The Economist's Johnson columnist argues that linguistic change should be embraced as evolution Much of the public debate around linguistic change tends to be polarized into two camps. In one are the descriptivists, for whom change is a natural feature of a living language; in the other are the prescriptivists, who view such changes in strictly negative terms as evidence of slipping standards. "..
With the growth of the economies worldwide the debate between shareholder and stakeholder capitalism has never been more intense than nowadays. Each country though incorporates this debate differently in its interior market since its corporate governance's structures present distinguished characteristics. Thus, by bringing into this debate countries like Germany and the USA, the distinction betw..
Asset heavy is a broad based term used to describe business model of companies which typically own a lot of their fixed assets outright which are utilized to generate income for the company, as opposed to asset light businesses which essentially control the IP and service and pay a rent to use the fixed assets they do not own but need to generate income: for example Uber does not own its fleet o..
1. Introduction On March 30, 2011, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) announced the screening results of included matters concerning Dokdo (known as "Takeshima"" in Japanese) in all geography and civics textbooks. The volume of Dokdo related content had increased significantly from previous editions, and Japan's territorial claims over Dokdo were ..
When two cultures come into contact, they do not exchange every cultural item. If that were the case, there would be no cultural differences in the world today. Instead, only a small number of cultural elements ever spread from one culture to another. Which cultural item is accepted depends largely on the item's use and compatibility with already existing cultural traits. For example, it is not ..