Comments on the Brenner–Wood Exchange on the Low Countries

The exchange between Brenner and Wood on the Low Countries in the early modern period raises a number of theoretical and historical issues relating to the conditions for the emergence of capitalist social-property relations and their unique historical laws of motion. This contribution focuses on three issues raised in the Brenner-Wood exchange: the conditions under which rural house-hold producers become subject to 'market coercion', the potential for ecological crisis to restructure agricultural production, and the relative role of foreign trade and the transformation of domestic, rural class relations to capitalist industrialization.     

产业集群发展形态与转型升级机理研究

我国产业集群主要集中在珠江三角洲、长江三角洲、环渤海湾和闽南地区。产业集群内部的转型、升级存在产业梯度转移、帕累托最优、产业链条延伸、核心企业带动、产业布局综合成本最低等机理。加快发展产业集群的主要对策是:把培育、发展和升级产业集群列为政府的公共职能,加快建立区域性的技术创新平台;加快转变经济增长方式,推进新型工业化;改善引资结构,引进价值链高端项目;加快重大产业项目在东南沿海的布局,调整产业布局的空间结构等。     

Ten years wasted: the failure of siting waste facilities in central Catalonia, Spain

Environmental reform understood in terms of ecological modernisation faces important challenges in certain areas such as the location of waste storage and treatment facilities. In this paper, we argue that traditional technical and economical criteria used in the location of these facilities may no longer be predominant in front of other social preoccupations such as health and environmental risks, possible stigmatisation effects and territorial equity issues. A retrospective account of the failure of the siting process in central Catalonia, Spain is offered as an example of the need to incorporate alternative factors in the decisions concerning controversial land uses.     

国有林区绿色食品全产业链发展研究

立足黑龙江国有林区全面停伐后加快推进经济转型的现实背景,阐述了林区绿色食品的内涵特征,构建了林区绿色食品全产业链组织架构,分析了国有林区发展绿色食品产业的前景。在充分明确黑龙江国有林区绿色食品产业的发展潜力和发展趋势的基础上,提出促进国有林区绿色食品全产业链发展的建议:制定发展规划,并加大对产业发展的政策扶持;建立东北协同发展联盟,制定品牌提升战略,共同发展国有林区绿色食品产业;构建市场体系,完善林区绿色食品营销网路市场;加快产业集群,扩大林区绿色食品产业规模。     

Marketing Dynamics and Management Excellence: The Sources of Successful Internationalization of a Food Processing Company from a Transition Economy (Case: MASPEX—Poland)

The article presents a case story of the fall and rise of the food industry in Poland's transition economy, illustrated with the example of one of its most successful companies. The author distinguishes 3 stages of the economic transition of Poland: Stage 1, in which the Polish food processing industry collapsed, faced with fierce foreign competition after the implementation of a strategy of liberalization and privatization; Stage 2 (since the late 1990s), when young, dynamic, and relatively well-educated Polish entrepreneurs and managers not only started to regain the local market but also began international expansion, intensifying exports, primarily to EU markets; Stage 3, during which the internationalization took the form of foreign direct investment outward into the former neighboring socialist/communist countries.

The MASPEX Group provides an excellent example of successful revival and expansion achieved thanks to the company's dynamic marketing strategy, executed by a young, dynamic, and highly professional management team.     

Dehkans,Diversification and Dependencies: Rural Transformation in Post‐Soviet Uzbekistan

This paper describes how political and economic transition has affected the system of agricultural production in Khorezm, Uzbekistan in terms of economic practices and relationships. Based on recent fieldwork, the paper argues that the local agricultural economy is a hybrid economy, where production for market, quasi‐market and subsistence merge into and co‐constitute one another. In order to keep the system going, and to make up for the uncertainties in the formal context of production, the relation between new private fermer and the peasant (dehkan) households is of particular importance. This relation resembles neo‐patrimonial patron–client relations, which are both personal and informal while also being based on formal, contractual relations. The relations are asymmetric and based on the limited and unevenly distributed resources. The division of power is unequal but not fixed, due to the ongoing transition of the economic system.     

马克思主义生态观视野下的林业与生态文明关系

阐述了马克思主义生态观及林业与生态文明的关系。认为改善和优化人与自然的关系,尊重自然,利用自然,保护自然,与自然和谐相处,是当代马克思主义生态文明观的重要体现。林业在生态文明建设中承担着物质基础与文化基础作用,是生态文明建设的主体。     

The status quo bias and reform of the Common Agricultural Policy: impact of voting rules, the European Commission and external changes

We develop a formal model of EU decision-making on the CommonAgricultural Policy (CAP). The model is used to evaluate underwhat conditions CAP reform occurs and what the influence ofthe European Commission (Commission) is on CAP reform. We findthat the voting and amendment rules in the Council of the EuropeanUnion, the number of policy instruments and external changeshave important impacts on the occurrence and extent of CAP reformand on the influence of the Commission. Stricter voting rulesincrease the status quo bias and reduce Commission influence,whereas stricter amendment rules increase both the status quobias and Commission influence. More significant external changeresults in more reform and more Commission influence.     

罗非鱼行业协会发展现状及问题探讨——以南宁、琼海、文昌三市为例

我国是全球罗非鱼养殖的主产区。随着罗非鱼产业的迅速发展,作为产业健康发展保障的行业协会应运而生。本文在对广西南宁、海南琼海、海南文昌三地罗非鱼行业协会实地调研的基础上,总结了当前我国罗非鱼协会的发展现状,重点分析了协会发展中存在的几大问题,并针对问题提出了如何使协会在产业健康可持续发展之路上发挥更大作用的政策建议。