The Benefit Function Approach to Modeling Price-Dependent Demand Systems: An Application of Duality Theory

In this article, we advocate more extensive use of the benefit function in specifying price-dependent or inverse demand models. We demonstrate how duality theory may be used to establish the interrelationships between the Marshallian (or Hicksian) inverse demands and Luenberger's adjusted price functions, allowing estimable inverse demands to be derived directly from a benefit function. We estimate two systems of inverse demands for Japanese quarterly fish consumption. Results indicate that the procedures and methods employed here appear promising, and may prove beneficial for quantity and welfare analysis when modeling systems of inverse demand functions.     

铁路物流发展模型预测

随着物流业在我国的兴起和运输行业竞争的加剧,必然要求铁路企业物流化。为了适应这一发展趋势铁路企业必须建立自己完善的物流体系。针对此问题论文提出了构建铁路物流园区、物流化货运站的建议,以及与之相适应的一些管理方法。     

生产和服务提供过程的确认及其控制

GB/T19001-2000《质量管理体系要求》中7.5.2"生产和服务提供过程的确认"是质量管理体系运行中控制难度大且极易出现问题的过程。本文结合实践,从识别需确认的生产和服务提供过程、开展生产和服务提供过程的确认活动及对确认后的过程实施控制等三个方面作出了阐述。     

Creative Destruction, Investment Volatility, and the Average Age of Capital

In this article, a new numerical procedure is used to compute the equilibrium of a vintage capital growth model with nonlinear utility, where the scrapping time is nonconstant. We show that equilibrium investment and output converge nonmonotonically to the balanced growth path due to replacement echoes. We find that the average age of capital is inversely related to output, which is consistent with recent micro evidence reinforcing the importance of the embodied question. We also find that an unanticipated permanent increase in the rate of embodied technological progress causes labor productivity to slowdown in the short run.     

NON-LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS

Whereas organizational learning and unlearning enjoy a well-established reputation in organization theory, non-learning has rarely if ever been discussed. In this article organizational non-learning is characterized, and techniques for non-learning are identified. It is argued that nonlearning organizations have developed a proficiency in ignoring. They may ignore problems and solutions to problems, as well as their own attitudes to these problems and solutions. Non-learning organizations accomplish this essentially by placing problems and potentially problematic issues with somebody else, to be attended to in the future. Their behavior is supported and reinforced by procedures: by the particular distribution of responsibility that procedures entail, and by the fact that procedures recur. A non-learning option allows for organizational discretion. Organizations are free to account for their work in a contradictory manner — realistic and idealistic at the same time. They are free to learn slowly and to take advantage of their learning.     

从AutoCAD数据库生成数控加工指令的方法

AutoCAD是一个完整的交互式设计软件包,它具有很强的绘图和图形编辑功能,因而在我国机械制造业中运用十分广泛.本文介绍利用AutoCAD的数据交换文件DXF,直接从几何信息中提取加工信息的方法.     

论知识型教学管理的创新与实践

学院教学管理是综合性大学教学管理的核心，学院教学管理应向知识型教学管理转变。按照教学运行管理层次的不同，知识型教学管理可分成过程管理、信息管理、知识管理三个由低到高的层次；从知识管理的角度讲，它又是一个静态与动态相结合的知识系统。实施知识型教学管理要求对教学业务流程进行规范和重组，提高教学管理的信息化程度，加强教学管理的自学习、自适应机制建设，这是学院教学实现知识化管理的必由之路。     

论我国城市房屋拆迁补偿制度的完善

当前我国城市房屋拆迁补偿中存在着诸公共利益与商业利益的严重错位、补偿方式、范围与标准不合理以及补偿程序不健全等问题.对此,必须正确界定"公共利益"范围、实现补偿方式、范围与标准的合理化、明确政府的角色与定位和加强司法救济,以进一步完善我国城市房屋拆迁补偿制度.     

公共利益辨析

从2004年起,我国宪法与行政法学界对公共利益的概念展开了激烈的讨论。本文在借鉴其他学者观点基础上,对界定公共利益概念的必要性、公共利益的内涵和界定公共利益的方法做一个简单的梳理。     

The Decomposition of the Corporate Body: What Kant Cannot Contribute to Business Ethics

Kant is gaining popularity in business ethics because the categorical imperative rules out actions such as deceptive advertising and exploitative working conditions, both of which treat people merely as means to an end. However, those who apply Kant in this way often hold businesses themselves morally accountable, and this conception of collective responsibility contradicts the kind of moral agency that underlies Kant’s ethics. A business has neither inclinations nor the capacity to reason, so it lacks the conditions necessary for constraint by the moral law. Instead, corporate policies ought to be understood as analogous to legal constraints. They may encourage or discourage certain actions, but they cannot determine a person’s maxim – which for Kant is the focus of moral judgment. Because there is no collective intention apart from any intentions of the individual agents who act as members of the corporation, an organization itself has no moral obligations. This poses a dilemma: either apply the categorical imperative to the actions of particular businesspeople and surrender the notion of collective responsibility, or apply a different moral theory to the actions of businesses themselves. Given the diffusion of responsibility in a bureaucracy, the explanatory usefulness of collective responsibility may force business ethicists to abandon Kant’s moral philosophy.