New markets and new commons : Opportunities in the global casino

The United Nations is well positioned for the global changes of the information age now engulfing nation-states. The UN role and tasks—as global norm setter, broker, networker, convenor, and peacekeeper—are ideally suited to today's world of linked ‘infostructures’ and distributed power, influence and knowledge typified by the emerging global civil society. The UN can serve all these emerging infostructures—and be compensated by fostering debates and convening parties to design the needed agreements for operating the emerging ‘electronic commons’, including today's global financial casino. Technological, social and economic contexts for this new global agenda are described together with some market opportunities in new public/private partnerships to serve the global commons.     

创意产业发展的国际比较及其对我国的启示

创意产业正在成为一个新的推动社会和经济成长的要素,世界经济新的增长点已从"信息经济"传递到了"创意经济"。目前,我国创意产业的发展刚刚起步,与发达国家相比还有很大的差距,因此,它们的经验值得我们借鉴。     

低碳经济背景下广西产业结构调整与银行业支持问题研究

以低碳经济为代表的新增长模式已日渐成为后危机时代全球经济复苏的＂曙光＂。当前,广西也面临产业结构调整的迫切任务,因此,在低碳经济背景下,研究如何通过金融的杠杆作用促进广西产业结构优化,支持经济结构转型升级,对实现广西经济的可持续发展有着重要的现实意义。本文在对广西近二十年来的产业结构发展以及银行业支持现状进行分析的基础上,建立回归模型验证银行信贷支持和产业结构变化之间的关系,提出低碳背景下银行业支持广西产业结构调整的主要思路。     

Information technology developments and implications for national policies

A review is made of the global status of information technology (IT) development and new opportunities identified for government IT policies. Despite operational problems, IT innovations continue apace. Poor human-computer interaction, user friendliness and lack of standardization are all key issues which must be addressed. Globalization trends, east-west politicomilitary changes and third world development, all have implications for government IT policies over the coming decade—and the right directions must be pursued now to derive real benefits from IT and move towards a true information economy.     

Principles of humanistic enterprise in Japan : A new economic system of the future

The Japanese economy and management since the Second World War have been guided by the influence of Japanese cultural uniqueness. Misunderstanding of the nature of the Japanese economy stems in part from lack of a universal principle derived from the Japanese experience. The ‘Humanistic Enterprise System’ (HES) advocated by H. Itami in his latest work is one of the most useful concepts developed to date, and views the Japanese HES economy as supplying the paradigm for 21st century global economics. HES is based on a people-centred economic philosophy in which human resources are primary for economic activity, and consists of three principles—employee sovereignty, general sharing, and an organized market.     

2004年国际经济金融走势及其对我国经济金融的影响分析

本文对2004年国际经济金融走势进行了较为全面和深入的分析。从全球经济走势来看,世界经济形势持续好转,美日欧以及其他亚洲国家和地区的经济整体表现良好;国际金融市场在全球经济基本面的带动下,总体表现也较为平稳。另外,本文还对2005年的国际经济金融走势进行了预测和分析。同时随着我国改革开放的日益深入,国际经济金融市场的运行对我国经济金融的影响也日益加大。基于此,本文从国际经济金融的大背景出发,分析和预测了其对我国进出口贸易、吸引外资、外汇储备、外债、人民币汇率及在华外资银行和境内外汇存贷款变化等方面的影响。     

Forecasting the world's problems : The Last Empire: the corporatization of society and diminution of self

A future scenario is postulated—‘The Last Empire’—based on concern with the ramifications of increasing corporatization and moves away from individualism. The globalization of the marketplace is marked by increasing cultural, psychological, social and ideological homogeneity, politicoeconomic centralization and the threat to individualism. Personal demands for autonomy and a liberalization of the human spirit provide the counter-thrust. These competing trajectories are the context within which major global problems are viewed. Five major issues are treated here: the global economy; nationhood and cultural determinacy; the economic dimension; the educational agenda; and the individual's outlook. In each area the clashes between individual involvement and corporatization, and their outcomes, provide the key to forecasting and dealing with the world's future problems.     

