Parliament,select committees and democracy

Pay awards, in the public as well as the private sector, are coming down faster than the rate of inflation. But the means by which this has been achieved could lead to widespread and lasting resentment. The only way forward in the long run is an acceptable, and accepted, incomes policy.     

Why the far-future matters to democracy today

As the complexity of social and political interaction becomes increasingly over-whelming it is only natural that the pragmatic, technocratic, and expert-driven character of contemporary policy-making is even further consolidated. Though making use of existing knowledge this approach may lead to a deprivation of the democratic debate as the time horizons are shortened and the number of significantly different policies is restrained by the framework within which decisions are to be made.

This article analyses the tension between a more holistic or even ‘utopian’ attitude to policy-making and the trial-and-error piecemeal approach which today seems to be prevailing in the industrial countries. It is argued that a theoretical distinction made by Leszek Kolakowski may help us overcome that tension. The distinction is then applied to the classical stage-heuristic for policy-making leading to a discussion about how the power of far-future visions can be brought into the nexus of democratic deliberation.

The article also examines how different time-frames may cause diverging practical policy-recommendations. Finally, the paradoxical merit of negative visions, as in the dystopian literary genre, is presented.     

联想服务器助力中国农业发展银行信贷信息核查系统改造

近日,中国农业发展银行（以下简称＂农发行＂）正式完成了其在全行范围内进行的信息系统部署改造工作。在本次系统改造过程中,以联想万全R630G7四路高性能服务器为核心的解决方案,令农发行各级单位在信贷管理方面的能力得到了进一步的加强。本次改造工作有效地帮助农发行降低了信贷业务风险,提高了全行的业务流通能力。     

不良资产应该拿你怎么办?

中国的经济改革,以责任制始,银行业却是得信最晚的.迟至1998年下半年,国务院才下决心对国有商业银行的资产新老划断:以1995年底为界,此前所发生的不良资产从各家国有商业银行帐上切下来,各家分别凑起兵马,各自组成金融资产管理公司,进行清收和经营;此后所发生的,仍留在各家行.我国国有商业银行的责任制经营,实际上是以成立资产管理公司为标志而开始的.至于以产权明晰的现代企业制度为基础的市场化经营,实际上至今还没有开始.金融资产管理公司运行了两年,它到底是坏账工厂、垃圾回收站,还是中国投资银行的雏形?是是非非,外界众说纷纭.当此之际,当初设立金融资产管理公司的主要策划人之一,现任信达资产管理公司副总裁的石春贵先生有话要说.     

升值之言该如何听

自今年6月中国暗示将松动人民币汇率以来,人民币升值幅度仅为0．4％,这大大低于华盛顿的期待,因此,中美两国的关系日益紧张起来。随着失业率的膨胀,以及选举年即将到来,美国国会再一次将人民币汇率摆上了议事日程：9月6日,华盛顿两位高官为缓和中美关系前往北京,就人民币及其他重要问题进行高峰会晤,以期达成共识。     

如何把服务业政策落到实处

与《意见》的出台同样引起关注的是《意见》的实施和落实。北京将会有什么样的措施来保证《意见》的实施呢?对于《意见》的进一步落实,徐逸智向记者谈了他的想法。     

How to kill creativity

In today's knowledge economy, creativity is more important than ever. But many companies unwittingly employ managerial practices that kill it. How? By crushing their employees' intrinsic motivation--the strong internal desire to do something based on interests and passions. Managers don't kill creativity on purpose. Yet in the pursuit of productivity, efficiency, and control--all worthy business imperatives--they undermine creativity. It doesn't have to be that way, says Teresa Amabile. Business imperatives can comfortably coexist with creativity. But managers will have to change their thinking first. Specifically, managers will need to understand that creativity has three parts: expertise, the ability to think flexibly and imaginatively, and motivation. Managers can influence the first two, but doing so is costly and slow. It would be far more effective to increase employees' intrinsic motivation. To that end, managers have five levers to pull: the amount of challenge they give employees, the degree of freedom they grant around process, the way they design work groups, the level of encouragement they give, and the nature of organizational support. Take challenge as an example. Intrinsic motivation is high when employees feel challenged but not overwhelmed by their work. The task for managers, therefore, becomes matching people to the right assignments. Consider also freedom. Intrinsic motivation--and thus creativity--soars when managers let people decide how to achieve goals, not what goals to achieve. Managers can make a difference when it comes to employee creativity. The result can be truly innovative companies in which creativity doesn't just survive but actually thrives.     

