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漢朝宗室大臣兼文學家劉向在《說苑．臣術》篇中將人臣分為十二種類型，六為正，六為邪，其中「諛」便是「六邪」之一。篇中將其描述為「主所言皆曰善，主所為皆曰可，隱而求主之所好而進之，以快主之耳目，偷合茍容，與主為樂，不顧其後害，如此者，諛臣也」，意指那些認為君主說的話都是好的、君主的行為都是對的，只會投其所好、阿諛奉承，助長君主的逸樂而不顧嚴重後果的馬屁精。

Following the Fukushima nuclear accident, Japan gradually shut down all its nuclear power plants, causing a countrywide power shortage. In response the government launched large-scale energy-saving campaigns to reduce electricity consumption. Exploiting the electricity-saving targets across regions and over time, we show that the campaigns significantly increased mortality, particularly during extremely hot days. The impact is primarily driven by people using less air conditioning, as encouraged by the government. Nonpecuniary incentives can explain most of the reduction in electricity consumption. Our findings suggest there exists a trade-off between climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation.

Subjective performance evaluation could induce influence activities:employees might devote too much effort to pleasing their evaluator, relative to working toward the goals of the organization itself. We conduct a randomized field experiment among Chinese local civil servants to study the existence and implications of influence activities. We find that civil servants do engage in evaluator-specific influence to affect evaluation outcomes, partly in the form of reallocating work efforts toward job tasks that are more important and observable to the evaluator. Importantly, we show that introducing uncertainty about the evaluator’s identity discourages evaluator-specific influence activities and improves bureaucratic work performance.

能源和電價顯著上漲，除了影響民生之外，還會產生什麼其他重要的影響？

能源和電價顯著上漲，除了影響民生之外，還會產生什麼其他重要的影響？

氣候變化威脅地球食水供應、減少農業生產、危及沿海地區、損害人類健康，並使生態系統惡化。極端天氣造成的過度死亡，更被認為是一大災難性後果。據2017年發表於《科學》（Science）期刊的一篇文章估計，到二十一世紀末，極端氣候帶來的超額死亡成本可能佔美國氣候災難損失總額約70%之多。

氣候變化威脅地球食水供應、減少農業生產、危及沿海地區、損害人類健康，並使生態系統惡化。極端天氣造成的過度死亡，更被認為是一大災難性後果。據2017年發表於《科學》（Science）期刊的一篇文章估計，到二十一世紀末，極端氣候帶來的超額死亡成本可能佔美國氣候災難損失總額約70%之多。

新冠疫情肆虐，一波未平一波又起，在大灣區，深圳封城抗疫初見成效，廣州又開始爆發新一輪疫情，面對相對嚴格的抗疫政策，當地居民是如何適應？

警方包庇有組織犯罪的情況偶有所聞，但往往很難通過實證來研究。研究利用來自中國獨特的性交易數據，證實地方警察或對一些有組織的賣淫活動提供庇護。具體而言，位於警力密度較高的社區內的桑拿浴室和按摩院，受到警方「保護」的機會較高，進而可以進行高風險、高罪責的賣淫活動。在地方警察「掃黃」期間，這種庇護效應更加明顯，意味著選擇性執法的存在。地方領導層的變化和中央政府紀律部隊巡視則會顯著減弱這種庇護效應。