阻碍资本外流契约对区域经济的影响

阻碍资本外流契约不仅影响资本优化配置,也削弱代理人在优惠回报契约中的谈判力,从而使区域经济难以实现效用最大化.同时,在存在代理人道德风险的情况下,阻碍资本外流契约所规定的撤资高额违约金会妨碍区域经济总效用最大化的实现.应从制度上消除区域内外资本的等级差别,规定区域融资契约合理的法定有效期,并制定强有力的法律来制止区域融资主体迫使投资者与之签订只体现自己意愿的阻碍资本外流契约.     

美国《社区再投资法案》理论争议与实践述评

美国《社区再投资法案》的颁布实施以及修正案的实施,鼓励了商业银行尤其是那些准备或正在进行并购的商业银行对低收入群体和少数民族居户抵押贷款的增长.该法案对于改善中低收入社区融资困难的状况起到了不可小视的作用.但CRA并不能有效解决市场失败和信贷歧视,其成本大于收益,且加重了市场扭曲.因此,CRA在理论界有所争议.我国正在推进信用社区建设,《社区再投资法案》对我国社会信用体系建设具有一定的借鉴作用.     

旅游社区经济发展初步探讨

结合国内外学者对旅游社区的研究，重点分析了旅游社区的利益相关者，绘制出了旅游社区利益相关图，并尝试性地构建了旅游社区经济的发展模型。旅游社区是一个系统，政府、社区居民、旅游者和旅游社区内企业的共同作用是旅游社区经济发展的关键。同时，认为旅游孵化器和数字化、虚拟化旅游社区是旅游社区的两大走向。     

对我国城市社区管理的若干思考

城市社区管理是我国城市建设的基础。十几年来,我国的城市社区建设在各方面取得了一定的成绩,但是,仍存在管理理念陈旧、行政化表现严重、管理体制落后、城市社区自治功能弱、权力缺失等问题。因此,应转变观念,改革现行的城市社区管理体制,规范城市社区管理。     

推进信用社区建设亟待解决三大问题

建设信用社区是推进小额担保贷款发放、促进下岗失业人员再就业、提高全社会信用社意识的一项基础性工作。信用社区建设涉及到多个部门，目前，主导部门不明、创建主体模糊、制度保障缺位这三大问题亟待解决，相关制度基础需要进一步完善，以便为开展信用社区建设提供具体的、可供操作的制度框架。     

Developing Technological Stance: Children's Learning in Technology Education

Following a review of current research in children's learning in technology education, and an examination of the kinds of knowledge demanded in contemporary technology education programs in elementary schools, I argue that what is needed in early technology education programs is the scaffolding of what I am calling technological stance. This construct acknowledges the socio-cultural character of technology as a human endeavor. In contrast to programs which are oriented to application of conceptual and procedural knowledge or to programs in which knowledge is generated through interpretation of interactions with materials and tools, programs which support technological stance position learners as critical inquirers into both tool-related and discursive practices of technology.     

Cosmopolitan risk community in a bowl: a case study of China’s good food movement

Abstract

Ulrich Beck fundamentally transformed our way of thinking about human interdependence through his three core theses on risk, individualisation and cosmopolitanisation. However, two commonly observed deficiencies in Beck’s grand theory were its Eurocentric orientation and a lack of empirical grounding. Based on 5 focus groups and 14 interviews with participants of the emerging Clean Food Movement in China, this paper extends the Beckian discussion outside Europe. Through examining how individuals understand both ‘traditional’ and ‘new’ risks associated with contemporary food consumption, this paper demonstrates that in the face of unpredictable and incalculable harms, risks are not seen as a ‘thing’, but are translated into ‘causal relations’. Subsequently, for Chinese stakeholders, the best way to safeguard food risks is to enact more visible and functioning interdependent relations in the food system. This in turn has given rise to new forms of communities which cut across conventional geographic, socio-economic and political boundaries. The paper deepens a Beckian theorisation in two ways. First, it demonstrates that the ‘enabling’ effect of risk towards a cosmopolitan society is not limited to obvious global crises, such as climate catastrophes and financial meltdown. In fact, the mundane yet intimate concern of putting ‘good’ food in one’s dinner bowl already presses actors to form new social solidarities that are cosmopolitan in nature. Second, it goes beyond Beck’s assertion that the risk society has culminated in a cosmopolitan moment, and explores how a performative cosmopolitan community reshapes the ‘relations of definition’ to mitigate risks on the ground.     

美国社区学院多元化办学与筹资模式的经验和启示

本文以美国阿拉莫学院(Alamo Colleges)为例,总结分析其成功办学经验,提出对我国现代职业教育的建立和筹资的若干启示和建议。     

A two-stage approach to defining an affected community based on the directly affected population and the sense of community

Studies have demonstrated the inadequacy of relying on existing administrative boundaries or simple proximity to define an affected community. The proposal and siting of hazardous facilities can have a range of impacts upon people across wide areas, with some more affected than others as a result of living with the physical impacts of construction or the fear associated with perceived risk. We term those most affected the directly affected population and propose a two-stage model for identifying an affected community which places those most affected at the centre of the definition. The second stage is to identify the relationships those most affected have with the wider elements of the sense of community to discover the existing community or communities which are affected. Illustrated by the siting of a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility at Dounrey in the north of Scotland, we show that elements of the lived community experience may have very different shapes, extents and conflicting interests which pose challenges for their incorporation into a siting process. The two-stage model presented in this paper, by placing those most directly affected at the centre and working from there out into the existing communities, identifies issues early in any siting process to improve their incorporation and amelioration.     

Gentrifier? Who,Me? Interrogating the Gentrifier in the Mirror

Schlichtman and Patch suggest that there is an elephant sitting in the academic corner: while urbanists often use ‘gentrification’ as a pejorative term in formal and informal academic conversation, many urbanists are gentrifiers themselves. Even though urbanists have this firsthand experience with the process, this familiarity makes little impact on scholarly debate. There is, Schlichtman and Patch argue, an artificial distance in accounts of gentrification because researchers have not adequately examined their own relationship to the process. Utilizing a simple diagnostic tool that includes ten common aspects of gentrification, they compose two autoethnographic memoirs to begin this dialogue.