WTO环境下贸易摩擦及中国对策

经济全球化趋势的不断加强,世界各国经济交往愈加紧密。由于经济发展不平衡及利益不一致,国家之间贸易摩擦日趋激烈。入世以来,中国与其他国家贸易摩擦频繁发生,已经成为中国对外开放中面临的重大问题。为保证中国外贸出口持续发展,必须在深入研究贸易摩擦产生的背景、发展趋势及其特点的基础上,以增强自身实力为根本,通过采取完善贸易救济体系、加快制度调整和创新、加强技术认证工作、扩大内需等措施,为我国外贸发展创造良好的外部环境。     

试论WTO及网络经济环境下的会计信息系统

在中国加入WTO和网络经济的环境下 ,财务的国际化已是必然选择。本文从网络经济的特点出发 ,分析了在新的环境下传统会计信息系统的缺陷 ,并针对这些不足 ,论述了在新的环境下会计信息系统应有的特点及功能。     

我国区域金融非均衡发展问题研究

随着我国经济发展进入新常态阶段,区域金融发展非均衡性趋势愈发明显,当前应加强宏观层面顶层设计的实际作用,促进各省级单位的金融合作,完善各区域金融协调发展的合作制度,从而推动我国金融系统在政策制度方面逐步完善.在各省区经济差异逐年扩大的实际情况下,应该积极促进各区域金融主体的多元化发展,拓宽交易双方的范围,增加交易角色,以此来改善我国整体的金融生态环境.各省区还应尽快建立起各自的资本市场,以改善区域内金融市场结构为突破点,优化地区资本积累不均的现状.同时应大力发展移动金融,推动产业融合,促进各区域金融内部的信息化资本有效流动.     

Thriving locally in the global economy

More and more small and midsize companies are joining corporate giants in striving to exploit international growth markets. At the same time, civic leaders worry about their communities' economic future in light of the impact of global forces on the operation and survival of business. How can communities retain local vitality yet still link their business to the global economy? Harvard professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter addresses that question in this classic HBR article, orginally published in 1995. To avoid a clash between international economic interests and local political interests, globalizing business must learn how to be responsive to the communities in which they operate, Kanter says. And communities must determine how to create a civic culture that will attract and retain footloose companies. The author surveyed five U.S. regions with direct connections to the global economy--Boston, Cleveland, Miami, Seattle, and the Spartanburg-Greenville region of South Carolina--to determine their business and civic leader's strategies for improving their constituent's quality of life. She identified ways in which the global economy can work locally by capitalizing on the resources that distinguish one place from another. Kanter argues that regions can invest in capabilities that connect their local populations to the global economy in one of three ways: as thinkers, makers, or traders. She points to the Spartanburg-Greenville region as a good example of a world-class makers, with its exceptional blue-collar workforce that has attracted more than 200 companies from 18 countries. The history of the economic development of this region is a lesson for those seeking to understand how to achieve world-class status and bring local residents into the world economy.     

The global financial crisis and the evolution of markets, institutions and regulation

This paper analyses the recent global financial crisis in the context of the dual processes of market development and regulation. It discusses how, in the absence of a globally integrated financial framework, past and present regulations and interventions in reaction to national and global financial crises did not resolve the cross border regulatory arbitrage. The paper discusses how crises often lead to the emergence of new national and international institutions. It also analyses the proposed “new global framework” that needs to be in place if the policy recommendations contained in the G20 communiqué are going to be effectively implemented. The paper argues that unless international agreements are ratified by all nations and become part of national rules and laws, the presence of regulatory arbitrage and the lack of adequate cross border information and data may prevent the global economy from addressing the underlying causes of the recent global financial crisis. The paper also discusses the evolution of central banks and their new role in contributing to global financial stability. The paper argues that the recent global financial crisis has provided a unique opportunity to go beyond economic data and attempt to capture cross border financial data and other information that could assist international and national institutions to measure and manage financial risk more effectively. Finally, the paper discusses “too big to fail” and argues that only an internationally integrated financial system will make large banks global, both when operational and in the event of insolvency.     

The interplay between professional groups, the state and supranational agents: Pax Americana in the age of ‘globalisation'

In response to recent calls for systematic and in-depth studies of the impact of international forces on local accounting practices, discourses and institutions, this essay explores the interconnectedness of national politics with global forces and the ramifications of this interaction for the regulation of accounting and the state–profession relationship. The paper employs Held's (1991) framework [Held, D. (1991). Democracy, the nation-state and the global system. Economy and Society, 20(2), 138–172.] on the role of the nation state in the age of globalisation, extended to encompass insights from the realist paradigm on international politics, to examine the international aspects of an attempt by a group of indigenous auditors in Greece to recapture their monopoly status, following the ‘liberalisation' of the Greek auditing profession in 1992. The paper explores changes in the state–profession relationship in the era of ‘globalisation' and documents the catalystic role of major states (the USA), politico-economic blocks (the EU), and other powerful international actors. It is posited that the politics of international accounting professionalism in the ‘globalisation' era are becoming more polycentric with (lesser) nation-states as merely one level (of diminishing importance) in a complex system of superimposed, overlapping and often competing national and international agencies of governance. The lessons to be learned from the Greek experience seem to be relevant to a number of countries — weaker or more important players in the world economy and politics — as they realign the assemblage of government in accounting and in other domains, in response to the progressive internationalisation of the world economy.     

