+ pleasant vs. White + pleasant for self-described unprejudiced White subjects). Consider a thought experiment. You are shown a series of male and female faces, to which you are to respond as rapidly as possible by saying "hel lo " if the face is male and "goodbye" if it is female. For a

Some unintended consequences of financial liberalization in Latin America are analyzed in this paper. Intrinsic imperfectious in financial markets, and the policy dilemmas they pose, are reviewed first. The stylized facts of Southern Cone experiments in financial liberization are then presented. Alternative ways of organlzing domestic capital markets under Latin American conditions are discussed, and an eclectic, reform mongering program is proposed.

It is shown that the Einstein-Eddington-Tolman's concept of gravitation energy is wrong as a whole because their pseudotensor contributes a POSITIVE term to the total energy of an isolated system, and therefore this standard pseudotensor breaks the conservation law. The original result is the proving of the positiveness, which buries the Einstein-Eddington-Tolman's pseudotensor. So, no works using the pseudotensor can provide a well-defined notion of the gravitational energy no matter what conditions are considered. The Tolman's formulas are demonstrated in the paper as formulas containing arithmetic mistakes.

Bengali community and social workers, a programme of live music, arts and crafts, and food was presented to an audience that at times reached capacity of 1500 people. The Oral History and World & Traditional Music Sections of the Sound Archive compiled a series of recordings for punters to listen to in the main foyer. Taking the context to include the music of West Bengal and Bangladesh, as the two regions share a common musical heritage and language, the recordings were chosen to demonstrate the breadth of our holdings and to illustrate many of the WTM Section’s varied programmes. Fred Gaisberg’s famed 1902 trip to Calcutta for the Gramophone Company to “open up new markets, establish agencies and acquire a catalogue of native records”, paved the way for the development of a prolific publishing programme in India, and from the very beginning local and popular music was recorded. Among the WTM Section’s holdings from the early decades of last century are songs recorded on

Many markets have historically been dominated by a small number of best-selling products. The Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule, describes this common pattern of sales concentration. However, by greatly lowering search costs, information technology in general and Internet markets in particular have the potential to substantially increase the collective share of niche products, thereby creating a longer tail in the distribution of sales. This paper investigates how demand-side factors contribute to the Internet’s “Long Tail ” phenomenon. It first models how a reduction in search costs will affect the concentration in product sales. Then, by analyzing data collected from a multi-channel retailing company, it provides empirical evidence that the Internet channel exhibits a significantly less concentrated sales distribution, when compared with traditional channels. The difference in the sales distribution is highly significant, even after controlling for consumer differences. Furthermore, the effect is particularly strong for individuals with more prior experience using the Internet channel. We find evidence that Internet purchases made by consumers with prior Internet experience are more skewed toward obscure products, compared with consumers who have no such experience. We observe the opposite outcome when comparing purchases by the same

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The detection of a stochastic background of long-wavelength gravitational waves (tensors) in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy would be an invaluable probe of the high energy physics of the early universe. Unfortunately a combination of factors now makes such a detection seem unlikely: the vast majority of the CMB signal appears to come from density perturbations (scalars)- detailed fits to current observations indicate a tensor-to-scalar quadrupole ratio of T/S < 0.5 for the simplest models; and on the theoretical side the best-motivated inflationary models seem to require very small T/S. Unfortunately CMB temperature anisotropies can only probe a gravity wave signal down to T/S ∼ 10 % and optimistic assumptions about polarization of the CMB only lower this another order of magnitude. Inflation is the only known mechanism for producing an almost scale-invariant spectrum of adiabatic scalar (density) fluctuations, a prediction which is steadily gaining observational support. The simplest models of inflation also predict an almost scale-invariant spectrum of

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Life used to be relatively simple for the peddlers of policy advice in the tropics. Observing the endless list of policy follies to which poor nations had succumbed, any welltrained and well-intentioned economist could feel justified in uttering the obvious truths of the profession: get your macro balances in order, take the state out of business, give markets free