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This paper contributes to the relatively nascent field of multi-modal metaphor research, specifically focusing on the manifestation of the given type of metaphors on the covers of business magazines. For the purpose of this study, a sample of covers from prominent business magazines (including Bloomberg Businessweek, Time Magazine, and The Economist) was collected and analyzed. In this research paper, four types of multi-modal metaphors have been distinguished based on the means of encoding source domains and target domains in verbal and pictorial modes. The study was performed within the theoretical framework of critical metaphor analysis. After analyzing the articles, it has been determined that multi-modal metaphors on business magazine covers can be based on image-schema level metaphors such as POWER IS UP as well as more complex domain-level metaphors such as BUSINESS LEADER IS A RELIGIOUS FIGURE. Covers that rely on multi-modal metaphors help to define the personality of a certain magazine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper asks whether history should change the way in which economists and economic historians think about populism. We use Müller's definition, according to which populism is 'an exclusionary form of identity politics, which is why it poses a threat to democracy'. We make three historical arguments. First, late‐nineteenth‐century US Populists were not populist. Second, there is no necessary relationship between populism and anti‐globalization sentiment. Third, economists have sometimes been on the wrong side of important policy debates involving opponents rightly or wrongly described as populist. History encourages us to avoid an overly simplistic view of populism and its correlates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article outlines the work of economist Ravi Jagannathan, who it notes is the Fellow of the American Finance Association for 2024. It mentions his academic research on topics including the market risk premium, asset pricing, and investor behavior. It says his is a professor at the Kellogg School of Management.

Child labor was a very important issue during the progressive period, which was characterized by the development of social policies, especially regarding the welfare of women and children. The arguments against child labor were not restricted to a moral point of view but attempted to point out the economic dimensions, with several prominent economists of the progressive period becoming involved in this debate. In this paper, we will analyze the way economists in the progressive period approached the issue of child labor, notably through the views of two leading economists of the period that were particularly concerned with this problem, one representing the Protestant economics' strand (Richard T. Ely) and the other the Catholic economics' one (John A. Ryan). We explore the convergence and the nuances in the positions of these two economists in the criticisms against child labor. Finally, we briefly present that important role of several social organizations advocating legislation curbing child labor and the way these networks converged in their activities with progressive economists in disseminating the arguments against child labor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Academic economists working in and adjacent to government have tremendous influence in law and policymaking. Judges, elected officials, and federal regulators rely on economic opinions and scholarship to guide decisions that impact the greater public. At the same time, it is common practice for academic economists to have close ties to private industry—for example, serving as highly paid consultants for firms—and conflicts of interest inevitably arise. Yet, despite these dual roles, economics has no code of ethics or rules that proscribe conflicts of interest or require their disclosure—making it an outlier among peer disciplines like medicine and law. This Article explores the role of academic economists in federal government and the issues that their financial conflicts of interest can create. Beginning with a foundational overview of ethics in government, this Article examines the history of conflict-of-interest laws for federal employees, as well as the emergence of professional ethical standards across many fields in the early 1900s. The Article then explores how courts and regulators have come to define conflicts of interest and the terms of their disclosure. Turning to economics, the Article traces the impact and role of economists in government, beginning before World War II and continuing through today, and discusses how, by failing to adopt ethical standards, the field of economics was and continues to be at odds with other professions that influence policy. This Article then provides a number of examples of how academic economists’ financial conflicts of interest have impacted their findings, research, and work when advising government and the issues that have emerged as a result. Finally, this Article calls for greater disclosure standards for academic economists working in government and puts forth policy recommendations to advance greater transparency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We examined the evolutionary stability of preferences (altruism and envy) in an evolutionary game that infinitely repeats a stage game. In the stage game, players who survived the previous game compete for survival in pairs. By solving the evolutionary game, we show that the survival advantage between altruism and envy depends on whether players' efforts in the stage game are strategic complements or substitutes. With strategic complements, altruistic players have an advantage in survival. With strategic substitutes, envious players have advantages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article seeks to explore the interface between language competence requirements as set by EMT and analyzed by PACTE and conceptual metaphor studies. The research strives to provide an assessment of an experiment conducted with three groups of translators - two non-professional ones, e.g. students of English philology in their 4th year with some translation practice and one group comprised of professional translators and university lecturers. Systematic knowledge of the theoretical underpinnings of Conceptual Metaphor Theory is privy to only one of the groups of non-professional translators. The experiment includes a translation of an article from the Economist by all groups. A number of metaphoric units (words and phrases) have been identified in the article on the basis of MIP procedures. The objective of the research is to gauge the importance of metaphoric competence for performing a successful translation. The results obtained from the current study, though not conclusive show that metaphoric competence plays a significant role in translators' competencies. Metaphoric awareness may not be directly linked with Conceptual Metaphor Theory, but it proves vital to the quality of translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

James Gwartney, who died in January, left an indelible mark on the world through his intellectual prowess, innovative contributions, relentless pursuit of knowledge, and advocacy of economic freedom. In this [...]