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The paper briefly characterizes the content of S. Bowles advanced textbook in microeconomics and comments on the key themes that constitute the book: on the relationship between uncertainty and optimization, technologies and production function, altruism and self-interest, cooperation and competition. The main attention is paid to the temporal dimension of the economics processes.

At the present time it is not easy to say anything on the German problem which is startlingly new to the initiate in this field. It is all the more difficult for anyone who has written a book on this subject.1 The best I can do here is to draw attention once more to some central aspects of the German problem on which, incidentally, world public opinion still seems to be generally wrong and where it is particularly difficult to pierce the thick crust of preconceived, though by no means incomprehensible, ideas. Passions the world" over have not yet abated; wounds opened by the Nazi monster are, at best, just beginning to close. The memory of our fears is still fresh, so fresh indeed, that only the more far-sighted men understand the senselessness of looking transfixed into this gigantic shell-hole which still goes under the name of Germany while, just behind it, another of the terribles simplificateurs is heaping up the dynamite for a new experiment of this kind.

When scientists describe the increase of Dust Bowl-like conditions under climate change, they signal a particular kind of violent ecological and social change. But equally violent are the social forces, historical developments, policies, and practices that produce such massive socioecological crises in the first place.

When octogenarian writer Jin Yong (Louis Cha) joined the Chinese Writers' Assoc (CWA) in 2009, many were surprised that he cared to belong this stodgy, conformist organization. Jin Yong made his way to fame in the Hong Kong of the 1950s-1960s writing martial arts fiction. Many other CWA members have long since left the CWA, including science fiction writer Zheng Jun, who called it a "living fossil." Membership no longer carries prestige or material benefits; instead writers pay dues & receive little in return. Without the subsidization that writers used to receive from the socialist government, many have had to trade in their "iron rice bowl" for a beggar's bowl. This paper contends, however, that good literature is still championed by both private & public institutions. It plays a major role in liberal education, "the cornerstone of Western democracy," according to Martha C. Nussbaum (1997), in opposition to Fredric Jameson's (1986) nostalgia for third-world literature. In this light, the author attempts to explain what is good about (Chinese) literature of today. As current CWA president Tie Ning (2006) has declaimed, "Literature stands for a kind of courage to defend the spiritual health of humanity & its inner nobility.". S. Stanton