The end of neoliberal history—the future of economics

The future of economics needs discussion both negatively, as the denial of neoliberal perspective, and positively as a science that is able to handle the historic welfare-freedom-culture paradox. The authors state that this alternative is political economy, which they define as a science searching for materialisation of social visions in the economic sphere. This tradition dates back to ancient cultures and does not coincide with the present usage of political economy. The article discusses the political economy of the information age and beyond. The core idea is that the human alternative of ongoing technological changes executes long run visions of mankind: co-existence of freedom and welfare under cultural leadership in a global scale.     

当前国际政府债务问题的影响与警示

为应对席卷全球的国际金融危机,各国政府纷纷采取经济刺激措施,代替民间企业和金融机构承担危机成本,这不可避免带来一定的政府债务问题。随着时间的推移,部分政府债务问题逐步凸显,成为全球经济走出危机阴影的障碍。文章分析认为,当前国际上政府债务问题呈现脆弱性、复杂性、集中性和长期性特征,成为全球经济复苏的绊脚石,甚至会给世界各国经济带来灾难性影响。文章同时总结了国际政府债务问题带给我国的启示。     

Emerging powers as fact and metaphor: Some European ideas

Emerging powers appear to be rather diverse although some of them, like China and India, are mapping the world. They can be countries or regions, social scapes and flows, economic networks or global cities. They emerge after several decades of global flexible capitalism and the rise of regional networks and city-states. In order to meet contemporary challenges, emerging powers need the experience of coherence of older homogeneities as well as the complexities of extended, differentiated societies and social structures. This new step in recent globalization has to be mediated and understood. The European cultural memory of conflict, mediation and negotiation may enable Europeans to let emerging powers grow beyond the world of traditional empires and their global economies, beyond the worlds of nation-states and their international economy, and beyond the world of liberal empires and their global economy. This reflexivity and complexity may enable the social sciences to play an important public role, which they have not had for many decades, if they understand their moment.     

Where is globalization taking us? : Why we need a new ‘Bretton Woods’

While globalization brings global increases in income in the aggregate, it also threatens to leave much of humankind in conditions of absolute poverty and to widen the gap between rich and poor. These trends are likely to be accentuated with the advent of the information/knowledge economy, the increasing power of multinationals, and the growing severity of environmental constraints. This article sketches these trends and then addresses the question: what are the necessary conditions for the attainment of a growing global economy with equity and acceptable environmental standards? It then tackles the issue of the prospects for these conditions to be realized under the prevailing global economic/financial system.     

2004年上半年国际国内宏观经济金融走势分析

本文对2004年上半年国际国内经济金融形势进行了较为全面和深入的分析.从全球经济走势来看,世界经济已进入新一轮的稳固增长期,美日欧等主要经济体以及亚洲国家和地区的经济复苏普遍有力,国际金融市场在经济复苏的有利影响下也呈总体向好态势,国际经济金融走势对我国经济的影响日益深化.从国内经济形势来看,当前宏观调控已经取得明显成效,但经济仍在高位运行,粗放的经济增长方式没有发生根本改变,消费增长缓慢制约了经济的健康发展,商业银行中长期贷款的增长速度偏快.本文还在国内经济形势分析的基础上对下半年的财政与货币政策走向进行了预测.     

金融集聚对我国经济增长的影响

当前我国经济发展已步入"新常态",在新一轮的经济增长过程中,金融集聚作为经济增长的新引擎,在推动实体经济的建设与发展中起到了举足轻重的作用.目前,我国东部地区的金融集聚水平较高,且对经济增长的促进作用亦较为明显;而中西部地区的金融集聚水平则相对不高,对经济增长的带动作用不强.此外,以技术创新作为门限变量可以发现,金融集聚与区域经济增长之间存在明显的非线性关系,且各地区的这种非线性关系存在显著的异质性.因此,我国要通过金融集聚推进区域经济增长,就必须强化区域间的金融合作,构建多层次金融中心,加大金融创新力度,实现金融集聚与区域经济的协调发展.     

Alternative funding: Looking beyond the nation-state

The challenge for the UN and for all publicly funded institutions that distribute surpluses for international needs is nothing less than to devise new global mechanisms for the collection and distribution of the surplus generated in a global economy. A minimalist interpretation of when individual governments can and cannot provide public goods has exercised strong influences on perceptions as to what is appropriate at international levels and with regard to the financing of international institutions. There is a strong consensus on an important range of international social goods. Three kinds of financing alternatives should be accorded priority in policy research—charges for the use of the global commons, monetary measures, and international taxation.