China's Changing Constitution

Chinas provincial disparities and the determinants of provincial inequality

The paper explains the growth –inequality nexus for China’s provinces. The theoretical model of provincial development consists of two regions and studies the interactions of a mutual depending development process. Due to positive externalities, incoming trade and FDI induce imitation and hence productivity growth. The regional government can in‡uence the economy by changing international trans...

Taxation and the Constitution

The Constitution of Status

The Coupling-Constitution Fallacy

In the face of both common sense and contemporary science, an increasing number of philosophers and psychologists have found themselves attracted to the view that, in ordinary tool use, we have instances in which cognitive processes span the cranial boundary and extend into extracranial space. As Daniel Dennett puts it, " minds are composed of tools for thinking that we not only obtain from the...

Indonesia Constitution Third Amendment

After thoroughly and seriously studying, analysing and considering the basic matters confronted by the people, nation, and state, and additionally by using its authority based on Article 37 of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, the MPR amends and/or adds Article 1 Paragraph (2) and (3); Article 3 Paragraph (1), (3), and (4); Article 6 Paragraph (1) and (2); Article 6A Paragraph...