湖南武陵山片区特色文化产业集群发展动力因素的实证研究

文化产业集群是一种能够提升区域经济发展水平,提高区域文化竞争实力的发展项目,湖南武陵山片区属于我国少数民族聚集区,当地区域经济的发展水平不高,村民的文化程度较低,武陵山特色文化集群发展有其独特的动因,通过实证研究,构建武陵山片区特色文化产业发展的动力因素影响模型,在阐述湖南武陵山片区特色文化集群化发展现状基础上,分析影响湖南武陵山片区特色文化产业集群化发展的动力因素及存在的问题,提出加快湖南武陵山片区特色文化产业集群化发展的若干对策.希望可以找到片区文化产业发展的,进而更好地促进区域经济的快速发展.     

湖南省文化产业集团化发展实证研究

推进文化产业集团化发展是"十三五"时期湖南文化产业发展的基本策略之一。以湖南省为例,通过实证分析发现,湖南文化产业集团化发展态势良好,呈现出产业集团化、产业园区或基地化、区域企业集团化等形式和特征。与此同时,湖南文化产业集团化发展也存在着一些问题,如产业集团大而未强、统而难筹、少而不匀。为推进湖南文化产业集团化发展,文章认为要坚持品牌发展、平衡发展、差异发展、尖端发展的战略,充分发挥产业集团化发展的规模经济效益,提升湖南文化产业综合竞争力。     

基于湖南实践的文化产业消费政策研究

目前,国内对文化产业政策中具有重要地位的文化消费政策研究比较缺乏.文化消费政策能够引导、支持文化消费取向、规模扩大和结构升级,推动文化产业发展,是文化产业发展的重要支撑力.综观湖南实施的文化产业政策,缺乏消费政策支撑,造成文化产业发展源泉、支撑力不足.要实现湖南文化产业做大做强目标,必须制定合理有效的文化产业消费政策.     

湖南发展县域文化产业的战略对策

当今世界文化产业被誉为前景广阔的“朝阳产业”。湖南文化产业丰采初露,出版湘军、电视湘军等文化名牌声名远播。进入21世纪,湖南文化产业发展的宏伟蓝图已经制定,文化产业呈现更加美好的发展前景。从地域构成看,区域文化产业可简略分为城市文化产业和县域文化产业,县域文化产业是区域文化产业的重要组成部分。只有城市和县域文化产业的协调发展,才能推动区域文化产业的繁荣和社会经济的全面发展。本文就培育湖南县域文化产业进行初步探讨。     

浅析文化产业发展的投融资渠道

世界各国非常重视文化产业的发展,文化产业已经成为国民经济的支柱产业.但我国还存在着制约文化产业发展的问题,尤其是投融资问题,这有待于进一步的研究和探讨.     

金融危机背景下发展湖南文化产业的对策探讨

金融危机的到来,给发展中的湖南文化产业提出了严峻的挑战.但中外产业实践都证明,挑战同时蕴藏着难得的发展机遇.湖南的文化企业应抓住机遇,实施诸如完善运行机制、创新商业模式、广泛运用高新技术、努力打造自有品牌等切实有效的应对措施,在危机中求得发展.湖南省各级政府都应认真履行职责,积极支持湖南文化产业的发展.     

湖南文化产业发展的时空特征与影响因素分析

在我国经济发展进入新常态的背景下,文章分析了湖南文化产业发展的时空特征与主要影响因素,进一步的实证分析表明,文化产业就业人数增加、互联网用户数增加、人力资本增加、产业结构调整与经济发展水平提升都对文化产业发展有显著的促进作用,而创新水平提高与基础设施改善则不具有显著的作用。最后,研究提出了促进湖南文化强省的政策建议:一是促进湖南文化产业发展的着力点在于培养文化产业优秀人才;二是全方位完善湖南电信基础设施建设;三是更加重视提升文化产业的创新水平,支撑湖南文化产业的发展;四是充分发挥政府主导力、市场主体力和企业引领力的"三力"协同整体推动作用,提升文化新业态的产业链价值水平。     

发展中的湖南文化产业

随着科学技术的发展，人类社会逐步进入知识经济时代，文化对于经济社会发展的重要性日益凸显，文化与经济结合而形成的文化产业迅速崛起，成为我国又一新的经济增长点。本文以江泽民“三个代表”重要思想为指导，通过分析湖南文化产业发展中的有关问题，探讨在社会主义市场经济条件下加速发展文化产业，建设文化强省的对策。一、湖南文化产业发展的现状分析“九五”期间湖南文化产业迅速发展，总产值年均增长速度达１２．３％，超过同期国民经济各行业的平均增长速度，成为经济发展中的一个亮点。（一）文化产业发展的现状特征１．加大投入…     

关于加快湖南文化产业发展的思考

文化产业是在知识经济的浪潮中文化和经济相互渗透而形成的新兴产业,涵盖教育、旅游、新闻出版、影视音像、娱乐演出和版权业。文化产业是知识经济时代的重要产业,也是21世纪的朝阳产业。湖南是一个文化资源大省,悠久的历史造就了深厚的文化底蕴,自然风光瑰丽,民俗文化丰富,文物古迹众多,名人辈出,具有发展文化产业得天独厚的条件。文章从湖南文化产业的现状出发,探讨其发展文化产业的对策,找到合适其发展文化产业的道路。     

培育湖南县域文化产业的战略思考

从地域构成看 ,区域文化产业可简略分为城市文化产业和县域文化产业 ,县域文化产业是区域文化产业的重要组成部分。只有城市和县域文化产业的协调发展 ,才能推动区域文化产业的繁荣和社会经济的全面发展。文章就培育湖南县域文化产业进行了探讨     

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.     

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     

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.     

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.