? Building a smokescreen Because feminism is NOT the world It©s just that simple DISCLAIMER You, the reader, are alone responsible for how you exploit the ideas contained in this work The author and his associates are not responsible for that. Neither is any third party, anywhere It©s all on you Have a care, and practice non-violence If you claim inspiration from this and yet compromise yourself, we will disavow you ~~~~~~~~ Heard something interesting? Doing something interesting? Just want to speak your mind a bit? We probably won©t reply, but all communications sent to the following will be looked into and thought about: [email protected] ~~~~~~~~ Live well and live free in the Liberty of the Non-feminist Sector The Counter-feminist Essays Reflections upon the feminist problem: What is feminism? Where do non-feminist people stand? What is to be done? by Fidelbogen ~~~~~~~ Dedication: to the Individual Current year 2020 C.E. or 2005 from the battle of the Teutoberg Forest Published under Creative Commons 3.0 This book may be non-commercially distributed at will provided the text is not altered and author attribution is retained.
    [Show full text]
  • Iraq (Emergence, Factors and Trends)
    HOW TO MAKE A VOICE AUDIBLE? CONTINUITY AND CHANGE OF KURDISH CULTURE AND OF SOCIAL REALITY IN POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES FRITILLARIA KURDICA BULLETIN OF KURDISH STUDIES № 7-8 03/2015 ISSN 2353-4052 INSTITUT OF ORIENTAL STUDIES JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY NATIONAL SCIENCE CENTRE KRAKÓW, DECEMBER 2014/MARCH 2015 Fritillaria Kurdica. Siódmy i ósmy (podwójny) numer naszego czasopisma wycho- Bulletin of Kurdish Studies. dzi w formacie wielojęzycznym. Przedstawiamy w nim artykuły w języku angielskim, rosyjskim i kurdyjskim (dialekt sorani) No 7-8/03.2015 w przekonaniu, że współczesna perspektywa postkolonialna ISSN 2353-4052 powinna zakładać nie tylko dostrzeganie odmienności punktów widzenia, ale również wielości języków i sposobów, w których są one wyrażone. Dążenie do unifikacji języka i standardów, którymi bez wątpienia w ostatnich latach stały się język angiel- ski i normy akademickie wypracowane na Zachodzie, choć jest The e-zine is edited in the scope of the rese- niewątpliwie przydatne dla sprawnej globalnej komunikacji, arch project: How to Make a Voice Audible? wykształca jednak nowe podziały i hierarchie utrudniając swo- bodną wymianę myśli, tak istotną zwłaszcza dla rozwoju hu- Continuity and Change of Kurdish Culture and manistyki. Czy miarą wartości wiedzy i prawdy o świecie może of Social Reality in Postcolonial Perspectives być jedynie jej dostępność w języku angielskim w szczególnie ustandaryzowanej formie? Czy tego rodzaju podejście, aczkol- approved for financing by the decision num- wiek pod wieloma względami uzasadnione, nie jest przyczyną ber DEC-2012/05/E/HS2/03779 of The Natio- powstawania wyizolowanej twierdzy, której mieszkańcy dbają nal Science Centre of Poland tylko o swoje dobre samopoczucie? Trzeba przecież pamiętać, że spora część naszego współczesnego świata nie włada ję- zykiem angielskim.
    [Show full text]