金融学专业本科实践性教学课程体系构建研究

文章从不同角度阐述了加强大学生实践性教学课程体系构建工作不仅具有基础性的地位,更是当前高等院校面临的迫在眉睫的重要工作,需要大力开展研究并尽快付诸实施.从金融学本科实践性教学课程体系构建的理论依据、基本原则、构建框架及内容、课程体系构建的评价与调整等诸多方面对金融学专业本科实践性教学课程体系构建进行了细致的研究和阐述,提出了可供操作的运行办法.该研究结果对金融学专业本科实践性教学具有重要的参考价值,对应用经济学其他专业的本科实践性教学也有一定的借鉴意义.     

金融学专业本科实践性教学课程体系构建研究

文章从不同角度阐述了加强大学生实践性教学课程体系构建工作不仅具有基础性的地位,更是当前高等院校面临的迫在眉睫的重要工作,需要大力开展研究并尽快付诸实施.从金融学本科实践性教学课程体系构建的理论依据、基本原则、构建框架及内容、课程体系构建的评价与调整等诸多方面对金融学专业本科实践性教学课程体系构建进行了细致的研究和阐述,提出了可供操作的运行办法.该研究结果对金融学专业本科实践性教学具有重要的参考价值,对应用经济学其他专业的本科实践性教学也有一定的借鉴意义.     

经济管理类本科专业开设信用管理学课程的思考

信用管理学以信用管理制度为研究对象,是经济管理类学科中一门交叉性、综合性、实践性的新兴学科。在经济管理类本科专业开设信用管理学课程是对学生知识体系的有益拓展和重要补充,有利于学生就业和继续深造。不同信用管理学教材具有不同的内容体系,根据本科教学目的和学生实际需求,在经济管理类本科专业开设信用管理学的课程体系应包括社会信用体系等六个部分内容。     

高校旅游管理专业实践教学体系的构建与创新

旅游管理专业是应用性和实践性较强的专业，对旅游管理专业本科学生实践能力的培养是高等教育的一个重要途径。同时，实践教学对提高学生综合素质、培养创新精神及实践能力起着重要作用。因此，对现有旅游管理专业本科实践教学体系进行构建和创新对旅游产业发展和人才需求具有重要的现实意义。     

编辑出版学专业本科课程设置之我见——基于市场经济视角

编辑出版学是一门实践性很强的应用学科,担负着为传播人类优秀文化而培养具有较高综合素质的应用型高级出版专门人才的重任。根据对部分高校本科编辑出版学专业课程设置情况的分析研究,提出以下建议:抓好专业核心课程建设,不断完善课程体系;课程设置尽量适应出版市场行情,促进与出版业产学结合,加强应用类课程和实践操作环节教学。     

浅论高校“精品课程”建设

本文从精品课程的内涵、建设的重要性出发，就精品课程建设中加强教师队伍建设、构建先进的课程体系、精选优化教学内容、加强课程实践性教学环节建设，构建实践教学体系、注重使用先进的教学方法和手段等方面进行了阐述，并对精品课程的建设进行了的思考。     

金融学专业实践教学质量评价体系的构建与运用

实践教学是专业教学的重要组成部分,对应用型金融人才的培养十分重要。文章根据地方应用型普通本科院校的教学实际,提出了金融学专业实践教学质量评价体系构建的指导思想和基本原则,给出了构建方法和基本过程,构建了金融学专业实践教学质量评价指标体系,并阐述其运用过程,以提高金融学专业的实践教学质量。     

高校法学实践人才培养课程体系的构建

法学实践性教学日益受到高校的重视。目前,虽然国家对法学实践教学环节内容有所规定,但过于概括,导致目前各高校的法学实践课程体系包括的内容不一,缺乏基本的相关规范。课程体系的设置是实现法学实践人才培养的载体,研究课程体系的重新构建具有现实意义。     

互联网时代金融学专业人才培养模式创新

分析了互联网技术对金融业态和金融理论研究带来的影响,研究了互联网时代对金融学专业人才培育的新要求,从重构人才培养目标、优化课程体系结构、革新教学内容、改革教学模式四个方面提出了互联网时代金融学专业人才培养模式的创新思路.     

