Educated or Indoctrinated? Remarks on the Influence of Economic Teaching on Students’ Attitudes Based on Evidence from the Public Good Game Experiment

Economic education is frequently blamed for negatively affecting students’ values and attitudes. Economists are reported as less cooperative, more self-interested, and more prone to free-riding. However, empirical evidence is inconclusive – certain studies support while others gainsay the so-called indoctrination hypothesis. We contribute to the discussion by running a Public Good Game (PGG) quasi-experiment. Working with economics and non-economics graduates (N = 206), we compared contributions to the common fund by representatives of both subsamples. Students’ contributions were then juxtaposed against the scores they achieved from the exam items, testing their command of game theory to detect the supposed influence of economic teaching. We hypothesised that holders of a bachelor’s degree in economics and management would contribute less to finance the common good. We also expected that those whose exam scores were higher would donate less to the common fund in the PGG. Contrary to expectations and prior empirical evidence, students holding a bachelor’s degree in economics and management made higher contributions to the common fund than their non-economics counterparts. Also, we found no correlation between the level of donations and exam scores. We conclude that there are no grounds for considering economic teaching as promoting uncooperativeness and exerting the supposed harmful influence on students’ character. We claim that economic departments provide education rather than indoctrination.

FROM THE HISTORY OF SOME PERSONAL NAMES IN DAGESTAN LANGUAGES

The article discusses the origin of some names on the basis of data from Dagestan and other languages. The ways of mutual influence and mutual assimilation of Dagestan languages, their development of a common fund of anthroponymy are traced. So, for example, on the basis of the Darginian word ghabza "hero; brave" in the process of interaction of three languages (Darginian, Lak and Avar), common elements in anthroponymy appear for them.

Making Common Fund data more Findable: Catalyzing a Data Ecosystem

The Common Fund Data Ecosystem has created a flexible system of data federation that enables users to discover datasets from across the Common Fund without requiring the data owners to move, reformat, or rehost those data. The CFDEs federation system is centered on a metadata catalog that ingests metadata from individual Common Fund Program Data Coordination Centers into a uniform metadata model that can then be indexed and searched from a centralized portal. This uniform Crosscut Metadata Model (C2M2), supports the wide variety of data set types and metadata terms used by the individual and is designed to enable easy expansion to accommodate new datatypes.

CHARACTERISTICS OF COMMON FUND OF PAIRED WORDS IN CHUVASH AND MARI LANGUAGES

Данная работа посвящена изучению парных слов, бытующих в языках центральной зоны Волго-Камского языкового союза - чувашском и марийском. Цель исследования - установить общий пласт парных лексических образований в сопоставляемых языках. Материалом исследования послужили списки парных слов, составленные на базе академических лексикографических источников. Работа выполнена в компаративном аспекте. В ее основу положен количественно-качественный подход, позволяющий объективно оценить параметры изучаемого явления. В результате исследования автор делает вывод, что парных слов в чувашском языке более чем в два раза больше, чем в марийском. Такая диспропорция объясняется доминированием в чувашском языке синтаксического способа словообразования в отличие от марийского с его ведущим аффиксальным способом деривации. Автором представлена классификация общего фонда чувашских и марийских парных образований: 1) чувашизмы в марийском языке, отсутствующие в исходном языке;2) чувашизмы в марийском языке, сохраняющиеся в языке-доноре; 3) общие единицы с противоположным расположением компонентов; 4) мариизмы в чувашском языке. В марийском списке парных слов имеются единицы чувашского происхождения, отсутствующие в исходном языке. По этой причине марийский материал может стать новой областью контактологических разысканий, способствующих реконструированию лакунарных аналогичных парных слов в чувашском языке. This work is devoted to the study of paired words that exist in the languages of the central zone of the Volga-Kama language union - Chuvash and Mari. The aim of the research is to establish the common layer of paired lexical formations in the compared languages. The research material was the lists of paired words compiled on the basis of academic lexicographic sources. The work was done in a comparative aspect. It is based on a quantitative and qualitative approach that allows an objective assessment of the parameters of the phenomenon under consideration. As a result of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that there are more than two times more paired words in the Chuvash language than in the Mari. This disproportion is due to the dominance of the syntactic way of word formation in the Chuvash language, in contrast to the Mari with its leading affix way of derivation. The author presents the classification of the common fund of the Chuvash and Mari paired formations: 1) Chuvashisms in the Mari language, which are absent in the original language; 2) Chuvashisms in the Mari language, which have been preserved in the donor language; 3) common units with opposite arrangement of components; 4) Mariisms in the Chuvash language. The Mari list of paired words contains the units of Chuvash origin that are absent in the original language. For this reason, the Mari material can become a new area of contactological research, contributing to the reconstruction of similar lacunar paired words in the Chuvash language.