如何做好自动柜员机的管理工作

自动柜员机是一种集计算机技术、自控技术、安全技术于一身的精密程度极高的机电一体化自助设备。为了弥补营业网点数量不足、缓解柜面压力、降低银行经     

Creative democracy, with extended footnotes to the future

Creative democracy is a new name for a new process – that of enabling everyone, via utopian software (or softopia), to take back the creative and directive parts of industrial living that up to now have been the prerogative of professionals. The form of the essay embodies the meta-process of changing from the objectivity that is necessary to rationalistic central control, through changes of convention, to informal post-industrialism in which the control and re-creation of political and economic life is shared by everyone. Viva!     

怎样进行经理人融资收购

对于投资公司来说,MBO投资虽然有一定的风险,但成功概率比较高。交易中有股权、债权、员工持股计划等模式的选择。经理人融资收购究竟如何把握机会?应该采取怎样的交易模式?请看     

如何解决金融争议

随着我国金融业的逐步放开,外资金融机构纷纷抢滩中国,伴随而来的是金融纠纷的数量和种类日益增多,金融交易主体对争议解决服务的要求呈现多样化。面对这些问题,作为法院诉讼外的一种重要争议解决方式——仲裁,其权威性和公正性日益受到市场主体的认可。中国仲裁界的知名机构——中国国际经济贸易仲裁委员会从今年5月8日起实施《金融争议仲裁规则》,那么,这一规则是在什么背景下产生的?有怎样的优势?包括哪些确定受理的争议范围?本刊记者艾亚就此采访了中国国际经济贸易仲裁委员会副主任、秘书长王生长。     

境外IPO何处破冰

美国JOBS法案通过后的第三天,3月29日,由特许公认会计师公会(ACCA)和创业中国精英会(CE)共同举办的详解海外IPO上市研讨会在天津举行,近200家企业在这里     

寻求中国绿色信贷发展之道

正当前,我国进入了经济结构调整和发展方式转变的关键时期,绿色产业的发展和传统产业绿色改造对金融的需求日益强劲,这使得"绿色金融"成为金融机构,特别是银行业发展的新趋势和新潮流。在此背景下,中国银行业监督管理委员会于2012年2月24日印发了《绿色信贷指引》(以下简称《指引》),这是继《关于落实环境保护政策法规防范信贷风险的意见》之后的又一举措。《指引》明确了绿色信贷的支持方向和重点领域,对国家重点调控的限制类以及有重大环境和社会风险的行业制定了专门的授信指引,实行有差别、动态的授信政策,实施风险敞口管理制度。     

企业如何驾驭盈利性增长

安永通过调查发现:企业的盈利能力与几个关键运营实践的成熟度高度相关,这五个关键的领域是:长期战略规划,运营流程标准化,严格的内部控制,有效的劳动力规划和强大的科技基础架构     

如何面对财产税

财产税,主要是对土地、房屋等不动产的所有者征收,征税的依据是每年一次的评估价值,一般是地方财政的主要收入来源,国内常说的"物业税",就是财产税的一种。它的优点人们已经比较熟悉了:有助于抑制房地产投机,减少金融体系的不稳定,对中低收入者有利等等。在现行的分税制体制下推行财产税,必须妥善处理中央和地方财政利益的分割问题。在这个过程中,中央考虑的是房地产市场的稳定,地方政府考虑     

究竟如何看待借贷金融

中国今后如何利用债券市场以及其他证券市场,要看是不是会因这次全球金融危机就因噎废食、得出“抑制金融创新是上策”的结论.     

如何搞好专利权的评估工作

本文系统介绍了专利权评估的基本程序和具体方法,包括:收集信息;审阅专利权材料;调查专利权属范围;审核专利权的有效性;专利权技术的择优策略;企业外购专利权的价值评估;决定专利产品的利润最大化;各种评估方法的应用等,对专利权评估有一定的指导意义。     

如何对电子商务征税

电子商务作为新型的商业运作模式 ,对现行税收征管规则产生了冲击。在坚持对电子商务不开征新税的情况下 ,如何对电子商务征税且应坚持什么原则 ,本文进行了讨论 ,提出了以电子商务征税的一般原则。同时 ,如何对电子商务征税提出了具体措施。其基本思路是通过银行中介在客户和供货商之间建立一种相互制约机制 ,通过银行中介来行使扣缴税款。