“能力本位”教学模式在“养牛学”课程中应用与实践

利用职业教育思想，探讨“能力本位”教学模式在农业本科院校“养牛学”课程中的应用效果，旨在为探索非重点本科农业院校应用型人才培养模式提供实例佐证。“养牛学”是动物科学专业的一门重要专业课，课程特点是理论性、实践性、前瞻性较强，其教学水平的高低直接关系到能否为黑龙江省养牛业发展及实现“主副换位”战略培养合格人才的问题，所以，开展培养应用型本科人才为目标的养牛学课程教学改革研究具有重要意义。     

Pleasure and belief in Hume's Decision Process

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of decision, like the one developed in Diaye and Lapidus (2005a). Although we support the idea that Hume was in some way a hedonist – evidently different from Bentham's or Jevons' way – we lay emphasis less on continuity than on the specific kind of hedonism encountered in Hume's writings (chiefly the Treatise, the second Enquiry, the Dissertation, or some of his Essays). Such hedonism clearly contrasts to its standard modern inheritance, expressed by the relation between preferences and utility.

The reason for such a difference with the usual approach lies in the mental process that Hume puts to the fore in order to explain the way pleasure determines desires and volition. Whereas pleasure is primarily, in Hume's words, an impression of sensation, it takes place in the birth of passions as reflecting an idea of pleasure, whose “force and vivacity” is precisely a “belief”, transferred to the direct passions of desire or volition that come immediately before action. As a result, from a Humean point of view, “belief” deals with decision under risk or uncertainty, as well as with intertemporal decision and indiscrimination problems.

The latter are explored within a formal framework, and it is shown that the relation of pleasure is transformed by belief into a non-empty class of relations of desire, among which at least one is a preorder.     

Globalization,Neoliberalism and the attack on social security

Neoliberal political movements advocate privatization of public pension systems. Globalization imposes pressure on nations to conform to neoliberal policy views with respect to the design and structure of social insurance, including public pension systems. The paper begins with an investigation of the economic, ethical and ideological dimensions of the privatization debates in the U.S.; it argues that privatization advocates may be largely moved by ideology, since the other reasons advanced appear weak or unfounded. The second part discusses the history of Social Security, the purposes for its creation, and some of its economic effects. Differences between public and private pension systems are considered. A brief international comparison of some aspects of public pension system finance and benefit structures is presented. The final section considers the ethical, macroeconomic and distributional implications of privatization, prefunding and payroll tax funding, and argues for a pay as you go system financed with income taxes. In order to promote equity, economic security, community, and social cohesion, public pension systems should be universal in coverage. In order to reduce the inequality, income insecurity, and aged poverty generated by market economies, public pension systems ought to be progressive: benefit/contribution ratios should be inversely proportional to income, and progressive income taxes should finance the system. To promote economic growth, the systems should be financed on a pay-as-you-go basis, and should not be prefunded except for an emergency reserve. The fiscal policy recommendations partially depend upon the theory developed by Abba Lerner in the 1940s, and recently advanced by Wynne Godley and Randy Wray: Lerner's “principle of functional finance.”     

Interest on reserves and inflation

The payment of interest on reserves has been a common practice in inflationary economies. This policy may seem paradoxical since it involves returning part of the seigniorage, generated by the inflation process, with the intention to finance the fiscal deficit. This paper argues that the motivation for this policy can be captured by the discretionary regime, where the policymaker pays interest on reserves because he is concerned with the erosion of real liquidity by inflation, which is in part beyond his control. However, this policy is an unlikely outcome in the commitment regime, where the policymaker is in full control of inflation.     

Bayesian estimation of duration models: An application of the multiperiod probit model

The multiperiod probit model is presented and Bayesian estimation using the Gibbs sampler with data augmentation is described. As an empirical illustration, the multiperiod probit model is then used to estimate a duration model using employment duration data for the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Bayesian estimation with unobserved heterogeneity is shown to be a simple extension of estimation of a duration model with no unobserved heterogeneity. More importantly, perhaps, some numerical problems encountered by other authors using Maximum Likelihood are avoided.I would like to thank M. Baker, G. Koop, A. Melino and D. Poirier for helpful comments and discussions. I would also like to thank M. Baker for providing his data.     

