An Interview with Jae C. Lee

Jae Chang Lee was born in Chang‐Nyoung, South Korea, on 9 August, 1942. After high school, he attended Seoul National University during a period of military dictatorship. As a leader of the student protest movement, he was forced to flee the country. He completed undergraduate and graduate studies at Ohio State University (PhD 1972) in USA and then joined the faculty at Moravian College in Pennsylvania. He returned permanently to South Korea in 1981 to a faculty position at Korea University. He has held visiting positions at the US National Bureau of Standards, the US Naval Coastal Systems Center, Ohio State University, Temple University, the University of Wollongong and Chuo University. Professional contributions include President of International Statistical Institute, Organiser of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) Congress in Seoul in 2001, President of the International Association for Statistical Computing and of the Korean Statistical Society (KSS), Editor, Journal of the Korean Statistical Society and Co‐Editor, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. Honours include ISI Methorst Award, Distinguished Service Award (KSS), Presidential Award for Statistical Contribution and Order of Service Merit from the Korean Government, Certificate of Distinguished Contribution from the Japanese Society of Computational Statistics and elected member, Korean Academy of Science and Technology. The interview was conducted during 23–27 April 2013, at Jae C's country home in Pocheon City.     

ON INTERNAL MARKETS IN THE N.H.S.

Professor Alain Enthoven has suggested the development of 'internal markets' in the NHS Patricia Day and Professor Rudolf Klein, of the University of Bath, argue for the encouragement of latent potential within the NHS Nick Bosanquet, of the University of York, reinforces their call for increased managerial discretion to improve efficiency Dr David Green, of the IEA, insists that commercial incentive will have a more bracing effect than continued government control     

Intersectoral efficiency between agriculture and industry in six C.M.E.A. countries: Introducing a simple equilibrium model

The purposes of this paper is to show how the long-run preferences for industry and agriculture of the planning bodies in six C.M.E.A. countries can be analyzed by using data on factor allocations in these sectors. Indicative results describing these preferences are obtained and existing inefficiencies in labor allocation and the relative domestic prices of industrial and agricultural goods are discussed. The conclusions suggest that the preferences of the planning bodies have stayed completely constant over 1950–1980 only in the case of the GDR, and that allocations of labor and domestic price ratios have mostly been far from optimal over that period in the countries that were analyzed.The author wishes to thank Prof. Paul Jones of the University of New Mexico Economics Department, Prof. R. E. Campbell of the Indiana University Economics Department and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments on this paper.     

A Conversation with James O. Ramsay

Jim Ramsay was born on September 5, 1942, in Prince George, British Columbia. He pursued undergraduate studies at the University of Alberta, where he completed a BEd in 1964 with a major in English and a minor in mathematics. He then specialized in statistics and psychometry, earning a PhD in psychology from Princeton University in 1966. After holding a temporary lectureship in the Department of Psychology at University College London for one year, he joined the Department of Psychology at McGill University, where he rose through the academic ranks. He was chair of his department from 1986 to 1989 and spent sabbatical leaves in Cambridge, Grenoble, and Toulouse. He was named professor emeritus upon his retirement in 2007. Jim is the author of four influential books and over 100 peer‐reviewed articles in statistical and psychometric journals. He developed much of the statistical theory behind multidimensional scaling and is widely recognized as the founder of functional data analysis. Three of his papers were read to the Royal Statistical Society, and another won The Canadian Journal of Statistics 2000 Best Paper Award. The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) awarded him a Gold Medal for research in 1998 and an honorary membership in 2012. Jim was president of the Psychometric Society in 1981–82 and president of the SSC in 2002–03. The following conversation took place at Jim's home in Ottawa, Ontario, on March 14 and April 4, 2012.     

Open Society: Hayek vs. Popper?

Does an open open society require a free market? Dr Naomi Moldoisky of the University of Melbourne reinforces Hayek's insistence that free societies must rest on free markets.     

