Exploration and Practical Research on the Integration of Modeling Thought into Economics Teaching in Colleges and Universities

How to make students apply their theoretical knowledge to practice and complete the teaching objectives of macro and micro economics through economics teaching reform is a common concern of teachers majoring in economic management in many colleges and universities. Starting from the necessity and significance of modeling thought in economics teaching, this paper demonstrates the practical application of mathematical modeling in economics teaching, and puts forward the way of integrating modeling thought into economics teaching in Colleges and universities.

Compassion, Reasoning, and the Urgency of Healing Divided Societies

An unprecedented planetary danger faces human civilization and puts its future in question, especially climate catastrophe. There is a vital need for human beings to make better decisions together. These decisions must take place across many cultures and civilizations that have conflicting interests, ambitions, and needs. Thinking together leads to more advanced problem solving. In order to survive and thrive, humans have always had to make decisions informed by two things: (1) a common concern for each other, and (2) a capacity for reasoning that supports sustainable life. We often do this, but we are also capable of mass murder and destruction of life on earth. This is a paradox of mutually exclusive fates, with the negative fate only circumvented through the cultivation of our positive capacities. Our positive capacities for survival require a cultivation of compassion and moral reasoning, what is being introduced in this book as Compassionate Reasoning.

The commons as a paradigm shift for a regenerative

As the Earth System's trajectory approaches an irreversible path towards a "Hothouse Earth", societies remain unable to collectively ensure the maintenance of a stable climate. Nearly 30 years have passed after climate change was considered a Common Concern of Humankind, a status that remains the legal framework adopted by the Paris Agreement. A stable climate is a manifestation of the stable and well-defined functioning of the Earth System. Although intangible, a stable climate exists in the real world and is necessarily a common good for being limited, exhaustible, and non-excludable. Thus, a congruent system between the rules of appropriation (negative impacts) and provision of the global public good (positive impacts) is necessary for the effective management of the common good – stable climate. However, in the current legal framework that considers a stable climate a Common Concern of Humankind, a stable climate is invisible to our international legal system and economy, which makes it impossible for it to become an object of international governance. Here, the authors argue that the recognition of a stable climate as the Common Heritage of Humankind is the first and fundamental step for being able to act towards restoring and maintaining a stable climate.

Dignity Beyond Price: Kant and His Revolutionary British Contemporary

Despite their contemporaneity and obvious similarities, Richard Price and Immanuel Kant are rarely discussed together. This essay examines the common background of their work, similarities in their methodology and principles, and their common concern with connecting rationalist philosophical systems with knowledge at the level of ordinary life and politics – all this despite their lack of reference to each other. Their normative principles are assessed in connection with major documents and political events in their revolutionary era. A concluding section evaluates their work in relation to contemporary discussions that concern the relationship between pre-reflective and reflective levels of moral knowledge. The essay draws on the work of contemporary scholars such as Danielle Allen, David Brink, Robert Audi, Sarah McGrath, and Thomas Kelly.

Management strategy of the government of Indonesia in handling the Covid-19 pandemic

This study is to find out how the Indonesian government's strategy in dealing with the Covid 19 pandemic over time since the discovery of covid 19. This research is qualitative, describes various related sources, and presents it about the management of pandemic covid 19 strategies. Since the covid 19 outbreak in Indonesia, various strategies have been carried out by the Indonesian government to protect its citizens from the pandemic covid 19 outbreak. Victims of covid 19, in Indonesia, have exceeded the threshold set by who (World Health Organisation) (Raoult 2021) is a common concern, the government is carrying out various strategies in addressing the pandemic covid 19. The purpose of this research is to let the public know the steps taken by the government and jointly responsible for overcoming the pandemic covid 19, because only with good cooperation can the Ovid 19 pandemic be overcome.

Cultural Heritage as ‘Common Concern’: Role of International Organizations and States

This chapter explores the evolution of cultural property as the ‘common concern’ of the international community by focusing on its protection during armed conflict and belligerent occupation. By focusing on the role of international organizations over the last century, it examines the development of the rationales for this protection and related obligations concerning safeguarding and prosecution of violations. It charts the drive to realize a specialist instrument on the protection of cultural property during armed conflict and the enforcement of these obligations through the various phases of the evolving membership and priorities of the Intellectual Cooperation Organisation (ICO) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It is shown that despite the changing fortunes of these specialist international culture organizations themselves, the core commitment by the international community to the articulation of the protection of cultural property during armed conflict as a common concern of humanity and the obligation to prosecute violators of these norms has strengthened over decades.

Protecting the Atmosphere as a ‘Global Common Good’

Atmospheric degradation has progressively been recognized as an international concern and several conventions have been adopted to regulate harmful activities. Nevertheless, international law on the protection of the atmosphere is still fragmented, and insufficient to respond to the multiple threats that it faces. This chapter aims to consider what are the possibilities and constraints in international law for recognizing the atmosphere as a global common good. The author examines: (i) what would be the legal consequences of recognizing the atmosphere as a global common good or as a common concern of humankind; (ii) whether the applicable international law already includes any references to the recognition of the atmosphere as such; and (iii) what are the challenges and constraints for doing so.

Aspirational Principles in African Federalism: South Africa, Ethiopia and Nigeria Compared

Finding a balance between diversity and social cohesion is a common concern in constitutional design: in divided societies, such a balance has often been sought through federalism. But the need to reconcile diversity and social cohesion can also be addressed through aspirational values embedded in a constitution. In fact, constitutions may entrench fundamental principles directing policies to foster equality, eliminate obstacles or require the different tiers of government to collaborate harmoniously in the performance of their functions. In exploring solidarity between different communities and cooperative government in South Africa, ethnicity as foundational value in Ethiopia, and the federal character in Nigeria, this article offers a comparative account of the three most important federations in Africa to assess how their constitutions reconcile diversity and social cohesion through aspirational principles related to federalism.