Scenarios and creativity: Thinking in new boxes

To be creative and make change happen, leaders must do more than simply ‘think outside the box’, as the traditional business manuals suggest, using the popular American expression. After all, the space outside the box is infinitely expansive. Moreover, there can be no guarantee that a solution to the problem will be found. The answer: ‘Think in new boxes.’ This requires developing the right new box; in other words, useful new models, a helpful new approach to a problem. That is the real art of practical creativity. This short article outlines the approach (Thinking in New Boxes) and its application to classic scenario planning with a few examples. The authors also present the ‘Expressway to Scenarios’, an approach that wins in impact and practicality what it loses in deep analysis, by having top executives involved in key steps.     

On the Role of Paradigms in Understanding Economic Globalization

Any adequate analysis of economic globalization necessarily requires fundamental understanding of the worldviews underlying the views expressed with respect to the nature and role of economic globalization. This paper is based on the premise that any worldview can be associated with one of the four basic paradigms: functionalist, interpretive, radical humanist, and radical structuralist. It argues that any view expressed with respect to economic globalization is based on one of the four paradigms or worldviews. It, therefore, discusses four views with respect to the nature and role of economic globalization which correspond to the four broad worldviews. The paper emphasizes that the four views expressed are equally scientific and informative; they look at the nature and role of economic globalization from a certain paradigmatic viewpoint. Emphasizing this example in the area of economic globalization, the paper concludes that there are opportunities for each paradigm to benefit from contributions coming from the other three paradigms.     

A Humean theory of choice of which rationality may be one consequence

For the reader who considers economic theory of choice as a special case of a more general theory of action, Hume's discussion of the determinants of action in the Treatise of Human Nature (1739?–?40), in the Enquiry on Human Understanding (1748) and in the Dissertation on Passions (1757) deserves attention. However, according to some modern commentators, Hume does not seem to have given any evidence that would favour what nowadays we would consider as the kind of rationality involved in modern theories of rational choice. On the contrary, this paper arrives at the conclusion that consistency between preferences and choice, like the usual properties of completeness and transitivity, may be considered as outcomes of a mental process, described by means of a decision algorithm that aims to represent Hume's theory of choice.     

The concept of freedom and its relation to economic development--a critical appreciation of the work of Amartya Sen

Following a brief review of the conception of freedom as employedin economic discourse, this paper focuses on the evolution ofthe concept of freedom in the work of Amartya Sen. It tracesthe development of Sen's thought from the capability analysisof the late 1970s to his more recent separation of freedom intoits opportunity and process aspects. While broadly appreciativeof Sen's development of the concept of positive freedom, thepaper identifies some difficulties arising from his definitionof capability as a set of options as well as from his separationof the opportunity and process aspects of freedom. Aspects ofthe relationship between Sen's conception of freedom and thatof Marx are discussed briefly in the context of Sen's recentdiscussion of the market as a source of freedom.     

How chaebol restructuring after the 1997 crisis has affected corporate decision and performance in Korea: debt financing,ownership structure,and investment

ABSTRACT

Korean chaebol firms, characterized by excessive debt financing and overinvestment, experienced restructuring after the 1997 crisis. By reducing debt financing and thus overinvestment, they tried to reorganize financing structure and ownership structure. Chaebols’ debt reduction turns out to have improved performance. However, polarization between chaebol and non-chaebol firms has become more significant. Even after the crisis, firms that give higher cash flows to a controlling shareholder take more capital investment, indicating that agency problems still exist within chaebols. Chaebol-affiliated firms continue to be more active in R&D than non-chaebol firms. However, the pattern is limited to the group of top 10 chaebols after the crisis.

Abbreviations: KFTC: Korea Fair Trade Commission     

Types of technology

Technology is a concept rife with confusion. Here, I argue that technologies can be distinguished as a combination of type of producer and an idealized artefact life history. Using this definition, a number of technologies are identified. The first technology historically, in the Protostomes, was the production of individual or family dwellings. Next came objects such as spider webs for trapping prey. Stigmergy followed, with the social insects, as a collective endeavour to construct a mega-structure using simple rules of accretion. Some birds and primates began to make tools, or simple technological objects whose function is closely related to their form. Humans are distinguished by their ability to make machines. Traditional technology took place once people voluntarily organised into groups with specialised knowledge to produce more complex objects and structures. Monumental objects like ceremonial pyramids came with the command economies of the early agrarian societies, which also resulted in a new category of artefact, the network. Finally, with modern civilizations came ad hoc accretion, or population-level adding-on, to make truly complex technological systems. Developing a theoretical framework within which artefacts, production processes and ways of interacting with them are identified should help the study of technology to become more scientific.