A primal-dual approach to nonparametric productivity analysis: The case of U.S. agriculture

Nonparametric methods for measuring productivity indexes based on bounds for the underlying production technology are presented. Following Banker and Maindiratta, the lower bound is obtained from a primal approach while the upper bound corresponds to a dual approach to nonparametric production analysis. These nonparametric bounds are then used to estimate input-based and output-based distance functions. These radial measures provide the basis for measuring productivity indexes. Application to times series data on U.S. agriculture indicates a large gap between the primal lower bound and the dual upper bound. This generates striking differences between the primal and dual nonparametric productivity indexes.Respectively, professor and associate professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Seniority of authorship is equally shared. We would like to thank Rolf Färe and an anonymous reviewer for useful comments on an earlier draft of the paper. This research was supported in part by a Hatch grant from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison.     

H. G. J. as Biographer's Subject: Some Autobiographical Writings

In the last decade of his life, Harry Johnson (1923–1977) wrote a number of autobiographical pieces. He published three relating to his periods in Cambridge (1946–47 and 1949–55), but he did not publish two long autobiographical notes and a series of memoirs of his undergraduate career at the University of Toronto (1939–43), his first teaching job as the entire economics department at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia (1943–44) and his later period in England (1966–74). This material provides a number of clues as to the way Harry wished to be remembered and the paper develops some of the strongest autobiographical themes common to them.     

英美中三国远程开放大学教学模式比较研究

本文对英国开放大学多种教学媒体支持的自主学习模式、美国国家技术大学的课堂教学远程传播模式、中国中央广播电视大学的"学导结合"的教学模式进行介绍和比较,并对我国发展现代远程开放教育进行了深入思考。     

Technological biases in U.S. aggregate production

The impact of technological change on income distribution and the output mix in the United States is examined. For given output prices and factor endowments, technological change is found to be pro-import, pro-export, proinvestment, pro-government, and anti-consumption biased, and it favors labor much more than capital.An earlier version of this paper was presented at the University of Rochester; I am grateful to the participants to this seminar for their comments and suggestions. I also benefitted from the comments of two anonymous referees. The usual disclaimer obviously applies.     

U.S. University Research Parks

University research parks are important as a mechanism for the transfer of academic research findings, as a source of knowledge spillovers, and as a catalyst for national and regional economic growth. We develop a model to describe the growth, or productivity, of research parks, and we test this model using the newly constructed National Science Foundation database on university research parks. We find that parks closer to the university, operated by a private organization, and with a specific technology focus—information technology in particular—grow faster than the average of 8.4% per year.     

Payroll tax incidence when the tax varies by jurisdiction: The case of the U.S. unemployment insurance tax

Standard treatment of payroll tax incidence suggests that labor, both because of inelastic supply and because workers value the benefit financed by the tax, bears most of the tax. This note considers the special case of the U.S. unemployment insurance tax, which is a payroll tax that varies by jurisdiction (states). The model set forth in this paper allows for differing degrees of both labor mobility and substitutability between types of labor and capital. Contrary to the standard treatment, this paper predicts that some types of labor will avoid this particular type of payroll tax completely. I thank Daniel Hamermesh and seminar participants at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and at Oakland University for helpful comments on an earlier draft. I also gratefully acknowledge sabbatical support provided by Oakland University during the initial conceptualization of the ideas presented in this paper.     

Game theoretical foundations of evolutionary stability by Bomze,I. M. and Pötscher,B. M., Springer-Verlag,New York, 1988

The theory of evolution and dynamical systems by Hofbauer, J. and Sigmund, K., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988.     

