The First World/Third Party Criterion: A Feminist Critique of Production Boundaries in Economics

This paper examines definitions of production boundaries in economics, explores the limitations of these definitions with respect to the inclusion of unpaid domestic labor, and considers the significance of such an exploration for feminist economic analysis. Margaret Reid's ''third party criterion,'' a definition of economic activity advocated by many feminists and one used to set the production boundary for most household production models, sets an implicit market standard for defining nonmarket economic activity and therefore contributes to the marginalization of such production. Similarly, production boundaries considered appropriate in third world contexts, such as those defined in the recently revised System of National Accounts, also use implicit market standards for defining nonmarket economic activity. A ''first world'' criterion implicit in such production boundaries defines nonmarket activity as work only if it would have been dealt with on the market in the first world; this results in the inclusion of some of the unpaid domestic activity of rural women on grounds which reinforce the exclusion of work such as child care and the preparation of meals in theory and policy. Feminist economists should beware the danger of recreating implicit assumptions and definitions which result in the exclusion of unpaid domestic labor.     

空间经济学的现实机制与发展路径

空间经济学利用非现实系统假设能否得出有效的现实结论学术界存在争议。指出空间经济学所揭示的聚集生成机制作为一种自组织机制,超越了非现实系统假设与模型等理论形式,是一种真实存在的现实机制,其生成论的范式指明了空间经济学未来的发展路径,具有现实应用价值。     

Backwater Economics: A Life Story

Abstract:

Economics is sometimes portrayed as a contest between saltwater and freshwater, between the coastal pseudo-Keynesians and the Great Lakes neo-Walrasians, between the flaws-and-friction model-builders and the free-market hard-liners. As evolutionists know, both habitats are fairly sterile. Evolution occurs in the backwaters, in the mudflats, bogs, lagoons, cypress swamps, and wetlands, in the shadows of perpetually endangered habitat. This essay sketches a personal journey through the backwaters. Intellectually they are my home, as they have been for every other recipient of the Veblen-Commons prize, with just one exception …     

经济全球化与现代马克思主义经济学——"世界政治经济学学会首届论坛"综述

由世界政治经济学学会、上海财经大学、中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院共同主办的“经济全球化与现代马克思主义经济学——世界政治经济学学会首届论坛”，于2006年4月2～3日在上海财经大学举办，来自中国、美国、日本、俄罗斯、德国、英国、法国、加拿大、奥地利、比利时、韩国、越南、印度、爱尔兰和卢森堡等15个国家的九十余名中外学者，《光明日报》、《社会科学报》、《中国改革报》、美国全国公共广播电台等多家媒体记者，出席了此次国际学术会议。     

“书市”：走向成熟的读者群

一、“书市”——读者群的分化在我国“书市”的发育过程中,长期受“新华书店”单一渠道的限制和影响,整个图书市场由卖方主导,读者群一直处于混沌与朦胧状态。改革过程中,虽然图书市场逐步出现多渠道的经营格局,但随之而来的是“书市”的混乱局面加剧,尤其是各种不规范行为,如图书价格的暴涨及各种假冒伪劣图书的出现,使读者的消费者主权意识成长发育迟缓,读者对图书的需求基本上是单一的,也是被动的。然而,经过“书市”过于功利性和近乎无序炒作的“洗礼”,消费者主权意识不断强化,读者群逐渐在“书市”上展现其消费者姿态。…     

语言的经济学分析:一个综述

本文对语言经济学这门新兴交叉学科的产生与兴起、研究现状及其学科定位等进行了总结和评述。语言经济学孕育于民族主义问题之中,发端于加拿大的官方语言问题,它的兴起成就于人力资本理论和教育经济学。语言经济学有广义与狭义之分。广义上,语言经济学采用经济学的理论、方法及工具,把语言和言语行为当作普遍存在的社会和经济现象来加以研究;狭义上,语言与劳动收入关系研究、语言政策与语言规划的经济学分析、语言动态发展的经济学分析以及博弈论在语言学中的应用等构成了当前语言经济学研究的主要内容。伴随着经济的全球化,语言经济学的重要性正在提升,一方面,语言经济学为语言学的相关研究提供了新的视角和思路,带来新的分析工具;另一方面,它也正在为经济学自身提供新的研究话题。     

Harriet Martineau: A Popular Early Economics Educator

Harriet Martineau was one of the most widely read economic educators of the nineteenth century. This article examines Martineau's Illustrations of Political Economy, 1832–1834. Her work is reviewed in general, and one of the tales used by her to teach economics is analyzed in greater detail.     

Overhead Capital: A Study in Development Economics

Veblen's and Commons's contributions are outlined and related to the approaches to economics and political actions over the years of the author. Commons's philosophy and pragmatic contribution to economic and political institutions in order to help create decent living conditions for wage-earners within capitalism are reflected in the author's rethink in the late 1970s of what was possible for a social democratic government in Australia to achieve. The implication of John Kenneth Galbraith's example and writings on the war in Vietnam are linked to the author's actions in Australia during Australia's involvement in the war. The relevance of Veblen's damning critique of J.B. Clark's views on capital theory for the arguments of the Cambridge - Cambridge controversies in capital theory of the 1950s-1970s, first noted by Joan Robinson, are set out. Veblen's biting analyses of the nature of capitalism in his major writings are argued to be even more relevant now for the modern world of haves, have nots and have lots.     

Guidelines For Pre-College Economics Education: A Critique

While economists of all persuasions undoubtedly agree that universal economic literacy would be desirable, there appears to be substantial disagreement over what economic literacy is, what problems most need to be addressed, and how they can best be solved. These differences are clearly reflected in their diverse views as to what the goals should be for teaching economics in secondary schools. This paper specifically examines the recommendations offered in a paper on economic content standards by leaders of the economic education movement in the U.S. and finds them seriously wanting.