帝国理工

是什么吸引着数以万计的莘莘学子奔赴英国？ 英国的名牌大学如颗颗璀璨的明珠,悠长的教育制度使它们既顺应着时代变化,又保持着一贯严谨、高水平的教学质量。更让人神往的是作为典型的欧洲国度,英国拥有厚重的艺术与文化底蕴。浅想,英国的确就像绅士,它没有美国的霸气或者日本的浮华,温文尔雅从不失风度;深探,才知它的内在却是满载情趣。     

Roman technological progress in comparative context: The Roman Empire,Medieval Europe and Imperial China

The Roman Empire experienced both extensive and intensive economic growth. This article first surveys the role of technology in that process, engaging with recent literature on intensive growth under Malthusian constraints. It goes on to investigate the difference in technological progress between the Roman Empire and medieval Europe. It argues that political fragmentation explains why medieval Europe was more innovative than the Roman world, invoking a comparison with imperial China to complement the analysis. The technological success of China under the Tang and Song shows that political fragmentation is not a precondition for progress. However, Roman emperors never invested in the practical application of useful knowledge, the way Chinese rulers did.     

帝王思想与企业管理

我们听到企业家讲“百年老字号”的时候就仿佛听到帝王在讲“万代江山”。怎样才能让自己创造的产业基业长青,这对企业家和帝王来说,问题的性质是一样的。管理一个国家和管理一个企业,特别是民营企业,有很多相通的地方。     

帝王思想与民营老板

多数中国民营企业家的商业帝国梦,一开始不是从杰克·韦尔奇、沃伦·巴菲特、比尔·盖茨那里诱发的,更多是从中国帝王政治的文化遗产中传承过来的     

帝王的冠冕——山东博物馆十大镇馆之宝之九旒冕

1971年，山东博物馆对位于邹城市尚寨村的明代鲁荒王朱檀墓进行了考古发掘，出土了大量珍贵文物，其中九旒冕尤为引人注目（见图1）。该冕通高18厘米、长49．4厘米、宽30厘米，为藤篾编制，表面敷罗绢黑漆，镶以金圈、金边；冠的两侧有梅花金穿，贯一金簪。冕的顶部有“艇板”，艇板前圆后方，铤板上面涂着黑漆，以示庄重。板前后系垂旒，前后共垂着9道旒，每道上9颗五彩玉珠，共用珠162颗，板下有玉衡，连接于冠上两边凹槽内；衡两端有孔，两边垂挂丝绳直到耳旁，至耳处系着一块美玉，好像塞住了耳朵，即所谓“充耳”。     

关中帝陵

秦中自古帝王州,从西周至唐的1100多年里,先后有13个王朝在西安建都。这些帝王死后,大都埋在渭河两岸的黄土塬上,形成蔚为壮观的帝陵群,其中尤以秦、汉和唐陵规模恢宏,遗存最为丰富。     

Imperial Self-Insufficiency Rediscovered: Britain and Australia 1945–51

This paper addresses the unresolved debate about the timing of economic disengagement between Australia and Great Britain. During Chifley's administration international economic collaboration between Australia and Britain was close, Australia tending to identify its interests with those of the UK and the sterling area. Yet collaboration never stretched to acceptance by Australia of traditional forms of manufacturer–primary producer complementarity; this played no part in Canberra's postwar planning and priority given to industrialization led to the relative neglect of rural industries, which, together with the rapidly growing demands of its own population, reduced export surpluses and contributed to Australia's poor record as a food supplier. Buoyant export prices, especially for wool, combined with capital inflows from the UK to stimulate import demands. Because of dollar shortages most of these had to be sourced from Britain. From 1948 the UK not only expanded exports dramatically but was a major source of migrants and capital. Yet British industrial capacity in particular proved unequal to the task of meeting Australian needs. Imperial self-insufficiency again stood revealed, encouraging Menzies to look beyond the sterling area to support Australia's rapid development.     

盛宣怀与"官助商办"的中国通商银行

甲午战争以后 ,在中国新式企业中占统治地位的“官督商办”模式日渐没落 ,取而代之以“商办”模式。但是 ,“官督商办”向“商办”的过渡并非一蹴而就 ,企业模式在转变过程中出现了诸如“官助商办”这样的中间形态。本文以中国第一家银行———中国通商银行———为案例 ,论述了该行在其亦官亦商的主办者盛宣怀的努力下 ,一方面获得了政府的支持 ,另一方面又解决了以往“官督商办”企业所未能克服的“官扰”难题 ,因此认为“官助商办”模式的选择有其合理性与现实性。但是 ,中国通商银行过于依赖政府 ,未能抓住机遇以求独立发展 ,这是“官助商办”模式的主要缺陷。     

Uniform Service,Uniform Productivity? Regional Efficiency of the Imperial German Postal,Telegraph, and Telephone Service

Using the regional productivity of the Reichspost, the postal service of the German Empire, I investigate whether a public monopolist operates with uniform regional productivity. Using data envelopment analysis efficiency scores, we derive the relative productivity of the post, telegraph, and telephone sectors from 1891 to 1908. Results show a fairly stable system with substantial raw productivity differences between postal districts, and that the expansion of the service offset technological productivity increases for the mail service.     

贤能制度中的偏袒主义:基于对明代科举的考察

科举被认为是古代中国在贤能政治上的重要制度创新,但权力仍可能对科举的公正性造成侵蚀。本文利用明代科举数据,考察了明代权力中枢(内阁)对科举取士的影响。研究发现,内阁对科举会试阶段的影响并不显著;但在殿试阶段,与阁臣拥有相同籍贯(同府或同省异府)的考生将获得更高的甲第,并且更有可能在馆选中被选为庶吉士。阁臣中,首辅对殿试和庶吉士选拔的影响较次辅更大。研究还发现阁臣卸任之后对科举的影响即不复存在,而次辅对科举殿试的影响则随着任职时间的延长而加强。因此,顶层权力的影响导致了明代科举中地域偏袒主义的存在。     

贡院墙根街下的科举梦

一年一度的大学新生刚刚入学．十年寒窗苦读的莘莘学子在步出戒备森严的考场后，就开始了人生命运的重大转折。有的人会金榜题名．天下谁人不识君：有的人则名落孙山．寂然向隅无人问。