The topography associated with the fundamental crustal dichotomy in much of eastern Mars can be largely ascribed to a single event: the very large impact which produced the Utopia Basin. Subsequent internal and surficial processes have been unable to remove the topographic signature of this basin. In particular, endogenic processes appear to have been ineffective in contributing to the basic di...

This paper challenges Alasdair MacIntyre's assertion that the modern firm such as Google, Unilever, or Microsoft is inimical to human flourishing within an Aristotelian framework. The paper begins by questioning MacIntyre's rendering ofutopian communities. It then addresses four specific criticisms ofthe modern firm to be found throughout MacIntyre's oeuvre, namely compartmentalisation, myopia,...

The Kurds’ experience with modern mass violence is long and complex. Whereas Kurds lived under the Kurdish Emirates for centuries in pre-national conditions Ottoman Persian empires, advent of nationalism colonialism Middle East radically changed situation. World War I was a watershed most ethnic groups Empire, such as Kurds, some political minorities Armenians Assyrians suffered genocide – incl...

Nations stay together when citizens share enough values and preferences. Homogeneity amongst people can be built with education, teaching a common language to facilitate communication, but also by brute force such as prohibiting local cultures. Democracies and dictators have different incentives when it comes to choosing how much and by what means to homogenize the population. We study and we c...

cinema as a cultural industry, is the promoter of identity, memory, dreams and collective projects. mexico has introduced its collective identity to the world, using this industry. examining the application of this industry in mexican cinema can be considered an important step for improving the country’s cinema. approaches to the origins of modern nations consider culture as a fundamental const...

Many multicriteria problems in economics and finance require that efficient solutions be found. A recent contribution to production theory established a characterization of efficient points under closedness and free-disposability (Bonnisseau and Crettez in Econ Theory 31(2):213–223, 2007, Theorem 1). However, as will be shown using a number of examples, these results cannot be applied to simple...