“零库存”的尴尬—美封港事件余波凸现世界新经济特点

今年10月8日，美国旧金山一联邦法院根据布什总统的要求下令西海岸劳资双方暂时搁置纠纷，于9日下午重新开港，持续了10天的美国西海岸封港事件因此得以解决。据估计，“封港”期间，每天造成的损失高达20亿美元。两个多月过去了，封港对美国经济乃至亚洲经济造成的负面影响，至今仍未结束。这种影响凸现了新经济体系的两大特点：一是新经济造就的现代商业模式“准点及时到货”，在中间环节被打破时带给经济的被动局面和损失，远超过传统模式下的商业经营模式。二是经济全球化的不断发展，使国际经济任何一个链条上的脱节，都可能对众多国家…     

超女经济，热闹但不完美

火热的超女所掩盖的“超女经济”,或许还不能称为一个经典案例。从时间上来说,连超女策划人夏青也承认,“去年人们还没来得及反应的时候,超女就已经火得一塌糊涂了。”这就意味着,商人们对超女经济的挖掘,其实只是下意识的反应,而非基于对利弊得失的认真分析后的行为     

适应市场经济形势搞好企业消防安全

分析了在市场经济形势下,企业消防安全面临的新情况。为此,河南省商业储运公司坚持“一个不变”,采取了切实可行的“五项措施”,确保了企业生产经营目标和消防安全工作目标的实现。     

A new political economy of oil

Oil carries external costs which increase with depletion. In conventional visions for the next 20 years, oil supply will exceed demand in the premium market for transport fuel; competition between producers will drive capacity expansion (though with a risk of investment cycles); and natural gas will limit growth in oil demand and price. The politics of the climate, of transport, and of power supply, now rank with OPEC as key political factors affecting oil. Energy security has become more important to exporters than importers. Producers are threatened by the possibility that economically available oil will be left in the ground.     

完善新体制仍需大力深化国有企业改革

笔者认为,完善我国社会主义市场经济新体制,仍需从以下几方面大力深化国企改革。第一,进一步推动国有资本向关系国民经济命脉的重要行业和领域集中;第二,积极推进国有大中型企业规范的股份制、公司制改革;第三,加快推进垄断行业改革;第四,积极推进国有资产管理体制改革。     

新经济时代的体验营销

这是一个微利的年代,但高端产品仍不胫而走;这是个务实的年代,但浪漫故事却不停上演;这是一个返璞归真的世纪,但诱惑也不断蔓延……在现代都市越来越多地出现这样一群人,他们在"421综合症"(即祖辈4人,父母2人都围绕着1个孩子)作用下成长,他们大多数独立,他们挣的不少、花的更多,他们无存款、无自己的物业,还经常借钱,他们是"精致文化"的拥护者,他们是时尚的生力军,他们被称为新新人类或者飘一代,他们声东击西,口是心非、忽冷忽热、没有规律、缺乏理性,他们一出生就与马斯洛需求层次的生理、安全等低层次无缘,自我满足是他们的不懈追求.     

Can a minimum wage increase employment and reduce prices in a neoclassical perfect information economy?

This paper investigates the possibility that the imposition of a minimum wage increases employment in the affected sector, measured in terms of hours of work, and lowers product prices. Unlike related prior theoretical research, I consider a neoclassical perfect information economy. Both labor and product markets are assumed to be perfectly competitive. Workers choose the number of hours of work and their effort level. Workers can potentially, but not necessarily, differ in their preferences over income, leisure, and effort. Effort is perfectly observable by the employers. The general framework that highlights the channels through which a minimum wage can increase employment and reduce prices is introduced and necessary and sufficient conditions derived. The paper also develops a number of comparative statics and some illustrative examples. The results provide a simple theoretical foundation that explains some recent findings of the empirical literature on minimum wages. Auxiliary results help explain the effects of minimum wage on the entire wage distribution in a way that is consistent with empirical findings. Finally, welfare analysis shows that worker welfare and employment tend to go in opposite directions; in particular, if employment increases after the imposition of the minimum wage, worker welfare will be reduced, though not necessarily vice versa (the opposite is true for consumer welfare). Strikingly, if a minimum wage increases worker welfare, the chief beneficiaries are not the affected workers but those with incomes that exceed the minimum wage.     

虚拟企业:网络经济下企业创新的新平台

文章论述了在网络经济下的虚拟企业能够突出核心竞争力,能有效加强组织协调,能克服创新本身所具有的不确定性、路径依赖性、不可逆性以及系统集成性特征所引起的创新障碍,为企业创新的成功提供了一个崭新的平台。     

Management-labour relations in the new Chinese economy

This article sets out to cast greater light on employment practices in an emerging ‘socialist market economy’. It is based on empirical research carried out in a range of Chinese enterprises, which are then examined in terms of their management-labour relations, employment practices and human resources. Although the ‘iron rice bowl’ system of job security and ‘cradle-to-grave’ welfare coverage found mainly in state-owned enterprises is now being phased out, the study concludes that the degree of overlap with Sino-foreign joint ventures which are often portrayed as more likely to implement labour market-driven practices, to be as yet only partial.