Entrepreneurial enterprise and ‘image’ in the nineteenth-century trading firm: Shaping the legal environment for business

Jardine Matheson & Company, a 200-year-old Hong Kong trading company that began as a house of agency, has evolved to become a contemporary Asian multinational. This article focuses on the entrepreneurial ambition of founders William Jardine and James Matheson, the importance of reputation both to legitimacy and the survival and growth of the firm, with emphasis on the role played by the founders in shaping the legal environment for trade with China. The study uses Edith Penrose's Theory of the Growth of the Firm as a principal interpretive framework and draws its evidence from the founders' original letters and a previously unexamined resource, the free trade treatise of James Matheson called Present Position and Prospects of the British Trade with China.     

比较广告的法律监管现状及对策分析

本文分析了目前中国比较广告的法律法规的现状，并且结合国情，提出了完善比较广告法律法规的几点建议。     

高职法学教育教学模式改革的可能路径分析

我国高职法学教育的人才培养体制及其主导下的教学模式,与普通高等学校的法学本科教育并无区别,并在教学模式上日益陷入工具主义的困境。为此应改革传统教学模式,积极倡导开放性教学模式,为建立、完善适应社会发展的高职法学教育的人才培养体制寻求路径。     

物权法与担保法的立法冲突及适用

我国在《物权法》中对担保物权列为单独一编并做出了许多新的规定,其中很多规定与《担保法》及其司法解释存在冲突,这些冲突优先适用于《物权法》。通过对两部法律进行的初步比较,并对这些不一致之处进行了相应归纳,确信对《物权法》的正确实施有所帮助。     

个人信用保证机制的征信制度和诉讼制度比较研究

征信体系通过建立一种声誉制度,促进人类合作、提高群体成员效用和福利。个人信用保证机制的征信制度和诉讼制度哪个成本更低、相对价值更高需要客观分析。在完全竞争的信贷市场研究场景下,声誉机制有引致合作行为的能力;扩展博弈下,诉讼制度的威胁使得借贷者施加一个高的努力程度,提高了社会总剩余。基于现代信息技术的声誉机制出现以后,存在于每个银行内部的声誉就变成了一个统一、全范围扩展的声誉机制,所以声誉制度比诉讼制度可以获得更高的社会总剩余。     

中职学校《职业道德与法律》教学刍议

《职业道德与法律》是中等职业学校必修的一门德育课程,本文针对目前各中职学校在本学科教学中存在的两大问题提出建议以提高教学质量,实现培养目标。     

Non-homothetic preferences and growth

We observe that countries at low levels of income invest at lower rates than those at higher levels of income. This paper explains this fact as a consequence of Engel's law, i.e. that there is an inverse relation between expenditure and its proportion spent on food. It introduces non-homothetic preferences based on Engel’s law in a simple Solow model. These preferences imply rates of net investment that increase with the level of income as we approach the steady state. Increasing investment rates imply a positive correlation between growth rates and the level of income, at low levels of income, rather than an inverse relation, as the usual Solow model implies. The existence of a positive correlation between income growth rates and income levels, at low levels of income in the presence of this type of preference, has already been shown in a previous paper for a closed economy. The purpose of this paper is to show that this positive correlation persists when we introduce trade into the model.     

Convergent cultural evolution and multilevel selection: Reply to comments on Janet Landa’s ‘The bioeconomics of homogenous middleman groups as adaptive units: Theory and empirical evidence viewed from a group selection framework’

The comments on Janet Landa’s (J Bioecon 10(3):259–278, 2008) target article provide a fascinating snapshot of how multilevel selection theory is perceived across several disciplines. When we focus on the zone of agreement among the commentators, Landa’s article provides an important example of convergent cultural evolution. When we focus on the zone of disagreement, we find a snapshot of the current status of the group selection controversy that goes beyond narrow scientific issues and requires a ‘truth and reconciliation’ process to resolve, as discussed in my series of blogs titled “Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection” (Wilson , 2009) and briefly summarized here.      

中国商事法制近代化的回顾与反思

晚清修律宣告了中华法系7的解体,形成了中国法律近代化的第一次变潮,中国近代意义上、私法意义上的商事立法的出现,便是这场法律文明历史性变革的杰出成果之一。随着我国当前商事法制建设的进展,有无必要和可能制定一部统一的商法典已经成为一个必然要考虑的问题,而从中国商事法制近代化进程中寻找历史经验的支持无疑具有重要的现实意义。     

信托之困境抑或信托业之困境——论我国《信托法》下的资产管理市场

我国《信托法》只能规范以信托投资公司、基金公司为主体的信托关系,却无法涉及其他金融机构参与的信托关系,是目前资产管理市场上的不正常现象,并带来了市场竞争规则不一状况和要求修订规则的呼声。本文基于信托法理分析了多家金融机构提供的金融产品,认为均符合信托法律关系特征并应受到我国《信托法》的规范。《信托法》宜尽快从法律关系的性质着手而不是仅仅从主体着手来进行完善,以便使各个金融机构在混业趋势下找准自己的发展方向,监管机构亦能抓住风险源头,在保证市场公平的前提下实现《信托法》对资产管理市场开放和发展的促进作用。