5 Works
Gesinnungsethik und Verantwortungsethik: Warum das politische Personal immer wieder gern Max Weber zitiert
Dirk Kaesler
Welche Bedeutung haben Webers Überlegungen zu Führung und Verantwortung 100 Jahre nach seinem Tod? Lässt sich am Beispiel der protestantisch geprägten Kanzlerin Angela Merkel oder am Beispiel von ausgewählten Institutionen und ihrem Führungsteam zeigen, wie die Vorstellungen Webers in der Realität umgesetzt werden können? Gibt es gar eine Renaissance dieser Vorstellungen?
China’s Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America
Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi, Hashem Pesaran, Alessandro Rebucci & TengTeng Xu
The international business cycle is very important for Latin America’s economic performance as the recent global crisis vividly illustrated. This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages between China, Latin America, and the rest of the world have altered the transmission mechanism of international business cycles to Latin America. Evidence based on a Global Vector Autoregressive (GVAR) model for 5 large Latin American economies and all major advanced and emerging economies of the world shows...
Max Weber and Anglophone Historiography
Richard Bourke
The distinguished ancient historian Moses Finley is reported to have planned at the end of his life to re-read the writings of Max Weber, half a century after he first encountered his corpus. This level of engagement is surely exceptional among anglophone historians. It is a notorious fact that, beginning with R. H. Tawney, historians in Britain and the United States have subjected Weber’s work to skewed interpretations or familiarised themselves with only a fraction...
Archives and Special Collections Linked Data: Navigating between Notes and Nodes
Erin Blake, Itza A. Carbajal, Regine Heberlein, Sarah Horowitz, Jason Kovari, VANESSA LACEY, Cory Lampert, Holly Mengel, Cory Nimer, Maria Oldal, Merrilee Proffitt, Nathan Putnam, Arielle Rambo, Elizabeth Roke, Eric de Ruijter, Dan Santamaria, Karen Smith-Yoshimura, Weatherly Stephan, Bruce Washburn & Chela WeberScore-dependency: Over-reliance on performing music from notation reduces aural pitch replication skills
Chris Corcoran
Background in music performance. Most music is performed or improvised by ear, but
Western classical musicians primarily perform music from notated scores.
Background in music perception. Classical musicians have greater difficulties playing
melodies by ear than musicians with other backgrounds (Woody & Lehman, 2010). This ties in
with Harris and de Jong’s (2015) finding that non-improvising musicians exhibit less activation
in the right auditory cortex than improvising musicians. The right auditory cortex is known to...