29강 정치, 경제, 사회, 법
Gateway 공정한 집단적 선택
When gathering the preferences of multiple ____ into one collective choice, it is easily seen that certain cases call for randomization or other means of tiebreaking.
For example, if there are two alternatives, a and b, and two agents such that one prefers a and ____ other one b, there is no deterministic way of selecting a single alternative without violating one of two basic fairness conditions known as anonymity and neutrality.
Anonymity requires that the collective choice ought to be independent of the agents' identities whereas neutrality ____ impartiality towards the alternatives.
Allowing lotteries as social outcomes ____ seems like a necessity for impartial collective choice.
Indeed, most common "deterministic" social ____ functions such as plurality rule are only deterministic as long as there is no tie, which is usually resolved by drawing a lot.
The use of lotteries for the selection of officials interestingly goes ____ to the world's first democracy in Athens, where it was widely regarded as a principal characteristic of democracy, and has recently gained increasing attention in political science.
Exercise 1 법의 일상적 이해
Along with the mistaken notion that the law resides in the books goes the ____ mistaken idea that law is secret, or at least inaccessible to the ordinary person.
To understand and apply the law at the advanced, technical level that lawyers do requires professional knowledge, but to understand the basic substance ____ the law does not.
Law ____ life.
The principles and issues embodied in the law are not ____ from those that we experience in other aspects of our lives.
Contract law, for example, is ____ commentary on the way people make, interpret, keep, and break their promises in commercial and noncommercial settings.
Few nonlawyers can describe the objective theory of contract formation or the Statute of Frauds, but ____ have thought a lot about contracts and promises.
If you cross your fingers when you make a promise, does it ____ that the promise doesn't count?
If your newly purchased ____ doesn't work, can you return it to the store?
____ so on.
Exercise 2 인터넷이 바꾼 패션 시장과 소비자 행동
The internet ____ transformed the fashion marketplace, making it increasingly difficult to predict the demand for the selling season.
Consumers can ____ for product information and prices and gain comparative information almost instantaneously, making them more informed than ever before, transferring the balance of power from the retailer to the customer.
This is exacerbated by open and real-time access to fashion shows, facilitated through livestreaming, coupled with social media access to celebrity looks and lifestyles ____ the sharing of all aspects of life on social media.
Consumers use fashion choices to express their individual ____ and personality, especially those promoting 'brand me' on social media.
The traditional two-season offer is no longer seen as enough, with consumers demanding new products ____ the whole year.
This creates a problem for fashion retailers as many consumers are looking for ____ exclusive pieces to differentiate themselves, forcing up the desire for trend-led ever more rapidly changing styles, while still demanding affordable prices.
Exercise 3 흑인 공동체에 대한 환경적 인종 차별
What deeply affected so many Black communities globally was not only that they could not metaphorically breathe because of the oppressive forms and ____ of white supremacy, but also that so many Black communities literally cannot breathe because of environmental racism.
Similarly to Black communities in the UK, Black Americans are also more likely ____ live near landfills, industrial plants and fossil-fuel infrastructure.
The process by which this hazardous infrastructure is deliberately situated close to African American ____ is called redlining.
This process means ____ fossil-fuelled power plants and hazardous-waste facilities are disproportionately and deliberately situated in Black or ethnic-minority neighbourhoods.
As a result of this, Black Americans are three times more ____ to die from exposure to air pollutants than their white counterparts.