TOPSIS数学模型在研究生教育综合评价中的应用

基于TOPSIS理论对5所高校:北京大学(文学)、上海交通大学(管理学)、南开大学(文学)、重庆大学(经济学)、吉林大学(历史学)在研究生教育方面的六类指标进行综合评价。分析结论是上海交通大学研究生教育综合社会价值最高。     

医学院校体育课程改革现状及特色发展前景探析

为了解医学院校体育课程改革现状,探索改革方向,本文以文献资料法、访谈法、问卷调查法等方法对我院及西安交通大学医学院、延安大学医学院、咸阳中医学院、兰州大学医学院、宁夏医科大学、包头医学院7所院校体育课程的教学内容设置、教学模式、课程评价及改革方向进行了调查分析。结果表明:医学院校在体育课程教学改革与综合性院校相比存在着一定的差距,远远不能满足当代医学类大学生的运动需要和愿望。医学院校应转变观念,深化改革,充分利用自身医学专业优势,大力发展医学体育学科,为体育学科发展探索一条特色之路。     

The U.S. deficit: Whose Fault?

The US budget deficit, and the higher interest rates it is said to cause, is blamed for depressing the economies of Europe. A former Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, now Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, challenges the view that it is the result of President Reagan's tax cuts and defence build-up. In a broadly 'supply-side' analysis, he criticises Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, David Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Professor Martin Feldstein, Chairman (until June) of Council of Economic Advisors.     

区域内体育资源共享机制的研究

采用文献资料法、访谈法、对比分析法,分析了我国大学园区的形成背景,探讨了大学园区实现体育资源共享的理论依据和实践基础,并从我国实际出发提出了大学园区实现体育资源共享的方法对策。     

提高体育院校大学生法律素质的建议

体育院校大学生由于其所学专业的特性及自身发展的特点,法律素质都有所欠缺,本文通过分析体育院校大学生的法律素质现状及成因,提出了提高体育院校大学生法律素质的几点建议。     

Professor Ludwig M. Lachmann (1906-1990): Scholar, Teacher, and Austrian School Critic of Late Classical Formalism in Economics

Ludwig M. Lachmann was born in Berlin in 1906 and died in Johannesburg in 1990. For more than forty years, until his retirement in 1972, Lachmann established himself as a prominent South African economist and for a time served as head of the economics department at the University of Witwatersrand. From 1974 to 1987, he worked with Professor Israel Kirzner in New York City to give new shape and life to the older Austrian school of economics. Lachmann influenced a small army of modern Austrians to discard the elaborate formalisms of orthodox economics for a "radical subjectivism" that had its roots in the teachings of the founder of the Austrian school, Carl Menger. Here a small platoon of scholars offer their thoughts about Lachmann, his contributions to economic reasoning, and his eccentric but engaging character. First hand reports explain what their mentor taught and what his students took away. Lavoie makes the case that Lachmann's "radical subjectivism" took a rhetorical turn toward the end of Lachmann's career in New York City. In addition, Kirzner reports on his long and most productive relationship with Lachmann and provides additional insights about the seminal role of the Austrian Economics Seminar at New York University from 1985 to 1987 in giving shape to the modern Austrian revival. This article is the written version of a "Remembrance and Appreciation Session" held on June 28, 1999 at the History of Economics Society meeting at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. It is one of an ongoing series that appears in the July issues of this journal.     

草本植物根系网固土效果研究分析——以紫花苜蓿护坡效果为例

文章以东北林业大学实验林场公路边坡为试验地,通过种植紫花苜蓿,观察其发芽状况、生长速度、覆盖度、抗旱性、抗热性等生态适应性指标,作为评价其护坡效果的重要指标;并用环刀进行现场取样,进行大量含根土的直剪试验,测得含根土体的抗剪强度,与不含根土的抗剪强度进行对比,评判其根系固土能力。通过试验得出紫花苜蓿是一种适合东北地区公路边坡的理想的护坡植物。     

论高校学报发展与大学精神文化

高校学报是展示一所高校学术研究与人文气息的窗口,它除了具有一般学术期刊的性质外,还反映了高校的教学、科研及师资队伍的水平等。高校学报应科学合理定位,寻找特色,不断学习,不断创新,依托大学精神文化,结合优越的科研环境和浓厚的学术氛围,将高校学报建设成为高校学术研究与人文精神交流、宣传的平台。