The U.S. immigration crisis

A review of the factors affecting immigration to the United States is presented. The authors develop the argument that present levels of immigration, particularly illegal immigration, are detrimental to U.S. interests, and that current global population trends will make this situation progressively worse. Stricter controls on immigration are considered.     

The contributions of W. H. Hutt

Conclusions We feel that we understand another when his points seem consistent with our prior beliefs. The great difficulty that Hutt faced was that the concepts comprising the macroeconomic superstructure, in which—by now—so many have so much invested, are difficult to integrate with an understanding of how a money-using catallaxy functions. He believed that he had to go beneath them, to some kind of foundation on which we could all agree, and then construct almost a parallel universe, a new (which he always insisted was old) conceptual structure adequate to the task.His exposition is considerably less unfamiliar to those already well acquainted with the subjectivist analysis of catallactic processes. William Hutt was driven by his understanding that the market excels at producing and equitably distributing wealth. Economists could help, or at least not get in the way, only if they understood the functioning of a monetary catallaxy. Developing and conveying that understanding was Hutt's life work, and in it there is much of value that the well-read Austrian cannot afford to miss.An earlier version of this paper was presented at the History of Economics Society meeting in Richmond, Virginia, June 1989.     

厄秀拉的成长之旅——劳伦斯《虹》的解读

劳伦斯的小说《虹》以家族历史的方式叙述自耕农布兰文一家三代人的爱情婚姻关系,体现了三代人对理想人生的追求。通过考察人与自我、人与社会、人与自然之间关系,深刻揭露了资本主义工业文明的罪恶,赞扬了男女灵与肉结合式的两性关系的美好。厄秀拉是劳伦斯心目中的理想形象,她为了摆脱原有的与社会隔绝的生活方式寻求反抗。探讨了厄秀拉的成长过程,她在追寻自我中实现了自我的独立和精神的成熟。     

The Market for New Ph.D. Economists

Multinomial logit analysis, based on survey questionnaires, shows that graduate program ranking, length of time in the Ph.D. program, publications, and marital status are important determinants of occupational outcome for new Ph.D. economists.     

The form of U.S. in-kind assistance

Child care and housing programs in the United States are markedby quality homogeneity, restricted eligibility, rationing, andcopayments that increase as recipients' income rises. Why? Ishow that these programs can best be explained as attempts toreduce the child care or housing 'poverty gaps,' subject toconstraints that require that recipients be treated quite well.Such constraints are justified when the public is really notsure whether the government is acting generously.     

科斯对科斯定理—波兰与捷克证券市场规制的比较

科斯定理表明,在交易成本为正的情况下,任何制度包括依法履行的私人合约、法律规定及政府规则（regulation),都可能达到有效的资源配置。本文认为,法律实施者所面临的激励机制决定着最优的制度选择,并阐述选择行政规制而不以司法程度来实施合约或法律的条件。本文还将对90年代波兰和捷克共和国的金融市场规制情况进行比较分析。当时两国的司法制度还很能落后,股票市场都近于崩溃,波兰由独立的、动机强大的证券交易委员会负责证券法的严格实施,而捷克共和国对股市的监管则较为宽松。     

The year of commissions.

Despite mutterings that today's political climate is unreceptive to health care reforms, would-be reformers are inching forward under several high-powered commissions and task forces.