The Fate of Class Action Common Fund Orders

Common Fund Orders’ (CFOs) have had a significant effect on Australian third party-funded class actions by requiring all class members to make a contribution to the third-party litigation funder’s fee in the event of a successful outcome. This altered past practice whereby only class members who had contracted with the litigation funder would be liable for such a contribution. However in a 5:2 decision in BMW Australia Ltd v Brewster in 2019, the High Court cast some doubt on CFOs, determining that neither s 33ZF Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth) nor s 183 Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) provided a legal basis for making CFOs at the outset of proceedings so as to secure litigation funding support. In late 2020, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) on Corporations and Financial Services recommended that legislation be enacted to ‘address uncertainty’ in Brewster in a manner that would enable CFOs to be made at settlement or judgment. The authors canvass normative arguments as to the merits of CFOs and compare the alternative practice of making Funding Equalisation Orders (FEOs). They also consider the related issue of courts setting overall funding commissions. Given the possibility of legislative intervention, they also review arguments as to the potential constitutional validity of CFOs, a matter that was raised, but received very limited treatment from the High Court in BMW.

Enhancing Research Through the Use of the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Database

Despite a growing interest in multi-omic research, individual investigators may struggle to collect large-scale omic data, particularly from human subjects. Publicly available datasets can help to address this problem, including those sponsored by the NIH Common Fund, such as the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) database. This database contains genotype and expression data obtained from 54 non-diseased tissues in human subjects. But these data are often underutilized, because users may find the browsing tools to be counterintuitive or have difficulty navigating the procedures to request controlled data access. Furthermore, there is limited knowledge of these resources among nurse scientists interested in incorporating such information into their programs of research. This article outlines the procedures for using the GTEx database. Next, we provide one exemplar of using this resource to enhance existing research by investigating expression of dopamine receptor type 2 ( DRD2) across brain tissues in human subjects.

To the Problem of Greek Loanwords in the Ukrainian Argots

The article considers Greek borrowings in the Ukrainian lyric-craft argots in the context of the genesis and development of the East Slavic „secret languages”. The main linguistic views on the problem of Greek borrowings in the Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian historical sociolects expressed during the XIX–XXI centuries are analyzed, a number of critical remarks on some approaches to the problem are offered. Particular attention is paid to the critique of V. Bondaletov’s „Proto-Ofenian theory”, in particular to the statement of the exceptional influence of the sociolect of Russian itinerant traders as „praargot” on other East Slavic sociolects. The views of ethnographers and linguists on the extra-linguistic reasons for the formation of a common fund of Greek borrowings in the East Slavic „secret languages” are systematized and commented on. Numerous Greek borrowings in the Ukrainian lyric-craft argots have been studied on the background of other East Slavic sociolects: the study is based on a comparative method aimed at establishing substandard lexical units the most similar to the Greek etymon in the internal and external forms. This enabled to conclude to which specific sociolect or sociolect group the analyzed argots belong, as well as how they spread further among other sociolects, undergoing various phonetic, derivational and semantic transformations. The method mentioned above implemented on the basis of Greek borrowings in the domestic substandard systems enabled to emphasize the author’s views on the genesis of the Ukrainian lyric-craft argots, in particular, more clearly revealed the common Belarusian-Ukrainian argotic array and transitional „contact” sociolects, borrowing a great number of lexical units from it.

The District Assembly Common Fund and Fiscal Decentralisation: What is the Impact on Local Development in Ghana?

Local governments have been created as agents of local development in which the people in the local areas are given greater opportunities to influence policies and programs that directly affect their well-being and thereby reducing their poverty levels. But the implementation of the policies and programmes is bedeviled with many problems. Key among them is the issue of financing the local development projects in order to reduce rural poverty. The government of Ghana attempted to reduce this problem when it introduced a development fund in1994 known as the – District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) to encourage local governance and deepen Government’s commitment to decentralization in general and fiscal devolution in particular. The study therefore, seeks to assess the impact of District Assembly Common Fund on Local Government Development in the Adaklu District Assembly in the Volta Region of Ghana. The study mainly adopted qualitative methods of research to obtain information on the experiences of the poor people in the Adaklu communities selected as study areas. Interview guides were used to obtain information from the people in the communities, staff of the Assembly and some heads of the decentralized departments. A major finding of the study is that the assembly did not involve the rural people in the poverty reduction programmes in the district.

Are people with high psychoticism the true homo economicus?

Homo Economicus behaves rationally, maximizing his own utility over that of the group. The relationship with non-prosocial behavior seems clear. This behavior, typical of people with high psychoticism, could affect their decision-making. Therefore, not only the situation will be critical when making a decision, but also stable variables related to personality. In the context of the Common Goods Game, a web platform for implementing behavioral games was developed. The system allows users to play collaborative games such as the Common Goods Game. 97 students participated in that game and contributed to a common fund. They had 25 units, corresponding to 25 tenths of one subject final grade score, which can contribute to the common fund to the extent that they wish, knowing that the total amount of the common fund will be doubled and will be distributed equally among all the participants. The results show that the subjects with the lowest levels of consciousness and agreeableness traits adopt the antisocial strategy and are the ones that obtain the most benefits. Although the limitations of the study the results suggest that both types of variables, situational and dispositional, should be taken into account when studying decision-making in behavioral economics.