Will Labour’s Economic Programme Work?

If Labour is elected to government on 1 May, it will inherit the lowest inflation of any incoming government over the last fifty years but the highest unemployment. At the same time, public borrowing is running at an unsustainable high level. In this article, Andrew Sentance examines Labour's plans to expand employment while reducing public borrowing and containing inflation. He argues that Labour's economic programme could work but a number of pitfalls need to be avoided. Monetary policy will need to be tightened after the Election and the fiscal squeeze implied by Conservative spending plans maintained – if necessary through higher taxes. The benefits from Labour's employment policies could also be undermined by a high minimum wage, particularly if applied to young workers.     

Overestimating Oneself and Overlooking the Law: Psychological Supports for Employment at Will

This article studies the hypotheses that people tend to underrate other people's work motivation and skills relative to their own, and further tend to be unaware of the legal status of employment at will in contemporary U.S. law. The theoretical part of the article describes psychological bases for the hypothesized tendencies and explains how they can be expected to foster acquiescence to employment at will and high employment insecurity. The empirical portion of the article describes and discusses a survey of M.B.A. students that probed their knowledge of and attitudes toward U.S. employment law, along with their attitudes toward employment insecurity and work motivation. Consistent with the hypotheses, the study found widespread lack of knowledge about the legal status of employment at will, as well as a tendency toward overrating one's own work motivation relative to others and a tendency toward taking higher risks of termination when they were presented as controllable on an individual, though not a group, basis.     

Henry George,Jane Jacobs,and Free Trade

Henry George and Jane Jacobs were both journalists and made a contribution to economics based on their commitment to the original version of free trade, as understood by 19^th‐century liberals, rather than the late 20^th‐century version. The distinctive concept of free trade, as originally understood, was as an instrument for small‐scale producers to break up entrenched monopolies and serve the interests of the ordinary citizen. That was how Cobden used it in the debates over the Corn Laws in the 1840s, and how Ruskin, Gesell, Chesterton, and other critics conceived of economic liberation. In debates over free trade in recent decades, that term has come to mean a defense of power and privilege, the exact opposite of the intent of 19^th‐century liberals. George and Jacobs sought to restore the original meaning by developing theories of development and distribution that would enable the market system to benefit everyone.     

不犯错误,你将被解聘

近年来,国外一些成功的企业对经营管理人员往往提出这样一条原则:在受聘的一年之内,允许而且必须犯一次以上的合理错误,如果做不到这一点,此人在第二年就被解聘.     

海恩法则在机务保障工作安全管理上的运用

提出了海恩法则可以运用于发现和预防在机务保障日常管理中的安全事故,并根据海恩法则总结出了安全管理步骤和安全管理启示。     

中国薪资水平将伴随劳动力短缺而上涨——社科院专家

工厂管理者提高薪资,但仍招不到人薪资上涨预示消费上升和经济的重新调整人口与劳动经济着名学者蔡□表示,中国沿海地区企业招工不足的麻烦可能演变成顽疾,并预示工资也将上调.     

浅谈刑法偷税罪的修订及其对税收工作的影响

《刑法修正案(七)》对刑法第201条偷税罪作了重大修改。从我国的法律看,刑法修订往往早于税法的修订,两者关于偷税违法行为和犯罪的界定上又具有很强的接续性。     

新预算法对事业单位财会工作的影响及对策探讨

随着我国市场经济体制的日益完善,事业单位对内部财务工作提出了新的要求.近几年,新预算法与现代财务体系的融合备受关注,在事业单位财会人员的创新驱动下,各项工作趋向透明化、优质化发展,因此建立预算平衡机制显得十分重要.基于此,文章立足于事业单位发展的视角,在介绍新预算法基本特点的基础上,重点阐述了其对事业单位财会工作的影响...     

Scientists, Engineers and the Organization of Work

A bstract . Scientists and engineers experience job dissatisfaction and perform below potential productivity , largely because of conflict between professionalism and work bureaucracies. Research has documented potential gain on both counts through reduced hierarchical power of management and movement toward greater participation in shared decision-making. But relative reduction in managerial power is not likely; neither is the spread of unionism for scientists and engineers as an offset to that power. Furthermore, any assumed transfer of power a la Veblen assures no social gain. Work organization for scientists and engineers is of direct relevance for economics. Yet, the human capital development in economics has ignored the entire question of the effect of work organization on productivity and job satisfaction. In doing so, it has divorced economics from other disciplines and sacrificed realism and relevance for quantitative rigor.     

Labour Law, Tebbit Style

Norman Tebbit's proposals for minor reforms of the trade unions are the first steps of a 'softly softly' approach to drag the reluctant trade union movement into a framework of law that recognises and harnessed its power.     

围观上市

一面是新宁物流等物流企业成功上市,一面却是立晨物流等物流企业未能过会,同样是国内较具知名度的物流企业,其在资本市场上的命运为何不同?一系列振兴物流业发展政策的出台,再次唤醒了物流企业的上市梦想。春节过后,中国邮政速递物流股     

Will Politics Always Triumph?

Lord (Joel) Barnett contrasts David Stockman's experience of running the US Budget with his own of pressures inside the UK treasury as Labour Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1974 to 1979. He concludes that a democratic system of goverment contains a built-in check to the implementation of proposals for radical reform.